Alaska News Nightly: Friday, April 16, 2021

A man in a zip up windbreaker speaks at a podium in front of a float plane
Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks about his hopes for holding a summer cruise season this year in a news conference in the hangar of Wings Airways in Juneau on Friday. Holland America executive Ralph Samuels and Juneau Mayor Beth Weldon are behind Dunleavy. (Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO and Alaska Public Media)

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Friday on Alaska News Nightly:

The Dunleavy administration announces a massive tourism marketing plan, including offering vaccines to visitors. And, Sealaska Heritage Institute is producing an opera based on the true story of the Tlingit-Russian War. Plus, a new “mini-home” project works toward affordable housing in Yakutat.

Reports tonight from:

  • Andrew Kitchenman and Pablo Peña in Juneau
  • Liz Ruskin in Washington D.C.
  • Emily Hofstaedter in Nome
  • Eric Stone in Ketchikan
  • Erin McKinstry in Sitka

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