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On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:The Alaska Legislature passed a joint resolution last week urging lawmakers in D.C. to extend enhanced health insurance premium subsidies. A group of Alaska legislators have set this year’s Permanent Fund dividend at $1,000. And Governor Mike Dunleavy has vetoed a bill that would have boosted long-term funding for Alaska’s public schools.

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KUCB's Maggie Nelson reports on the FISH Act, numbers and growth rates for Pacific halibut are historically low, and the Northern Journal's Nat Herz talks to KCAW's Robert Woolsey about yet another lawsuit from the Wild Fish Conservancy.

This week we hear about a busy cruise ship week season in Kodiak, statewide recognition and awareness events for national Missing and Murdered Indigenous People's day, the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly is preparing to sell land it owns, and a story from our partners at Alaska Public Media about the Alaska Legislature passing a budget with a $1,000 PFD which now heads to Gov. Dunleavy's desk.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Coast Guard is responding to a cargo ship that caught fire near Adak yesterday. Two people died in a helicopter crash on the North Slope near Deadhorse on Wednesday. And three officials from the Trump administration visited the beginning of the Trans-Alaska oil Pipeline on Monday.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski says Congress needs to reclaim the power of tariff authority from President Donald Trump. A Homer pilot and passenger died Monday in a plane crash near Nanwalek. And the Kuskokwim River is breaking up far quicker than normal.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:Alaska’s oldest ferry is too expensive to fix. Alaska has been leading the nation in employment growth since late 2022, mainly due to federal funding. And a proposal that would create and fund tribally run public schools inched closer to reality on Thursday.

On this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, we discuss all things gardening in Kodiak with guests Andi Olsen and Marion Owen ahead of KMXT's annual plant sale/fundraiser on May 10.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:Monday was Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day. The Alaska House is scheduled to vote today on a change to corporate income taxes that could raise millions of dollars for the state. Anchorage officials are moving forward with a plan to free up space at the landfill by burning trash, and harnessing that power into electricity for the city.

This week we hear about the self-help housing project in Kodiak getting funds and land, an update on the city manager search, surveys of Kodiak Island's emperor geese show the population is doing well, a look into the salvage process for the Tanusha, a tour of the Coast Guard fast response cutter John Witherspoon, and Kodiak's Emergency Services are preparing for potential impacts of a likely Mt. Spurr eruption.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:Alaska’s U.S. Senators have co-sponsored a resolution to keep the U.S. Postal Service as an independent agency and not privatize it. Alaskans fear an executive order signed by President Trump might disenfranchise voters in rural Alaska Native communities. And the pilot recently rescued off of a small plane in an icy, Kenai Peninsula lake may face disciplinary consequences, and be responsible for cleaning up the wreck.