Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, January 12, 2022

A ferry at a dock.
The Matanuska docked on Friday, February 7, 2020 at the Auke Bay ferry terminal in Juneau, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/KTOO)

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Wednesday on Alaska News Nightly:

Anchorage hospitals try to cope as Alaska notches record-breaking COVID case counts. Also, how sporadic winter ferry service is impacting Southeast communities. And Ketchikan reacts to the Alaska Board of Fisheries moving their March meeting to Anchorage.

Reports tonight from:

Lex Treinen and Wesley Early in Anchorage
Tim Ellis in Delta Junction
Rob Woolsey and Tash Kimmel in Sitka
and Joe Viechnicki in Petersburg

Alaska News Nightly is hosted by Casey Grove, with producing and audio engineering from Toben Shelby and Katie Anastas.

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