Alaska News Nightly: Monday, October 18, 2021

The Alaska Division II state football champion Lathrop Malamutes, after winning the school’s first-ever football title. (Alaska School Activities Association)

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Monday on Alaska News Nightly:

State senators struggle to come to agreement on a plan for the budget and Permanent Fund Dividend. Also, Anchorage businesses adjust to the new citywide mask mandate. And Fairbanks’s Lathrop High School wins its first football championship.

Reports tonight from:

Andrew Kitchenman, Jeremy Hsieh and Jacob Resneck in Juneau
Lex Treinen in Anchorage
and Dan Bross in Fairbanks

Alaska News Nightly is hosted by Casey Grove, produced by Annie Feidt, with audio engineering by Toben Shelby.

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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