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• Alaska Senate president decides against Pierre contract for press work - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  13-01-2015 22:28
  
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  Alaska Senate president decides against Pierre contract for press work
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  JUNEAU, Alaska - The incoming president of the Alaska Senate said Tuesday that he has decided against hiring a former state military affairs official to help the Senate majority press office this session. Sen. Kevin Meyer, R-Anchorage, last week told ...
  Fired deputy commissioner out as Senate majority spokesmanAlaska Dispatch
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• Freezing rain advisory issued for Interior Alaska - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  13-01-2015 21:14
  
  Freezing rain advisory issued for Interior Alaska
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  At about 9 a.m. Alaska State Troopers reported the highway was partially blocked near the Denali National Park entrance south of Healy because the rain left several semi-trucks unable to move. The Alaska Department of Transportation's website described ...
  
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• General aviation helps Alaska's farms, businesses take off - Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman

  13-01-2015 19:21
  General aviation helps Alaska's farms, businesses take off
  Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman
  Alaska is known for many things, the vast array of wildlife, breathtaking vistas, hunting, fishing and other recreational activities. But many people may not think of the peony flower when they think of Alaska. The truth is that the peony is a highly ...
  
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• Alaska shook from record number of earthquakes in 2014 - Alaska Dispatch

  13-01-2015 18:55
  
  KTUU.com
  Alaska shook from record number of earthquakes in 2014
  Alaska Dispatch
  Alaska experienced a busy year underground in 2014, according to experts who record the state's earthquakes. The Alaska Earthquake Information Center detected 40,686 quakes in the state and bordering parts of Canada, significantly more that the ...
  2014 had record number of quakes in AlaskaKTUU.com
  
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• Why, 10 Years Later, We're Still Looking For Alaska - MTV.com

  13-01-2015 18:20
  
  MTV.com
  Why, 10 Years Later, We're Still Looking For Alaska
  MTV.com
  Once upon a time, in 2005, a writer named John Green — who nobody at the time had ever heard of — published his YA debut novel, a little book called “Looking for Alaska.” Centered on protagonist Miles “Pudge” Halter, who goes to seek the “great ...
  
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• NOAA schedules 5 public hearings on ringed seal habitat around Alaska - Alaska Dispatch

  13-01-2015 17:30
  
  Alaska Dispatch
  NOAA schedules 5 public hearings on ringed seal habitat around Alaska
  Alaska Dispatch
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has proposed 350,000 square miles of ocean off Alaska's north and west coast as critical habitat for the main prey of polar bears. NOAA. The federal agency overseeing seal populations will hold five ...
  NOAA schedules 5 public hearings on ringed seal habitatKTUU.com
  
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• Oil price decline trims $500 million from Alaska government's previous ... - Alaska Dispatch

  13-01-2015 16:34
  
  Oil price decline trims $500 million from Alaska government's previous ...
  Alaska Dispatch
  The “maximum sustainable yield” is a theory that Alaska's oil resources should be looked at as a long-term endowment that belongs as much to future generations as to the present. The endowment takes the form of resources in the ground as well as ...
  
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• Nature: Dogs That Changed the World

  13-01-2015 11:00
  
  This is the epic story of one of the most amazing evolutionary journeys ever taken by a species. Thousands of years ago, as humans began to settle in villages, the wolf emerged from the wild and made the startling leap to “man’s best friend.”
  
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• Habitat Director Out, As Walker Administration Shifts Approach To Permitting

  13-01-2015 09:38
  
  Habitat Division head Randy Bates is the second Fish and Game director to be removed since Walker took office. His resignation is one of a number of personnel changes that signal a shift from the Parnell administration’s approach to land management.
  
