Alaska News Nightly: Friday, August 28, 2020

A red-haired white girl looks up and to the left in the cover of a vogue magazine with text about the Tongass
Marina Anderson on the Landback Issue of Vogue Tongass. Tristan Douville helped put the covers together. (Photo by Bethany Goodrich)

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Friday on Alaska News Nightly:

Federal officials investigate an interaction between the Russian military and Bering Sea fishing vessels. And, a man falsely accused of a murder in Sitka seeks compensation. Plus, re-imagined magazine covers start a new conversation about the Roadless Rule.

Reports tonight from:

  • Nat Herz, Tegan Hanlon, Lex Treinen, and Kavitha George in Anchorage
  • Andrew Kitchenman and Elizabeth Jenkins in Juneau
  • Greg Kim and Krysti Shallenberger in Bethel
  • Robert Woolsey in Sitka
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