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• Alaska Humanities Forum launches online resource to preserve native languages - KTUU.com

  18-08-2015 23:46
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  Alaska Humanities Forum launches online resource to preserve native languages
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  As part of a preservation mission, the Alaska Humanities Forum recently launched an online resource with information about 20 recognized Alaska Native languages. More from KTUU. Historical fishing vessel in Chugiak preparing for next... Rain fizzles ...
  

• Rain fizzles out Alaska wildfires, allowing crews to help out in Lower 48 - KTUU.com

  18-08-2015 23:31
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  Rain fizzles out Alaska wildfires, allowing crews to help out in Lower 48
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  Seasonal rains have helped tamp down Alaska wildfires, allowing fire managers to send crews south to help battle lower 48 wildfires. Nearly 600 firefighters and support staff from Alaska have been deployed south in the past week. Sam Harrell, a ...
  US wildfires scorch land at dramatic rate, but then there's the Alaska factorLos Angeles Timesall 9 news articles »
  

• First Apaches arrive in Alaska as Army reorganizes - ArmyTimes.com

  18-08-2015 23:24
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  First Apaches arrive in Alaska as Army reorganizes
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  The first of 24 AH-64 Apache helicopters were scheduled to arrive Tuesday in Alaska as part of the Army's sweeping five-year reorganization of its aviation assets. The Apaches, which were coming from Germany, were being delivered via an Air Force C-5 ...
  

• Authorities in Southeast Alaska Searching for 3 People Missing After Landside ... - ABC News

  18-08-2015 23:11
  Authorities in Southeast Alaska Searching for 3 People Missing After Landside ...
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  Authorities in southeast Alaska searching for 3 people missing after landside in Sitka. Share. 0. Join the Discussion. Disqus seems to be taking longer than usual. Reload? Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. 0. Share.
  

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• Gov. Walker: Obama should endorse Alaska gas pipeline, visit Valdez - Alaska Dispatch News

  18-08-2015 20:30
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  Gov. Walker: Obama should endorse Alaska gas pipeline, visit Valdez
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  Gov. Bill Walker says President Barack Obama should direct money to Alaska for clean energy development, engage with villages threatened by climate change, and publicly endorse the state's goal of building a natural gas pipeline. That's according to a ...and more »
  

• Canada's Mines Could Harm Alaska's Salmon — and Its Economy - VICE News

  18-08-2015 20:12
  Canada's Mines Could Harm Alaska's Salmon — and Its Economy
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  By volume it was one of the biggest mining waste spills ever recorded, and it happened just over a year ago in central British Columbia. The earthen walls of a massive tailings pond collapsed at Imperial Metals's Mount Polley copper and gold mine ...and more »
  

• Maintenance, munitions Airmen blow doors off Red Flag-Alaska - Air Force Link

  18-08-2015 19:54
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  Maintenance, munitions Airmen blow doors off Red Flag-Alaska
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  Earth-covered igloos are designed to protect munitions while they are stored and keep people safe at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. Airmen from the 354th Maintenance Squadron munitions flight are responsible for maintaining security and operability ...and more »
  

• Pet of the Week: Sheena and Alaska - Rockdale Citizen

  18-08-2015 16:58
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  Pet of the Week: Sheena and Alaska
  Rockdale Citizen
  Sheena may not be queen of the jungle, but she can rule your heart. Sheena is a 1-year-old boxer mix. Sheena is fun-loving and smart who loves to exercise and can rise to any challenge, although she prefers to be with adults or older children. To learn ...and more »
  

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• Alaska Air Does What Wall Street Wants, Prompting Share Price Gains - TheStreet.com

  18-08-2015 14:17
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  Alaska Air Does What Wall Street Wants, Prompting Share Price Gains
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  NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Alaska Air (ALK - Get Report) continues to produce what Wall Street wants: above average unit revenue gains and share buybacks. The combination has resulted in year-to-date stock appreciation of 36%, second best among the ...
  Alaska Air shares soar to record high on tech boom and increase in flightsPuget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)all 11 news articles »
  

• Tiny Alaska village seeks to reunite with long-lost relatives from nearby ... - Fox News

  18-08-2015 07:46
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  Tiny Alaska village seeks to reunite with long-lost relatives from nearby ...
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  FILE - This Aug. 30, 2011, file photo provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers shows Big Diomede Island in Russia, right background, as seen from Little Diomede Island in the U.S. state of Alaska, left foreground. Residents from the tiny Alaska ...
  Alaska Village Seeks to Reunite With Russian RelativesABC News
  Alaska village seeks to reunite with Russian relatives across Bering StraitFairbanks Da
  

• Alaska's local leaders can't afford partisan deadlock on climate change - Alaska Dispatch News

  18-08-2015 04:42
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  Alaska's local leaders can't afford partisan deadlock on climate change
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  OPINION: While national and state obstructionists play politics with climate change, Alaska's local leaders acknowledge reality and take action. Pictured: A permafrost ice cellar in Wainwright in 2012. With climate change, such cellars have been ...and more »
  

• US lets Shell drill for oil off Alaska - USA TODAY

  18-08-2015 03:42
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  US lets Shell drill for oil off Alaska
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The federal government on Monday gave Royal Dutch Shell the final permit it needs to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska's northwest coast for the first time in more than two decades. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental ...
  Alaska oil prospecting project splits DemocratsDeutsche Welle
  Alaska News Nightly: Monday, August 17, 2015Alaska Public Radio Networkall 760 news articles »
  

• Beluga whales spotted 550 miles up Yukon River in Interior Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  18-08-2015 03:11
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  Beluga whales spotted 550 miles up Yukon River in Interior Alaska
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  A small pod of beluga whales was spotted Sunday morning by a group of people heading to Ruby on the Yukon River, hundreds of miles from the Bering Sea. Clifford Cleaver said he was heading up the Yukon River Sunday morning when he, his wife and ...and more »
  

• Mountain goat? Dall sheep? Moose? Which Alaska hunt is the toughest? - Alaska Dispatch News

  18-08-2015 03:02
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  Mountain goat? Dall sheep? Moose? Which Alaska hunt is the toughest?
  Alaska Dispatch News
  As hunters finish gearing up for the fall season, any number of them are sitting around campfires and Internet forums asking some version of this age-old question. But what most of them quickly find is that when you ask people who have hunted a range ...
  

• Former operator of Alaska sex trafficking ring sentenced in Anchorage - Alaska Dispatch News

  18-08-2015 00:47
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Former operator of Alaska sex trafficking ring sentenced in Anchorage
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Amber Batts, 41, was sentenced to more than five years in prison Monday on sex-trafficking and probation violation charges. The state said she was the primary player in a prostitution ring that operated in cities across Alaska. Photographed March 27, 2015.and more »
  

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