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In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:Advocates say it’s finally time to connect Alaska’s largest city to communities to its north using commuter rail. Petersburg's waste water line is broken, and no one knows for how long. And a kitten cafe!

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:Providing healthcare in rural communities can come with a lot of unique challenges. Mt Spurr is no longer expected to erupt in the near future. And the Juneau Assembly voted to kill a proposed ordinance that would have made it easier for police officers to arrest campers in public spaces.

This week we hear about Alaska State Troopers putting down a Kodiak brown bear, Aleutian terns rebounding, we have a list of candidates for municipal elections this fall, construction on the island by the U.S. Navy, and Alaska Marine Lines will no longer ship electric vehicle.

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:University of Alaska Southeast staff and nursing students gathered at the Ketchikan campus to celebrate the new nursing lab. One family in Juneau is trying to raise a million dollars for a lifesaving treatment for their child. And researchers have been recording the mysterious “thrumming” sounds of humpback whales.

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:The Alaska LNG Project netted two more agreements earlier this month during an energy conference in Italy. The only year-round medical clinic in the small Interior community of Healy announced last week (9/17) that it will soon close its doors. And St. Paul has lost its major air carrier.

In this week's episode, we hear about early voting opening in Kodiak, a borough assembly member resigned, hydroponics in Ouzinkie, and the White House increased the price of H1B teachers — the one many schools use to hire teachers from abroad.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Brian Venua reports on a grant awarded to a Kodiak plant for kelp processing, mariculture was front and center at the recent meeting of the Southeast Conference, according to Ryan Cotter of KCAW, and Wali Rana of KNOM tells of aerial surveys of the Bering and Chukchi Seas.

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:The Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center is so far spared from closures coming to a third of these climate science centers across the country. Another glacial outburst flood is underway on the Taku River south of Juneau today. And the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $16.7 million dollar grant to begin construction of the first veterans cemetery in the Interior.

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:The Alaska Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Alaska Department of Fish and Game may allow Jet Skis, in Kachemak Bay. A Homer Republican state representative is declaring victory after pressuring the local newspaper to revise a story about a vigil honoring Charlie Kirk. And Alaska State Troopers shot and killed a man near Anchor Point on Thursday who they say brandished a knife after a footchase.

On this month's episode, host Ian Zacher is joined by a couple cohosts from the Kodiak Soil and Water Conservation District and Gino Graziano from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service to discuss pesticides and their use to combat invasive species, as well as using biologicals to fight pests in gardens.