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00:30:52

Midday Report March 28, 2025

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2025/03/28

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:Caregivers in Homer gathered last week to support state legislation to increase oversight of in-home care services and attempt to boost caregivers’ wages and benefits. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, up to $43 million dollars in federal grants that support public health programs in Alaska. And airport workers in Fairbanks are preparing for a possible eruption of Mt Spurr.Photo: Fairbanks International Airport terminal entrance

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00:34:59

Midday Report March 27, 2025

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2025/03/27

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:The Sitka Assembly has invited a Kodiak-based company to run its new publicly-owned marine haulout – over the strenuous objections of many in the local fleet and marine services industry. State lawmakers are now more than halfway through their four-month legislative session, and time is ticking away. And U.S. House Republicans put the top executives of NPR and PBS on the hot seat Wednesday. Photo: Work began on Sitka’s marine haul out as soon as

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00:31:45

Midday Report March 26, 2025

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2025/03/26

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:A murder and subsequent wrongful conviction case in Fairbanks is finally coming to an end. The $44 billion Alaska LNG Project picked up a letter of intent last Thursday from Taiwan’s state-owned CPC Corporation. And for many tribes in rural areas, cuts by the Trump administration could make food security even tougher.Photo: The Fairbanks Four (left to right): Marvin Roberts, Eugene Vent, Kevin Pease and George Frese at an event celebrating their

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00:17:36

Midday Report March 25, 2025

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2025/03/25

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:People living in the northern part of the state will have a chance to watch rockets soar through aurora-lit night skies for the next couple weeks. Friday was World Glacier Day. And the Alaska House of Representatives says it recognizes Canada’s right to govern itself and opposes efforts to restrict cross-border trade.Photo: A NASA technician works on the payload of an AWESOME rocket. (UAF)

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00:30:34

Midday Report March 24, 2025

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2025/03/24

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.Photo: Weather Service Forecast for Kodiak,

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00:31:12

Midday Report March 21, 2025

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2025/03/21

On this 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.Photo: Thursday’s Wolfe Point landslide near Ketchikan seen from above. (Jason Baldwin/KPU)

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00:19:34

Midday Report March 20, 2025

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2025/03/20

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

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00:19:33

Midday Report March 19, 2025

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2025/03/19

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 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.Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, smiles on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, as she exits the Alaska House of Representatives

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00:30:44

Midday Report March 18, 2025

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2025/03/19

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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00:30:23

Midday Report March 17, 2025

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2025/03/17

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 the future of the yard.

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00:30:41

Midday Report March 14, 2025

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2025/03/14

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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00:30:36

Midday Report: March 04, 2025

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2025/03/04

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:The Trump administration is set to impose tariffs on goods imported from Canada and Mexico. The Iditarod started in Fairbanks yesterday. KYUK’s Samantha Watson looks at the warming climate’s impact on the race trails themselves and what this means for the future of the on-snow sport.Photo: Rookie musher Bryce Mumford of Preston, Idaho, heads down the Chena River. Thirty-three mushers and dog teams began the 2025 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race from

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00:30:19

Midday Report: March 03, 2025

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2025/03/03

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:Leaders in the Alaska House and Senate say they’re deeply concerned about the impacts of federal staff cuts and a forthcoming congressional immigration and tax cuts bill, and are imploring Alaska’s all-Republican federal delegation to halt possible reductions in Medicaid coverage. Photo: Demonstrators gather outside the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau to protest the Trump administration's policies on Feb. 17, 2025. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public

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00:19:59

Midday Report: Feb. 28, 2025

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2025/02/28

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:Interior Alaska residents are hustling to get ready for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race next week now that the competition is starting in Fairbanks. The board of Sitka’s industrial park is postponing a decision about placing the city’s new marine haulout under the management of Highmark Marine. And a longtime member of the Anchorage Filipino community will serve the largest immigrant group in the state as an honorary consulate.Photo: Evelyn Abello

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00:34:41

Midday Report: Feb. 27, 2025

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2025/02/27

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The U.S. House Tuesday passed a spending blueprint that would extend tax cuts and almost certainly reduce Medicaid. Alaska Senate leaders are reviving options for raising revenue. And the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program has removed the phrase “Alaska Native” from its website.Photo: The Trans-Alaska Pipeline winds through the landscape. Legislators are looking at ways to increase oil tax revenue. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media)

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00:31:38

Midday Report: Feb. 26, 2025

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2025/02/26

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:A group of protesters demonstrated against US Ukraine policy in Fairbanks on Monday. A new report paints a bleak picture of the impacts of frozen and cancelled federal funds in Alaska. And probationary federal workers based in Kotzebue joined thousands of other employees fired earlier this month by the Trump Administration.Photo: Protesters mark the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the corner of Geist Road and University

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00:30:31

Midday Report: Feb. 25, 2025

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2025/02/25

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Influenza cases in Alaska are spiking, according to data from the state’s division of public health. Seward’s roughly 60-year-old cruise ship dock is on track to get a $140 million makeover. And farmers are in favor of a state Department of Agriculture.Photo: Concept drawing for the new cruise ship terminal in Seward. Photo Credit: The Seward Company

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00:30:32

Midday Report: Feb. 24, 2025

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2025/02/24

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:The University of Alaska System will no longer use or refer to “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion,” or other similar words. The wide-open sky and super-flat tundra expanses of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta are great for snowkite skiing. And Alaska legislators are facing even larger deficits than they previously thought.Photo: Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, after debate on the state operating budget, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska

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00:30:35

Midday Report: Feb. 21, 2025

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2025/02/21

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:Congressman Nick Begich III told the Alaska Legislature yesterday the state has become too dependent on federal spending. Sen. Lisa Murkowski voted against confirming Kash Patel as President Trump’s FBI director. Plus: are chicken coops the new gold mines?Photo: A fried egg. (Matthew Murdoch)

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00:30:36

Midday Report: February 14, 2025

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2025/02/14

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:Sen. Lisa Murkowski introduced a bill yesterday that would keep the name Denali on North America’s highest peak. Lawmakers are looking closely at Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s plan to create a state Department of Agriculture. And funding to expand electric car charging capacity has been stalled, if not cancelled.Photo: Sen. Lisa Murkowski on the Senate floor Feb. 13, 2025. (CSPAN)

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