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• Alaska Airlines helps stranded passengers get home from Mexico - KOMO News

  24-10-2015 23:30
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  Alaska Airlines helps stranded passengers get home from Mexico
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  An Alaska Airlines flight lands at LAX after rescuing 150 passengers from Puerto Vallarta on Friday, Oct. 24, 2015. (Photo Courtesy: Alaska Airlines/Twitter). SEATTLE - Alaska Airlines is helping hundreds of travelers left stranded in Mexico by ...
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• Meet the Nome resident in charge of Alaska's elections - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  24-10-2015 22:23
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  Meet the Nome resident in charge of Alaska's elections
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  In this Oct. 6, 2015 photo, Josephine "Josie" Bahnke, director of the Alaska Division of Elections, poses in her office in Juneau, Alaska. On the third floor of the court plaza building is Josephine Bahnke's boat. For the new head of elections, it's ...
  

• Live From Lincoln Center: Elfman and Tim Burton

  24-10-2015 22:00
  Lincoln Center Festival presents Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton at Avery Fisher Hall on July 6, 2015. (Photo Courtesy of Stephanie Berger)
  Composer and performer Danny Elfman descends on Lincoln Center with a symphony orchestra and choir, led by conductor John Mauceri, as well as a colorful assortment of Tim Burton fans.
  This unique episode arrives just in time for Halloween and captures all the excitement of this cultural invasion, climaxing in wildly entertaining perfo
  
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• Gas reserves tax from Alaska special session agenda - Chron.com (blog)

  24-10-2015 19:25
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  Gas reserves tax from Alaska special session agenda
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  JUNEAU, Alaska — On the eve of a special session, Gov. Bill Walker said Friday that he was removing from the agenda a proposed gas reserves tax. The decision came after Walker received written assurances from BP and ConocoPhillips Alaska that they ...
  The bill for preliminary work on Alaska gas pipeline jumps 35 percentAlaska Dispatch News
  Alaska legislative special session begins, focuses on TransC
  

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• Fire lessons abound for everyone as Alaska, Canada burn - USA TODAY

  24-10-2015 12:02
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  Fire lessons abound for everyone as Alaska, Canada burn
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  Wildfires have burned 15 million acres in Canada and Alaska so far this year, in what's likely to become the second-most extreme fire season of the past decade for North America's boreal region. But the worst damage could still be around the corner ...and more »
  

• Totem Pole Tomb Stolen By Drew Barrymore's Grandpa Returned to Alaska - People Magazine

  24-10-2015 06:15
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  Totem Pole Tomb Stolen By Drew Barrymore's Grandpa Returned to Alaska
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  A tribal totem poll taken from Alaska by Drew Barrymore's grandfather has been returned home. Golden-age screen legend John Barrymore spotted the artifact in an unoccupied village while yachting on the Alaskan coast in 1931. On his instructions, crew ...
  Totem Pole Stolen By John Barrymore Finally Returned To AlaskaHuffington Post
  Alaska tribe to get back totem pole taken by US actor in 19
  

• What is Alaska LNG? Part 2: Meet the liquifaction plant

  24-10-2015 05:28
  
  
  Tomorrow, Oct. 25, lawmakers will gather in Juneau for the start of a special session on the Alaska LNG project, which would carry natural gas from the North Slope down to the Kenai Peninsula for export.
  If it goes forward, it’s expected to cost a whopping $45-$65 billion — and roughly half of that cost would be a giant liquefaction plant, where natural gas is turned into a liquid.
  In the second half of our series breaking down the project, APRN’s Rachel Waldholz visited an LNG
  
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• AK: Reflecting on an unexpected tragedy

  24-10-2015 05:21
  
  
  Thousands travel from around the state to attend the Elders and Youth conference and the Alaska Federation of Natives convention every year. The week is considered by many as one of celebration — this year was different.
  After numerous discussions throughout the week about Alaska’s high rate of suicide, a man decided to take his own life in a very public way on the last day of the convention. Almost a week later, KTOO’s Jennifer Canfield is still thinking about t
  
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• Chris Thompson: Memories of Merton stirred in Alaska and beyond - Alaska Dispatch News

  24-10-2015 05:18
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  Chris Thompson: Memories of Merton stirred in Alaska and beyond
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  An undated photo provided by Cordova's Mark Heidbrink shows, from left, Heidbrink's father John Heidbrink, contemplative Catholic monk and author Thomas Merton and Buddhist monk and peace activist Thích Nhất Hạnh. Heidbrink's was one of several ...and more »
  

