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On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:An Alaska foster youth advocacy organization is suing the state Office of Children's Services for allegedly failing to provide food and necessities for older youth in their care. The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active duty soldiers from Alaska to be ready in case of a possible deployment to Minnesota. And a new pint-sized resident at the Sitka Sound Science Center aquarium will soon be gaining both a larger tank and a name.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:The United States Supreme Court has once again declined to take up challenges to a federal law that protects subsistence hunting and fishing in Alaska. The City of Saxman is on a water conservation notice due to low water levels in the city’s holding tank. And the Homer High School theater is closed after an apparent theater rigging failure dropped equipment to the stage below.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:President Trump has denounced U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and other Republicans who voted to check his use of military power in Venezuela. Avalanche risk rose over the weekend in Juneau as more snow and then rain pounded the capitol city. And natural gas use soared in Southcentral Alaska during the recent cold snap.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KUCB's Maggie Nelson reports that a major pollock processor will employ fewer foreign workers, KCAW's Katherine Rose says the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery is a go (if anyone goes) and the Alaska Groundfish Data Bank is closing up shop, according to KMXT's Davis Hovey.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:A winter storm earlier this week dropped a record-breaking amount of snow on Anchorage. Homer residents gathered downtown at WKFL Park on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol five years ago. And avalanche professionals are now warning residents of Southeast Alaska to stay out of risky terrain until conditions improve.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Its Lookback Episode #2, with reporting from KUCB's Maggie Nelson on the FISH Act, from KMXT's Davis Hovey on a new herring fishery, plus a grim assessment of the state of halibut.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Jill Fratis reports on the rescue of nine fishermen from their grounded vessel for KNBA, KMXT's Davis Hovey on cod quota based on obsolete numbers, and Sitka's Fish to Schools program is in the spotlight, courtesy of KCAW's Ryan Cotter.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:President Trump is trying to convince oil companies to invest billions of dollars in Venezuela’s oil industry. What will it mean for Alaska? Anchorage is revamping its climate action plan. And Pelican finally got provisions, after a month of isolation.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:Many Bristol Bay residents came out in opposition to the University of Alaska Fairbanks’s intention to sell one of two buildings at its Bristol Bay Campus. The Sitka Assembly is looking to address an ongoing problem in Sitka: bears breaking into trash cans. But how the body will go about it is still up in the air. And an Alaska caribou herd may be approaching a "point of no return."

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:Alaska’s U.S. senators split yesterday on legislation requiring President Trump to get the approval of Congress before taking new military action in Venezuela. Several caribou herds in Alaska’s Arctic are on the decline. And the Bogus Creek 150 sled dog race has been postponed due to extreme cold weather conditions.