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• 1 fined, 3 sought for illegal dumping in Alaska game refuge - Alaska Dispatch

  06-01-2015 22:35
  
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  1 fined, 3 sought for illegal dumping in Alaska game refuge
  Alaska Dispatch
  Alaska Wildlife Troopers are seeking the names of three men who dumped a drier and washing machine into Goose Bay State Game Refuge on Nov. 9, 2014. Surveillance footage shows the men preparing to dump the appliances. Courtesy Alaska Wildlife ...
  
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• Aleut Enterprises To Pay Over $1 Million In Adak Fuel Spill Settlement

  06-01-2015 22:09
  
  Aleut Enterprise will pay more than $1 million to settle criminal charges and cover damages from a fuel spill on Adak.
  
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• Aleut Enterprise To Pay Over $1 Million In Adak Fuel Spill Settlement

  06-01-2015 22:09
  
  Aleut Enterprise will pay more than $1 million to settle criminal charges and cover damages from a fuel spill on Adak.
  
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• More than 100 cases of whooping cough reported in 2014 in Alaska - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  06-01-2015 21:59
  
  More than 100 cases of whooping cough reported in 2014 in Alaska
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  FAIRBANKS — Between January 2014 and November 2014, Alaska had 130 reported cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, according to the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services. September had the highest number of incidences, ...
  
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• 2014 Was the Warmest Year on Record for Much of Alaska - Huffington Post

  06-01-2015 21:45
  
  2014 Was the Warmest Year on Record for Much of Alaska
  Huffington Post
  On a day when many Interior Alaska towns and villages watch temperatures approach minus 40 degrees and Anchorage nearly dips to zero, it may seem counterintuitive to discuss warmth in the 49th state. However, what transpired in 2014 is already the ...
  Substandard MSM Reporting on Climate Change in AlaskaAmerican Thinker
  Anchorage, Alaska, is so hot right nowGrist
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• Alaska Senate majority looks to hire ex-military affairs official - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  06-01-2015 21:29
  
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  Alaska Senate majority looks to hire ex-military affairs official
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  JUNEAU, Alaska - A military affairs official, who resigned as part of a leadership change following problems within the Alaska National Guard, has been asked to work with the Alaska Senate majority press office. Senate President Kevin Meyer told ...
  Ousted military affairs official to be Alaska Senate Majority media strategistKtoo
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• Alaska evergreen to be next US Capitol Christmas tree - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  06-01-2015 21:19
  
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  Alaska evergreen to be next US Capitol Christmas tree
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An evergreen tree from Alaska will serve as the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree next year. The U.S. Forest Service says schoolchildren around Alaska will make thousands of ornaments for the 60 t0- 85-foot tree, and for smaller trees in ...
  The Forest Service bets on second-growth logging in AlaskaHigh Country News
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• Sitka Hospital Cuts Ties With Former CEO, Moves Toward Transition

  06-01-2015 19:54
  
  Sitka Community Hospital has an interim CEO. The hospital board named Chief Nursing Officer Raine Clarke to the post at a special meeting on Monday. The term of Clarke’s service is not known at the moment. What is known, however, is that former CEO Jeff Comer will not be receiving anything more than his paycheck for his work through last Friday, as Sitka’s embattled hospital struggles to balance its books and find direction.
  
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• Alaska Air Traffic Climbs, On-Time Arrivals Down ALK DAL - Investor's Business Daily

  06-01-2015 19:53
  
  Alaska Air Traffic Climbs, On-Time Arrivals Down ALK DAL
  Investor's Business Daily
  Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) said combined passenger traffic rose 9.1% in December, but on-time arrivals for its flagship Alaska Airlines fell to 80% for the month from 85.4% in December 2013. The parent of Alaska Airlines and regional carrier Horizon ...
  Alaska Airlines 2014 traffic up 6%; planes a tad tardier last yearPuget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)
  Alaska Air Group Reports December 2014 and Full-Year Ope
  
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• Troopers Investigate Aniak Infant Death

  06-01-2015 19:48
  
  An infant was found dead Sunday morning in the village of Aniak, reportedly after sleeping on the couch with her mother.
  
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• Ousted military affairs official to be Alaska Senate Majority media strategist - Ktoo

  06-01-2015 19:16
  
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  Ousted military affairs official to be Alaska Senate Majority media strategist
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  Sean Parnell's efforts to reform the Alaska National Guard. His resignation came shortly after the release of a federal report that concluded the Guard suffered from leadership failures and a toxic command climate. The next month, Pierre established a ...
  Ousted Military Affairs Official Returns As Senate Media StrategistAlaska Public Radio Network
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• Tsunami Survivor Shares Her Story

  06-01-2015 18:00
  
  On April 1, 1946, the sea floor ruptured just south of Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands. Seawater displaced by the giant earthquake sent a 100-foot wave into the Scotch Cape lighthouse on Unimak, destroying the concrete structure and killing the five men inside. They never knew what hit them in the 2 a.m. darkness.
  
