Zoe Grueskin, KTOO

In this newscast: The state announced it’s shutting down ferry service to Prince Rupert, British Columbia; the news has been met with shock and disappointment in Ketchikan.
NOAA scientists are tracking marine heatwave across millions of square miles of water in the Pacific Ocean. Southeast’s landless tribal communities want to form five new village corporations out of 115,000 acres of Tongass national Forest. A national Muslim civil liberties group has resolved its federal lawsuit against the State of Alaska for providing what it says were insufficient meals to Muslim inmates fasting as part of their faith. The Alaska Supreme Court has ordered the state to pay about $100,000 in attorneys’ fees and other costs after losing a legal fight earlier this year over abortion. A Southwest Alaska museum has received dozens of ancestral remains to hold until they can be returned to the Alutiiq Tribe of Old Harbor.

In this newscast:The group pursuing a recall of Gov. Mike Dunleavy has submitted signatures to state elections officials as part of an initial phase of its push. The Alaska Marine Highway System opened booking for its winter schedule with fewer sailings and a new pricing system that could take travelers by surprise. The cruise industry’s public face in Alaska is stepping out of the limelight.The Alaska Board of Fisheries violated the state’s open meetings law, according to Alaska’s ombudsman. Last month, Alaska’s US Senators accompanied Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on a trip to communities around the state.

In this newscast: Trial has begun in Juneau Superior Court for a man accused of killing two people in Juneau over three years ago. The Alaska Marine Highway System is ending service to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, at the end of the month over an impasse with U.S. customs agents demanding armed protection in Canada. A high-level Alaskan appointee in the Trump administration who pushed to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil leasing is taking a job with an oil company seeking to develop a major project in Alaska. Negotiations between the University of Alaska land office and a potential buyer ground to a halt as the result of an escalating trade war between the US and China. Another stock in the Bering Sea blue king crab fisheries was just added to the nation’s overfished list.