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• Habitat director for Alaska Fish and Game let go - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  13-01-2015 06:54
  
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  Habitat director for Alaska Fish and Game let go
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  JUNEAU, Alaska - The director of the Department of Fish and Game's habitat division is being replaced. Gov. Bill Walker accepted the resignation of Randy Bates on Monday. Acting Fish and Game Commissioner Sam Cotten says Bates was among the ...
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• Oil price decline trims $500 million from previous economic forecast - Alaska Dispatch

  13-01-2015 06:36
  Oil price decline trims $500 million from previous economic forecast
  Alaska Dispatch
  The “maximum sustainable yield” is a theory that Alaska's oil resources should be looked at as a long-term endowment that belongs as much to future generations as to the present. The endowment takes the form of resources in the ground as well as ...
  
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• Alaska Gov. Walker fires DOT commissioner - Alaska Dispatch

  13-01-2015 06:08
  
  Alaska Gov. Walker fires DOT commissioner
  Alaska Dispatch
  “This report was just one example of the bias towards building new megaprojects that we've seen from the department, and from Commissioner Kemp's leadership,” Emily Ferry, the transportation campaign coordinator for the Southeast Alaska Conservation ...
  Concerns raised over halting Alaska road projectsFairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Alaska transportation commissioner resigns amid dispute over mega projectsKTUU.com
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• John Green Takes Fans Inside His Creative Process - TIME

  13-01-2015 06:00
  
  TIME
  John Green Takes Fans Inside His Creative Process
  TIME
  It's been 10 years since John Green's first novel Looking for Alaska was published. So to celebrate, Dutton has released a special edition with an introduction and Q&A from Green, along with original content and drafts from his original manuscript ...
  
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• APD Investigating Two Attacks on Dogs as Class C Felonies

  13-01-2015 05:22
  
  A Search and Rescue dog in Anchorage was poisoned with anti-freeze days before a pitbull puppy was found in Mid-town with multiple gunshot wounds.
  
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• Jury finds state not to blame for 2007 attack on Alaska inmate - Alaska Dispatch

  13-01-2015 04:43
  
  Jury finds state not to blame for 2007 attack on Alaska inmate
  Alaska Dispatch
  PALMER -- A civil jury took less than an hour Friday afternoon to find that the Alaska Department of Corrections was not negligent when a former maximum-security prison inmate was assaulted in 2007. Richard Mattox blames the state for not letting him ...
  
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• Bigotry still exists, but thank goodness Alaska is open to difference - Alaska Dispatch

  13-01-2015 04:32
  
  Alaska Dispatch
  Bigotry still exists, but thank goodness Alaska is open to difference
  Alaska Dispatch
  When I came to live in Alaska in 1981, I went to Friday night services in a house near downtown Anchorage. We sat on folding chairs in a large living room area. Jews were prominent in the community, including the founders of a grocery store chain, and ...
  
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• Adak Fish Plant Seeks Additional Operators

  13-01-2015 03:55
  
  
  The community of Adak depends on its fish processing plant for jobs and tax revenue. But they’ve struggled to keep the lights on over the years. Now, the plant’s latest operator is looking for new partners to help shoulder the financial burden.
  
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• Alaska needs analysis of oil tax credits and production tax payments - Alaska Dispatch

  13-01-2015 03:53
  
  Alaska Dispatch
  Alaska needs analysis of oil tax credits and production tax payments
  Alaska Dispatch
  Bill Walker revealing that total oil industry production tax credits in this fiscal year in Alaska are expected to exceed the total production taxes by about $100 million. The gap is expected to climb to $400 million in the fiscal year that begins next ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: January 12, 2015

  13-01-2015 03:50
  
  
  Transportation Commish Ousted Following Defense Of Project; Young, Credited With Effectiveness, Says Personality is Part of his M.O.; Lonnie Dupre Becomes First Ever January Denali Soloist; Juneau Assembly Considers Moratorium On Legal Pot Shops; Anchorage Legislators Consider Ways To Cut Capital Costs; Adak Fish Plant Seeks Additional Operators; News-Miner to Begin Requiring Electronic Subscriptions for Frequent Online Visitors; Ice Sculptures Take Shape In Downtown Anchorage
  