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• In Alaska, budget crisis renews fight for education spending - KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska

  06-01-2015 17:40
  
  In Alaska, budget crisis renews fight for education spending
  KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska
  Organizers for Great Alaska Schools say the funding wasn't enough to keep up with inflation, but they don't plan to ask the Legislature for more money this year. “We're facing such a budget crisis in this state, that's not realistic,” said Deena ...
  
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• Ceremony to welcome home 160 Alaska soldiers - Alaska Dispatch

  06-01-2015 16:54
  Ceremony to welcome home 160 Alaska soldiers
  Alaska Dispatch
  JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON -- About 160 soldiers will be officially welcomed home to Alaska Tuesday from Afghanistan. U.S. Army Alaska says in a release that two units will be feted in an 11 a.m. ceremony at the base. The solders are from the ...
  
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• Dan Sullivan to be sworn in Tuesday as Alaska's new senator - Alaska Dispatch

  06-01-2015 16:42
  
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  Dan Sullivan to be sworn in Tuesday as Alaska's new senator
  Alaska Dispatch
  JUNEAU -- Dan Sullivan is set to be sworn in as Alaska's junior senator. The Republican, a former state attorney general and Natural Resources commissioner, defeated incumbent Democrat Mark Begich last November. Sullivan is scheduled to be sworn in ...
  Dan Sullivan sworn in as Alaska's US senatorKTVA CBS 11 News Alaska
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• The Forest Service bets on second-growth logging in Alaska - High Country News

  06-01-2015 16:07
  
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  The Forest Service bets on second-growth logging in Alaska
  High Country News
  One damp, gray day in June, Gordon Chew, a 59-year-old carpenter, logger and small sawmill owner from the island community of Tenakee Springs, Alaska, was doing something he's been doing a lot lately: standing inside a decades-old clear cut in the ...
  Alaska evergreen to be next US Capitol Christmas treeTimes Daily
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• Alaska Airlines 2014 traffic up 6%; planes a tad tardier last year - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)

  06-01-2015 15:38
  
  Alaska Airlines 2014 traffic up 6%; planes a tad tardier last year
  Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)
  According to parent Alaska Air Group Inc. (NYSE: ALK), the number of Alaska Airlines revenue passenger miles (number of revenue-paying passengers multiplied by the distance traveled in miles) increased 6.1 percent to 27.8 billion from 26.2 billion in 2013.
  Alaska Air Traffic Climbs, On-Time Arrivals Down ALK DALInvestor's Business Daily
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• Son Is Charged With Murder in Death of Hedge Fund Manager - Alaska Dispatch

  06-01-2015 15:30
  Son Is Charged With Murder in Death of Hedge Fund Manager
  Alaska Dispatch
  NEW YORK -- The son of a wealthy Manhattan hedge fund manager was arrested on a murder charge Monday after a shooting his father at his parents' home, the police said. Thomas Gilbert Jr., 30, was arrested after his 70-year-old father, Thomas Gilbert, ...
  
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• Sabre signs retailing solutions agreement with Alaska Airlines - PR Newswire (press release)

  06-01-2015 14:33
  
  Sabre signs retailing solutions agreement with Alaska Airlines
  PR Newswire (press release)
  SOUTHLAKE, Texas, Jan. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR) was selected by Alaska Airlines (NYSE: ALK) to provide technology solutions to enable its retailing strategy in all sales channels, including through some of the carrier's ...
  Sabre signs agreement with Alaska AirlineseTurboNews
  Sabre links with Alaska Airlines for sales technology upgradeBreaking Travel News
  
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• Ousted Military Affairs Official Returns As Senate Media Strategist

  06-01-2015 09:17
  
  McHugh Pierre was asked in September to step down as deputy commissioner of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, as part of then-Gov. Sean Parnell's efforts to reform the Alaska National Guard. He has now been granted a contract to aid the Senate's Republican majority caucus in their communications with the press.
  
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• Despite legal issues, Alaska marijuana delivery service is open for business - Alaska Dispatch

  06-01-2015 06:20
  
  Despite legal issues, Alaska marijuana delivery service is open for business
  Alaska Dispatch
  At least one marijuana delivery service is openly selling pot in Southcentral Alaska, more than a month before the ballot initiative that legalized recreational marijuana use in the state officially goes into effect. “Technically we are acting [rogue ...
  Alaska businesses begin pot sales before legal dateTimes Daily
  
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• Rennecke column: Wrestler finds his place in Alaska - St. Cloud Times

  06-01-2015 05:46
  
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  Rennecke column: Wrestler finds his place in Alaska
  St. Cloud Times
  The St. Cloud State senior wrestler spent some time with his girlfriend, St. Cloud State hockey player Jenna Redford, in her hometown of Soldotna, Alaska, in summer 2013. During that trip, he met a Redford family friend who ran a commercial salmon ...
  
