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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The coach  of the Homer High School girls wrestling team wants to talk about the  sport of women’s wrestling. Today is the fourth day of Kwanzaa. And an  Aleutian volcano will be renamed to honor Don Young.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Scientists  in Alaska will bounce a radio signal off an asteroid today. A project  combining solar energy production with food production will be studied  by scientists at University of Alaska Fairbanks. And an eight-bridge project over the Good River near Gustavus will help fish get upstream.

The Good River, near Gustavus.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Stormy  conditions in the Lower 48 have disrupted holiday travel plans for many  Alaskans. An orphaned polar bear cub is receiving care at the Alaska  Zoo in Anchorage – where it may become a permanent resident. And a Native American movement is aiming to to expunge racist and sexist place names.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Beaches in Clam Gulch and Ninilchik will be closed to clammers for the ninth year in a row next summer. Bethel resident Becky Trimble is poised to become a permanent resident of the United States. And Metlakatla’s tribal government is asking residents to conserve power after a diesel generator failed.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Anchorage’s biggest emergency cold weather shelter now has bed capacity for up to 360 people. After some record-breaking cold temperatures in Southeast Alaska much of the panhandle is in for a wet Christmas. And an environmental group has filed a complaint seeking to halt use of federal wildlife restoration funds for predator control.

Lucille Williams pulls a cart filled with her belongings on a bike path along Mt. View Drive in January, 2022.(Photo by Adam Nicely/Alaska Public Media)

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: People are waiting a really long time for food stamps and the state isn’t talking about it. Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes testified from jail  for the defense at a trial challenging the qualifications of Representative David Eastman to serve in the Alaska Legislature. Plus an aurora globe is being installed in a Fairbanks hotel.

On today’s Midday report with host Terry Haines: Discovery of an ancient  weir in Southeast has archaeologists rewriting the timeline there. Three major snowstorms in under two weeks have made travel tough in Anchorage. And the Anchorage School Board will decide today whether to increase class sizes to help close a $48 million budget deficit.

On today’s Midday report with host Terry Haines: Governor Mike Dunleavy has unveiled the first proposed budget of his second term. Controversy over a logging project near Yakutat in Southeast Alaska has intensified. And Alaska school districts have decried the continued flat funding of education in the Governor’s proposed budget.

Aerial view of Yakutat site showing house pits (yellow), rock walls and  boulders (black) and dry stream bed (blue). (photo credit: Sealaska  Heritage Institute)

On today’s Midday report with host Terry Haines: The  Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is holding an Indigenous  language film fest in February. And a geothermal energy project in  Unalaska is taking another step forward in development.

On today’s Midday report with host Terry Haines: A muskox attacked and killed a man near Nome on Tuesday. Respiratory viruses have been threatening to overwhelm hospital capacity in Alaska this winter. And lieutenant governor Nancy Dahlstrom says she is up to the challenge of overseeing Alaska’s elections.