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On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Juneau has had a wild winter. An international ski competition returned to Haines last week for the first time in nearly a decade. And a group of kids in Fairbanks put their creativity to the test in an ice sculpture carving competition last week.

A weekly update of local events and what's happening in the great outdoors on Kodiak Island - Alaska's Emerald Isle.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Alaska Senate approved a measure to boost state taxes on oil and gas production. Developers of the Alaska LNG project are pressing lawmakers to pass a tax bill proposed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy last week. And a U.S. House Democrat is calling out the Trump administration’s deal to buy a stake in Trilogy Metals, the company trying to develop Alaska’s Ambler mining district.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: One person died on Sunday in a major avalanche near Haines Pass, just across the border in British Columbia. The Fairbanks Children’s Museum is moving inside city hall – where the nonprofit also plans to start offering childcare. And an Anchorage jury is currently deliberating on a 7-year-old Unalaska homicide case.

On this week's episode with host Katherine Irving, we hear about the upcoming KEA elections, upcoming renovations to the Fort Abercrombie ranger station, a new kelp farmers co-op in Kodiak, the fate of hatchery proposals at the Board of Fisheries meeting on March 21, a new major election reform bill, and price changes to fuel on Kodiak.

On this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, we hear about Kodiak brown bears waking up in town, the Board of Game is hosting its Southcentral Region meeting in Kodiak, where snow gets dumped when the local snow dump is full, how this snowy winter in Kodiak compares to previous ones, and the Kodiak Island Borough School District is not recruiting international teachers for next school year.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Alaska Board of Fisheries takes no action on a set of trawl proposals, plus KFSK's Olivia Rose reports on the Dungeness numbers for Southeast Alaska.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Davis Hovey reports on a bill that seeks to change conflict-of-interest rules for the Board of Fisheries, pike get hungrier when they get warmer, according to KNBA's Rhonda McBride and the Alaska Beacon, and a conversation between the Northern Journal's Nat Herz and APM's Casey Grove about the alternate fisheries reality that is Metlakatla.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a bipartisan election reform bill yesterday, setting up a contentious override vote in the coming days. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski says it’s time for Congress to assert its authority over the war against Iran. A proposal to create civics education requirements for all Alaska high school students is advancing in the Legislature.

On this week's episode with host Katherine Irving, the results are in from annual election for KEA's Board of Directors, a bill aims to relax conflict-of-interest rules for the Board of Fisheries, KMXT's Davis Hovey sits down with gubernatorial candidates Adam Crum and Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, and a new study finds that harvested Kodiak bears are getting bigger.