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Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Sept. 27, 2019

Alaska Public Media | By Casey Grove
Published September 27, 2019 at 9:45 PM AKDT
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks at a news conference at his Anchorage office on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, where he announced that he'd selected Anchorage GOP Rep. Josh Revak to fill the state Senate seat opened by the death of Chris Birch earlier this year. Dunleavy said he was not ready to call the Legislature into a special session to address a supplemental Permanent Fund dividend payment that he's pushed for. (Photo by Nat Herz / Alaska Public Media)
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks at a news conference at his Anchorage office on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, where he announced that he'd selected Anchorage GOP Rep. Josh Revak to fill the state Senate seat opened by the death of Chris Birch earlier this year. Dunleavy said he was not ready to call the Legislature into a special session to address a supplemental Permanent Fund dividend payment that he's pushed for. (Photo by Nat Herz / Alaska Public Media)

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Friday on Alaska News Nightly:

Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he’ll talk more about a third special session on the PFD after a vacant senate seat is filled. Also: The Association of Village Council Presidents comes out against the proposed Donlin gold mine.

Reports tonight from:

  • Nat Herz in Anchorage
  • Andrew Kitchenman in Juneau
  • Krysti Shallenberger and Anna Rose MacArthur in Bethel
  • Wesley Early in Kotzebue
  • Greg Kim in Lower Kalskag
  • Izzy Ross in Dillingham
  • Claire Stremple in Haines
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Casey Grove
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.
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