On Today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Buddy Streeper defended his title in the Open North American Sled Dog Championship in Fairbanks over the weekend. The world’s wildest, weirdest boat race is back for another year this summer. And a UAF study seeks to find out why most park patrons are white. Buddy Streeper nears the finish line on …

On Today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Rep. Josiah Patkotak explains his support of the Willow Project. And Juneau wrestles with regulations about avalanche hazard zones.   Overview of Behrends Avenue avalanche path in Juneau

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Ryan Redington has won the 2023 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The only Cook Inlet beluga whale in captivity is celebrating five years at his aquarium home. And Southeast weather nerds try to predict the future. Tyonek the beluga at Seaworld San Antonio    

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Two Aleutian volcanoes are showing signs of unrest, signaling the potential for an eruption. The University of Alaska Fairbanks rifle team won the NCAA championship over the weekend. Plus Iditarod leaders are tightly bunched. Tanaga, in November 2012. Photograph courtesy of Roger Clifford

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Kotzebue and the Northwest Arctic Borough have declared a disaster after a series of massive snow storms. The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District  is considering cuts to pools and theaters in the face of a large deficit. And a new brewery is opening in Sterling. A Kotzebue home’s front is covered in …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Kenai is already closed for kings, story by Sabine Poux of KDLL, kids go icefishing, as reported by KBBI’s Corinne Smith, and a halibut preview from KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth. Six-year-old Solo Sky Frost ice fishes for the first time with his kindergarten class on the Homer reservoir. (Corinne Smith/KBBI)

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Pharmacy giant Walgreens is going back on a decision to offer the abortion pill mifepristone in Alaska. Crews in Craig are still working to restore service after a water outage that began Sunday. And the Alaska Marine Highway System has announced significant changes to this year’s summer ferry schedule. Water pours from …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: School bus service in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District resumed Monday after a month long bus strike ended. Brown bear baiting will not be allowed in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, after all. And the latest Iditarod update! A brown bear cub looks for fish in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge’s Kenai …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A new bill introduced in the state Senate last week aims to revamp the public retirement system. The Iditarod trail sled dog race got underway this weekend. And an international meeting on arctic policy will host 13 countries for three days in Anchorage. Attentive sled dogs await the start of the Iditarod …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska Native leaders stood with the state’s congressional delegation rallying for the Willow project at the U.S. Capitol yesterday. The Army Corps of Engineers has cleared another milestone in the Unalaska Bay dredging project. And the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is gearing up for a three-year investigation into potentially expanding Homer’s …