Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Walruses are very social animals and like to be in constant contact with other walruses. (Ryan Kingsbery/USGS)

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Tuesday on Alaska News Nightly:

North Slope groups make the case for the Willow drilling project as the Biden administration considers approving it. Also, Alaskan scientists are still cut off from Russian colleagues, and research is suffering. And chickpea water as a cookie ingredient? Cooks experiment with egg substitutes.

Reports tonight from:

Jeremy Hsieh and Rhonda McBride in Anchorage
Claire Stremple and Katie Anastas in Juneau
Brian Venua in Kodiak
and Robert Woolsey in Sitka

Alaska News Nightly is hosted by Casey Grove, with audio engineering from Chris Hyde and producing from Annie Feidt

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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