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• Alaska driver flees accident through cemetery - Ktoo

  01-10-2015 23:37
  Alaska driver flees accident through cemetery
  Ktoo
  A driver made a grave error when fleeing the scene of an accident through a cemetery that's home to Juneau's founding fathers. The Juneau Empire reports police are investigating the Monday incident at Evergreen Cemetery. A driver hit a light pole and ...and more »
  

• Jacques Pepin’s Final Series – Heart and Soul

  01-10-2015 22:00
  (Photo by Kevin Berne © 2014)
  After a lifetime in the kitchen – and over two decades in front of public television audiences – Jacques Pépin brings you his final series, JACQUES PEPIN: HEART and SOUL. His most personal program yet, it showcases the warmth, wit and mastery of a culinary icon as he cracks a bottle of wine (or two) and shares the greatest hits from his storied career. From classic French dishes to creative new menus that vie to be his cro
  
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• Watchdog warns of scams targeting Alaska dividend recipients - KTUU.com

  01-10-2015 21:39
  KTVA.com - Alaska News and Weather
  Watchdog warns of scams targeting Alaska dividend recipients
  KTUU.com
  Throughout the next few days hundreds of thousands of eligible residents will collect checks totaling $2,072, injecting more than $1.3 billion into the state economy. Although Better Business Bureau officials say the extra cash is good for communities ...
  As PFD checks roll out, scam complaints increase in AlaskaKTVA.com - Alaska News and Weatherall 4 news articles »
  

• Video: Pilgrimage to Spruce Island | Indie Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-10-2015 21:39
  Video: Pilgrimage to Spruce Island | Indie Alaska
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  Spruce Island near Kodiak is considered by many Orthodox Christians to be one of the holiest sites in North America. The island was home to the hermitage of Herman of Alaska during the early 1800s. Every year, in early August, the Orthodox Church in ...and more »
  

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• Bear ignores desperate pleas of woman, eats kayak - CBS News

  01-10-2015 21:13
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  Bear ignores desperate pleas of woman, eats kayak
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska --A camper in Alaska learned a difficult lesson: sometimes when you pepper spray a bear, it eats your kayak. In a video posted on YouTube Tuesday, Mary Maley initially thanked the black bear for leaving her kayak alone, but then she ...
  Video: Woman thanks Alaska bear for not eating kayak; bear promptly eats kayakAlaska Dispatch News
  Woman begs black bear to stop kayak attack in viral videoUPI.com
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• Alaska's Money Blizzard May End With Plunge in Price of Oil - Bloomberg

  01-10-2015 20:46
  Alaska's Money Blizzard May End With Plunge in Price of Oil
  Bloomberg
  Alaska is poised to alter its social contract with people like Paul Alexie for the first time in its 56-year statehood. Oil riches have ensured that the 23-year-old Yupik Eskimo from Bethel doesn't pay state sales or income taxes. Instead, Alaska pays ...and more »
  

• A look at Alaska's bison reintroduction - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (blog)

  01-10-2015 20:36
  A look at Alaska's bison reintroduction
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (blog)
  Cathie Harms, a wildlife biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, is hosting a public lecture on the successful reintroduction of the wood bison to Alaska. The talk is 7 p.m. Monday at the Noel Wien Library Auditorium, 1215 Cowles St. It ...and more »
  

• Winds whip up ash from 1912 Alaska volcanic eruption - Alaska Public Radio Network

  01-10-2015 19:43
  Winds whip up ash from 1912 Alaska volcanic eruption
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  Strong winds are whipping up loose volcanic ash from the eruption of an Alaska volcano more than a century ago. The fine ash mixed with snow and sleet to dust the city of Kodiak overnight. Officials Wednesday said there have been no reports that the ...and more »
  

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• Utility crews make gains, but 6000 still without power following Interior ... - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  01-10-2015 19:33
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  Utility crews make gains, but 6000 still without power following Interior ...
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Ted W. Tisdale plows his driveway with a ranger, followed by his dog Skippy, 12, on Wednesday, September 30, 2015. The 49-year-old ranger has plowed a lot of snow over the years as well as hauled in three caribou and a moose. Snow and Power Outages ...
  Fairbanks recovering from snowstorm, but 6000 still without powerAlaska Dispatch Newsall 11 news articles&nbs
  

