Midday Report: August 21, 2024

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska’s Congressional delegation is calling for action to pause transboundary mining in Canada upstream of Southeast Alaska rivers. Democratic Congresswoman Mary Peltola has a wide lead in Alaska’s nonpartisan primary for U.S. House, followed by Republican challenger Nick Begich III. And Nikiski will be the site of the state’s largest solar farm...someday. Photo; The Stikine River Flats area in the Tongass National Forest is viewed from a helicopter on July 19, 2021. The Stikine River is one of the major transboundary rivers impacted by mines in British Columbia. (Photo by Alicia Stearns/U.S. Forest Service)