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• Alaska doctor accused of molesting fourth young victim - New York Daily News

  08-01-2015 23:12
  
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  Alaska doctor accused of molesting fourth young victim
  New York Daily News
  Charges are adding up for a former Alaska doctor accused of molesting young patients and keeping child pornography at his home and cabin. Clifford Merchant, 67, faces 33 charges stemming from an investigation sparked last year by a 12-year-old girl ...
  
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• Alaska man accidentally shoots daughter while moving gun - The Seattle Times (blog)

  08-01-2015 22:36
  
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  Alaska man accidentally shoots daughter while moving gun
  The Seattle Times (blog)
  FAIRBANKS — Police say an Alaska corrections officer accidentally shot his 12-year-old daughter in the leg while at a physical therapy appointment. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported the girl was released from a hospital Tuesday after undergoing ...
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• Alaska guide sentenced for false information on goat hunt - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  08-01-2015 22:36
  
  Alaska guide sentenced for false information on goat hunt
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  JUNEAU, Alaska - An Alaska hunting guide has been fined $2,000 for filing false information about a 2011 goat hunt. John Katzeek, 65, on Wednesday was placed on probation for four years, ordered to complete 200 hours of community service and required ...
  
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• EPA steps in to finish cleanup of Alaska Petroleum fuel spill - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  08-01-2015 22:25
  
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  EPA steps in to finish cleanup of Alaska Petroleum fuel spill
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  In this photo provided by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, a ruptured oil tanker is seen on Dec. 12, 2014 near Valdez, Alaska. The government has stepped in to continue cleaning up more than 4,000 gallons of diesel that spilled into ...
  EPA steps in to finish cleanup of Alaska fuel spillKTUU.com
  EPA, Alaska DEC crews cleaning up Richardson Highway diesel spillK
  
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• Predicting how much Alaska's government can afford to spend every year is hard ... - Washington Post (blog)

  08-01-2015 21:03
  
  Predicting how much Alaska's government can afford to spend every year is hard ...
  Washington Post (blog)
  Alaska is trailed by Wyoming with 12.1 percent fluctuation, and North Dakota and Vermont, both with 11.6 percent. Pew found states with high levels of volatility were likely to rely especially on taxes on oil, gas, and other natural resource extraction ...
  
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• JetBlue adds Portland-Alaska, grows at San Francisco - USA TODAY

  08-01-2015 20:49
  
  USA TODAY
  JetBlue adds Portland-Alaska, grows at San Francisco
  USA TODAY
  JetBlue will compete head-to-head on the route with Alaska Airlines, which already flies the route. Alaska Airlines operates its second-busiest base at Portland. TODAY IN THE SKY: JetBlue adds to competition on Las Vegas-San Francisco route. TODAY IN ...
  
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• Tongass Supervisor, Deputy, Leaving The Forest

  08-01-2015 20:35
  
  The Tongass National Forest will soon be without its two top officials. Forest Supervisor Forrest Cole plans to retire in April after about a dozen years in the job. He’s overseen timber sales, stewardship efforts and other agency programs in Southeast Alaska. Cole’s deputy, Tricia O’Connor, is moving to a new Forest Service job in Wyoming.
  
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• Human Remains Found In ‘Talkeetna Area’ Cabin Fire

  08-01-2015 20:18
  
  The Alaska State Troopers report that a cabin fire in the Talkeetna area killed one person.
  
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• FISH FACTOR: No dull moments for Alaska fishing industry in 2014 - Alaskajournal.com

  08-01-2015 19:19
  FISH FACTOR: No dull moments for Alaska fishing industry in 2014
  Alaskajournal.com
  Alaska still has its share of naysayers who will quibble about the seafood industry's importance to our great state. They dismiss the fact that fishing was Alaska's first industry and was fish that spawned the push to statehood. “The canned salmon ...
  
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• On Murkowski’s First Day Chairing Energy Committee, Panel Passes Keystone Bill

  08-01-2015 18:21
  
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski gavelled in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this morning with a Tsimshian mallet. On her first day as chairman, the committee passed a bill to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline, by a vote of 13 to nine.
  
