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• Assignment Alaska : Denali Road Lottery - KTUU.com

  25-09-2015 23:23
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  Assignment Alaska : Denali Road Lottery
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  The Denali National Park road is open to private vehicles just fours days a year. Drivers are issued permits by lottery. This Assignment Alaska takes you on a trip with the Denali National Park road Lottery. (KTUU-TV) ...and more »
  

• Dos and Don'ts in Rural Alaska Outreach Campaigns - Alaska Dispatch News

  25-09-2015 23:11
  Dos and Don'ts in Rural Alaska Outreach Campaigns
  Alaska Dispatch News
  What works and what doesn't work in reaching out to rural Alaskans? Alaska is a culturally-diverse state and one size does not fit all in rural Alaska. Get tips on tailoring messages for multiple platforms, the use of social media and some trends in ...
  

• Working it out in the Arctic

  25-09-2015 23:00
  
  Photo by Todd Paris, UAF.
  Can we ever, truly, get our arms around the Arctic?
  Anchorage has just played host to a giant conference on polar law, with participants coming from Finland, Iceland, Denmark, and many other northern places, to discuss how law and scholarship can improve the lives of Arctic people and the places they live.
  Mara Kimmel and Betsy Baker, both lawyers and active in Arctic governance and human rights issues, organized and participated. They’ll talk about major takeaway
  
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• Illegal Immigration Figures in Alaska - Newsmax

  25-09-2015 22:52
  Illegal Immigration Figures in Alaska
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  Alaska has about 10,000 illegal aliens, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform. This accounts for approximately 1.4 percent of the state's total population. StateMaster.com reported that Alaska has the second lowest population of ...and more »
  

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• YOLO: Stories of risk, reward and reckless abandon

  25-09-2015 22:30
  
  Every community has a place, where people gather and stories are told. The East Coast has stoops, the South has porches, and in Alaska we have Arctic Entries. Here, Alaskans share their personal stories — funny, sad and sweet. Originally told at the Arctic Entries monthly storytelling event in Anchorage, listen to seven people tell a 7-minute-long true story related to the show’s theme.
  This week, the theme is “YOLO: Stories of Risk, Reward and Reckles
  
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• Anchorage will miss the best of Sunday's rare supermoon lunar eclipse - Alaska Dispatch News

  25-09-2015 22:29
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  Anchorage will miss the best of Sunday's rare supermoon lunar eclipse
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Want to see the rare supermoon lunar eclipse Sunday evening? Alaskans are in for mostly bad news about the widely anticipated event. The phenomenon will be well underway by the time the moon rises in Alaska. The best places to be are eastern and ...and more »
  

• Skilak Lake bear mauling the Kenai Peninsula’s 4th of the year

  25-09-2015 22:26
  
  A brown bear sow was found dead Wednesday after mauling a 47-year-old Texas man out moose hunting with his brother on the north end of Skilak Lake.
  Early Tuesday evening, Gregory and Roger Mathews had been separated about 40 yards making moose calls near Doroshin Bay, when a sow attacked Gregory.
  According to U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials, Gregory fired at the bear but wasn’t sure if he hit it. Roger came to help, and the bear turned on him. Roger shot twice with a .300 Winchester Magnu
  
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• Justice reform and Alaska’s swelling prison population

  25-09-2015 22:07
  
  Alaska’s prison population has grown by 27 percent in the last decade. Without reforms to our justice programs, the state’s prison population could exceed capacity within 2 years. What are the best ideas for keeping people off the path to incarceration and reduce recidivism while maintaining public safety?
  HOST: Lori Townsend
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  Senator John Coghill
  Jeff Jessee, Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority
  Zoe Towns, state director, Pew Charitable Trusts
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• Federal Officials Investigate Walrus Deaths in Alaska - ABC News

  25-09-2015 21:58
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  Federal Officials Investigate Walrus Deaths in Alaska
  ABC News
  Two groups of Pacific walrus have been found dead along the Chukchi Sea northwest of Alaska. One incident is the subject of a criminal investigation. The other has been blamed on natural causes. ———. How many walrus have died and how? Twenty-five ...
  Dead walruses found on Alaska beachCBS News
  Agency nixes proposed rafts where walruses can rest off AlaskaThe Columbianall 153 news articles »
  

