Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, April 7, 2021

A girls  basketball team poses for a photo holding up their pointer fingers in a #1 sign while one girl kneels and holds a championship plaque
The Hooper Bay Lady Warriors won the Alaska 2A state basketball championship on April 3, 2021 at Palmer High School. (Credit Greg Lincoln / Delta Discovery)

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Wednesday on Alaska News Nightly:

Tens of thousands of Alaskans could once-again be eligible for the state’s most generous retirement plan. And, a judge says all inmates can visit in-person with their lawyers. Plus, Hooper Bay’s girls basketball team takes home their first state title.

Reports tonight from:

  • Nat Herz, Kavitha George and Alice Qannik Glenn in Anchorage
  • Matt Miller, Andrew Kitchenman and Claire Stremple in Juneau
  • Wesley Early in Kotzebue
  • Anna Rose MacArthur in Bethel

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