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In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua: The longest government shutdown in U.S. history came to an end last week. Researchers and community members gathered in Yakutat to discuss local geohazards, like landslide-induced tsunamis. And Alaska legislators with the state Joint Armed Services Committee are raising concerns that a federal directive to prepare the Alaska National Guard to deploy domestically for civil unrest could divert service members from disaster relief efforts.

In today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:Southeast Alaska tribes and environmental groups delivered nearly 30,000 messages to British Columbia lawmakers about transboundary mining. The U.S Department of Education is cutting a grant that funds about half of the faculty and staff at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Bristol Bay Campus.

This week, with host Davis Hovey, we hear about the most recent shellfish toxin results in Kodiak, the interim chancellor of the University of Alaska visits the local college, Nick Mangini was appointed to the city council, the borough lands committee pushes more land to the borough assembly for sale and the North Star Elementary school building will be used at least in part for daycare.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KMXT's Davis Hovey reports that the Alaska State Troopers seized all electronics from the Alaska Groundfish Data Bank in Kodiak, and then he throws cold water on an old wives tale.

Walks on the beach, baby jellyfish, and gratitude. Life on Alaska's Emerald Isle, Kodiak!

In today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:A lawsuit from Alaska’s only Native reservation will proceed over the objections of other Southeast tribes. Alaska State Troopers have redoubled their efforts to locate a North Pole man charged with murder. And drone technology helped speed the process for approving the state’s federal disaster declaration after ex-Typhoon Halong.

In today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:The idea of building a road to connect the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers is getting a fresh look. The Trump administration has a new offshore drilling proposal to offer nearly all of the oceans off Alaska to potential leasing. And the Anchorage Museum has brought together artists, writers and photographers to start a conversation on how to navigate climate change.

In today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:The Alaska Bureau of Investigation is looking into two incidents shots fired at two ore-hauling trucks late last week near Fairbanks. Alaska’s state government is increasingly failing to keep up with requirements in state and federal law according to the state’s nonpartisan auditor. And it’s the time of year when winter weather traps pollution in many Interior Alaska communities.

This week with host Davis Hovey, the executive director of the Brother Francis Shelter, Susan Smith, joins us to discuss the services the homeless shelter provides in Kodiak along with the challenges and needs it's facing this winter. To learn more about how to donate items or volunteer with the Brother Francis Shelter, call 907 486 5610.

In today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:Alaskans are getting sticker shock as they renew their ACA insurance. And Fairbanks is getting a surge of law enforcement help.