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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Matt Hall won the Yukon Quest 300 yesterday. Meanwhile, Brent Sass continues to lead the Quest 550. And some Kenai city council members say it’s a good time to loosen restrictions on owning chickens inside city limits. Matt Hall’s team approaches the finish of the 2022 Yukon Quest 350-mile race (Lex Treinen/Alaska …

The Kodiak History Museum received a $48,000 federal grant last fall to digitize its entire collection in an effort to improve access to some of the museum’s items that aren’t currently on display. The project began in November of last year, when the museum received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a government agency, to create …

Kodiak’s Tanner crab fleet spent the first two weeks of the season tied up at the docks, awaiting better prices from local seafood processors. And after a highly anticipated opener just over a week ago on Jan. 30, the season is nearly over; most of the fishery had closed by the end of the weekend.  Boats waiting to tie up …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: It was a fast and furious finale for Team Alaska at the Arctic Winter Games. A bus station in Ninilchik, has the potential to become a small Native reservation — but the state of Alaska is pushing back. And a Toksok Bay couple is an internet sensation. Preston Kopp (far right) at …

On today’s Midday Report with host Kirsten Dobroth: A Senate Committee has proposed adding $1000 to the Base Student Allocation. Southeast Alaska has seen an uptick in fentanyl-laced pills. And Fairbanks’ only natural gas supplier signed a 20-year contract with Hilcorp to begin sourcing gas from the North Slope. Participants in a pro-education rally hold signs in front of the …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Bureau of Land Management is inclined to allow the development of  the Willow project, to drill for oil on federal land in the Arctic. Sitka chef Renee Trafton is a finalist for a James Beard Award. And the Kenai Peninsula Board of Education has upheld the firing of a Soldotna physical …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Kodiak’s tanner crab fleet goes fishing, story by KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth, KCAW’s Robert Woolsey reports on the lawsuit that would halt king salmon trolling, and Izzy Ross of KDLG tells of the governor’s vow to fight the Pebble veto. Pebble Mine site.  

 Kodiak’s Alutiiq Museum is now the sole owner of a rare kayak from the 19th century that had previously been on loan from Harvard University’s Peabody Museum. The exterior of the kayak, or qayaq, is made from seal or sea lion skin that was stitched together by hand and pulled tight over a wooden frame. Tufts of human hair were also …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy repeated his goal to make Alaska the “most pro-life state in the country” yesterday. Gas supply from proven fields in Cook Inlet will only satisfy demand from Alaska’s main population center for about four more years. The Bristol Bay Native Corporation has cheered the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The 2023 Arctic Winter Games got underway in Wood Buffalo, Alberta Canada on Sunday night. A trial is set for late summer in the criminal case involving the deaths of two teenagers in a crash on Unalaska’s Mount Ballyhoo nearly four years ago. And environmental protesters against the Willow Project seem few …