In this newscast:
- Two environmental conservation groups and a Southeast Alaska tribe have filed a motion to stop a timber sale that’s part of a logging project east of Ketchikan.
- Independent expenditure groups are pouring tens of millions of dollars into Alaska’s races for governor and Congress.
- The federal government announced its intent to rescind a key environmental conservation law that protects much of the Tongass National Forest.
- Researchers at the University of Alaska Southeast are trying to detect toxic algal blooms that could hurt Alaska’s shellfish industry.
