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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska high school students are asking local school districts to refrain from banning books. Experiments at the HAARP facility in Gakona will produce an artificial glow in the sky. And a hearing for comments on the proposed Ambler Road drew mostly negative responses. High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program Site.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska State Troopers fatally shot an armed suspect in Healy yesterday after a high-speed chase up the Parks Highway. The Alaska Permanent Fund appears headed toward maintaining its current steady growth, rather than pursuing riskier, higher-return investments. And a partially submerged barge on the Kuskokwim has residents alarmed. A large sheen is seen …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Kenai Peninsula Borough asks for a setnetter disaster designation, story from Riley Board of KDLL, young Native Alaskans practice fish preparation, from KFSK’s Rachel Cassandra, and ADF&G has released the commercial salmon report for 2023. Set-netters pick a sockeye out of the net in June, 2022. (Sabine Poux/KDLL)

Kodiak had a few events to celebrate Halloween but the centerpiece event was the downtown trick or treating held by the Chamber of Commerce. Hundreds of costumed children wandered downtown in the rain and wind to fill their buckets and bags for the holiday.  Some of the kids wore rain and winter coats for the cold. (Brian Venua/KMXT) Beth Koehler …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: As the rivers in southwest Alaska freeze, the final fuel barges are sailing through tricky waters. Alaska’s  state division of public assistance have worked through some of a large backlog in SNAP applications. And the state is suing a group of homeowners over easements near Campbell Lake in South Anchorage. Barges docked …

The Islander Bookshop is one of a handful of local businesses that announced it’s moving into the mall. It’s relocating from a small storefront about a mile north of downtown.  “It just blows my mind that in 2023, an indie bookstore, not in the lower 48 but on this island, pretty far out there, can expand – triple our size,” …

On this special edition of Talk of the Rock, we present Jock of the Rock! Jock of the Rock is our regular check-in with Derek Clarkston of the Kodiak Daily Mirror and Deb Rohrer, KIBSD Activities Director, about Kodiak sports. Tune in to hear about all of the recent accolades of our local athletes.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Dillingham City School District is still waiting for four international teachers to get their visas. Family of a Marshall woman whose body was found in the Yukon River asks for justice at AFN. And the studio at KYUK could be haunted.  KYUK’s spooky TV studio.