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• Alaska Governor Says State Needs More Oil Drilling to Pay for Climate Change ... - Mother Jones

  14-10-2015 23:54
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  Alaska Governor Says State Needs More Oil Drilling to Pay for Climate Change ...
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  Alaska's Gov. Bill Walker has interesting ideas about how to fund his state's global warming problem. Becky Bohrer/AP. This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Yep. In an interview ...
  Alaska governor wants more oil drilling... to pay for climate change costsRT
  Alaska Gov. Bill Walker is replacing his staff in Washington
  

• Former Anchorage Assembly member Birch to run for Alaska House - Alaska Dispatch News

  14-10-2015 23:51
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  Former Anchorage Assembly member Birch to run for Alaska House
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  Birch, 65, a registered Republican who served on the Assembly for nine years, is challenging incumbent Republican Rep. Bob Lynn, 82, in August's primary election for a South Anchorage House seat. Birch said he was considering a run last year, but was ...and more »
  

• 'Gold in Alaska' highlights St. John's fall festival - La Crosse Tomah Journal

  14-10-2015 22:56
  'Gold in Alaska' highlights St. John's fall festival
  La Crosse Tomah Journal
  “Finding Gold in Alaska” will highlight the program for the annual fall festival, St. John's Lutheran Church, Ridgeville, Sunday, Oct. 25. The church service begins at 10 a.m. followed by a fall harvest dinner served at 11:30 a.m. until noon in the ...
  

• Scientists ask for public help with sick otters in Alaska - KTUU.com

  14-10-2015 22:52
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  Scientists ask for public help with sick otters in Alaska
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  This lovely sea otter popped up right beside our boat and began grooming her fur! Taken on 6/19/15. HOMER — Scientists are turning to the public for help dealing with sick and dead otters in Alaska. KBBI-AM reports that U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...and more »
  

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• Lawmaker looks at proposal to ship water from Alaska to parched California - USA TODAY

  14-10-2015 22:06
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  Lawmaker looks at proposal to ship water from Alaska to parched California
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  A proposal to ship 9 billion of gallons of water a year from Alaska to drought-plagued California caught the eye of U.S. Rep. Janice Hahn , D-Calif., who calls it "an idea worth exploring." After reading about the concept in USA TODAY in August, Hahn ...
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• House committee pushes EPA on Alaska mine project - The Hill

  14-10-2015 21:48
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  House committee pushes EPA on Alaska mine project
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  A House committee will probe the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) denial of a permit for an Alaskan mining project, officials announced Wednesday. In a Wednesday letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, House Science Committee Chairman ...
  Congressional panel to hear criticism of EPA's Pebble processAlaska Public Radio Network
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• Man diving for sea cucumbers near Kodiak dies after medical airlift - Alaska Dispatch News

  14-10-2015 21:26
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  Man diving for sea cucumbers near Kodiak dies after medical airlift
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  A Kodiak man working as a commercial diver aboard a vessel taking part in a sea cucumber fishery near Kodiak suffered a medical emergency and was airlifted to an area hospital Sunday, but Alaska State Troopers say he couldn't be resuscitated. An ...and more »
  

• Alaska Safe Children's Act task force begins work - Alaska Public Radio Network

  14-10-2015 21:06
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  Alaska Safe Children's Act task force begins work
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  Four state legislators, including Sen. Anna MacKinnon, left, and Sen. Berta Gardner, sit on the Alaska Safe Children's Act task force. The 10-member group met in the Anchorage Legislative Information Office on Tuesday. (Photo courtesy by Mike ...
  House and Senate Majority Participate in Alaska Safe Children's Act Task ForceAlaska Native Newsall 3 news articles »
  

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• Forensic psychologist doubtful of witness testimony at FBX 4 hearing

  14-10-2015 21:01
  
  A perception and memory expert took the stand at the Fairbanks Four hearing on Tuesday.
  University of Washington psychology professor Jeffrey Loftus’s work focuses on our ability to recognize others at distance and under various conditions, including darkness.
  Loftus testified at the original John Hartman murder trails in 1999, at which the Fairbanks Four: George Frese, Marvin Roberts, Kevin Pease and Eugene Vent were convicted of fatally beating the teen. Loftus was back in court as the f
  
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• Alaska Safe Children’s Act task force begins work