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• Visa denied, Kenai reporter ordered to leave the country - Alaska Dispatch

  13-01-2015 03:35
  
  Alaska Dispatch
  Visa denied, Kenai reporter ordered to leave the country
  Alaska Dispatch
  “She embodies the mindset of so many of us Alaska reporters, by jumping in and immersing oneself not only in the subject matter but all the logistics of the newsroom and new technology,” said Felling, himself a former journalist. “Did she have a specialty?
  Visa Denied, Alaska Radio Reporter Ordered to Leave the CountryHuffington Post
  
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• Pre-filed bill aims to make industrial hemp a cash crop in Alaska - Alaska Dispatch

  13-01-2015 03:33
  
  Pre-filed bill aims to make industrial hemp a cash crop in Alaska
  Alaska Dispatch
  A bill pre-filed Friday by Sen. Johnny Ellis, D-Anchorage, seeks to make hemp an agricultural crop in Alaska. Ellis had been considering proposing an industrial hemp bill for several years, he said, and after seeing bipartisan support for hemp in the U ...
  
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• Sculptors Bring Cubism, Chainsaws to Chunks of Ice in Anchorage

  13-01-2015 03:25
  
  Artists wielding sanders and drills spent three days this weekend carving blocks of ice into salmon and sea-dragons in downtown Anchorage, showcasing all you can create out of a one-and-a-half ton block of frozen water.
  
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• State Transportation Commissioner Steps Down

  13-01-2015 02:59
  
  
  State transportation commissioner Patrick Kemp has been ousted following his defense of the department's pursuit of the Juneau access road.
  
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• An Oil Pipeline Is Suspended Above Alaska's Melting Tundra - io9

  13-01-2015 02:28
  
  io9
  An Oil Pipeline Is Suspended Above Alaska's Melting Tundra
  io9
  This beautiful photograph reveals an oil pipeline hugging the shore of an Alaskan lake. The lake waters are slowly merging with the melting tundra beneath the pipeline, creating dark fissures around puzzle pieces of land. Photo: Alaska ShoreZone.
  
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• Allen Moore Wins Copper Basin 300

  13-01-2015 02:23
  
  Two Rivers musher Allen Moore has won the Copper Basin 300 for the third year in a row. This is Moore’s sixth overall win in the mid-distance sled dog race.
  
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• Young, Credited With Effectiveness, Says Personality is Part of his MO - Alaska Public Radio Network

  13-01-2015 02:19
  
  Young, Credited With Effectiveness, Says Personality is Part of his MO
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  “Niblack and Bokan mountain area, Kiln drying bill, Alexander Creek recognition bill — we're going to move that finally — Alaska Native migratory bill, (and the) Alaska national archives bill, Alaska Native Corporations conservation easement bill ...
  New Congress brings new hope for AlaskaFairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Young sworn in for 22nd term in US HouseAlaska Dispatch
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• Young, Credited With Effectiveness, Says Personality is Part of his M.O.

  13-01-2015 02:07
  
  Alaska Congressman Don Young was sworn in today for his 22nd term, having missed the main swearing-in last week due to the death of his brother. Recent research by two political scientists say Young is one of the 20 most effective lawmakers in the U.S. House. Nationally, though, he is more known for his big, sometimes brash personality. Young says that's how he likes it.
  
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• Lonnie Dupre Becomes First Ever January Denali Soloist

  13-01-2015 01:42
  
  History has been made on North America's highest peak. On Sunday, Lonnie Dupre became the first solo climber to summit Denali in the month of January.
  
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• Second wave of fisheries disaster funds approved for Alaska - KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska

  13-01-2015 01:26
  
  Second wave of fisheries disaster funds approved for Alaska
  KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska
  “We are relieved that this second round of fisheries disaster funds has been approved, and look forward to getting direct payments to affected recreational and commercial businesses,” said Alaska Regional Administrator Jim Balsiger with NOAA. “Funds ...
  
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