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• Team Elsie Piddock crushing all predictions for Race to Alaska - Scuttlebutt Sailing News

  09-06-2015 23:52
  
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  Team Elsie Piddock crushing all predictions for Race to Alaska
  Scuttlebutt Sailing News
  (June 9, 2015; Day 3) – Team Elsie Piddock continues to dominate the Race to Alaska from Victoria, BC to Ketchikan, AK, growing their lead to over 40 nm over Team Por Favor's Hobie 33 as they near the exit of the Johnstone Strait. Sailing a F-25c, the ...
  Three more teams exit Race to Alaska; only 26 remaining in competitionPeninsula Dailyall 2 news articles »
  
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• Alaska public radio listeners to lose Fairbanks reports as station drops ... - Juneau Empire (subscription)

  09-06-2015 23:27
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  Alaska public radio listeners to lose Fairbanks reports as station drops ...
  Juneau Empire (subscription)
  Juneau residents who listen to public radio will hear no reporting from Fairbanks after July 1. On Monday, public radio station KUAC-FM announced it is leaving the Alaska Public Radio Network due to the cost of the service and large budget cuts from ...
  Alaska Public Radio Network to Lose Fairbanks StationKTUU.com
  Citing budget cuts, Fairbanks public radio to drop APRN newsAlaska D
  
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• Officials probe recurring oily sheen near Alaska village - seattlepi.com

  09-06-2015 22:41
  
  Officials probe recurring oily sheen near Alaska village
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Responders in Alaska are trying to pinpoint the source of a mysterious fuel leak that keeps appearing as an oily sheen near a tiny village on the state's western coast. The latest episode near Shishmaref was reported in late ...and more »
  
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• Alaska researchers may use drones to study otters - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  09-06-2015 21:50
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  Alaska researchers may use drones to study otters
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  FILE - In this April 4, 1989 file photo, a sea otter swims in Valdez harbor in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Oil spilled from the Exxon Valdez extends farther into Alaska tidal waters than previously thought and likely is causing long-term harm to ...
  
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• New Miss Alaska, Miss Alaska's Outstanding Teen crowned - KTVA.com - Alaska News and Weather

  09-06-2015 21:40
  
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  New Miss Alaska, Miss Alaska's Outstanding Teen crowned
  KTVA.com - Alaska News and Weather
  A new Miss Alaska was crowned over the weekend at the 57th Miss Alaska competition. Zoey Grenier, 19, of Anchorage came away with the crown and a four‑year tuition waiver to the University of Alaska Anchorage. Meanwhile, Elle Adkins from Eagle River ...
  
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• Alaska's Wolves Face Catastrophe - Yahoo News

  09-06-2015 20:57
  
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  Alaska's Wolves Face Catastrophe
  Yahoo News
  Southeast Alaska's isolated wolf population has declined by 60 percent in just one year, dropping from an estimated 221 individuals in 2013 to 89 wolves in 2014, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Those numbers are already outdated. Another 29 ...and more »
  
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• Lamprey Eels Fall From Sky Over Alaska - Discovery News

  09-06-2015 20:05
  
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  Lamprey Eels Fall From Sky Over Alaska
  Discovery News
  Several foot-long lampreys have apparently fallen out the sky recently in Fairbanks, Alaska. They've been found in a shopping center parking lot and on lawns, and residents are unnerved by the creepy, toothed eel-like fish. According to a story in the ...
  Terrifying "vampire fish" falling from the sky in AlaskaCBS News
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• Alaska just had its hottest May in 91 years - Washington Post

  09-06-2015 15:56
  
  Alaska just had its hottest May in 91 years
  Washington Post
  We already knew Alaska was having some crazy weather lately. That included a record 91 degrees in Eagle in May, the “hottest temperature ever recorded so early in the calendar year in our 49th state,” per our own Capital Weather Gang. And now, the ...
  
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• Two Tundra Wildfires Burn in Alaska - TIME

  09-06-2015 09:42
  
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  Two Tundra Wildfires Burn in Alaska
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  Alaska Wildfire Matt Snyder—Alaska Division of Forestry/AP Smoke rises from the Bogus Creek Fire, one of two fires burning in the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge in southwest Alaska on June 7, 2015.
  After warmer winter, Alaska fire crews battling 2 large wildfires burning on ...Fox News
  Alaska Fire Crews Battling 2 Large Tundra WildfiresHuffington Postall 105 news articles »
  
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• For good of Alaska and nation, Congress should pass Murkowski mine ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  09-06-2015 04:13
  
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  For good of Alaska and nation, Congress should pass Murkowski mine ...
  Alaska Dispatch News
  OPINION: It is crucial that Congress pass Sen. Murkowski's American Mineral Security Act of 2015 now to ensure economic opportunity and jobs in Alaska and the nation as a whole. For the first time in years, a bill to fix the broken mine permitting ...and more »
  
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• After warmer winter, Alaska fire crews battling 2 large wildfires burning on ... - Fox News

  09-06-2015 00:28
  
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  After warmer winter, Alaska fire crews battling 2 large wildfires burning on ...
  Fox News
  In this Sunday, June 7, 2015 photo, smoke rises from the Bogus Creek Fire, one of two fires burning in the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge in southwest Alaska. Fire managers said Monday that weekend rain helped tamp down the fires which, together, ...
  Two Tundra Wildfires Burn in AlaskaTIME
  Alaska fire crews battling 2 large tundra wildfiresYahoo Newsall 105 news articles »
  
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• Team Elsie Piddock dominating Race to Alaska - Scuttlebutt Sailing News

  09-06-2015 00:25
  
  Team Elsie Piddock dominating Race to Alaska
  Scuttlebutt Sailing News
  (June 8, 2015; Day 2) – Attrition will be the theme in the Race to Alaska from Victoria, BC to Ketchikan, AK, with today's casualties including Team Real Thing, which dismasted this morning, Team Pure and Wild, and Team Turn Point Design. Twenty-six ...and more »
  
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