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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Last month was the wettest December on record in Anchorage. A nationwide egg shortage has hit Alaska especially hard.  And Rhonda McBride looks back on Mary Peltola’s fight to be the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress. 

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The North Pacific Fishery Management Council puzzles over how to comply with a court’s order to actively manage the offshore Cook Inlet driftnet fishery.

Doug Letch, who has served in incoming Senate President Gary Stevens’ office for more than two decades as a legislative aide, retired on Friday. He’s been working remotely from Florida since Alaska’s legislative session ended in May, and on his first day off the job, he said he was still getting used to the new schedule.   “This is really the …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska’s job market will continue on a path of recovery this year, but slower than other states. Mary Peltola waits to be sworn in while Republicans struggle to elect a leader. And Anchorage is still hauling snow, and has a long way to go. Rep. Mary Peltola was the only member of …

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin and co-host Kirsten Dobroth, KMXT news director, sit down with Kodiak’s state senator Gary Stevens and representative Louise Stutes to talk about the upcoming legislative session and what it could mean for Kodiak. Listen to the original broadcast here (edited for time and clarity):    

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Work is underway on what will be Alaska’s tallest building. After months of back and forth over a high-profile oil and gas lease sale in Cook Inlet, just one company placed bids. Officials have arrested a Seward man after he allegedly drove his car, carrying three children, into the Seward boat harbor.  …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Reexamination of a cold case in Bethel has resulted in an arrest. Inflation is hitting everyday Alaskans at the grocery store. And a new hazard map in Juneau shows much of downtown in moderate to severe danger of landslides or avalanches. The Behrends avalanche path on Mount Juneau, taken from Glacier Avenue …

New Year’s Eve is this weekend and many folks may be planning on including fireworks as part of their celebrations. For anyone looking to start 2023 with a bang, Les and Dan’s firework store opened for the holiday earlier this week. Sarah Thompson has worked at the firework store for about 15 years. She said the Harbor Lights boat parade …