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Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019

The MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter is the workhorse of the Coast Guard’s search and rescue missions. (Photo: KNOM)
The MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter is the workhorse of the Coast Guard’s search and rescue missions. (Photo: KNOM)

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Thursday on Alaska News Nightly:

Fishermen are expressing alarm that the Coast Guard hasn't been able to restore a VHF signal across much of coastal Alaska. Plus: As part of a new federal rule, Fort Wainwright officials are evicting the union that represents federal employees from the on-base office it's held since the 1970s.   

Reports tonight from:

  • June Leffler in Wrangell
  • Andrew Kitchenman in Juneau
  • Tim Ellis in Fairbanks
  • Zachariah Hughes and Nat Herz in Anchorage
  • Eric Stone in Ketchikan
  • Krysti Shallenberger in Bethel
  • Emily Hofstaedter in Nome
  • Robert Woolsey in Sitka
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.