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• Three young adults dead in Hooper Bay

  06-10-2015 22:26
  Hooper Bay. (Photo via Travis S./Flickr)
  Three suicide deaths in the past week have rocked the community of Hooper Bay. Troopers believe all three victims were connected.
  The Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation has already sent emergency health clinicians to the community to assist with debriefing efforts, according to YKHC Director of Emergency Services Chris Byrns.
  “There’s going to be boots on the ground today There’s going to be people doing debriefings with the family
  
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• Storm surge hits Toksook Bay

  06-10-2015 22:20
  Storm surges against Toksook Bay on Oct. 1, 2015. (Photo courtesy Jimmie Lincoln)
  October opened with the season’s first fall storm, flooding communities across Western Alaska’s coast. In the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, strong surges hit Toksook Bay.
  “There was some massive wave action going on, and the cliffs were scoured by waves and some of our gabions, our seawalls, got damaged,” said Toksook Bay City Administrator Paul Chimiugak.
  Gabions are cages of rocks often used to r
  
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• Streaming Status

  06-10-2015 20:02
  
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• Planning & Zoning Commission approves proposed U-Med road route

  06-10-2015 19:50
  Public testimony from both those for and against the road lasted around two hours at Monday’s Planning & Zoning Commission meeting. (Photo by Josh Edge, APRN – Anchorage)
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  Anchorage’s Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously voted Monday night in favor of moving forward with the Northern Access Project – the proposed road that would connect Elmore Road and Bragaw Street through the city’s U-Med District.
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• Holmes implicates new assailant during day 1 of FBX Four hearing

  06-10-2015 03:38
  
  
  A hearing re-examining long questioned murder convictions opened in state court in Fairbanks today. A group of Native men, who’ve come to be known as the Fairbanks Four, were convicted of the October 1997 beating of 15 year old John Hartman on a downtown street, but new evidence has leveraged another look.
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  Alaska Natives George Frese, Marvin Roberts and Eugene Vent, and American Indian Kevin Pease, were convicted of killing John Hartman by juries in two separate trails,
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Oct. 5, 2015

  06-10-2015 03:35
  
  
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  Holmes implicates new assailant during day 1 of FBX Four hearing
  Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks
  A hearing re-examining long questioned murder convictions opened in state court in Fairbanks today.
  Obama announced global fishing enforcement, ne
  
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• Volcano farts: Scientists look to gas for beta on atmosphere, geothermal resource

  06-10-2015 03:30
  
  
  Photo by Dr. Taryn Lopez.
  In September, a team of scientists crawled around the summit of seven volcanoes in the Aleutian Islands. They updated seismic sensors, replaced 8,000 pounds of batteries and visited one summit that geologists hadn’t been to since the 1940s. They also took lots of samples.
  University of New Mexico Professor Tobias Fischer landed on active volcanoes in the Aleutians to capture gases. Fischer says the samples will help tell the story of deep earth systems and how the
  
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• ‘I thought he was safe,’ brother says of man found dead in wetlands

  06-10-2015 02:04
   
  There are moments when James Knudson forgets his younger brother, John Knudson, is dead.
  “Riding on the buses, I start looking out where we used to see him, around Switzer or A&P or down at the bus barn, places you know he hung out. I catch myself looking for him,” Knudson says.
  John Knudson during his younger adult years. (Photo courtesy Jennie Knudson)
  His brother’s body was found in the Mendenhall Wetlands in mid-September. Juneau Police said he had like
  
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• Obama announces global fishing enforcement, new sanctuaries

  06-10-2015 00:46
  President Obama this morning unveiled a package of global initiatives aimed at cracking down on illegal fishing. He also announced two new marine sanctuaries, and they are not in Alaska.
  “Building on our actions to keep illegally caught fish from coming into U.S. markets, today we’re announcing new partnerships to empower developing nations to fight illegal fishing in their own waters,” Obama said, in a video address to an oceans conference in Chile.
  Among the new initiati
  
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