Newscast – Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017

In this newscast:

  • A Ketchikan company wins a first-of-its-kind second growth logging contract on Kosciusko Island in the Tongass National Forest,
  • environmentalists sound the alarm on a congressional budget maneuver that could open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, and
  • the journal Science reports nearly 300 species of sea creatures from Japan hitchhiked to the Unites States’ Pacific Coast on tsunami debris.

Jeremy Hsieh

Local News Reporter, KTOO

I dig into questions about the forces and institutions that shape Juneau, big and small, delightful and outrageous. What stirs you up about how Juneau is built and how the city works?

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