Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, January 31, 2023

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The proposed Pebble Mine site, pictured in 2014. (Jason Sear/KDLG)

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Tuesday on Alaska News Nightly:

Pebble opponents celebrate an EPA decision to ban the mine. Mat-Su school bus drivers go on strike, but not before dropping kids off at school. Plus, Team Alaska is racking up the medals at the Arctic Winter Games.

Reports tonight from:

Izzy Ross in Dillingham
Kavitha George, Chris Klint and Rhonda McBride in Anchorage
Sabine Poux in Kenai
Robert Woolsey in Sitka
and Rachel Cassandra in Petersburg

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

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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