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• Alaskan helps shape Obama's Native agenda - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  05-12-2015 23:56
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Alaskan helps shape Obama's Native agenda
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  In this Oct. 15, 2015 photo, Raina Thiele, who serves as a White House associate director of intergovernmental affairs and public engagement, speaks during the first day of the Alaska Federation of Natives annual convention on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015 ...
  

• These Dogs are Honorary Geologists for Their Early Exploration of Alaska - Gizmodo

  05-12-2015 23:02
  Gizmodo
  These Dogs are Honorary Geologists for Their Early Exploration of Alaska
  Gizmodo
  Every geologist needs a field hat to protect them from scorching sun and drenching rain, but a really lucky geologist will have a trusty dog. Meet the adventurous dogs who trekked across north Alaska, and the geologists who explored with them. In 1924 ...and more »
  

• Africa exchange student visits Russian Old Believer village in Alaska - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  05-12-2015 21:59
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Africa exchange student visits Russian Old Believer village in Alaska
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  In this Nov. 25, 2015 photo, exchange student Nouredine Mama, of Cameroon, shares details about his culture and life in Africa with fourth and sixth grade students at Nikolaevsk School in Nikolaevsk, Alaska. Mama was given two days' notice before he ...and more »
  

• Could 'Frankenfish' actually benefit wild Alaska salmon? - Alaska Dispatch News

  05-12-2015 21:54
  Could 'Frankenfish' actually benefit wild Alaska salmon?
  Alaska Dispatch News
  This AquaBounty Technologies photograph shows two same-age salmon: a genetically modified salmon, rear, and a non-genetically modified salmon, foreground. AquaBounty Technologies. Some say the genetically modified salmon dubbed “Frankenfish” ...and more »
  

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• Rev. Scott Fisher recalls life of service to Episcopal Church, Alaska - The Missoulian

  05-12-2015 20:49
  The Missoulian
  Rev. Scott Fisher recalls life of service to Episcopal Church, Alaska
  The Missoulian
  The Rev. Scott Fisher prepares to give communion during a service at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Nov. 18. Fairbanks Reverend 2. Buy Now. ERIC ENGMAN, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner via AP. The Rev. Scott Fisher hands a ...
  

• Alaska Falconer Puts in Time, Effort for Love of Flight - Twin Falls Times-News

  05-12-2015 20:07
  Twin Falls Times-News
  Alaska Falconer Puts in Time, Effort for Love of Flight
  Twin Falls Times-News
  In this photo taken Sept. 30, 2015, Dave Lorring holds Summit, his 4-year-old gyrfalcon, after removing her hood so she can go duck hunting at Creamer's Field in Fairbanks, Alaska. 2015-12-05T12:00:00Z Alaska Falconer Puts in Time, Effort for Love of ...and more »
  

• Alaska stops requiring annual phone books - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  05-12-2015 20:06
  KTVA.com - Alaska News and Weather
  Alaska stops requiring annual phone books
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska telephone companies will not have to produce annual phone books starting in 2016. A regulation signed by Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott on Wednesday removes the requirement, the Juneau Empire reported (http://bit.ly/1Iw9CvG).
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• In Hawaii observatory case, did indigenous rights trump scientific research? - Alaska Dispatch News

  05-12-2015 19:47
  Alaska Dispatch News
  In Hawaii observatory case, did indigenous rights trump scientific research?
  Alaska Dispatch News
  This undated file artist rendering made available by the TMT Observatory Corporation shows the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope. TMT Observatory Corporation illustration via AP. A Hawaiian Supreme Court ruling Wednesday on a contentious proposal to ...and more »
  

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• Alaska flight hits deer at Sonoma County airport - Santa Rosa Press Democrat

  05-12-2015 17:59
  SFGate
  Alaska flight hits deer at Sonoma County airport
  Santa Rosa Press Democrat
  An Alaska Airlines plane struck and killed a deer as it was landing at the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport, an airline spokeswoman said Saturday. The incident happened about 6 p.m. Wednesday as flight No. 2475 from Seattle was touching down ...
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• University of Alaska Fairbanks facing a grim budget outlook - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  05-12-2015 10:11
  University of Alaska Fairbanks facing a grim budget outlook
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  FAIRBANKS — A budget gap will continue to grow for the University of Alaska Fairbanks with further decreases in funding expected from the state, the university's largest funding source, according to university officials at a forum on campus Friday ...
  

