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00:31:17

Midday Report: September 22, 2025

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2025/09/22

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:This year’s Permanent Fund Dividend will be exactly $1,000. Payments to more than 600,000 Alaskans are set to begin Oct. 2. The U.S. Senate rejected two partisan spending bills on Friday, bringing the country closer to a partial government shutdown on October 1st. And Senator Sullivan and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez DeRemer were in Fairbanks Friday.Photo: Senator Sullivan and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez DeRemer. (FaceBook)

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00:30:09

Midday Report: September 19, 2025

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2025/09/19

In today's Midday Report with host Davis Hovey:Lawyers are trading arguments in a case challenging the state’s failure to process applications for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on time. Heat pumps are growing in popularity across the country, including in parts of Alaska. And a group in Unalakleet is bringing traditional dance back to life — after more than a century without it.

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00:34:29

Midday Report: September 18, 2025

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2025/09/18

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:State officials are investigating the death of a 37-year-old man found unresponsive on Sunday in his locked Anchorage jail cell. Sen. Lisa Murkowski broke from other Republicans on the firing last month of the Director of the Centers for Disease Control. And former Alaska attorney general Treg Taylor filed to join the 2026 race for governor Wednesday.Photo: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on an Alaska tour in August. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public

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00:30:33

Midday Report: September 17 , 2025

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2025/09/17

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:An unusually warm August and early September near Sitka has attracted an unusual fish to the area - tuna. A U.S. House hearing Tuesday on energy in Alaska was largely a tale of two Alaskas. And six years ago, a man tossed a message in a bottle on a patch of sea ice near Utqiagvik. This spring, it was finally found – thousands of miles away.Photo: Jared Nelson, left, and Adam Olson, with albacore tuna caught off the Sitka coast on Sept. 7. (Photo by

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00:31:39

Midday Report: September 16, 2025

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2025/09/16

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:Alaskans can expect a La Niña climate pattern this winter. Former Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor is asking the Alaska Public Offices Commission to exempt him from disclosing who is renting his apartments. And Unangax̂ dance is having something of a renaissance in the Aleutians.Photo: Unangax̂ dancers. (Lucy Bagley, KUCB

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00:30:13

Midday Report: September 15, 2025

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2025/09/15

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:The U.S. Department of Education has announced that it will cut millions in federal grants for its Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions program. Scientists studying killer whales in Alaska are uncovering long-term impacts of a warmer ocean. And Native advocacy organizations say plans to reorganize U.S. Department of Agriculture could harm tribal food security programs.Photo: Killer whale. (AZ Animals)

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00:31:29

Midday Report: September 12, 2025

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2025/09/12

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:A man shot by Sand Point police last week was arraigned in Anchorage Thursday. Juneau has a cat problem. And the founder of the influential conservative blog Must Read Alaska says she resigned this week.Photo: Duke Ogata. (Alaska's News Source)

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00:34:42

Midday Report: September 11, 2025

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2025/09/11

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:U.S. Antimony Corporation says it's begun to recover antimony from old deposits at a historic mine near Ester Dome. Efforts to make part of the Kenai Spur Highway safer kicked off Tuesday. And the union that represents support staff at the Juneau School District is suing the district over its afterschool child care program.Photo: State and local officials break ground on a Kenai Spur Highway safety project on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025 in Kenai,

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00:30:55

Midday Report: September 10, 2025

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2025/09/10

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:The Northwest Arctic saw record breaking rainfall in August, which led to flooding, erosion and high water throughout the region. It’s getting harder for Alaskans to afford a place to live, whether that means buying a house or renting. And one man has been getting generations of people in Ketchikan to sing sea shanties for over 30 years.Photo: Sea shanty poster for the Alaska Fish House in Ketchikan.