• Winds whip up ash from 1912 Alaska volcanic eruption

  01-10-2015 18:17
  
  Strong winds are whipping up loose volcanic ash from the eruption of an Alaska volcano more than a century ago.
  The fine ash mixed with snow and sleet to dust the city of Kodiak overnight.
  Officials Wednesday said there have been no reports that the ash has reached a level where it would affect aviation.
  The Alaska Volcano Observatory says this happens seasonally in the spring and fall during windy and usually drier conditions.
  The ash is from the 1912 eruption of Novarupta Volcano on the Alaska
  
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• UAS student gov't votes to recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day - Alaska Public Radio Network

  01-10-2015 17:57
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  UAS student gov't votes to recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  Students at the University of Alaska Southeast will recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day on Oct. 12, a day otherwise known as Columbus Day. The student government recently passed a resolution to do this on the second Monday of every October.and more »
  

• AVCP panel offers solutions for tribal-state child welfare

  01-10-2015 17:36
  Valerie Davidson, Commissioner of the Dept. of Health and Social Services, led the panel on tribal-state child welfare in the AVCP region.
  Keeping tribal children in their tribal communities is the solution to improving regional child welfare, according to a Tribal-State Child Welfare panel yesterday during the Association of Village Council Presidents 51st Annual Convention at the Bethel Cultural Center.
  The panelists represented a range of local, regional and state organizations and said
  
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• UAS student gov’t votes to recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day

  01-10-2015 17:34
  
  University of Alaska Southeast (Photo by Lisa Phu/KTOO)
  Students at the University of Alaska Southeast will recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Oct. 12, a day otherwise known as Columbus Day. The student government recently passed a resolution to do this on the second Monday of every October.
  David Russell-Jensen is a third-year student at the UAS. He’s a member of the student government and cosponsored the resolution.
  “I had an essay assigned to me in high school about w
  
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• Ruling backs Shell’s use of Seattle homeport for its fleet

  01-10-2015 17:32
  
  Shell’s Fennica vessel. Photo: John Ryan/KUCB.
  A hearing examiner says Seattle officials erred when they said the Port of Seattle couldn’t host Shell Oil’s Arctic drilling fleet under its current permit.
  Mayor Ed Murray said in May that the port needed a new land use permit to host Shell’s drilling fleet. City planners had decided the proposed activities weren’t allowed under the existing permit.
  After an appeal, the hearing officer ruled Wednesday that the city&rsq
  
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• Ketchikan’s PeaceHealth Medical Center awarded $3.6 million grant

  01-10-2015 17:31
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  PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center announced this week that it has been awarded a $3.6 million grant for the entire PeaceHealth system from the federal Department of Health and Human Services to help improve community health through changing clinical practices.
  PeaceHealth was one of 39 health care systems nationwide chosen for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services program. Ketchikan Medical Center’s chief administrator Ken Tonjes said the Transforming Clinical
  
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• Communities learn how much money they might receive for hosting gas line

  01-10-2015 17:28
  Municipal leaders from across the state came to a preliminary agreement with partners in the Alaska LNG Project on local payouts last week.
  The project will make 800 million dollars available to communities facing impacts from the 800-mile long LNG pipeline, with billions more slated for future tax payments. But how much each community will be entitled to is still up in the air.
  For more than a year, a group called the Municipal Advisory Gas Project Review Board has been working to get to t
  
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• Alaska healthcare providers sue Xerox, claim millions lost in unreimbursed ... - Healthcare Finance News

  01-10-2015 17:08
  Healthcare Finance News
  Alaska healthcare providers sue Xerox, claim millions lost in unreimbursed ...
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  The providers requested the court allow for a class-action lawsuit to enable other providers to join. Susan Morse, Associate Editor. Image via <a href="https://www.flickr.com Image via Flickr. Three Alaska healthcare providers have filed a lawsuit ...
  

