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Friday on Alaska News Nightly:
State lawmakers look to restructure the Alaska Permanent Fund to focus on schools spending. Canadian regulators give an extension to a British Columbia mine that critics fear could threaten Alaska salmon habitat. And officials in Southeast Alaska are treading carefully as they plan to redevelop the site of a defunct federal boarding school for Native children.
Reports tonight from:
• Andrew Kitchenman and Jacob Resneck in Juneau
• Wesley Early in Anchorage
• Dan Bross in Fairbanks
• Rob Woolsey in Sitka
• Sage Smiley in Wrangell
• Angela Denning in Petersburg
Alaska News Nightly was hosted by Nat Herz, with producing and audio engineering from Toben Shelby and Annie Feidt.