Alaska News Nightly: Friday, May 27, 2022

Pollock are transferred from a fishing boat into a processing plant in Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands, in January, 2019. (Photo by Berett Wilber)

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Friday on Alaska News Nightly:

The new strain of bird flu is detected in a fox in the Aleutian Islands. Also, a bill awaiting Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s signature could help seafood processors grow. And high school students in Petersburg travel by helicopter to study a nearby glacier.

Reports tonight from:

Liz Ruskin in Anchorage

Dan Bross in Fairbanks

Sabine Poux in Kenai

Olivia Ebertz in Bethel

Jeremy Hsieh in Juneau

and Katherine Rose in Sitka

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