• Halibut harvest cut suggested, but Alaska stocks may be rebounding - Alaska Dispatch News

  05-12-2015 08:24
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Halibut harvest cut suggested, but Alaska stocks may be rebounding
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Despite encouraging signs that Pacific halibut stocks are stabilizing after a downward spiral lasting nearly two decades, catches could decrease slightly in most regions again next year. That's if fishery managers accept the catch recommendations of ...and more »
  

• Alaska LNG Project moves forward amidst lingering uncertainty - KTUU.com

  05-12-2015 06:11
  KTUU.com
  Alaska LNG Project moves forward amidst lingering uncertainty
  KTUU.com
  It's a big decision that comes along with uncertainty as the future of the Alaska liquefied natural gas pipeline begins to take shape. Late Friday morning, Governor Bill Walker held a press conference to express his excitement over the recent ...
  $850000 later, state ends contract with gas line consultantAlaska Dispatch News
  Sprawling Alaska Gas Project Would Harm Climate, Threaten Rare WhalesCenter for Biological D
  

• Northrim Bank co-founder retiring after 50 years working in Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  05-12-2015 05:25
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Northrim Bank co-founder retiring after 50 years working in Alaska
  Alaska Dispatch News
  A prominent Anchorage business leader who co-founded Northrim Bank in a pair of trailers in a Midtown parking lot is retiring after half a century working in Alaska's banking industry. Marc Langland, who in 1990 created the bank with the late Arnold ...
  

• Berkowitz kills controversial road project

  05-12-2015 05:12
  
  The letter from Mayor Ethan Berkowitz to Transportation Commissioner Marc Luiken came out late Friday afternoon.
  A contentious road project in the municipality of Anchorage is being dealt a fatal blow.
  In a  letter sent out just ahead of the weekend to State’s Commissioner of Transportation, Mayor Ethan Berkowitz withdrew the city’s support for the Northern Access Project, also known as the Bragaw or Elmore Extension.
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• Alaska Court of Appeals upholds conviction in Kenai Peninsula animal cruelty case - Alaska Dispatch News

  05-12-2015 04:58
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Alaska Court of Appeals upholds conviction in Kenai Peninsula animal cruelty case
  Alaska Dispatch News
  The Alaska Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of a woman who allowed a horse to starve and two others to suffer, and in the process ruled that the state's animal cruelty law applies to anyone who undertakes caring for animals -- owners, people who ...
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• Expensive state negotiator is out as gas line reshuffle continues

  05-12-2015 04:50
  This illustration shows what a proposed gas treatment plant on the North Slope could look like. (Courtesy of Alaska LNG)
  Yet another member of the state gas line team is officially out.
  Rigdon Boykin, the South Carolina attorney who made up to $120,000 a month in his role as the lead negotiator on the Alaska LNG project, is no longer working for the state. The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC), which represents the state in the pipeline project, allowed Boykin’s contract t
  
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• What Alaska gets out of the new federal transportation bill - Alaska Dispatch News

  05-12-2015 03:45
  Alaska Dispatch News
  What Alaska gets out of the new federal transportation bill
  Alaska Dispatch News
  WASHINGTON -- Alaska scored another win in the five-year transportation funding bill signed by President Barack Obama Friday, getting major funding for roads and bridges despite offering relatively little to the Highway Trust Fund that doles out cash ...
  Congress passes transportation bill allocating $2.9 billion to AlaskaKTUU.com
  Bill Summary & Status - 114th Congress (2015 - 2016) - H.R.2
  

• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Dec. 4, 2015

  05-12-2015 03:38
  
  
  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
   
  VA: Fix for Choice plan taking longer than expected
  Liz Ruskin, APRN – Anchorage
  The Veterans Affairs Department pledged to create a pilot program to help Alaska vets get health care services outside the VA.
  Transit Center: Anchorage looks
  
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• VA: Fix for Choice plan taking longer than expected

  05-12-2015 03:35
  
  
  The Veterans Affairs Department pledged to create a pilot program to help Alaska vets get health care services outside the VA. The pilot program didn’t fully launch by mid-November, as promised, but a top VA official says they’re making progress.
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  Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan asked VA Undersecretary David Shulkin about it at a hearing this week. Sullivan says VA staffers told his aides a few days ago they may delay the Alaska pilot program indefinitely.
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• Anchorage aims to re-brand troubled transit center

  05-12-2015 03:34
  
  
  James Dougherty with the firm RIM Architects showing the ACDA board mockups of potential changes to the Transit Center at 6th Ave and G Street. Photo: Zachariah Hughes.
  Officials in Anchorage are planning a major overhaul of the city’s downtown Transit Center. The early plan offers a preliminary vision of a revitalized downtown, but few specifics about what happens to many of the people there now.
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  The Anchorage Community Development Authority, which is in charge of the space
  
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• Ketchikan council votes to ban pot sales

  05-12-2015 03:33
  
  
  The Ketchikan City Council on Thursday voted to ban the commercial sale of marijuana within city limits. Mayor Lew Williams III requested the issue be brought before the Council. Williams says he doesn’t oppose the sale of certain items but is concerned with oils, concentrates and edibles. 
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  “Oils and the edibles, I think, are just made for a younger audience. For this community, I am dead against having that sold within the City of Ketchikan. The other stuff &ndas
  
