Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019

Richard Nelson has an encounter with a gray jay while producing an episode of his radio program in the Yukon Territory. Nelson passed away Monday. (Liz McKenzie photo/KCAW)

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Tuesday on Alaska News Nightly:

With criticism for the attorney general, the fight to recall Governor Dunleavy heads to court. Also: The Alaska State Troopers graduate a new class of drug dogs, and one already has a big bust. And a tribute to Richard Nelson, the anthropologist, writer and host of “Encounters,” who passed away Monday.

Reports tonight from:

  • Andrew Kitchenman in Juneau
  • Claire Stremple and Henry Leasia in Haines
  • Davis Hovey in Nome
  • Greg Kim in Bethel
  • Katherine Rose in Sitka
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Casey Grove is host of Alaska News Nightly, a general assignment reporter and an editor at Alaska Public Media. Reach him atcgrove@alaskapublic.org. Read more about Caseyhere

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