Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Anchorage Assembly chair Suzanne LaFrance (left) and vice-chair Chris Constant at an Assembly meeting on June 7, 2022. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)

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Tuesday on Alaska News Nightly:

The Anchorage Assembly says it’s not ready to approve a settlement over a project it never approved. Concentrations of dangerous forever chemicals are higher than previously thought in some Anchorage and Fairbanks lakes. Plus, eyes are on the winner of last year’s Iditarod as teams gear up for this year’s race.

Reports tonight from:

Wesley Early and Lex Treinen in Anchorage
Dan Bross in Fairbanks
Izzy Ross in Dillingham
Corinne Smith in Homer
and Reagan Miller in Ketchikan

Alaska News Nightly is hosted by Liz Ruskin, with audio engineering from Chris Hyde and producing from Madilyn Rose

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

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