On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Australian Christian  Turner is among the Iditarod dog mushers to sign up for the 2023 race.  Questions remain about how the planned merger of grocery store  companies Krogers and Albertsons  will affect shoppers in Alaska.  And  relatives mourn a man killed last month in front of his Anchorage home.

Christian Turner in a dry-land, dog scooter race. (Christian Turner)