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• Newscast – Monday, June 18, 2018

  18-06-2018 21:57 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Stories include a fire at Senator Dennis Egan’s home Friday evening, Perseverance Theatre furloughing employees because of outstanding debt, and the Juneau Community Charter School moving into Juneau-Douglas High School.https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2018/06/noon061818.mp3
  
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• A Juneau Afternoon 6-19-2018

  18-06-2018 21:35 via ktoo.org
  This week marks the beginning of our summer schedule for A Juneau Afternoon on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Tune in on Tuesday for An Evening with Melissa Block, recorded May 9 2018. To be a guest on A Juneau Afternoon, go to ktoo.org and click “contact us.”
  
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• Murkowski, Young respond to Chinese tariff on American seafood imports

  18-06-2018 18:02 via ktoo.org
  A seafood market on Beijing, China. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  Alaska’s economy could suffer as a result of China’s 25 percent tariff on American seafood imports and that worries U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
  China announced the new import tax Friday in response to U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods. They will take effect July 6.
  In a written statement, Murkowski urges President Donald Trump to reach a trade policy with China that protects the export mark
  
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• ‘Shooter! Get out!’ Tumwater shooting spree leaves 2 injured, suspected shooter dead

  18-06-2018 17:07 via ktoo.org
  Police block the scene outside a Walmart in Tumwater where a gunman shot a driver, then was himself shot to death on Sunday afternoon. (Photo by Austin Jenkins/Northwest News Network)
  A shooting spree in Tumwater ended in a sun-drenched Walmart parking lot when a civilian shot the suspected gunman to death, police said Sunday evening.
  At least two people were wounded: a teenage girl with a minor injuries and a man who was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he is in critical
  
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• Scientists find respiratory pathogen in Alaska animals

  18-06-2018 16:41 via ktoo.org
  KENAI — A respiratory pathogen that scientists previously believed to be restricted to sheep and goats has been detected in moose and caribou in Alaska.
  Scientists have also recently identified Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, also known as Movi, in other animal species for the first time, including a bison in Montana, mule deer in New Mexico and white-tailed deer in the upper Midwest, the Peninsula Clarion reported last week.
  The pneumonia-like disease may have contributed to the death of an ema
  
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• Alaska theater company places employees on furlough

  18-06-2018 16:31 via ktoo.org
  JUNEAU — A regional theater company in Alaska has furloughed its employees after officials say it faced several years of financial problems.
  The Juneau Empire reports Perseverance Theatre management asked workers to reduce hours at the beginning of this month after cancelling its most recent production.
  The Douglas Island-based theater had planned showings of “Snow Child” in Anchorage last month.
  Executive director Art Rotch says the theater company incurred six-figure debt in
  
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• Magnitude-6.1 quake strikes Japan, killing 3, injuring hundreds

  18-06-2018 16:21 via ktoo.org
  A magnitude-6.1 earthquake rocked the Osaka region of western Japan on Monday morning, killing at least three people and injuring more than 300 others, NHK reported.
  The temblor struck shortly after 8 a.m. local time causing severe damage to roads, bursting water mains and setting fires across the prefecture.
  The news agency reported government officials confirmed two people died under toppling walls. One was a 9-year-old girl who was crushed by a concrete wall at a local elementary school and t
  
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• Competitors chop, climb and muck their way through annual Gold Rush Days

  18-06-2018 11:59 via ktoo.org
  A competitor participates in the men’s vertical chopping event on Sunday. (Photo by Adelyn Baxter/KTOO)
  Juneau residents gathered at Savikko Park this weekend to celebrate the region’s mining and logging industries once again.
  According to Gold Rush Days organizers, 76 competitors signed up to take part in the two-day event.
  Speed climbing, hand mucking, axe throwing and choker setting are just a few of the contests that test the skills used by miners and loggers past and present.
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• Alaska US senators supporting marijuana states’ right bill

  18-06-2018 02:42 via ktoo.org
  Marijuana grown at a Juneau warehouse leased by THC Alaska on March 6, 2018. (Photo by Jacob Resneck/KTOO)
  FAIRBANKS — Alaska Republican U.S. senators are supporting a bipartisan bill that seeks to ensure states’ ability to regulate legal marijuana industries.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported Friday that Sens. Cory Gardner of Colorado and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts originally co-authored the bill.
  It looks at a number of areas in which state and federal marijuana laws c
  
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• At Fortess of the Bear, a new wild space for black bears

  18-06-2018 00:42 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Volunteers prepare the new habitat before the bears enter. (Photos by Rachel Cassandra/KCAW)
  Three orphaned black bears in Sitka have been given a bigger home.https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2018/06/11Bear.mp3
  Last weekend, the Fortress of the Bear released Smokey, Bandit and Tuli into expanded territory. They’re no longer cubs, so they need more range to explore.
  “Knowing the nature of black bears, how they can be a little more aloof, and they are real avid arboreal climbers
  
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