Alaska News Nightly: Friday, November 26, 2021

Oxidized rock colors a valley that would host an open pit mine at the KSM project in British Columbia. Critics fear it could harm Alaska salmon habitat downstream. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)

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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.

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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