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• Oho to Blast British Columbia, Alaska With Rain and Wind at End of Week - AccuWeather.com

  07-10-2015 19:10
  Oho to Blast British Columbia, Alaska With Rain and Wind at End of Week
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  Oho will hit parts of British Columbia and Alaska with drenching rain, gusty winds and pounding seas before the week comes to an end. Oho reached Category 2 hurricane strength on Wednesday, but it will gradually lose most tropical characteristics ...and more »
  

• Unofficial results reveal Richard Beneville as Nome’s new mayor

  07-10-2015 18:17
  
  City Manager Tom Moran oversees ballot counting after the polls closed. (Photo by Emily Russell, KNOM – Nome)
  With the polls closed and preliminary results in, it looks like Nome will be saying “Hello Central” to a new mayor. With 352 votes for Richard Beneville and 229 for Denise Michels, Beneville will replace Michels, who has held the job since 2003.
  So how does it feel to be Nome’s new mayor? Over the phone, Beneville, who was out of town and hadn’t heard the re
  
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• UAA launches Alaska’s first pharmacy program

  07-10-2015 18:10
  
  The University of Alaska Anchorage is launching the state’s first entirely local pharmacy program in partnership with Idaho State University.
  The Alaska Dispatch News reports that UAA announced Tuesday that students can apply for the joint pharmacy program, with classes to begin next year.
  ISU Assistant Dean of Alaska Programs Tom Wadsworth says the program is part of UAA’s effort to produce graduates with specific job training to stay in Alaska’s workforce.
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• Alaska Elections: New mayors, plus votes on marijuana & alcohol - KTUU.com

  07-10-2015 18:03
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  Alaska Elections: New mayors, plus votes on marijuana & alcohol
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  Tuesday marked a busy Election Day around Alaska, with voters choosing new mayors in Fairbanks, Juneau and possibly the Mat-Su, banning marijuana businesses in Palmer and favoring a pot tax in Bethel. Here's a look at the latest numbers from local ...
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• Borough mayor’s race too close to call

  07-10-2015 10:02
  
  Tuesday’s unofficial Matanuska Susitna Borough election results held few surprises, although at least one race is too close to call at this time.  As of 10:30 pm Tuesday, results posted on the Borough’s website indicate that incumbent Borough mayor Larry DeVilbiss and challenger Vern Halter are separated by about 65 votes , although more than 16 hundred absentee and over 200 questioned ballots will no doubt determine the outcome of the Borough mayor’s race.
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• Looking for love: Newspaper diversifies revenue stream with dating website

  07-10-2015 03:49
  
  
  Northern Love is a new dating site sponsored by Alaska Dispatch News, part of the paper’s effort to build new sources of revenue.
  A new dating website is trying to help Alaskans find love. It belongs to a parent company familiar to many across the state, and is an effort at diversifying revenues, shedding light on the unconventional ways media groups are trying to find money to pay for the news.
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  Chances are you haven’t yet visited www.Northernlove.net.
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• Courting revenues: can a dating site save a paper?

  07-10-2015 03:49
  Northern Love is a new dating site sponsored by Alaska Dispatch News, part of the paper’s effort to build new sources of revenue.
  A new dating website is trying to help Alaskans find love. It belongs to a parent company familiar to many across the state, and is an effort at diversifying revenues, shedding light on the unconventional ways media groups are trying to find money to pay for the news.
  Chances are you haven’t yet visited www.Northernlove.net.
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015

  07-10-2015 03:39
  
  
  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
   
  State tallies $50k in consultant fees prepping for Obama visit
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  Gov. Bill Walker’s administration spent $50,000 on Washington, D.C., consultants to help prepare them for a visit by President Barack Obama.
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• State tallies $50k in consultant fees prepping for Obama visit

  07-10-2015 03:36
  
  
  Gov. Bill Walker’s administration spent $50,000 on Washington, D.C., consultants to help prepare them for a visit by President Barack Obama.
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  The expenditures were revealed in public records requests by The Associated Press. They also came at a time when the state is struggling with a multibillion dollar deficit.
  Perkins Coie was hired to work from July 8 to Aug. 31, when Obama arrived in Alaska. The contract was for up to $50,000 and a Walker spokeswoman said that was the am
  
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• Chief justice Dana Fabe to retire

  07-10-2015 03:35
  
  
  Chief justice Dana Fabe. Photo: Alaska Court System.
  Alaska Supreme Court Justice Dana Fabe announced today she will retire next summer.
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  Fabe was the first woman appointed to serve on the court and the first woman to serve as chief justice. She was appointed to the Alaska Supreme Court in 1996 by Governor Tony Knowles.
  Fabe says it was a tough decision to leave the court:
  “I love the work so much but it is a 24/7 job and as a result, very difficult to do anything but the wor
  
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• Court subpoenas emails of Pebble opponents

  07-10-2015 03:34
  
  
  The Pebble mine is back in the news this week. Dozens of Pebble opponents were issued subpoenas as part of a lawsuit in federal court. That lawsuit alleges EPA was coordinating improperly with some of the mine’s opponents, and is now in the discovery phase.
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  Pebble lawyers want to talk with and obtain documents from those who’ve worked alongside or supported EPA’s efforts. Spokesman Mike Heatwole says that will fill in blanks in the paper trail Pebble has been try
  
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• 3 suicides in a week leave Hooper Bay distraught

  07-10-2015 03:33
  
  
  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.
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  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&n
  
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• Muni planning commission approves controversial Elmore extension

  07-10-2015 03:32
  
  
  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)
  Anchorage’s Planning and Zoning Commission last night [Monday] voted unanimously to move forward with the Northern Access Project.
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  The controversial road would connect Elmore Road and Bragaw Street through the city’s U-Med district. But it needs to clear several more hurdles before it&
  
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• For middle schoolers to love Shakespeare, they must know Shakespeare

  07-10-2015 03:30
  
  
  Thanks to a national program called Any Given Child, every Juneau eighth grader got to see Perseverance Theatre’s “Othello” before it closed on Sunday. To help prepare students, the theater’s education director went into the classrooms and had the students act it out.
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  Shona Osterhout, director of education at Perseverance Theatre, has 20 eighth graders at Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School enraptured.
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• Drilling for gold: Inside the KSM’s exploration project

  07-10-2015 01:53
  British Columbia’s Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell mining project wrapped up its 2015 exploration season in late September. The KSM, about 30 miles east of the Alaska border, is the largest of 10 or so such projects near waterways that flow into Southeast.
  A KSM drill rig perches above a deep valley about 80 miles east of Wrangell. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)
  Its owner, Toronto-based Seabridge Gold, has already spent close to $200 million searching for ore. We take you there, d
  
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