On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:

Alaska Seaplanes can use new, proprietary approaches and departures to improve flight safety and reliability in cloudy Southeast Alaska. Less than two dozen votes separate two candidates for an Anchorage Assembly seat. And a SWAT team converged on a middle school in Fairbanks for what turned out to be a false report of a shooter.

Photo: An Anchorage voter looks over the city election ballot on Tuesday, April 7, 2026 at the Loussac Library. (Mikayla Finnerty/ Alaska Public Media)