Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Smoke and haze rising above mostly spruce as a plane lands in the distance
Fairbanks in Feb. 2022 (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media)

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Wednesday on Alaska News Nightly:

A look at homelessness in Fairbanks, a frigid city with no low-barrier shelter. A third subpoena as the Anchorage Assembly looks into the former health director’s fraudulent credentials. Plus a Ketchikan podcast breaking down Filipino culture tries to be as cool and smooth as its namesake dessert.

Reports tonight from:

Jeremy Hsieh and Wesley Early in Anchorage
Robert Woolsey in Sitka
Maggie Nelson in Unalaska
and Raegan Miller in Ketchikan

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