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00:30:27

Midday Report: September 09, 2025

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2025/09/09

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:One question hangs over Alaska’s 2026 governor’s race: what will Peltola do? In rural Alaska, there are a growing number of cases that involve young teens who are sexually exploited online. And Alaska students’ test scores improved modestly last school year. Photo: Mary Peltola

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00:29:34

Midday Report: September 08, 2025

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2025/09/08

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:A Kenai superior court judge declined to dismiss the state’s case against a former Alaska State Trooper facing a felony assault charge. It’s been about two weeks since the post office in Nikiski closed abruptly. And layer by layer, a new home in Nome is taking shape. Once complete, it’ll become the first occupied 3D printed house in Alaska.Photo: X-Hab 3D's Lead of Systems Engineering, Sven Bilén, evaluates a segment of concrete printed by the

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00:12:09

Weekly Wrap September 5, 2025

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2025/09/08

This week we hear about an oil spill near the Kitoi Bay Hatchery, a small earthquake near Kodiak, elevated levels of harmful algal blooms, Alaska Aerospace is looking to expand its presence along the Aleutian Chain, and Kodiak's landfill is filling up.

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00:36:23

Midday Report: September 05, 2025

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2025/09/05

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:An Alaska Native group seeking the names of Indigenous people murdered in the state ran into a roadblock this summer when the Alaska Department of Public Safety rejected their request. Two Sitka community gardens have received grant funding to support their development. And students’ in Napakiak have a brand new school.

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00:36:06

Midday Report: September 04, 2025

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2025/09/04

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:Ships could pose a risk to seabirds migrating through Alaska’s waters. The U.S. House voted along party lines yesterday to repeal a land use plan covering 13 million acres in Alaska. And researchers continue to investigate a massive landslide and tsunami that hit a fjord last month.Photo: A bird storm strikes the R/V Tiĝlax̂ near Kasatochi Island in 2003. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Williams/USFWS)

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00:30:26

Midday Report: September 03, 2025

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2025/09/03

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:Contractors broke ground in Sitka last week on the final piece of a two-decade project seeking more affordable housing. Gov. Mike Dunleavy has named Stephen J. Cox to be Alaska’s next attorney general. And Federal data shows that a subset of cruise ships violate pollution standards in Alaska hundreds of times every year. Photo: Contractors pour the concrete foundation for the first of three duplexes in the Sitka Land Trust. (KCAW/McKenney)

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00:30:56

Midday Report: September 02, 2025

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2025/09/02

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:The Juneau School District Board of Education is fast tracking a move to restore universal free breakfast for K-12 students. An Alaska-based environmental organization is restoring the landscape by constructing man-made beaver dams. And a haunting crime story and an Alaska Native legend are at the center of a new documentary that will premiere on Hulu next month.Photo: Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve ecology technician Spencer

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00:16:54

Weekly Wrap August 29, 2025

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2025/09/02

This week we hear about the latest rocket launch from the Kodiak Island spaceport, a "plus-up" underway at Coast Guard Base Kodiak, more than 50 dead shearwaters found near Kodiak beaches, brown bears are wreaking havoc at the landfill, the Alutiiq Museum's annual meeting, and KIBSD school district staff prepare for the new school year.

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00:35:33

Midday Report: August 29, 2025

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2025/08/29

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:Gov. Mike Dunleavy has named Stephen J. Cox to be Alaska’s next attorney general. Skagway is inching toward building a dock that Canadian mining companies could use to once again export ore from the local port. And “The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn.”Photo: Ben Vaughn.

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00:32:11

Midday Report: August 28, 2025

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2025/08/28

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:An F-35 fighter jet crashed at Eielson Air Force Base back in January because water-contaminated hydraulic fluid caused an ice buildup in the plane’s landing gear. And scientists are trying to figure out an early warning system for earthquakes, but it will cost money.

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00:30:55

Midday Report: August 27, 2025

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2025/08/27

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:A former south peninsula firefighter is suing the Kenai Peninsula Borough and her former boss. And a group of Mertarvik students got to travel to New York City to share the impact of climate change on kids. Photo: Mertarvik students and Province Town students play basketball in Brooklyn, New York on June 6, 2025. (Gabby Salgado/KYUK)

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