Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019

Alaska Psychiatric Institute (Photo courtesy of the Alaska Department of Health and Human Services)

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Tuesday on Alaska News Nightly:

The proposed Pebble Mine’s backers spent more than $1 million dollars this year to lobby Congress. Also: A judge orders the state to stop housing psychiatric patients in jails.

Reports tonight from:

  • Liz Ruskin in Washington D.C.
  • Andrew Kitcheman in Juneau
  • Dan Bross in Fairbanks
  • Renee Gross in Homer
  • Laura Helgeson in Wrangell
  • Shady Grove Oliver at Disneyland

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. Read more about Casey here

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