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• NOVA: Arctic Ghost Ship

  19-09-2015 22:00
  Cannons and loose timbers on the starboard stern. Diver Filippo Ronca taking measurements at the muzzle. (Photo Courtesy of WGBH.)
  Unravel the greatest mystery in Arctic exploration: 160 years ago, the Franklin Expedition to chart the Northwest Passage vanished. Now, a Canadian team – in ARCTIC GHOST SHIP – discovers one of Franklin’s lost ships, a vital clue to the fate of the ill-starred expedition.
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Sept. 18, 2015

  19-09-2015 02:52
  
  
  Stories are posted on the APRN news page. You can subscribe to APRN’s newsfeeds via email, podcast and RSS. Follow us on Facebook at alaskapublic.org and on Twitter @aprn.Download Audio
   
  25 walrus found decapitated off Cape Lisburne
  Matthew Smith, KNOM – Nome
  Twenty-five walrus—including up to a dozen calves—have been found dead on a beach about 40 miles north of Point Hope. Now federal wildlife offic
  
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• 25 walrus found dead, some decapitated off Cape Lisburne

  19-09-2015 02:35
  
  
  Twenty-five walrus—including up to a dozen calves—have been found dead on a beach about 40 miles north of Point Hope. Now federal wildlife officials are investigating a possible criminal slaughter of the protected marine mammals.
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  Walrus found dead and decapitated near Cape Lisburne. Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says they received an email about the walrus deaths last week. They were found just off of
  
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• In Fairbanks, Equinox Marathon runners slog along for Usher syndrome

  19-09-2015 02:34
  
  
  Fairbanks annual Equinox Marathon is Saturday. A hilly, mostly off road course and wet, cool weather make the race a challenge, but a few participants in this year’s event are battling a much tougher foe.
  Photo: Dan Bross
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  Fairbanks runner Caroline Brown’s son has a rare genetic disorder that’s robbing his hearing and sight. Brown is part of a group of runners taking on this year’s Equinox Marathon in support of developing treatments and even a cure for Ushe
  
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• From Spanish flu to the ’64 quake, AK Child & Family celebrates 125 years

  19-09-2015 02:31
  
  
  Well over a century ago, United Methodist church members started the Jesse Lee Home in Unalaska for children who had been orphaned by disease or needed care while their parents recovered from illness. When the Spanish influenza pandemic wiped out villages along coastal Alaska, the home moved to Seward, and after the 1964 earthquake, it moved again to Anchorage.
  A hundred and twenty-five years later, Alaska Child and Family, the contemporary to the Jesse Lee facility is celebrating their annivers
  
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• Juneau roller derby team starts junior league

  19-09-2015 02:20
  
  The Juneau RollerGirls are training a coed junior league this fall. Roller derby is characterized by fast-paced bouts, slick moves and cheeky alter egos. Helmets are essential. But the raucous sport can be adapted for kids.
  Taku RollerSports is loaning the gear for the junior derby league. (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/KTOO)
  At the Zach Gordon Youth Center, Kim Champney is skating backwards. She holds the hands of a young skater to help with the girl’s balance and demonstrates the
  
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• 25 walrus found decapitated off Cape Lisburne

  19-09-2015 02:03
  
  Twenty-five walrus—including up to a dozen calves—have been found dead on a beach about 40 miles north of Point Hope. Now federal wildlife officials are investigating a possible criminal slaughter of the protected marine mammals.
  Walrus found dead and decapitated near Cape Lisburne. Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says they received an email about the walrus deaths last week. They were found just off of Cape Lisburne,
  
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• Murkowski frets fees on public lands, especially Mendenhall

  19-09-2015 01:10
  The viewing platforms along Steep Creek will be inside the new fee area at Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center.
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Thursday challenged National Park and Forest Service officials about the fees they collect from visitors. At a Senate hearing, Murkowski said she “generally” supports the law allowing the agencies to collect fees.  The 10-year-old law requires that most of the revenue is spent on things like visitor services, maintenance and public safety. But then
  
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• UA Board of Regents formulates Legislative budget requests

  19-09-2015 00:30
  
  The University of Alaska Board of Regents this week is meeting in Juneau. Among the topics up for discussion is figuring how the university should move forward in a progressively bleaker fiscal climate, and developing a plan of attack for their legislative budget requests.
  As state funding continues to decrease, the University of Alaska has typically relied on formulaic, across-the-board cuts, applied on a campus-by-campus basis. This year, however, Regent Gloria O’Neill says the board is
  
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• Viewing coastal brown bears

  19-09-2015 00:00
  A brown bear sow fishes in the McNeil River sanctuary. Photo: Lora Jorgensen
  We’re talking about bears on Outdoor Explorer. Our region of Alaska happens to be the best place in the world for ordinary people to get out in the woods and see lots of gigantic bears. The coastal brown bear can grow to enormous size, but while they are gorging on the salmon that make them so large, they don’t pay attention to anything else. Visitors to certain key streams can get very, very close. We&rsquo
  
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