Alaska News Nightly: Monday, June 5, 2023

A sign in Cuddy Family Midtown Park lays out prohibited behaviors, including camping and having alcohol, near some campers drinking on the morning of May 24, 2023. (Jeremy Hsieh/Alaska Public Media)

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Monday on Alaska News Nightly:

Teens use a healthy kind of peer pressure to warn each other about the dangers of vaping. Plus, renewable energy projects are expanding, above the Arctic Circle, in Kotzebue.

Reports tonight from:

Rachel Cassandra, Jeremy Hsieh and Chris Klint in Anchorage

Evan Erickson in Bethel

Christina McDermott in Dillingham

Raegan Miller in Ketchikan

Desiree Hagen in Kotzebue

Greg Knight in Nome

This episode of Alaska News Nightly is hosted by Casey Grove, with audio engineering from Dave Emmert and producing from Tim Rockey.

a portrait of a man outside

Tim Rockey is the producer of Alaska News Nightly and covers education for Alaska Public Media. Reach him at trockey@alaskapublic.org or 907-550-8487. Read more about Tim here.

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