Alaska lawmakers look for a way to get cruise ships and their passengers to the state. And, a mother-daughter duo in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta help their community reach almost total vaccination. Plus, Alaska health officials try to dispel COVID vaccine myths.

Nurse Shawnece Stovall prepares doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska on March 24, 2021 (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media)

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Thursday on Alaska News Nightly:

Alaska lawmakers look for a way to get cruise ships and their passengers to the state. And, a mother-daughter duo in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta help their community reach almost total vaccination. Plus, Alaska health officials try to dispel COVID vaccine myths.

Reports tonight from:

Andrew Kitchenman and Pablo Pena in JuneauTegan Hanlon in AnchorageEric Stone in KetchikanWesley Early in KotzebueLiz Ruskin in Washington D.C.Anna Rose MacArthur in Bethel

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