  14-10-2015 20:43
  
  Four state legislators, including Sen. Anna MacKinnon, left, and Sen. Berta Gardner, sit on the Alaska Safe Children’s Act task force. The 10-member group met in the Anchorage Legislative Information Office on Tuesday. (Photo courtesy by Mike Mason/Alaska Independent Democratic Coalition)
  The task force created to help implement the Alaska Safe Children’s Act met for the first time in Anchorage on Tuesday.
  The act, also known as Erin’s Law and Bree’s Law, requires school
  
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• Alaska oil industry defends tax credit program in ad campaign - Alaska Dispatch News

  14-10-2015 20:39
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  Alaska oil industry defends tax credit program in ad campaign
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  Alaska's oil industry trade group has launched an advertising campaign defending the state's oil and gas tax credit program, which last year paid $628 million to companies on the North Slope, in Cook Inlet and elsewhere. The campaign, which debuted ...and more »
  

• Biologist interprets crab catch numbers

  14-10-2015 20:33
  
  Snow crab. (KUCB file photo)
  Last week the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced catch limits for the state’s crab fisheries. On Monday, a Fish and Game biologist explained how the agency determined those catch limits to a group of crabbers in Seattle. Nine local crabbers gathered at Unalaska’s City Hall to tune into the conference call and ask questions.
  The biggest drop in total allowable catch – or the TAC – is for Bering Sea snow crab, also knowns as opilio. Th
  
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• No emergency listing for Price of Wales Island wolves

  14-10-2015 20:19
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  A petition asking for emergency Endangered Species Act listing for Prince of Wales Island wolves was essentially denied by the U.S. Department of the Interior office in Anchorage.
  Six conservation groups asked in mid-September for the emergency listing, citing a state study that shows a steep drop in the number of Alexander Archipelago wolves on Prince of Wales and nearby islands.
  Conservation groups initially had asked state and federal agencies to s
  
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• Jewel Performs Song 'My Father's Daughter' for Dad Atz Kilcher of 'Alaska: The ... - The Inquisitr

  14-10-2015 19:32
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  Jewel Performs Song 'My Father's Daughter' for Dad Atz Kilcher of 'Alaska: The ...
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  Country singer Jewel is known for her singing, but recently she has also become known as the daughter of Atz Kilcher from the reality show Alaska: The Last Frontier. Now Jewel is sharing a song that she wrote years ago but is just now making it on one ...and more »
  

• Alaska man killed by handgun that fell from waistband - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  14-10-2015 18:31
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  Alaska man killed by handgun that fell from waistband
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  SOLDOTNA, Alaska - An Alaska man died Tuesday when a gun he carried in his waistband fell out and discharged. Alaska State Troopers say 46-year-old Royce Gardner of Kasilof was working on a vehicle at a home when his revolver fell from his waistband ...
  Kasilof man killed by accidental gunshotAlaska Dispatch News
  Kasilof Man Dies from Accidental Gunshot Wound Tuesday MorningAlaska Native New
  

• IndiGenius: Connecting conference attendees with craft, heritage

  14-10-2015 18:00
  
  
  IndiGenius — a play on the word indigenous — is an offering of afternoon workshops at the First Alaskans Institute’s Elders and Youth Conference this week.
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  Xeetli.eesh Lyle James, a group leader for the Woosh.ji.een dancers in Juneau, teaches a small crowd of young people during a break out session at the Elders and Youth Conference in Anchorage. (Photo by Jennifer Canfield/KTOO)
  “We have storytelling, we have drum making, we have weaving, and in some cases
  
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• Repsol Drilling Delay Adds to Oil Patch Chill in Alaska - Bloomberg

  14-10-2015 16:27
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  Repsol Drilling Delay Adds to Oil Patch Chill in Alaska
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  A restructuring of Repsol SA's Alaska drilling project is adding to the state's woes in the midst of the biggest oil slump since 2009. Repsol sold stakes in development and exploratory acreage in northern Alaska to its partner, Armstrong Oil & Gas Inc ...
  Colorado oil and gas company restructures Alaska operations; job cuts coming?Denver Business Journal
  Hundreds of jobs in doubt on Alaska's North Slope, Repsol says
  

