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On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:A man seeking to challenge U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan has filed suit after the Alaska Division of Elections removed him from this year’s ballot. The state Division of Forestry and Fire Protection estimated the Starry Fire has burned about 550 acres since it was reported Saturday night. And Four U.S. Coast Guard crew members involved in a helicopter crash in Sitka Monday morning have been reported safe with “non-serious injuries.”

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:A high-stakes feud between Alaska’s major oil companies and three municipalities that collect taxes from those companies is now headed to court. School districts across Alaska are set to receive up to $115 million in one-time funding this year. And A deep-sea whale rarely seen in Southeast Alaska washed up onshore near Sitka.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:A bill that passed the state legislature with near unanimous support won’t become law. "Snow Classic" style gambling is now legal. And Officials with a U.S. Department of Defense agency are preparing to exhume the remains of an unidentified WWII soldier buried in the Sitka National Cemetery this week.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:The Alaska Supreme Court says Dan J. Sullivan must be included on the ballot for Alaska's U.S. Senate seat. The Sitka Sound Science Center’s marine debris cleanup crew found a message in a bottle. And five Norton Sound tribes are asking a federal judge to throw out a key federal permit for a large-scale gold mine proposed in Bonanza Channel, an estuary about 30 miles east of Nome.

On today's Midday Report with host Davis Hovey, Coast Alaska reports that summer salmon prices are up for commercial fishermen in Alaska, a road between King Cove and Cold Bay is slated for construction next month, drones are being used in Western Alaska for subsistence and local knowledge, legislators weigh in on the ongoing debate over tax breaks for the LNG project during Alaska Public Media's Talk of Alaska.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Rivers are rusting across the Arctic, according to KOTZ's Desiree Hagen, Alix Soliman of KTOO reports that advocates are calling for ESA designation for grey whales, and a Ketchikan show about fish pirates is 60 years old as reported by KRBD's Hunter Morrison.

On today's Midday Report with host Davis Hovey, new KIBSD Superintendent Daniel Brigman has officially begun his three-year tenure, KDLG has reactions from fishermen on a new partnership between Silver Bay Seafoods and Northline Seafoods, KNBA reports on Chugach tribes forming a tribal conservational district, and the state has confirmed three cases of cyclosporiasis in Alaska since May according to Alaska Public Media.

Wildflowers gone wild, whales on shore, and more. Life on Alaska's Emerald Isle, Kodiak!

On today's Midday Report with host Davis Hovey, the deadline to register to vote is this Sunday, Alaska Public Media reports that legislators will have a third special session to figure out a LNG tax bill, a conversation with a climate scientist about this year's El Nino, and KRBD attends Ketchikan's first ever rock skipping competition.

On this week's episode with host Katherine Irving, the deadline is coming up to register to vote in the Alaska state primaries, ADF&G launches a new bycatch portal, new KIBSD superintendent Daniel Brigman attends his first regular Board of Education meeting, four whales wash up dead on the Kodiak archipelago, Alaska Public Media reports on ways to avoid getting cyclosporiasis, and the Borough Assembly swears in a new member.