Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, September 28, 2021

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Tuesday on Alaska News Nightly:

Hundreds of out-of-state doctors and nurses begin arriving in Alaska to help fight COVID-19. Also, frontline workers in the pandemic welcome news of vaccine booster shots. And a Juneau café with dark magic vibes has helped heal its owner.

Reports tonight from:

Claire Stremple, Jeremy Hsieh and Lyndsey Brollini in Juneau
Lex Treinen and Nat Herz in Anchorage
Liz Ruskin in Washington D.C.
Sean Milligan in Nome
and Dan Bross in Fairbanks

Alaska News Nightly is hosted by Casey Grove, produced by Annie Feidt, with audio engineering by Toben Shelby.

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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