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• Alaska Seeks Federal Money to Move a Village Threatened by Climate Change

  03-10-2015 23:32 via nytimes.com
  The state is hoping to kick-start an exodus from the village of Newtok, about 500 miles west of Anchorage.
  
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• Gorongosa Park: Battle Lines

  03-10-2015 22:05
  Wildlife cameraman, Bob Poole and his custom Landrover filming vehicle, known in the park as the ‘Bobmobile’. (Photo Courtesy of Gina Poole / Off the Fence B.V)
  Experience the inspiring rebirth of an African wilderness through the eyes of Emmy Award-winning wildlife cameraman Bob Poole. Darting lions, wrestling crocs, facing down angry elephants – it’s all part of a day’s work as he joins the battle to re-wild a legendary national park.
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• Unity: The Latin Tribute to Michael Jackson

  03-10-2015 22:00
  Hear Latin-infused arrangements of iconic songs in this concert special hosted by Sheila E. (Courtesy of: Courtesy of Ciprian Lacob)
  World-class drummer and percussionist Sheila E. hosts a concert special that showcases award-winning Latin artists and a 37-piece orchestra performing Latin-infused arrangements of the songs on Tony Succar’s album UNITY: THE LATIN TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL JACKSON. The concert features 10 songs that inspired musicians from all over Latin America to come togethe
  
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• Alaska Seeks Federal Money to Move a Village Threatened by Climate Change - New York Times

  03-10-2015 20:58
  Washington Times
  Alaska Seeks Federal Money to Move a Village Threatened by Climate Change
  New York Times
  ANCHORAGE — One of the most eroded Native Alaskan villages on the state's coast is being considered as a possible national model for moving entire communities whose futures are threatened by natural disasters escalated by climate change. The state is ...
  Alaska Officials Eye Eroding Village as Relocation ModelABC Newsall 91 news articles »
  

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• Record exodus: Why people are leaving Alaska - Christian Science Monitor

  03-10-2015 16:31
  Christian Science Monitor
  Record exodus: Why people are leaving Alaska
  Christian Science Monitor
  Net migration out of Alaska is at its highest point in the past 25 years. Why? By Staff, Associated Press October 3, 2015. Save for later Saved. close. Dianne Marshall, left, and Steve Estes remove a tree that fell along Ballaine Road in Fairbanks ...
  Departures From Alaska at Highest Point in 25 YearsABC News
  Departures from Alaska at highest point in 25 years, according to new dataMinneapolis Star
  

• Homeless man spears bear to death in Alaska, officials say - Fox News

  03-10-2015 12:07
  Fox News
  Homeless man spears bear to death in Alaska, officials say
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  Oct. 2, 2015: This photo provided by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game shows a homemade spear that a homeless man used to kill a black bear cub that was sniffing around for food in an illegal camp site in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP). ANCHORAGE ...
  Homeless man in Alaska fashions spear, kills bear cub near a tentQ13 FOX
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• Shell’s Exit From Arctic Oil Drilling

  03-10-2015 05:43 via nytimes.com
  A reader says it’s too early to celebrate since nothing is stopping Shell from returning to the Arctic once oil prices rise.
  
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• Owing many Alaska companies, Miller Energy files for bankruptcy - Alaska Dispatch News

  03-10-2015 04:30
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Owing many Alaska companies, Miller Energy files for bankruptcy
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Embattled Miller Energy and its Alaska subsidiaries have filed for bankruptcy protection and reorganization under Chapter 11, a move due in part to sliding oil prices and investments in Cook Inlet that didn't pan out as hoped, the company said. Other ...
  Miller Energy files for bankruptcy protectionAlaska Public Radio Networkall 34 news articles »
  

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• More cops, fewer consultants in Anchorage’s opening budget volley

  03-10-2015 04:12
  
  
  Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz introduced his 2016 budget to the Assembly on Friday. It’s $1.8 million less than last year’s final budget of $484.3 million, but that number came after the administration scrabbled to close a significantly larger deficit.
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  The presentation had two major take-aways.
  First: The administration is dealing with about $11 million less in revenues, and a good deal of the day’s presentation by Office of Manage
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Oct. 2, 2015

  03-10-2015 03:40
  
  
  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
   
  Supreme Court to hear appeal challenging NPS authority on Alaska land
  Associated Press
  The Supreme Court will decide whether the National Park Service has authority to enforce federal regulations on state-owned lands and rivers in national parks
  