• Alaska Railroad OK'd for LNG transport - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  14-10-2015 10:07
  Alaska Railroad OK'd for LNG transport
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  FAIRBANKS — The Alaska Railroad Corp. has become the first railroad in the nation with permission to transport liquefied natural gas by rail. The state-owned corporation applied to the Federal Railroad Administration for approval to begin carrying ...
  LNG by Rail Now an Option For Interior AlaskaNatural Gas Intelligenceall 2 news articles »
  

• Assembly votes for changes to residential construction and design

  14-10-2015 09:32
  
  At its Tuesday meeting, the Anchorage Assembly passed a measure that could change the DNA of housing and neighborhoods across the state’s largest city. The vote came after months of negotiations that have left all sides exasperated, but willing to leave good enough alone.
  After 15 years of negotiations connected to Title 21, the city’s building code, just about the only thing everyone agrees on is that it has been a slog.
  The ordinance that passed Tuesday, AO-100, is&n
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015

  14-10-2015 03:43
  
  
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  Shell oil rigs leave the Arctic, skip Seattle
  John Ryan, KUCB – Unalaska
  Shell’s Arctic oil rigs have left the Arctic. The two rigs pulled into Unalaska’s Dutch Harbor on Sunday, more than a thousand miles south of the company&
  
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• Shell oil rigs leave the Arctic, skip Seattle

  14-10-2015 03:37
  
  
  Shell’s Noble Discoverer drill rig leaving Unalaska Monday afternoon. (Photo by John Ryan, KUCB – Unalaska)
  Shell’s two Arctic oil rigs pulled into Unalaska’s Dutch Harbor on Sunday, some 1,100 miles south of the company’s drilling site in the Chukchi Sea.
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  The Noble Discoverer and the Polar Pioneer headed south from the Chukchi shortly after Shell abandoned its quest for Arctic Ocean oil after drilling one well this summer.
  Shell spokeswoman Megan Bal
  
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• FBX 4 investigators testify, point to languishing evidence

  14-10-2015 03:35
  
  
  Two Alaska State Troopers hired in September 2013 to re-investigate the 1997 John Hartman murder case testified in state court in Fairbanks on Monday.
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  Jim Gallen and Randy McPherron took the stand during day six of a month-long evidentiary hearing prompted by men, known as “The Fairbanks 4,” who claim they were wrongly convicted of Hartman’s beating death. Among numerous issues addressed was a 2011 memo to Fairbanks Police from a California prison guard, sha
  
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• Kachemak sea otter deaths under investigation; Authorities seek public’s help

  14-10-2015 03:34
  
  
  Sea Otters. (U.S. Fish & Wildlife photo)
  Scientists continue to see large numbers of dead or sick sea otters turning up in the Kachemak Bay region.
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  Officials with the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service say the agency has received about 200 reports of sick or dead otters over the past couple of months.
  They’ve teamed up with the Alaska Sea Life Center in Seward and they’re running tests to try to find out the cause. In the meantime, they’re asking for the public&rs
  
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• Juneau trapper, hiker take stand at first day of trial

  14-10-2015 03:33
  
  
  In the lobby of the Dimond Courthourse on Monday morning, attorney Nick Polasky hands trapper John Forrest court documents before the trial. Polasky is Kathleen Turley’s lawyer. (Photo by Lisa Phu/KTOO)
  Monday’s small claims case between a trapper and a trap springer was supposed to last an hour, but after about two and half hours in District Court, it’s stretching into a second day.
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  Juneau trapper John Forrest is suing hiker Kathleen Turley for springing his law
  
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• Study: Alaska’s wild berry harvests becoming more variable

  14-10-2015 03:32
  
  
  A new study suggests that the harvests of several popular wild berries are becoming less reliable in many areas of the state. The study is a first step in a process that might learn more about the connections between climate factors and berry production.
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  Alaska wild berries from the Innoko National Wildlife Refuge. Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons.
  Galena school teacher Freda Beasley and her husband Howard are fairly prolific berry pickers
  
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• Why did Shell walk away from Alaska?

  14-10-2015 02:28
  Shell’s Polar Pioneer in Unalaska on Monday, Oct. 12. The rig is heading for Washington State. (Photo: John Ryan, KUCB)
  When Shell announced it was pulling out of the Arctic “for the foreseeable future,” it surprised just about everyone. Many in Alaska had high hopes for offshore drilling — from an Arctic economic boom to more oil for the Trans Alaska Pipeline. Shell’s announcement left the state wondering what to blame — low oil prices? Tough regulations
  
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