Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Construction sight of the new 48-unit development at the corner of 36th ave on Thursday, sept. 30th, 2021.

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Tuesday on Alaska News Nightly:

City and tribal leaders in Skagway agree to an archaeological study at the site of a former boarding school. Also, new affordable housing is set to open in Anchorage’s Spenard neighborhood. And it’s looking like another La Niña this winter.

Reports tonight from:

Tegan Hanlon, Liz Ruskin, Wesley Early, Kavitha George and Adelyn Baxter in Anchorage
Mike Swasey in Skagway
Eric Stone in Ketchikan
Dan Bross in Fairbanks
Andrew Kitchenman in Juneau
and Sage Smiley in Wrangell

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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