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Oct 3, 2026

Newscast – Friday, Oct. 2, 2026

from KTOO Hosted by KTOO News Department

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.

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