• Alaska should never stray from 'Fish First' policy - Alaska Dispatch News

  24-10-2015 04:23
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  Alaska should never stray from 'Fish First' policy
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  OPINION: "Fish first" policy gets ringing endorsement from Alaska Supreme Court, and that's the way it should be. No one interest should trump the overall health of Alaska's fisheries. Pictured: A king salmon. Jim Lavrakas. “Fish come first” has been ...and more »
  

• Gov pulls reserves tax from special session

  24-10-2015 03:20
  Governor Bill Walker has pulled a controversial reserves tax from consideration during the legislature’s special session, after receiving assurances from the state’s partners in the Alaska LNG project that should any one company pull out, it would not withhold its gas from the project.
  The governor had been seeking such a “withdrawal agreement,” and proposed the reserves tax when the parties could not reach agreement earlier this fall. The proposal would have levied a pro
  
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• What is Alaska LNG? Part 2: Meet the liquifaction plant - Alaska Public Radio Network

  24-10-2015 03:01
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  What is Alaska LNG? Part 2: Meet the liquifaction plant
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  Lawmakers will soon gather in Juneau for the start of a special session on the Alaska LNG project, which would carry natural gas from the North Slope down to the Kenai Peninsula for export. If it goes forward, it's expected to cost a whopping $45-$65 ...and more »
  

• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Oct. 23, 2015

  24-10-2015 02:39
  
  
  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
   
  What is Alaska LNG? Part 2: Meet the liquifaction plant
  Rachel Waldholz, APRN – Anchorage
  Lawmakers will soon gather in Juneau for the start of a special session on the Alaska LNG project, which would carry natural gas from the North Slope
  
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• Arctic Council concludes 1st meeting under US chairmanship

  24-10-2015 02:33
  
  
  The Arctic Council wrapped up the first major meeting under U.S. chairmanship this week in Anchorage.
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  The flags of the eight Arctic Council Member States and six indigenous Permanent Participant organizations. Photo: Arctic Council Secretariat / Linnea Nordström
  During the three-day meeting, Arctic Council officials made the most headway on an effort to mitigate the impacts of black carbon and methane in the Arctic. State Department deputy secretary David Balton chairs the Co
  
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• Alaska's transportation department moving away from 'bridge to nowhere' - Fox News

  24-10-2015 02:32
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  Alaska's transportation department moving away from 'bridge to nowhere'
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  July 17, 2003: In this file photo, the Ketchikan airport ferry Bob Ellis leaves the airport located on Gravina Island in Ketchikan, Alaska. State transportation department officials have spurned the idea of building a bridge to connect the southeast ...
  Alaska's 'bridge to nowhere' plan finally scrappedReuters
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• Victory for Sealaska Heritage underscores weakness in the law

  24-10-2015 02:31
  
  
  Federal investigators have found that the country’s oldest theological college broke the law regarding its Native art. Andover Newton Theological School planned to sell off 80 pieces in its collection, including a sacred Tlingit halibut hook. Now some tribal leaders are wondering if repatriation laws should be tougher.
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  This Tlingit halibut hook with a wolf spirit was slated for auction. (Photo courtesy of Karen Kramer/Peabody Essex Museum)
  Rosita Worl has been fighting
  
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• State cuts could close one Sitka harbor

  24-10-2015 02:30
  
  
  Sitka will have to close one of its five boat harbors if a state matching-grant program is eliminated.
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  A summer sunset colors the waters of Sitka’s Crescent Harbor in 2014. Municipal officials want to improve three harbors using a state grant program that may be at risk. (Shaleece Haas/KCAW)
  The 10-year-old program funds half the cost of local harbor replacement or repair.
  Sitka Municipal Administrator Mark Gorman says it’s among state programs that could be reduced or
  
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• 49 Voices: Moose hunting adventures with Agatha Erickson

  24-10-2015 01:26
  
  
  This week, we’re hearing from Agatha Erickson who lives in Anchorage and recalls a moose hunting adventure outside of Nenana with her ex boyfriend a few years back.
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• The Cost of Public Lands

  24-10-2015 01:00
  
  Bold Peak, Chugach State Park. Photo by Paxson Woelber
  As Alaska looks forward to fiscal austerity due to low oil prices, our state park system is already burdened with a massive deferred maintenance problem. In some parks, facilities are wearing out and trails are growing over and returning to nature. This edition of Outdoor Explorer explores the funding of our state parks with a director and a former director to learn about the problem and the opportunities to keep our parks in good shape.
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