• Utility crews make gains, but 10000 still without power following Interior ... - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  01-10-2015 17:05
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Utility crews make gains, but 10000 still without power following Interior ...
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Ted W. Tisdale plows his driveway with a ranger, followed by his dog Skippy, 12, on Wednesday, September 30, 2015. The 49-year-old ranger has plowed a lot of snow over the years as well as hauled in three caribou and a moose. Snow and Power Outages ...and more »
  

• Winds whip up ash from 1912 Alaska volcanic eruption - KTVA.com - Alaska News and Weather

  01-10-2015 16:14
  KTVA.com - Alaska News and Weather
  Winds whip up ash from 1912 Alaska volcanic eruption
  KTVA.com - Alaska News and Weather
  Strong winds are whipping up loose volcanic ash from the eruption of an Alaska volcano more than a century ago. The fine ash mixed with snow and sleet to dust the city of Kodiak overnight. Officials Wednesday said there have been no reports that the ...and more »
  

• Mega-yacht 'Talos' back in Seattle after a summer cruising Alaska waters - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) (blog)

  01-10-2015 15:50
  Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) (blog)
  Mega-yacht 'Talos' back in Seattle after a summer cruising Alaska waters
  Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) (blog)
  One of those is the "Talos," a 122-foot luxury yacht that recently returned from a summer of charters, and is now docked at Nautical Landing, possibly for the winter, rather than heading down towards the Sea of Cortez and elsewhere as it usually does ...
  

• Three producers to pay back $800 million for project impacts in Alaska - Chron.com (blog)

  01-10-2015 14:42
  Chron.com (blog)
  Three producers to pay back $800 million for project impacts in Alaska
  Chron.com (blog)
  The American Petroleum Institute used 2014 data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration to compare the oil and gas production power of states like Texas and Louisiana to the biggest energy producing countries around the globe. Click through to ...
  Walker calls session; producers pan gas taxAlaskajournal.com
  Construction, property tax proposal offered for Alaska gas projectFairba
  

• Alaska Facing Tough Choices Without Arctic Oil - Nasdaq

  01-10-2015 14:04
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  Alaska Facing Tough Choices Without Arctic Oil
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  was a huge blow to the company, and will set back oil development in the Arctic indefinitely. After spending $7 billion and eight years, walking away with nothing is hard to stomach. But, Shell can always go elsewhere. Shortly after Shell announced ...
  Alaska Town Faces Hardship After Shell Abandons Arctic DrillingDaily Caller
  Long, bumpy Arctic road reaches a dead end for ShellAlaskajournal.com
  Ruling backs Shell's use of Seattle hom
  

• Alaska Airlines debuts Seattle-to-RDU flight with Russell Wilson tribute - Triangle Business Journal

  01-10-2015 13:43
  Triangle Business Journal
  Alaska Airlines debuts Seattle-to-RDU flight with Russell Wilson tribute
  Triangle Business Journal
  Alaska Airlines has decided to add a little hometown flavor to its inaugural flight from Seattle to Raleigh-Durham International Airport, which is set to arrive Thursday afternoon. The airline has decided to use its jet to pay tribute to Seattle ...
  Alaska Airlines Continues to Grow Seattle Hub with New Raleigh/Durham ServiceMarketWatch
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• Video: Alaska's Seth Boyer covers Smash Mouth's 'All Star' - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-10-2015 09:17
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Video: Alaska's Seth Boyer covers Smash Mouth's 'All Star'
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Seth Boyer killed it with his latest music video, a melancholy, emotional cover of Smash Mouth's "All Star." As Boyer's video caption says on YouTube, “I went back to my hometown of Eagle River, Alaska to play a very important song.” Boyer, who grew up ...
  

• Reality Check: 'Edge of Alaska' gets into the Mother Lode mine - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-10-2015 06:12
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Reality Check: 'Edge of Alaska' gets into the Mother Lode mine
  Alaska Dispatch News
  You know how sometimes you are the last person to hear about something, when logically you should be the first person to hear about it? For example, a seventh-grade girl is the last person to hear that her best friend and her crush are dating. Or ...and more »
  

• Alaska will gain by providing voter registration with PFD application - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-10-2015 04:11
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  Alaska will gain by providing voter registration with PFD application
  Alaska Dispatch News
  OPINION: Let's use the efficient tools our digital world provides to increase civic involvement - let Alaskans register to vote when they apply for their Permanent Fund dividends. ERIK HILL/ADN archive. We live in the digital age. With a few clicks of ...and more »
  