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• APOC fines Slope mayor Charlotte Brower $35k for failure to disclose

  03-10-2015 03:33
  
  
  The Alaska Public Offices Commission is fining North Slope Borough Mayor Charlotte Brower $34,460 dollars for failing to file her annual disclosure report for 2014. In the investigation into her campaign for re-election last year, Brower and her staff refused to provide information repeatedly requested by APOC.
  According to Alaska Dispatch News, the fine is the largest the agency has ever levied against a candidate. Pat Forgey reported the story for the newspaper this week and joins Alaska
  
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• Scientists stumble over active underwater volcano in Southeast

  03-10-2015 03:31
  
  
  Scientists have found another underwater volcano in Southeast Alaska waters. And this one is active.
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  A screen shot from a scientific sounding device shows the newly-discovered volcano and its plume of methane gas. The lower line is an echo, not another volcanic cone. (Image courtesy Canadian Geological Survey)
  About two years ago, geologists studying an ocean channel near Ketchikan spotted something unusual. It was a submerged volcano, about 150 feet below the surface.
  It was
  
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• Traveling Music 10-11-15

  03-10-2015 03:28
  
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  10-11-15
   
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  The Traveling Kind
  Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell / Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Cory Chisel
  The Traveling Kind
  Nonesuch
  3:40
   
  Don’t You See That Train?
  Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / A. & R. Delmore
  Together
  Rounder
  3:01
   
  You Can’t Say We Didn’t Try
  Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell / Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris, Cory Chisel
  The Travelin
  
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• AK: Southeast dairy goat business presents unique challenges

  03-10-2015 03:02
  
  
  Buying fresh dairy produce in Southeast Alaska isn’t easy. The rugged, mountainous landscape doesn’t lend itself well to farming.
  Now a farming couple in Petersburg are trying to change the way people consume milk in town. For the past year they’ve been selling raw milk processed by their own herd of dairy goats. But, producing – and selling – dairy products in Southeast Alaska comes with a unique set of challenges.
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• Homeless man fatally spears bear in Anchorage

  03-10-2015 02:52
  A homeless man fashioned a long knife to a groomed tree branch and speared a hungry black bear cub that was sniffing for food Friday morning at an illegal camp site in Anchorage.
  State wildlife biologist Dave Battle says a sow and yearling have been stealing food from the homeless camp for days. The cub was near a tent Friday morning, and a man in the camp was afraid it would attack.
  Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Beth Ipsen says in an email the man earlier fashioned a long knife to a “
  
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• FWS builds case against those suspected in walrus deaths

  03-10-2015 02:46
  Federal authorities say the death of some of the walruses at a haul-out site in northwest Alaska were caused by humans, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service believes it has identified those responsible.
  Walrus found dead and decapitated near Cape Lisburne. Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
  However, the U.S. attorney’s office, in a statement Friday afternoon, said charges have not been filed so far and the investigation continues. The statement said no further information on the inve
  
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• Court to hear new evidence in Fairbanks Four case

  03-10-2015 01:57
  An evidentiary hearing is scheduled to begin Monday in state court in Fairbanks in the case of four Fairbanks men seeking exoneration from convictions for a nearly two-decade old murder. George Frese, Marvin Roberts, Eugene Vent and Kevin Pease, men known as the “Fairbanks Four”, were convicted of the October 1997 beating death of 15-year-old John Hartman on a downtown street.  Evidence brought forward in recent years points to others being responsible for the killing, and 
  
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• Adventures in Field Science

  03-10-2015 01:00
  Photo by Glen Liston, Colorado State University
  Alaskan geologists, biologists, archaeologists, and lots of other kinds of ologists cover the wilderness in their work, in search of knowledge but avoiding something many outdoor folks are looking for: adventure. On this show, we’ll hear from field scientists about their challenges studying Alaska, and how they keep safe and work effectively in places where other people go to test themselves against the elements. 
  HOST: Charles
  
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• 49 Voices: Chelan Schreifels looks back while on international rotation

  03-10-2015 00:46
  
  
  This week, we’re talking with Chelan Schreifels, a civil engineer for the Army Corp of Engineers. She’s currently on rotation in Japan, and that job has given her a unique perspective on her home state.
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