Midday Report: June 17, 2026
On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:
State senators are closely examining a House-passed bill offering tax cuts for a North Slope natural gas pipeline as they near the end a special session on the issue. Lisa Murkowski is among members of Congress trying to prevent the dismantling of an instrument system that monitors the nation s oceans. And a brown bear attacked a man biking the Dome Trail in Anchorage Saturday afternoon.
Photo: A brown bear walks through tidal grass at Pack Creek in Southeast Alaska on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. (Nat Herz/Alaska Public Media)
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