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• Salmon Bones Reveal Ice Age Fishing Holes

  22-09-2015 23:18
   
  Researchers in Alaska have found the earliest known evidence that Ice Age humans in North America used salmon as a food source. A new paper published on Monday in the
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences asserts that chum salmon have been harvested in Alaska for 11 thousand years.
  The findings are based on analysis of 11,500-year-old chum salmon bones found by University of Alaska Fairbanks anthropologist Ben Potter and colleagues at the Upward Sun River site in Interior Alaska
  
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• Charges filed against owners of Alaska marijuana businesses

  22-09-2015 19:15
  The owners of two marijuana delivery services and the owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club in Anchorage have been charged with drug crimes for the delivery and possession of marijuana.
  The Alaska Dispatch News reports that undercover officers made multiple marijuana purchases from each business before charging them with misconduct involving a controlled substance in the fourth-degree, a felony, and in the fifth-degree, a misdemeanor.
  Alaska Department of Law Criminal Division Director John Skidmore
  
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• B.C. meeting with Tulsequah Chief Mine owner

  22-09-2015 19:12
  The Tulsequah Chief Mine installed a water treatment plant to treat acid rock drainage. But it was shut down due to high operational costs. (Photo courtesy Chieftain Metals)
  A top British Columbia official is meeting with owners of the Tulsequah Chief Mine, which is leaking pollution into a river that flows into Alaska.
  During a recent visit to the state, B.C. Minister of Mines Bill Bennett said his province should deal with the problem.
  The mine, which closed more than 50 years ago, is lea
  
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• Willow Creek remains identified as fisherman missing since last August

  22-09-2015 19:10
  The remains found on Saturday on a sandbar in Willow Creek have been identified as those of Jerry Warner, 71, of Missouri.
  Warner was reported missing on August 3rd of last year.
  He had walked upstream of a campground near mile 71 of the Parks Highway to fish. At the time, it was reported that Warner did not have survival gear or a cell phone with him.   Rescuers searched for Jerry Warner for six days before calling off active efforts.
  The search included dogs, ATVs, divers, and aircraft. &
  
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• Cheaper courses at Northwest Campus after $14k NSEDC grant

  22-09-2015 19:01
  
  Nome’s Northwest Campus. (Photo: Matthew F. Smith, KNOM file)
  It’s not too late to register for classes at Northwest Campus, and this semester, many one-credit courses will come a little cheaper, thanks to a $14,000 grant from the Norton Sound Economic Development Corporation.
  The grant goes to NSEDC member communities throughout the region to fund community-based training courses. This fall, Northwest Campus is applying Nome’s funds to the discounted courses.
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• New dinosaur found in Alaska, researchers say - USA TODAY

  22-09-2015 18:05
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  New dinosaur found in Alaska, researchers say
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Researchers have uncovered a new species of plant-eating dinosaur in Alaska, according to a report published Tuesday. The animal was a variety of hadrosaur, a duck-billed dinosaur that roamed in herds, said Pat ...
  New duck-billed dinosaur uncovered in Alaska, researchers sayFox News
  How did duck-billed dinosaurs survive in Alaska?Christian Science Monitor
  A 'lost world' of dinosaurs thrived in
  

• From Alaska to Iceland, Breaking Barriers to Arctic Travel

  22-09-2015 17:53 via nytimes.com
  A conversation with Sarah Aciego, a professor of glaciology, who started Big Chill Adventures to take small groups on weeklong photo-hiking tours.
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Sept. 21, 2015

  22-09-2015 03:51
  
  
  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
  2015 Permanent Fund Dividend is $2,072
  Josh Edge, APRN-AnchorageA record-breaking Permanent Fund Dividend was announced Monday, not from the Governor, but instead from 12-year-old student, because, according to Governor Bill Walker, the fund is really
  
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• Hearings start on fighter jets coming to Eielson

  22-09-2015 03:16
  
  
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  Local hearings are happening this week on the planned basing of 54 F-35 fighter jets at Eielson Air Force Base.  The sessions, in North Pole, Delta and Fairbanks, provide opportunity to comment on a draft Environmental Impact Statement on the basing plan.
   
  
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• Starfish losing arms to disease

  22-09-2015 03:10
  
  
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  Starfish from Mexico to Alaska have been hammered by a wasting disease that causes their arms to melt and fall off. Sea stars in the Aleutian Islands have not been affected yet.
  
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• UAA engineering program attracting more Native students

  22-09-2015 03:00
  
  
  Cody McIntyre in his hometown of Tuntutuliak. (Photo by Daysha Eaton/KYUK)
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  As college freshmen dig into their studies at the state’s universities this fall, more native faces are appearing in science and engineering classrooms. That’s thanks to the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program, or ANSEP. Yup’ik students from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta are among them.
  Cody McIntyre is one of them. He’s  from the village of Tuntutuliak, or as he calls it,
  
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• Federal grants target mold in tribal housing

  22-09-2015 02:50
  
  Tribal housing in Alaska will benefit from more than $1 million in grants announced Monday through the federal Housing and Urban Development program to address mold.
  Colleen Bickford is the HUD field office director for Alaska. She says $1.6 million was awarded to three tribal entities in the state specifically for mold remediation or prevention in more than 200 tribal homes through improved windows, doors and exteriors.
  “But also through this work, insuring that the interior is also adequ
  
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• UAS to offer marine transportation degree program

  22-09-2015 02:26
  Students and mariners will soon be able to get formal marine transportation education without leaving the state. The University of Alaska Board of Regents last week approved a new marine transportation degree program at the University of Alaska Southeast.
  Dale Miller taught marine transportation courses at the University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan campus. (Photo by Lisa Phu/KTOO)
  For decades, UAS has offered classes and training to ferry workers, the Coast Guard, shipyard workers, sea pilots,
  
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• Newtok feeling nervous about relocation timeline

  22-09-2015 02:19
  Locals say the “Nignlick” riverbank has been eroding since the 70s. (Photo by Charles Enoch/KYUK)
  Residents in the small coastal village of Newtok in Southwest Alaska have been preparing to move as erosion eats away at their village.  A dispute over who has tribal authority has slowed the process,but now that dispute has been decided by federal courts and a new set of tribal officials are getting the relocation effort underway again. With climate change accelerating the ero
  
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• Washington opens criminal investigation into walrus deaths

  22-09-2015 01:55
  The federal government has opened a criminal investigation into the death of 25 Pacific walrus found on an isolated northwest Alaska beach.
  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman Crystal Leonetti says agency investigators have not returned from the site at Cape Lisburne but that the case is now in the hands of the U.S. Attorney office.
  Initial reports last week said the walrus had been shot but the Fish and Wildlife Service refused to speculate on the cause of death until agency personnel ha
  
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• Alaska Senators sponsor legislation to repeal Cadillac tax

  22-09-2015 00:39
  Alaska’s two U. S. Senators are co-sponsoring legislation to repeal the so-called Cadillac tax, which will impact high priced employer health plans starting in 2018. Because health care is so expensive in Alaska, the tax could have a big impact in the state.
  The tax was designed to hit high-end employer health plans that include especially rich benefits. But Senator Lisa Murkowski says in Alaska, it will impact health plans that are a lot more average.
  “Our plans cost more because we
  
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