Alaska News Nightly: Monday, August 15, 2022

Silver salmon fills the bottom of a boat during a subsistence opening in August 2016 near Bethel. (Katie Basile/KYUK)

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Monday on Alaska News Nightly:

The federal government could take over management of silver salmon at the lower Kuskokwim River. Also, a former Mat-Su Borough Assembly member says Representative David Eastman shouldn’t hold office. And electric vehicle drivers head to the northernmost point on the road system.

Reports tonight from:

Olivia Ebertz in Bethel
Liz Ruskin in Anchorage
Sabine Poux in Kenai
Phillip Manning in Talkeetna
Robert Woolsey in Sitka
and Tim Ellis in Delta Junction

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

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