On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The “Tustumena Replacement Vessel” will be engineered to be a diesel/electric hybrid. Former State Senate President Ben Stevens has died while hiking near Seward. And there has been a break in one of four two-year-old missing persons cases in Fairbanks.
Midday Report October 17, 2022
![Courtesy of the Alaska Department of Transportation A rendering of the Tustumena Replacement Vessel.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/081e4b7/2147483647/strip/true/crop/596x354+0+0/resize/880x523!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F61%2Ffa%2F73ab57ca42b39edfa921b2fddb38%2F62f693ecabda6-e1666039869997.jpg)
A rendering of the Tustumena Replacement Vessel.