Alaska News Nightly: Friday, May 22, 2020

Alaska Public Media | By Casey Grove

Published May 22, 2020 at 8:42 PM AKDT

Anchorage businesses are reopening after coronavirus-related restrictions shut them down for weeks. Polar Bear Gifts in downtown Anchorage welcomed customers on Friday, May, 22, 2020.(Tegan Hanlon/Alaska Public Media)

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Friday on Alaska News Nightly:

Alaska health officials work to train hundreds of new coronavirus contact tracers. And the city of Anchorage follows the state's lead on reopening, with a few more rules.

Reports tonight from:

Nat Herz, Liz Ruskin, and Lex Treinen in Anchorage
Davis Hovey in Nome
Robyne, Tim Ellis and Dan Bross in Fairbanks
Claire Stremple in Haines
Anna Rose MacArthur in Bethel

Alaska News Nightly

Casey Grove

Casey Grove is host of Alaska News Nightly, a general assignment reporter and an editor at Alaska Public Media. Reach him at cgrove@alaskapublic.org.

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