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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska’s US Senate candidates have clarified their positions on abortion rights. House candidates took on salmon bycatch in Wednesday’s debate. And Angoon  residents have built their first traditional dugout canoe since the  nineteenth century.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Southeast Alaska’s summer season for Dungeness crab was worth about $10 million less than last year. Gov. Dunleavy continues to support Republican Charlie Pierce in the  governor’s race following a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against  Pierce, but Pierce’s running mate has dropped out. And the Alaska  National Guard rescued six stranded snowmachiners from a glacier in the  Eastern Alaska Range.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The U.S. Arctic Research Commission is meeting in Fairbanks today. A former Kenai Peninsula Borough employee is suing gubernatorial  candidate Charlie Pierce, saying she faced constant sexual harassment  from the former borough mayor. And:  Is Ketchikan a rural community?

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Candidates for US House  and Senate faced of at the Alaska Federation of Native Conference.  Metlakatla and Ketchikan have taken a step toward joining power grids.   And the NTSB reports leaking floats may have been a factor in both fatal  plane crashes that occurred in the past month. Photo: AFN attendees wave their Mary Peltola fans at the U.S. House candidate forum. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media).

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Climate change policy  is a controversial subject at the Alaska Federation of Native  Convention. The Mat-Su School Board has adopted a bathroom policy for  transgender students. And some supporters of a Constitutional Convention  want to change how Alaska chooses judges.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: All four candidates for  Alaska Governor squared off in a recent debate. A Kenai man is turning  waste plastic into lumber. And the ACLU has joined supporters of  changing parole rules for offenders sentenced to long jail terms as  juveniles.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Juneau’s homeless  campground is closing for the winter, and campers wonder where to go  next. Tribes are beginning the first steps toward developing K-12  curriculums separate from school districts. And Ketchikan celebrates  Phillipino-American History Month with a festival.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The “Tustumena  Replacement Vessel” will be engineered to be a diesel/electric hybrid.  Former State Senate President Ben Stevens has died while hiking near  Seward. And there has been a break in one of four two-year-old missing  persons cases in Fairbanks.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Kodiak City Council  race has been decided. Boats blaze and sink in a Ketchikan harbor. And  energy providers on the Kenai Peninsula strategize as future gas  supplies become more unsure.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A logging operation  owned by the Yakutat village corporation will be dissolved after  shareholder complaints. Two thousand gallons of fuel has spilled at the  new Vitus Terminal in Bethel. And the Commander of the Coast Guard  Cutter Kimball recalls an encounter with Chinese and Russian vessels.

U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Thomas D’Arcy aboard his command, the cutter  Kimball, during an Unalaska port call. The Kimball encountered several  Chinese and Russian warships off Alaska in late September. (Maggie  Nelson/KUCB)