Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, March 30, 2022

A red salmon in the water
A sockeye salmon. (Photo by Katrina Mueller/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

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Wednesday on Alaska News Nightly:

Three years after the fatal shooting of a Black man by Anchorage police, advocates call for accountability. Also, the Board of Fisheries bans an increasingly popular fishing method for Sitka sockeye. And families and state troopers speak at a rally for missing people in Fairbanks.

Reports tonight from:

Andrew Kitchenman in Juneau
Liz Ruskin in Washington, D.C.
Wesley Early in Anchorage
Sabine Poux in Kenai
Robert Woolsey in Sitka
Joe Viechnicki in Petersburg
Robyne in Fairbanks
and Anna Rose MacArthur in Bethel

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

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