On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Bureau of Land  Management is inclined to allow the development of  the Willow project,  to drill for oil on federal land in the Arctic. Sitka chef Renee Trafton  is a finalist for a James Beard Award. And the Kenai Peninsula Board of Education has upheld the firing of a Soldotna physical education teacher.

Photo: Renee Trafton, owner of Beak Restaurant in Sitka, Alaska