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• Is Alaska the most violent state? - KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska

  06-01-2015 04:49
  
  Is Alaska the most violent state?
  KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska
  According to the report, Alaska had the highest violent crime numbers in 2013 but one of the lowest amounts of poverty, a figure that often corresponds to more crime. The report ranked New Mexico as the second most violent state and Nevada as the third.
  
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• Alaska requires fiscal sustainability, low oil price or not - Alaska Dispatch

  06-01-2015 04:27
  
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  Alaska requires fiscal sustainability, low oil price or not
  Alaska Dispatch
  Alaska businesses create jobs and wealth and fund over 95 percent of the state's budget. Alaska's future depends on a healthy economy and a healthy economy requires a good business climate. New, small, medium and large -- our businesses are Alaska's ...
  Walker crowdsources budget cutsJuneau Empire (subscription)
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• 2014 was warmest year on record for much of Alaska - Alaska Dispatch

  06-01-2015 04:27
  
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  2014 was warmest year on record for much of Alaska
  Alaska Dispatch
  With 663,267 square miles, Alaska is a big place with a lot of open space. Accurate temperature measurements are often difficult to obtain for large portions of the state. Prior to the 1950s, temperature stations were few and far between and filling in ...
  Substandard MSM Reporting on Climate Change in AlaskaAmerican Thinker
  Anchorage, Alaska, is so hot right nowGrist
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• Alaska's fight over legal marijuana isn't done yet - Alaska Dispatch

  06-01-2015 03:50
  
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  Alaska's fight over legal marijuana isn't done yet
  Alaska Dispatch
  It's good to see our newly elected governor, Bill Walker, back away from his proposal to delay regulating commercial marijuana in Alaska. Somewhere along the line, politicians started seeing themselves as our leaders, rather than our representatives ...
  
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• Special investigator planned to look into Alaska Guard allegations - Military Times

  06-01-2015 03:01
  
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  Special investigator planned to look into Alaska Guard allegations
  Military Times
  Alaska's new attorney general is in the process of hiring a special investigator to look into the handling of sexual assault complaints within the Alaska National Guard, Department of Law spokeswoman Cori Mills said Monday. Attorney General Craig ...
  Special Investigator Planned To Look Into National Guard AllegationAlaska Public Radio Network
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• Post-Holiday Lull Means Less Public Attention For Homeless Needs

  06-01-2015 02:54
  
  
  Quiet after the frenzy of the holidays is a welcome change for many Alaskans, but for those who live from paycheck to paycheck or are homeless, the quiet can mean less. Less public attention to donations of clothing, food and money during the coldest part of the year. In December, Lisa Aquino took the helm as executive director for Catholic Social Services, the organization that runs Brother Francis Shelter, Claire House and other assistance programs in Anchorage.
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: January 5, 2015

  06-01-2015 02:52
  
  
  Special Investigator Planned To Look Into National Guard Allegation; Sullivan Takes Oath Tomorrow, Rep. Young Misses First Week Due to Death of Brother; Legacy of Bar Break Violence Haunting Downtown Business Development; Blindingly Bright ‘Moose Lights' Worry Troopers – But They're Legal, Unregulated; State Closes Bethel DEC Office; Post-Holiday Lull Means Less Public Attention For Homeless Needs; Local Filmmaker to Document Cook Inlet Trek
  
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• Local Filmmaker to Document Cook Inlet Trek

  06-01-2015 02:44
  
  Bretwood Higman and Erin McKittrick are well known in Alaska for taking daring expeditions with their two young children, Katmai and Lituya. Now, a Homer filmmaker is producing a documentary about one of their most adventurous trips- around Cook Inlet.
  
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• Sullivan Takes Oath Tomorrow, Rep. Young Misses First Week Due to Death of Brother

  06-01-2015 01:55
  
  A new Congress begins tomorrow and former DNR Commissioner Dan Sullivan will be sworn in as Alaska’s eighth U.S. senator since statehood. Sullivan spokesman Mike Anderson says guests for the event include Sullivan's family, Gov. Bill Walker and several state legislators.
  On the other side of the U.S. Capitol, the entire House of Representatives is to be sworn in tomorrow, but Alaska Congressman Don Young won’t be present, says spokesman Matt Shuckerow. His older brother died a few days ago a
  
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• Special Investigator Planned To Look Into National Guard Allegation

  06-01-2015 01:52
  
  Attorney General Craig Richards is in the process of hiring a special investigator to look into the handling of sexual assault complaints within the Alaska National Guard.
  
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• Blindingly Bright ‘Moose Lights’ Worry Troopers – But They’re Legal, Unregulated

  06-01-2015 01:39
  
  High-intensity headlights are popular and getting more so, especially here in Alaska during the long, dark winter months. They’re called “moose lights,” because they help drivers see farther down the road than conventional headlights to spot animals and other hazards. But Alaska State Troopers say moose lights can also create a hazard by temporarily blinding oncoming motorists in the other lane.
  
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