Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Alaska U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan on the Senate floor.

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Tuesday on Alaska News Nightly:

Sen. Dan Sullivan proposes a hardline approach to regulating teens’ use of social media sites like Facebook. Also, a local reporter delves into the unseen deaths of the unhoused in Anchorage. And Tom Kizzia returns to McCarthy to mine stories for his latest book.

Reports tonight from:

Liz Ruskin in Washington D.C.
Lex Treinen, Nat Herz and Adelyn Baxter in Anchorage
Dan Bross in Fairbanks
Jacob Resneck and Andrew Kitchenman in Juneau
and Greg Kim in Bethel

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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