Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Platters of food on a table.
Pickled fiddlehead ferns, beach asparagus, moose soup and other Indigenous foods served to patients at Alaska Native Medical Center. (Shirley Young/ANMC)

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Tuesday on Alaska News Nightly:

Kenai residents protest the federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Also, the Biden administration kicks off the comment period on restoring roadless protections in the Tongass National Forest. And a look at Alaska Native Medical Center’s Traditional Native Foods Initiative.

Reports tonight from:

• Lex Treinen, Anne Hillman and Tegan Hanlon in Anchorage
• Sabine Poux in Kenai
• Jacob Resneck in Juneau
• and Tim Ellis in Delta Junction

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

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Casey Grove is host of Alaska News Nightly, a general assignment reporter and an editor at Alaska Public Media. Reach him atcgrove@alaskapublic.org. Read more about Caseyhere

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