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• Lawmakers on prowl for cheaper digs in Anchorage

  05-12-2015 03:32
  
  
  Lawmakers are considering alternatives to their expensive and controversial office space in Anchorage.
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  When the state renewed its lease on the Legislative Information Office in downtown Anchorage last year, it paid about $7.5 million for renovations — and saw its annual rent spike from under $700,000 to more than $4 million per year.
  The deal was negotiated by Rep. Mike Hawker, R-Anchorage, and approved by the Legislative Council, which handles the legislature’s a
  
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• State agencies pinch pennies with small-scale furlough

  05-12-2015 03:31
  
  
  State agencies are feeling the squeeze of of a shrinking budget, and some are using furloughs on a small scale to save a little money.
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  Being on furlough is kind of like getting laid off for a day. Your employer tells you not to come to work, and you don’t get paid.
  Two state agencies furloughed their non-union employees on Black Friday — the Department of Law and the Department of Administration. Alaska courts were also closed that day as a part of a cost-cutting
  
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• In Juneau, unexpectedly filling a mayor’s shoes

  05-12-2015 03:30
  
  
  As Juneau’s mayor, Mary Becker is establishing regular office hours at city hall, attending meetings scheduled by the late mayor and educating herself on her new role. At the same time, she wants to follow through with some of Greg Fisk’s initiatives.
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  Mary Becker sits in the office of the mayor at Juneau’s City Hall on Dec. 3, 2015. (Photo by Lisa Phu/KTOO)
  Since Tuesday, Mary Becker has been going to city hall every day and working in the office of the mayor.
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• Troopers: Lower Kalsag man repeatedly stabbed son

  05-12-2015 03:04
  
  A 57-year-old Lower Kalskag man has been arrested for two felony charges of first and third-degree assault.
  According to a trooper affidavit, Andrew Littlefish, Sr. repeatedly stabbed his 22-year-old son on Nov. 20.In the affidavit, Littlefish had reportedly been intoxicated and accused his son, Willie Littlefish, of stealing his alcohol, when Littlefish couldn’t find it. He then proceeded to stab his son multiple times, resulting in wounds all over his body, including his back a
  
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• ‘Deadbeat’ dam due for demolition

  05-12-2015 02:39
  
  An old dam on the Eklutna River has blocked salmon runs there for decades. Now, an Alaska Native tribe wants to tear the dam down and restore fish to the river.
  It stands in a canyon 400 feet deep, a mile or so off the Glenn Highway, but hidden from the view of passing motorists. The old Eklutna Dam was built in 1929, to divert Eklutna River water for Anchorage hydroelectric power. It operated for only thirty years, before Eklutna Lake water, the source of the river, was diverted elsewhere for a
  
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• 49 Voices: Jane Standifer of Tyonek

  05-12-2015 02:33
  
  
  This week we’re going to Tyonek to hear from Jane Standifer. She remembers working at the teen center in town when she was a teen herself back in the early 1980s.
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• VA: Fix for Choice plan taking longer than expected - Alaska Public Radio Network

  05-12-2015 02:08
  VA: Fix for Choice plan taking longer than expected
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  The Veterans Affairs Department pledged to create a pilot program to help Alaska vets get health care services outside the VA. The pilot program didn't fully launch by mid-November, as promised, but a top VA official says they're making progress ...and more »
  

• Artists rebuilding tide-damaged art display on Alaska beach - Centre Daily Times

  05-12-2015 01:25
  Artists rebuilding tide-damaged art display on Alaska beach
  Centre Daily Times
  Sculptures made of straw, cement, plaster and burlap that were damaged by incoming tides last week were being repositioned Friday, Dec. 4, 2015, at the site of a public art installation in Anchorage, Alaska. Creators of the display plan to have the ...and more »
  

• Feds give $4.7 million in relief for 2013 Alaska storms, Dalton flooding - KTUU.com

  05-12-2015 01:09
  KTUU.com
  Feds give $4.7 million in relief for 2013 Alaska storms, Dalton flooding
  KTUU.com
  “The river had extreme flooding. Ice chunks came and destroyed a lot of the village. The boats that were dry docked were picked up and moved up onto the main land and were actually placed down behind homes. The board walk was completely washed ...
  

• Locally Made Snow Gear

  05-12-2015 00:00
  Courtesy of 9 zero 7 bikes
  Alaskans are making winter gear here in Alaska that you can buy, tuned for local conditions, often made of Alaskan materials, and decorated with Alaskan artwork. We’ll meet outdoors people who have turned their passion for snow into businesses manufacturing products you can use. We’ll learn about their wares, and the inspiration and struggles of making snow gear locally.
  HOST: Charles Wohlforth
  GUESTS: 
  Stephen Shortridge, Chugach Flyer Snowb
  
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