• NTSB report: Plane struck lake before deadly Alaska crash - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  25-09-2015 21:53
  NTSB report: Plane struck lake before deadly Alaska crash
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A preliminary accident report says a floatplane that crashed in Alaska struck the surface of a lake after takeoff before going down, killing three of the 10 people on board. The National Transportation Safety Board says the de ...and more »
  

• CIO of Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. to take new job at investment nonprofit - Alaska Dispatch News

  25-09-2015 21:52
  CIO of Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. to take new job at investment nonprofit
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Jay Willoughby, chief investment officer of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp., is leaving to take a job with the same title at The Investment Fund for Foundations, a Pennsylvania-based organization that helps charities improve their investment returns.and more »
  

• Washington company exploring gas service in Southeast Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  25-09-2015 21:46
  Washington company exploring gas service in Southeast Alaska
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  KETCHIKAN — A Washington state-based utility is looking to southeast Alaska for a launch of natural gas, which would primarily be delivered to homes for heat and personal use. The Ketchikan Daily News reports that Avista, a natural gas and hydropower ...and more »
  

• NTSB Report: Plane Struck Lake Before Deadly Alaska Crash - ABC News

  25-09-2015 21:26
  NTSB Report: Plane Struck Lake Before Deadly Alaska Crash
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  A preliminary accident report says a floatplane that crashed in Alaska struck the surface of a lake after takeoff before going down, killing three of the 10 tourists on board. The National Transportation Safety Board says the de Havilland DHC-3 turbine ...
  

• Blue and Gold | Anchorage, Alaska - Transworld Business

  25-09-2015 19:21
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  Blue and Gold | Anchorage, Alaska
  Transworld Business
  Jason Borgstede moved to Alaska in 1988. By the spring of 1989, he decided to learn to skate and not just push around, and later that winter, after seeing a snowboarding commercial, he says he “had to try it.” “I was hooked on both,” recalls Borgstede.
  

• NFL Network travels to Alaska as part of its latest original programming - For The Win

  25-09-2015 18:35
  For The Win
  NFL Network travels to Alaska as part of its latest original programming
  For The Win
  For Brian Houston, a football coach in a town 500 miles above the Arctic Circle, the first thing that he noticed about having the NFL Network filming its new series about his team was the cameras. They were always there, usually in his face as he ...
  

• Meet the national leader in rushing TDs, all the way from Alaska - USA TODAY High School Sports

  25-09-2015 17:25
  USA TODAY High School Sports
  Meet the national leader in rushing TDs, all the way from Alaska
  USA TODAY High School Sports
  The coaches at Bartlett High in Anchorage, Alaska, jokingly refer to running back Ethan Falaniko as Clark Kent, because of the black thick-rimmed glasses that have become a family trademark among he and his two brothers. But so far this season ...
  

• Nat Wolff Really Wants A Part In 'Looking For Alaska' - MTV.com

  25-09-2015 17:09
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  Nat Wolff Really Wants A Part In 'Looking For Alaska'
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  Wolff talks coming of age on his own terms... and working with John Green again. by Crystal Bell 1h ago. Share to Facebook. Tweet to Twitter. Email. Comments. To say Nat Wolff is having a breakout year would be an understatement. The 20-year-old actor ...and more »
  

• Alaska's US senators split in vote over Planned Parenthood funding - Alaska Dispatch News

  25-09-2015 16:13
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  Alaska's US senators split in vote over Planned Parenthood funding
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  WASHINGTON -- The Senate's top Republican moved swiftly to avoid a government shutdown in six days, pushing legislation that would keep agencies operating without a contentious fight over money for Planned Parenthood. The action of Majority Leader ...and more »
  

• Agency nixes proposed rafts where walruses can rest off Alaska - The Columbian

  25-09-2015 14:43
  The Columbian
  Agency nixes proposed rafts where walruses can rest off Alaska
  The Columbian
  Adult female walruses rest on an ice flow with young walruses in the Eastern Chukchi Sea, Alaska. Federal wildlife officials have declined the suggestion of a wildlife advocacy group to place experimental rafts off Alaska's northwest coast as a resting ...
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• Washington company exploring gas service in southeast Alaska - Times Daily

  25-09-2015 14:15
  Washington company exploring gas service in southeast Alaska
  Times Daily
  KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — A Washington state-based utility is looking to southeast Alaska for a launch of natural gas, which would primarily be delivered to homes for heat and personal use. The Ketchikan Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/1PB8fux ) that ...and more »
  

