Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, December 15, 2022

Four people stand at the front of a room for a press conference
Gail Fenumiai, Division of Elections director, answers questions during a press conference Tuesday, March 22 about the special election process. (Video capture from Facebook livestream)

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Thursday on Alaska News Nightly:

Governor Dunleavy releases his draft of the next state budget. Plus, the struggle to plow Anchorage streets continues after a third snowstorm hit the municipality. And a film festival on the Kenai peninsula shines a light on native languages.

Reports tonight from:

Kavitha George, Jeremy Hsieh and Chris Klint in Anchorage
Liz Ruskin in Washington D.C.
Sabine Poux and Riley Board in Kenai
Katie Anastas in Juneau
and Brian Venua in Kodiak

Alaska News Nightly is hosted by Casey Grove, with producing and audio engineering from Chris Hyde and Madilyn Rose.

Madilyn Rose is the program producer at Alaska Public Media. Reach her at mrose@alaskapublic.org. Read more about Madilyn here.

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