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Terry Haines presents the Midday Report featuring: An EOC update moves the community to red status following recent hospitalizations and one death. Hundreds wrote to the Soldotna City Council to weigh-in on a proposed mask requirement, which didn’t reach introduction. The federal government has finalized an agreement with a CO mining company to permanently seal …

Kodiak has broken 100 active cases of COVID-19, as testing from after the Thanksgiving holiday weekend has been factored into the case count. 36 new cases have been reported for the Kodiak Island Borough by the Kodiak Emergency Operation Center. Six new cases not previously reported and tested on the 28th of November include two …

A man was medevaced by the Coast Guard approximately 70 miles northwest of Saint Paul, Tuesday. The 43-year-old man was lifted by an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak at 12:25 PM. The Coast Guard duty flight surgeon recommended a medevac for the Chief Engineer of the fishing vessel Frontier Spirit, who was …

Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has denied a permit for the proposed Pebble Mine, a project that fishermen and tribes in the Bristol Bay region have been fighting for more than a decade. The Corps says it determined that Pebble’s plan does not comply with Clean Water Act guidelines and …

As Kodiak starts another week in the red status, another COVID death was reported over the weekend: the third in Kodiak since the start of the pandemic. COVID-19 case counts from the weekend are still murky. A Kodiak Area Emergency Services Organization update from Saturday announced 17 new cases for the Kodiak Island Borough. These …

On today’s midday newscast with host Terry Haines: Alaska sets new records for Covid-19 cases. Fairbanks historian Terrence Cole dies at age 67. Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy reveals his budget plan. All that and more on today’s midday news report.

While COVID-19 has put a wrench in many social gatherings around the state, the importance of shows of communal solidarity of that nature has not been lost on the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services. To bring Alaskans together, the DHSS has asked Alaska to “Bring Back the Light.” This event is unique in …

While it should come as no surprise that foot traffic in the Kodiak Public Library has decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic, that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing going on there. Mike Sirofchuck and Jan Chatto of the Kodiak Public Library Association and Laurie Madsen of the Kodiak Public Library joined KMXT’s news team on Talk …

According to the Kodiak Area Emergency Services Organization, 48 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported for the Kodiak Island Borough. Of these cases, 13 were community transmission, 31 were close contacts, and four were unknown. This includes two cases tested and not previously reported on December 4th, 18 on December 8th, and 28 on …

Jared Griffin with today’s newscast, with a live update from the Emergency Operations Center. (Note: we had some equipment failure halfway through the newscast.)