Alaska News Nightly: Monday, October 5, 2020

Anchorage residents gather on the Delaney Park Strip to commemorate more than 200,000 Americans who have died from COVID-19. (Photo by Kavitha George/AKPM)

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Monday on Alaska News Nightly:

A judge says the state shouldn’t require a witness signature on mail-in ballots. State Republicans continue in-person fundraising events, without masks. And Anchorage residents gather to mark the country’s COVID-19 death toll.

Reports tonight from:

  • Liz Ruskin in Washington D.C.
  • Nat Herz, Kavitha George and Abbey Collins in Anchorage
  • Eric Stone in Metlakatla
  • Jacob Resneck in Juneau
  • Angela Denning in Petersburg

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. Read more about Casey here

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