• Report: Southeast’s economy is shrinking

  01-10-2015 03:43
  After several years of growth, Southeast Alaska’s economy is shrinking again. It’s not by much, but the numbers show few reasons for optimism.Download Audio
  Over the last five years, Southeast Alaska has grown by more than 2,600 people, and 1,500 jobs. That’s good. But, that growth all happened in the early part of that five-year period. The past year or two has seen a decrease. That’s bad.
  “Our population declined, not by much, by 30 people. Jobs fell by more than
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015

  01-10-2015 03:42
  
  
  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
   
  City budget allots added $5M to police, fire
  Zachariah Hughes, KSKA – Anchorage
  After campaigning to make public safety at top priority, Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz is putting millions of dollars towards more police officers and fire f
  
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• City budget allots added $5M to police, fire

  01-10-2015 03:38
  
  
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  After campaigning to make public safety at top priority, Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz is putting millions of dollars towards more police officers and fire fighters.
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  At a press conference Wednesday, Berkowitz announced an extra $5 million for the fire and police departments in his forthcoming budget. Most of the money will go towards running three police academies in the year ahead to increase the size of the force closer to a target of 400 of
  
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• Anchorage passes LGBT anti-discrimination measure 9 to 2

  01-10-2015 03:37
  
  
  Anyone expecting a quick discussion and vote among Assembly Members was sorely disappointed. In spite of an effort to keep debate to an hour, the body extended discussion until the cusp of midnight–with a chunk of that time devoted to complaints the process on such a controversial measure was being rushed.
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  Mobilized by a coalition of faith groups, opponents of the measure wore red.
  But in the end, the Assembly voted overwhelmingly to amend the municipality’s rules on d
  
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• Alaska Regional Hospital to offer free drive-thru flu shots - KTUU.com

  01-10-2015 03:35
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  Alaska Regional Hospital to offer free drive-thru flu shots
  KTUU.com
  Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage has announced that it will be hosting a series of free drive-thru flu shot clinics starting Wednesday. "There's a lot of people that can't afford to get flu shots and we want as many people as possible to get it ...and more »
  

• Floodwater recedes in Willow; Houston officials eye Little Su

  01-10-2015 03:34
  
  Heavy rain mixed with snow throughout Southcentral Alaska has caused some flooding and has city and borough officials around the Matanuska-Susitna Valley keeping a close eye on creek and river levels.
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  Up to 10 homes and cabins in the Willow area and a couple homes near Houston have been affected by the flooding of area rivers and creeks.
  Mat-Su Borough officials say waters in Willow Creek crested Wednesday morning and have started receding.
  Houston Mayor Vergie Thompson says
  
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• Survey scans for elodea spread in Interior, finds naught

  01-10-2015 03:33
  
  
  A variety of agencies in the state are working to eradicate the invasive aquatic plant elodea. This summer, elodea was detected and treated in Anchorage’s Lake Hood, and a survey to search for elodea along the Tanana River downstream of Fairbanks has just concluded.
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  Elodea. (Photo from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
  The plant has the potential to make drastic changes to aquatic ecosystems.
  Elodea is a plant commonly found in aquariums that, if released in the wil
  
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• Broken partnership puts Juneau senior housing project in limbo

  01-10-2015 03:31
  A partnership that was going to bring 41 units of low-income senior housing to Juneau has ended, leaving a Seattle-based developer with $9 million in funding and no land to build on.
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  Dan Austin, general manager of St. Vincent de Paul Society in Juneau, called the housing project the Home Run. When the nonprofit and its partner GMD Development were awarded the financing in December, Austin had been working on the project for 10 years.
  The plan was to break ground this summer.
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• Sullivan calls in Corps to bash EPA over water rule

  01-10-2015 02:10
  The controversial “Waters of the U.S.” rule took effect in most states this summer, redefining which bodies of water are covered by the federal Clean Water Act. But a judge has blocked its application in Alaska and a dozen other states, pending a legal challenge. As that and other lawsuits progress, the rule, known as WOTUS, remains a political hot button. U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan pushed that button at a hearing this morning in Congress.
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• Sparcks ready to grow 10 years after winning AFN Marketplace - Alaskajournal.com

  01-10-2015 01:28
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  Sparcks ready to grow 10 years after winning AFN Marketplace
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  From left, Cika and Michelle Sparck show off some of their ArXotica product line at the Alaska Native Arts Foundation in Anchorage on Aug. 15. Cika, Michelle and fellow triplet Amy started the company in 2006 with seed money from the Alaska Federation ...
  

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