The U.S. Department of Interior announces a land exchange has been withdrawn in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge on the Alaska Peninsula, with critics saying it will prevent a potentially life-saving 11-mile road from being constructed between King Cove and Cold Bay. Plus, conservation groups begin the litigation process against the Biden administration a day after the approval of the Willow Project, an Anchorage man accused of running a Ponzi-style scam is criminally charged, and economists reveal data in a longtime study to get an accurate perspective on the growth Alaska students have gone through since graduating high school in 2005.

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