• Reduced Alaska DOT budget means less plowing, maintenance - Washington Times

  25-09-2015 11:33
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Reduced Alaska DOT budget means less plowing, maintenance
  Washington Times
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities officials say they will reduce plowing and road maintenance services. The department announced its reduced winter road maintenance Thursday, saying the reduction will ...
  Alaska DOT: Budget cuts mean reduced winter road clearingFairbanks Daily News-Minerall 8 news articles »
  

• Wood bison finding home in Alaska - Juneau Empire (subscription)

  25-09-2015 10:10
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  Wood bison finding home in Alaska
  Juneau Empire (subscription)
  These nights, Tom Seaton is dreaming less about red-brown, steaming, humpbacked hulks. He's also getting more sleep, knowing dozens of wood bison that galloped to freedom behind his snowmachine last spring are wandering new country, munching ...
  

• New Species Of Dinosaur Discovered In Northern Alaska - The Inquisitr

  25-09-2015 06:52
  The Inquisitr
  New Species Of Dinosaur Discovered In Northern Alaska
  The Inquisitr
  Scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new species of duck-billed dinosaur that lived in the high Arctic polar regions of Alaska, reports NBC. It was initially thought to be Edmontosaurus, a known species of duck-billed dinosaur, but detailed ...
  New dinosaur identified in AlaskaScience News
  Researchers say new dinosaur found in northern AlaskaThe Seattle Times
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• State launches task force on human trafficking in Alaska - Alaska Public Radio Network

  25-09-2015 06:22
  State launches task force on human trafficking in Alaska
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  The Department of Labor approached Mayor Ethan Berkowitz's administration about finding new enforcement strategies for combating state-wide problems with labor and sex trafficking. The task force meets for the first time this Monday in Anchorage, with ...
  

• Alaska from Scratch: Easy chicken dinner gives busy cooks a breather - Alaska Dispatch News

  25-09-2015 06:09
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Alaska from Scratch: Easy chicken dinner gives busy cooks a breather
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Recently, I was asked if I like to host parties or if I enjoy having people over. My answer: You'll find me in the kitchen. I love to feed and nourish people. I like to make people feel seen and valued through food. But, I'm also an introvert. The ...
  

• Field research underway for Alaska LNG Project - KTUU.com

  25-09-2015 05:59
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  Field research underway for Alaska LNG Project
  KTUU.com
  As state legislators prepare to discuss the Alaska LNG Project at a special session announced by Governor Bill Walker, engineers have already begun conducting field research in key areas like Nikiski, where the gas-line's marine terminal would be located.and more »
  

• BLM official says he didn't turn blind eye to Southwest Alaska mine's pollution - Alaska Dispatch News

  25-09-2015 05:52
  Alaska Dispatch News
  BLM official says he didn't turn blind eye to Southwest Alaska mine's pollution
  Alaska Dispatch News
  What's now called the Platinum Creek Mine, on the Salmon River near Kuskokwim Bay, dates back to the 1920s but most recently was run from about 2008 to 2012 by XS Platinum Inc. Long-ago operators used a big dredge to dig for platinum and left waste ...and more »
  

• Mexican consulate in Anchorage to close at the end of November - Alaska Dispatch News

  25-09-2015 05:46
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Mexican consulate in Anchorage to close at the end of November
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Mexico will be closing its Anchorage consulate office at the end of November, a casualty of that country's own budgetary constraints and diminishing demand in Alaska, officials said Thursday. The closure means Alaska residents and tourists with Mexican ...and more »
  

• Gas pipeline is focus of Alaska special session - Chron.com (blog)

  25-09-2015 05:35
  Chron.com (blog)
  Gas pipeline is focus of Alaska special session
  Chron.com (blog)
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Gov. Bill Walker on Thursday called lawmakers into special session to kick-start stalled consideration of the Alaska natural gas pipeline project. Walker, who spent last week touting Alaska's liquefied natural gas potential to ...
  Alaska Gov. Walker calls special legislative session on gas line megaprojectAlaska Dispatch Newsall 42 news articles »
  

