Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, June 13, 2023

A man holds prescription drugs.
Pharmacist Andre Neptune holds vials of Cisplatin and Carboplatin. They’re chemotherapy drugs in short supply in Alaska. (Cassandra/AKPM)


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Tuesday on Alaska News Nightly:
A severed undersea cable causes internet and phone outages for Northern and Northwest Alaska. Plus, Alaska hospitals are struggling with shortages of two common chemotherapy drugs.

Reports tonight from:

Rachel Cassandra, Wesley Early, Dev Hardikar and Chris Klint in Anchorage

Tim Ellis in Delta Junction

Dan Bross in Fairbanks

Anna Canny in Juneau

Raegan Miller in Ketchikan

Greg Knight in Nome

Shelby Herbert in Petersburg

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

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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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