n today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A Soldotna doctor known  as the “Candyman” pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a charge that he  overprescribed addictive narcotics. The US Environmental Protection  Agency could reject portions of a state plan to reduce Fairbanks North  Pole area wintertime fine particulate pollution. And Independent  Representative Bryce Edgmon looks ahead to the start of the Legislative  Session.

Photo taken from the University of Alaska Fairbanks on Jan. 6, 2019,  when there was an air quality alert in effect for the area. (Ravenna  Koenig/ Alaska’s Energy Desk)