• Plano Man Attacked By Bear In Alaska Speaks - CBS Local

  25-09-2015 05:23
  CBS Local
  Plano Man Attacked By Bear In Alaska Speaks
  CBS Local
  PLANO (CBSDFW.COM) – Greg Matthews felt the jaws of a bear sink into his head as the claws of the massive animal dug into his back. “I'm obviously fortunate to be alive. I came close to not being around,” said Matthews. The Plano resident was attacked ...
  Alaska officials find brown bear dead following mauling10TV
  Plano man mauled by bear in Alaska to be discharged from hospitalDallas Morning News
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• Alaska delegation gets a touch of the pontiff - Alaska Dispatch News

  25-09-2015 05:19
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  Alaska delegation gets a touch of the pontiff
  Alaska Dispatch News
  WASHINGTON -- Alaska's congressional delegation got up close and personal with Pope Francis Thursday when the pontiff delivered an address to a special joint session of Congress. The historic speech marked the first time the leader of the Catholic ...
  Alaska delegation recounts brief encounter with Pope FrancisKtoo
  Pope wows Alaska senators — and Rep. Young's wifeAlaska Public Radio Networkall 5 news a
  

• Allen Bushnell, Fish Rap: Yakutat trip brings out best of Alaska - Santa Cruz Sentinel

  25-09-2015 04:55
  Allen Bushnell, Fish Rap: Yakutat trip brings out best of Alaska
  Santa Cruz Sentinel
  Mike Baxter with the prettiest fish on the Situk River, just prior to release, in Yakutat, Alaska. (Contributed). By Allen Bushnell, [email protected]. Posted: 09/24/15, 6:58 PM PDT | Updated: 31 secs ago. # Comments. Mike Baxter and Allen ...
  

• Rolling Stone's interview with Obama in Alaska -- abridged - Alaska Dispatch News

  25-09-2015 04:28
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Rolling Stone's interview with Obama in Alaska -- abridged
  Alaska Dispatch News
  President Barack Obama's visit to Alaska helped show him the dichotomy between fossil fuels and climate change, he said in an interview with Rolling Stone during his visit to the state earlier this month. The magazine posted a 9,000-word story and ...
  Miley Cyrus Suffering from Obama Separation Anxiety…PS 'Climate Change is F*cked'Breitbart Newsall 20 news articles »
  

• Alaska delegation recounts brief encounter with Pope Francis - Ktoo

  25-09-2015 04:17
  Ktoo
  Alaska delegation recounts brief encounter with Pope Francis
  Ktoo
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski shows the rosary beads she says prompted a special moment with the pope. (Photo by Liz Ruskin, APRN-Washington). Alaska's congressional delegation had an audience with this pope Thursday morning. Actually, all of Congress did, ...
  Alaska delegation gets a touch of the pontiffAlaska Dispatch News
  Pope wows Alaska senators — and Rep. Young's wifeAlaska Public Radio Networkall 5 news articles 
  

• Power to the people: Alaska should return to open primaries - Alaska Dispatch News

  25-09-2015 04:09
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Power to the people: Alaska should return to open primaries
  Alaska Dispatch News
  OPINION: Open primaries will diminish party power and increase the power of Alaska's voters. Ted S. Warren. It was Nov. 8, 1955. when delegates to the Alaska Constitutional Convention gathered at the University of Alaska outside Fairbanks. There were ...and more »
  

• Mexican consulate in Alaska to close doors at the end of November - Alaska Dispatch News

  25-09-2015 03:48
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Mexican consulate in Alaska to close doors at the end of November
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Mexico will be closing its Anchorage consulate office at the end of November, a casualty of that country's own budgetary constraints and diminishing demand in Alaska, officials said Thursday. The closure means Alaskan residents and tourists with ...
  Anchorage's Mexican Consulate will close in NovemberAlaska Public Radio Networkall 4 news articles »
  

• Alaska officials find brown bear dead following mauling - 10TV

  25-09-2015 03:44
  10TV
  Alaska officials find brown bear dead following mauling
  10TV
  The adult female bear was found Wednesday mortally wounded about 100 yards from the attack site in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge after being shot. Officials say two bullet wounds were found in the bear. There were no signs of her cubs. Game ...
  Plano Man Attacked By Bear In Alaska SpeaksCBS Local
  Plano man mauled by bear in Alaska to be discharged from hospitalDallas Morning News
  Officials in Alaska find brown bear dead 100
  

• Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015

  25-09-2015 03:41
  
  
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  Walker calls special session on new gas tax, gasline buyout
  Gov. Bill Walker on Thursday formally called the Alaska Legislature back to Juneau for a third special session this year. His proclamation calls for considering two topics: A tax targeting undeveloped natural gas still in the ground, and buying out Canadian pipeline builder TransCanada’s ownership stake in a proposed natural gas pipeline.
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• Gov. Walker calls special session on new gas tax, pipeline buyout