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• Gov. Bill Walker: The hard truth about Alaska's oil revenue - Alaska Dispatch

  08-01-2015 17:23
  
  Alaska Dispatch
  Gov. Bill Walker: The hard truth about Alaska's oil revenue
  Alaska Dispatch
  The Alaska Department of Revenue projects the state will pay $625 million to producers through various oil and gas production credits. Subtract that from $524 million in production tax revenue, and we're about $100 million in the red. Next year, the ...
  
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• Alaska's big catch - The Week Magazine

  08-01-2015 17:18
  
  Alaska's big catch
  The Week Magazine
  The call comes through a crackling radio and it's a siren to the residents of Barrow, Alaska, a city located above the Arctic Circle at the northernmost tip of the state. The call means only one thing — fishermen have caught a bowhead whale and it's ...
  
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• Visit Southeast Alaska For Nature, History - KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest

  08-01-2015 14:09
  
  KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest
  Visit Southeast Alaska For Nature, History
  KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest
  Sitka is the site of the U.S. acquisition of Alaska from Russia in 1867. Ketchikan's Creek Street is a historic boardwalk that will take you back in time. Petersburg is a picturesque fishing village. In Wrangell, you can get up close and personal with ...
  Alaska historian dies of cancerAlbany Times Union
  
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• HSU student, Alaska fisherman debuts on Animal Planet show - Eureka Times Standard

  08-01-2015 08:30
  
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  HSU student, Alaska fisherman debuts on Animal Planet show
  Eureka Times Standard
  Andrew Hillis, a 25-year-old Eureka resident and fisheries biology major at Humboldt State University, has been working on a commercial salmon fishing boat in Alaska for the past 11 years and last summer a sixth member was added to the five-man crew ...
  Local family featured on Animal Planet “Alaska: Battle on the Bay”KLEW
  ALASKA: BATTLE ON THE BAY Takes Off with Beginning of Competitive ...TVRuckus
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• Alaska cannabis group promotes support for growers - KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska

  08-01-2015 08:18
  
  Alaska cannabis group promotes support for growers
  KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska
  Now, there's a new organization forming aimed at providing support for cannabis growers here in Alaska. The Alaska Cannabis Grower's Association is a trade organization for growers, not retailers. Their goal is to provide economic and business ...
  
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• As Walker Forges Own Way On Gasline, Republicans Wary

  08-01-2015 05:59
  
  It was a not-quite-midnight purge. At 9pm on Tuesday, Gov. Bill Walker announced via press release that half the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation board of directors was being dismissed. And in the process, he put the oil and gas industry on notice that he would be doing things differently from his predecessor.
  
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• Alaska law enforcement still untangling new frontier of legal pot - Alaska Dispatch

  08-01-2015 04:58
  
  Alaska law enforcement still untangling new frontier of legal pot
  Alaska Dispatch
  For anyone working in Alaska law enforcement, Feb. 24 should be circled in red on the calendar. That's the day recreational marijuana use becomes legal in Alaska, and officials are still piecing together how the voter initiative's mandates might play ...
  
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• Alaska needs more housing designed, built and maintained for the north - Alaska Dispatch

  08-01-2015 04:09
  
  Alaska Dispatch
  Alaska needs more housing designed, built and maintained for the north
  Alaska Dispatch
  Alaska has a housing crisis. Nearly half of all the homes in the state are 30 years old or older and in need of a retrofit. More than 75,000 households are cost-burdened, meaning a family spends 30 percent of its income or more on staying warm and ...
  
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• Mat Su Ferry Draws Interest

  08-01-2015 03:15
  
  The Matanuska Susitna Borough has received $20, 000 from an interested buyer outside the US to pay for sea trials for the ferry MV Susitna
  
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• Gov. Walker Meets With DC Officials

  08-01-2015 03:00
  
  
  Gov. Bill Walker scheduled meetings with two of President Obama’s cabinet secretaries while he was in Washington Tuesday for the swearing in of Alaska’s new U.S. senator.
  
