On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Only two companies bid in the state’s first royalty-free Cook Inlet natural gas lease sale. It was a very tuba Christmas at the Anchorage Performing Arts Center. And St. Paul plans to revitalize reindeer meat processing in the Pribilofs.

Photo: Neal Haglund, a retired school band teacher, has conducted TubaChristmas for most of its 28 years in Anchorage. (Rhonda McBride/KNBA)