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Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, July 28, 2022

A man sitting at a teacher's desk
“It's kind of a very shallow reason, but because of the snow. We don't have snow there!” says Jay Mojello, of why he wanted to come to Alaska. Mojello is one of the many new teachers at the Kuspuk School District who are from the Philippines. (Olivia Ebertz/KYUK)

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Thursday on Alaska News Nightly:

School districts struggle to hire teachers ahead of the new school year. Also, a new contract for Alaska Airlines workers could make them the highest paid employees in their part of the industry. And for the first time, European green crabs have been found alive in Alaska.

Reports tonight from:

Kavitha George and Laura Philion in Anchorage
Claire Stremple and Jeremy Hsieh in Juneau
Robyne in Fairbanks
and Raegan Miller in Ketchikan

Alaska News Nightly is hosted by Casey Grove, with producing and audio engineering from Toben Shelby and Katie Anastas.