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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Whether to hold a Constitutional Convention will be on the ballot in the next election. Unalaska is looking forward to being served by a second air carrier. And Western Alaska is preparing for a big storm.

Plans for Kodiak’s new fire station are moving along. Late last month, City Councilmembers got a first look at the concept for the new building. The concept presented to Kodiak City Council by Palmer-based Wolf Architecture includes a single story on Mill Bay Road with a drive through garage bay for the station’s trucks and engines. Two additional floors would …

Unalaska Airport On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Flood damage on the Richardson Highway will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to repair. A hunter has vanished in a remote area off the Dalton Highway. And Unalaska airfares are skyrocketing.

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Crab Committee of the Bycatch Taskforce asks questions about  unobserved mortality, and what the word pelagic means. Plus KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth reports on a blowy beginning to B season Pollock in the Central Gulf.  

Kodiak’s pollock fishery is open to trawlers – the fall season kicked off Sept. 1. There’s more than 90 million pounds of Central Gulf of Alaska pollock allowed for this season’s catch. Last year’s fall catch was about 68 million pounds. Julie Bonney is the executive director of the Groundfish Data Bank. She said via email that the fall season …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines; Kinross Alaska wants to truck ore between mines on pubic roads. The Kenaitze Tribe is working with contractors to preserve artifacts. And Kenai has a new Japanese Garden.

Public health officials and local law enforcement are sounding the alarm over a wave of fentanyl that’s recently arrived in Kodiak — including a new form of the opioid called rainbow fentanyl. Amy Butts is a public health nurse and team lead at the Kodiak Public Health Center. She said there’s been a worrying trend in local overdoses over the …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Mary Peltola will be sworn in as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives today. Don Young’s Chief of Staff will serve in the same role for Representative Peltola. And officials say Kenai Borough Mayor and gubernatorial candidate Charlie Pierce was asked to consider resigning after the Borough paid settlements …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A Dillingham moose hunter was mauled by a bear. Sitka voting machines get a public test. And the Ketchikan Assembly postpones raising its tax cap until after the election.

The state’s Bycatch Review Task Force is preparing its first recommendations.  On a recent visit to Kodiak, Gov. Mike Dunleavy said the group would make a series of preliminary proposals at its Sept. 20 meeting in Anchorage. “We’re looking at the science, we’re looking at all kinds of data, we’re looking at how people catch fish, genetics, etc.,” said Dunleavy. …