  25-09-2015 03:20
  
  
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  Gov. Bill Walker on Thursday formally called the Alaska Legislature back to Juneau for a third special session this year.
  His proclamation calls for considering two topics: A tax targeting undeveloped natural gas still in the ground, and buying out Canadian pipeline builder TransCanada’s ownership stake in a proposed natural gas pipeline.
  In a press release, Walker likened the state’s unproduced natural gas reserves as milk with no expiration date. He says taxing
  
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• Sockeye wildfire defendants ask for delay

  25-09-2015 03:16
  
  
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  The state’s case against the two defendants in the Sockeye wildfire may not go to trial until sometime next year.
  At a court hearing in Palmer Thursday, attorneys for defendants Amy DeWitt and Greg Imig asked Judge David Zwink for more time to prepare their case.
  DeWitt and Imig have pleaded not guilty to criminal charges of recklessly igniting the fire that swept through more than seven thousand forested acres north of Willow in June of this year. The fire destroyed fifty-f
  
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• Anchorage’s Mexican Consulate will close in November

  25-09-2015 03:10
  
  
  Consul of Mexico in Seattle Eduardo Baca spoke about the closing of Anchorage’s Consulate. (Hillman/KSKA)
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  The Mexican Consulate in Anchorage is closing to the public at the end of November because of budgetary reasons. Running the 10-person office costs about half a million dollars each year. It opened in 2009 because the state was seeing an increase in the Mexican population, and Alaska’s vast geography made reaching a consulate difficult. The American Community Surve
  
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• Contentious minor offenses ordinance to start in 2016

  25-09-2015 03:04
  
  
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  The contentious minor offenses ordinance, an order that assigns fines to more than 200 violations, will take effect Jan. 1 with an amendment to clarify who exactly can write the tickets. The ordinance passed Tuesday evening during a four-hour emotional rollercoaster of a meeting.
  
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• Bristol Bay sockeye included in school lunches

  25-09-2015 03:02
  
  
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  Thousands of cans of Bristol Bay sockeye will make their way to school lunches and other federal food programs around the country this winter as part of a USDA bailout. KDLG’s Molly Dischner has more.
  
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• Kantner out with new collection of essays

  25-09-2015 03:00
  
  
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  Most authors struggle to get their work noticed…at all…and would love to get a phone call by a publisher, asking them to write something…but when an editor called Northwest arctic resident and writer Seth Kantner asking him to write about caribou, this was his response: …I said no.
  Kantner will be the first to admit that he can be a bit cranky when it comes to managing his work. He wanted to get a collection of essays and columns published and he says h
  
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• Pope wows Alaska senators — and Rep. Young’s wife

  25-09-2015 02:03
  
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski shows the rosary beads she says prompted a special moment with the pope.
  Alaska’s congressional delegation had an audience with this pope this morning. Actually, all of Congress did, along with the president’s cabinet and the Supreme Court. But Sen. Lisa Murkowski did have a close encounter with Pope Francis, a personal moment that left her awestruck.
  Murkowski was among a group of senators assigned to greet the pope inside the Capitol. She says lawmakers were ins
  
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• This time, Murkowski votes with Democrats on Planned Parenthood

  25-09-2015 01:34
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski (File photo: KTOO – Juneau.)
  After the pope left the Capitol today , the U.S. Senate took another procedural vote on a bill to defund Planned Parenthood, this one linked to a stop-gap measure to fund the government. Sen. Lisa Murkowski was one of eight Republicans to vote against advancing the bill. She sided with Democrats who say cutting Planned Parenthood funds would limit access to healthcare and contraception.  As expected, the bill failed to get enough votes
  
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• Fox Removal Effort Closer to Completion on Alaska Islands - ABC News

  25-09-2015 00:37
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  Fox Removal Effort Closer to Completion on Alaska Islands
  ABC News
  A decades-old campaign to wipe dozens of Alaska islands clean of invasive arctic foxes is a step closer to wrapping up with an eradication effort this summer on a large, uninhabited island that's also home to hundreds of feral non-native cattle.
  Fox eradication effort nears completion on Alaska islandsKTUU.comall 82 news articles »
  

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