In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:

Contractors broke ground in Sitka last week on the final piece of a two-decade project seeking more affordable housing. Gov. Mike Dunleavy has named Stephen J. Cox to be Alaska’s next attorney general. And Federal data shows that a subset of cruise ships violate pollution standards in Alaska hundreds of times every year.

Photo: Contractors pour the concrete foundation for the first of three duplexes in the Sitka Land Trust. (KCAW/McKenney)