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On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:The University of Alaska is rolling back its Diversity, Equity, and Incusion programs, in compliance with recent executive orders signed by President Donald Trump. A report that highlighted the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous people was removed from several federal websites last month. And President Trump’s cuts to the federal government have repercussions for the National Weather Service.
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On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:A University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher says electric vehicles could benefit rural communities that are off the road system. A rockslide near Ketchikan has blocked the island’s main road. And Sen. Dan Sullivan enthusiastically embraced President Trump and many of his policies during his annual address to the Alaska Legislature.
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On this today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:Silver Bay Seafoods announced in a press release that it will take over all Alaskan facilities owned by OBI Seafoods, through a partnership with Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation. The National Transportation Safety Board report says the fatal Bering Air flight from Unalakleet to Nome was hundreds of pounds overweight. And lawmakers narrowly rejected an executive order from Gov. Mike Dunleavy that would have created a cabinet-level state agriculture department.
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On this today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:Sen. Lisa Murkowski says President Trump is testing the limits of his power. The Nanook Diversity and Action Center is closing and having its website taken down. And the BLM released a draft feasibility study for public comment last week that evaluates whether the proposed Alaska Long Trail would be a suitable National Scenic Trail.
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On this today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:Employees fired last month from the agency that oversees federalfisheries in Alaska were reinstated Monday morning, but will not necesarily go back to work. Officials say residents across Southcentral Alaska should prepare for potential ashfall from Mt Spurr. And Sen. Murkowski continues to be one of the only Republicans in Congress willing to break with President Trump.
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On this today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:Haines, Alaska, publicly supports Canada’s sovereignty. The powerful Senate Finance committee discussed long deferred maintenance at rural schools. And Alaska’s state development agency says it’s talking with the operator of the Ketchikan Shipyard to resolve a dispute that threatens thefuture of the yard.
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On this today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has a new champion. Tanana Chiefs Conference full board of directors voted Thursday to rejoin the Alaska Federation of Natives. And former federal employees are applying for unemployment.
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On this today's Midday Report with host Davis Hovey: A new bear gut jacket from a Kodiak Island artist will be on display at the Alutiiq Museum, ADF&G officials warn of bear safety on the Kenai Peninsula as brown bears come out of hibernation, the Alaska House has passed the education bill and it now goes to the Senate, Mount Spurr is ready to erupt in the coming weeks, and Iditarod leaders reach White Mountain.
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On today's Midday Report with host Davis Hovey:A new Alutiiq Culture class is live streaming from the Port Lions school, the USDA announces it will rehire all fired probationary workers at least temporarily, how the U.S. House's proposed budget will cut Medicaid funding and impact Alaska, a district court judge weighs in on the lawsuit brought by AVCP and the Tanana Chiefs Conference against the National Marine Fisheries Service, and the top Iditarod teams are now on the Norton Sound coast.
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On today's Midday Report with host Davis Hovey: The Alaska Board of Fisheries is weighing in on a proposal to change the herring fishery in Kodiak, the state House considers amendments to the education funding bill, a look into an Alaska Native corporation's subsidiary that runs a migrant detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, and an Iditarod Sled Dog Race feature on one team made up of shelter rescue dogs.