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On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:It looks like the Yukon Quest may be won as early as this afternoon. FBI agents in Anchorage helped in a nationwide immigration crackdown under President Trump last weekend. And more than 100 Juneauites took to the sidewalk to join a nationwide protest against President Donald Trump’s administration and its recent executive orders.

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KRBD's Jack Darrell reports that the Board of Fish isn't quite ready to open squid fishing in Southeast, The snow crab is starting to flow into Unalaska, according to Maggie Nelson of KUCB, and federal regulators are considering a chum salmon cap in the Bering Sea pollock fishery, story by KUCB's Theo Greenly.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:A look back at the effects of Limited Entry. A passenger aircraft is missing near Nome. And tough budget decisions are in store for Alaska legislators.

This week we hear about the growth of the kelp and mariculture industry in Kodiak, a new public use cabin near Pasagshak River, an investigation into a long time Kodiak doctor's death, the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly is considering a limit on short-term rentals, the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board is reviewing the Second Floor's license renewal and its transfer license application in relation to local Restaurant or Eating Place Licenses (REPLs), and a story from the Northern Journal about the last skipper in Ouzinkie and the overall limited entry program in Alaska.

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.

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Board of Fish says no way to a herring closure in Promisla Bay, story by KCAW's Katherine Rose, KDLL's Ashlyn O'Hara reports on a clampdown on king fishing on the Kenai and Kasilof, and KUCB's Theo Greenly on the great debate about the rate of chum taken presently in the pollock fishery out in the Bering Sea.

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.

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.

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.

This week we hear about a major traffic jam, the Kodiak Island Borough is figuring out what to do with the old mental health buildings, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem visited Coast Guard Base Kodiak, the state Board of Fish changed Kodiak's herring fishery, the Danger Bay logging site on Afognak Island is reducing its workforce due to the trade war with China, and the Institute of Museums and Library Services is being gutted.