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• Murkowski: Keystone XL Pipeline Worth Fighting For

  08-01-2015 02:59
  
  
  The new Congressional session is barely underway, but Senate Democrats managed to derail Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s plan for Wednesday morning. She’d hoped to hold a hearing on the Keystone XL Pipeline in the Senate Energy Committee.
  
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• Photos: 2015 northern lights over Alaska - Alaska Dispatch

  08-01-2015 02:57
  
  Alaska Dispatch
  Photos: 2015 northern lights over Alaska
  Alaska Dispatch
  Alaskans are lucky: the aurora borealis decorates our skies and gives us something to look forward to during the long, cold nights of winter. The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute provides daily aurora forecasts for the state ...
  
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• Poor Air Quality Raising Health Concerns In Fairbanks

  08-01-2015 02:57
  
  
  Areas of Fairbanks and North Pole suffered poor air quality this a week as cold stagnant air allowed smoke from wood burning and other combustion to accumulate. The situation is nothing new and the focus of state and local plan to clean up the air. Fine particulate pollution is a known health hazard, and that’s confirmed in a locally produced report.
  
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• Despite Spending Freeze, Juneau Access Road Effort Continues

  08-01-2015 02:56
  
  
  Work continues on the Juneau Access Project, despite Gov. Bill Walker’s spending freeze. But it doesn’t involve moving dirt or pouring concrete.
  
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• Pajinag Takes The Reins Of Front Street Community Health Center

  08-01-2015 02:54
  
  
  Kelly Pajinag is the new interim executive director of Front Street Community Health Center as of Jan. 1. He’s also the program manager of Catholic Community Services’ Hospice & Home Care of Juneau. As he juggles two jobs, Pajinag hopes to help the homeless clinic get through some growing pains.
  
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• Touring A Historic Anchorage Building

  08-01-2015 02:53
  
  
  Anchorage turns 100 this year. And one of the city's first permanent homes was the Oscar Anderson House downtown.
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: January 7, 2015

  08-01-2015 02:52
  
  
  Walker Purges Gasline Board, Rejects Confidentiality Agreement; Gov. Walker Meets With DC Officials; Murkowski: Keystone XL Pipeline Worth Fighting For; Canadian Archipelago Likely To Become Important Polar Bear Conservation Region; Poor Air Quality Raising Health Concerns In Fairbanks; Despite Spending Freeze, Juneau Access Road Effort Continues; EPA, Alaska DEC Crews Cleaning Up Richardson Highway Diesel Spill; Pajinag Takes The Reins Of Front Street Community Health Center; Touring A Historic
  
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• Ex-official ordered to repay $41770 embezzled from Alaska carpenters union - KTUU.com

  08-01-2015 02:26
  
  KTUU.com
  Ex-official ordered to repay $41770 embezzled from Alaska carpenters union
  KTUU.com
  During the time of the crimes, Smith also worked for the Alaska Regional Council of Carpenters as a business agent, earning as much as $93,000 a year. The U.S. Labor Department and the Office of Labor Management Standards investigated the case.
  
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• Mission Explained: 'The Unrideables: Alaska Range' - Red Bull

  08-01-2015 01:44
  
  Red Bull
  Mission Explained: 'The Unrideables: Alaska Range'
  Red Bull
  "I came up with the plan a very long time ago," Jon DeVore said of the motivation behind "The Unrideables: Alaska Range" film project. After taking a heli-ski trip back to his hometown of Juneau, the Alaska native took a couple of "simple" skydives out ...
  
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• EPA, Alaska DEC Crews Cleaning Up Richardson Highway Diesel Spill - Alaska Public Radio Network

  08-01-2015 00:54
  
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  EPA, Alaska DEC Crews Cleaning Up Richardson Highway Diesel Spill
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  The spill occurred Dec. 9 at Mile 48 of the Richardson Highway, when icy conditions caused a tanker truck operated by Alaska Petroleum Distributing, Inc. to slide off the road – spilling 4,400 gallons of low-sulfur diesel into a currently-dry roadside ...
  
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• EPA, Alaska DEC Crews Cleaning Up Richardson Highway Diesel Spill

  08-01-2015 00:48
  
  The Environmental Protection Agency and Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation are working to clean up a diesel spill northeast of Valdez.
  
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