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Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, August 24, 2022

view of a mountainside of a docked cruise ship
The cruise ship berth directly below the rockslide is empty for the rest of the 2022 season. Aug. 3, 2022. (Claire Stremple/KTOO)

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Wednesday on Alaska News Nightly:

The risk of a major rock slide is causing cruise ships to skip Skagway. Also, biologists plan to study how kelp farms could boost the economy and impact fish. And two rescued harbor seal pups get ready to go back into the ocean.

Reports tonight from:

Raegan Miller and Eric Stone in Ketchikan
Claire Stremple in Juneau
Kirsten Dobroth in Kodiak
Laurelin Kruse in Unalaska
and Hope McKenney in Seward

Alaska News Nightly is hosted by Casey Grove, with producing and audio engineering from Toben Shelby and Katie Anastas.