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• Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) Had Its Price Objective Upgraded by Research ... - OctaFinance.com

  12-12-2015 22:56
  Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) Had Its Price Objective Upgraded by Research ...
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  In an analyst note sent to investors and clients by Raymond James on Friday morning, Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) had its TP upgraded to $105.00. The firm right now has Strong Buy rating on the stock. Despite the target boost, NYSE:ALK is currently ...
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• Sidney Huntington learned leadership and survival at age 5 - Alaska Dispatch News

  12-12-2015 22:13
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  Sidney Huntington learned leadership and survival at age 5
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  Sidney Huntington, at age 96, reads the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race statistics at the Galena checkpoint on March 10, 2012. He died last week at the age of 100. Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News file photo. Sidney Huntington, who lived 100 years, ...and more »
  

• Interior Alaska aurora tourism continues to grow in new markets - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  12-12-2015 20:59
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  Interior Alaska aurora tourism continues to grow in new markets
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  In this Jan. 18, 2007, file photo, taken with a slow shutter speed, an unidentified Japanese tourist, center, checks his camera after photographing the Aurora Borealis as others watch the display at the Chena Hot Springs Resort, near Fairbanks, Alaska.
  

• Alaska governor considers pardons in Fairbanks Four case - Alaska Dispatch News

  12-12-2015 16:50
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  Alaska governor considers pardons in Fairbanks Four case
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  Supporters rally outside the Rabinowitz Courthouse in Fairbanks. during an evidentiary hearing for the Fairbanks Four to try to prove their innocence on Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. ERIC ENGMAN. Alaska Gov. Bill Walker is considering whether to grant pardons ...
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• Powerful Alaska storm to rival strongest on record - AOL News

  12-12-2015 13:53
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  Powerful Alaska storm to rival strongest on record
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  A potent storm that will cross the Aleutian Islands of Alaska this weekend could become the strongest recorded storm to impact the region. This storm comes a little over a year after ex-Super Typhoon Nuri became the most powerful system on record to ...
  

• Alaska women's hoops meets Seawolves in Anchorage - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  12-12-2015 10:10
  Alaska women's hoops meets Seawolves in Anchorage
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  FAIRBANKS—It's been nearly nine years since the Alaska Nanooks women's basketball team has emerged victorious against intrastate rival Alaska Anchorage Seawolves, but that's nowhere on the mind of Nanooks head coach Cody Bench. “It's just another ...and more »
  

• Arson suspected in California mosque fire - Alaska Dispatch News

  12-12-2015 08:48
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  Arson suspected in California mosque fire
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  Members of the Islamic Center of the Coachella Valley wait behind a police barricade as authorities investigate a fire that damaged the mosque in Coachella, Calif., early Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. Richard Lui / Palm Springs Desert Sun via AP.and more »
  

• State programs benefiting rural Alaska to face budget cuts - KTUU.com

  12-12-2015 08:21
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  State programs benefiting rural Alaska to face budget cuts
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  Rural lawmakers are preparing for the coming budget debate to include many of the programs rural communities benefit from, including revenue sharing, power cost equalization, energy rebates and the permanent fund dividend. “To me everything is on the ...
  

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• Utah Grizzlies: Grizzlies defeat the Alaska Aces on Friday - Deseret News

  12-12-2015 07:37
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  Utah Grizzlies: Grizzlies defeat the Alaska Aces on Friday
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  The Utah Grizzlies (13-7-2-0) defeated the Alaska Aces, 3-2, on Friday night at Maverik Center as Ryan Walters broke the tie with a power-play goal in the final minute of play. “At the end of the day, good teams find a way to win and we found a way to ...
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• Salvation Army, Food Bank of Alaska team up for annual GIFT program - KTVA.com - Alaska News and Weather

  12-12-2015 07:26
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  Salvation Army, Food Bank of Alaska team up for annual GIFT program
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  Preparations are underway for the annual GIFT program, a long-time collaboration between the Salvation Army and the Food Bank of Alaska that aims to see that every child in Anchorage has a toy for the holidays and every family has food for a holiday meal.
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• Marketing Alaska fish to Alaskans - Alaska Dispatch News

  12-12-2015 07:09
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  Marketing Alaska fish to Alaskans
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  Red salmon picked from a Kenai Salmon Co. setnet pile up in a skiff July 23, 2015, in Kenai. A seafood business concept Caught by Alaskans for Alaskans, bested 170 others in a global fisheries business competition. Erik Hill / ADN. "Caught by Alaskans ...
  

• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Dec. 11, 2015

  12-12-2015 03:39
  
  
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  Fairbanks 4 settlement: Say you’re guilty and go
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  Supporters of the Fairbanks Four rallied outside the state court house in Fairbanks on Friday. The protest was spurred by a proposed settlement in the long
  
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• For Alaskans in Paris, climate talks hit home

  12-12-2015 03:34
  
  
  Former Kotzebue mayor Maija Katak Lukin traveled to Paris for the COP21 climate talks. Photo from Lukin’s Facebook page.
  After two weeks of talks, representatives from around the world are hammering out the final details of a global climate change agreement in Paris. Negotiations stretched past the original deadline. The final agreement is expected Saturday.
  Among the thousands of people who gathered over the last two weeks to weigh in on the climate talks were several Alaskans.
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• Alaska inmate who died Friday was not in solitary, officials say - KTUU.com

  12-12-2015 03:23
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  Alaska inmate who died Friday was not in solitary, officials say
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  The inmate who died today at the Anchorage jail was not in solitary confinement, according to a spokeswoman for Gov. Bill Walker. The inmate's identify is being withheld until next of kin are notified. Troopers and the state medical examiner were on ...
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• Bethel weighs organizing as borough with gold mine on horizon

  12-12-2015 03:03
  
  
  Donlin runway and camp site in summer 2014. Photo by Dean Swope / KYUK.
  With the proposed Donlin Gold Mine appearing like a truer and nearer reality, the City of Bethel is looking at transforming into an organized borough. At Tuesday’s meeting Bethel City Council voted to give City Manager Ann Capela the go-ahead into mapping out the process.
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  Council member Nikki Hoffman introduced the measure.
  Capela said, as a borough, Bethel would have greater control over land use and co
  
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• Fairview Bloods member captured in Wash. by US Marshals

  12-12-2015 03:02
  Law enforcement officials took one of the last members of an Anchorage gang into custody on Friday, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
  Twenty-five-year-old Anchorage resident Delano Williams was one of two men not yet in custody as part of a massive federal indictment alleging drug trafficking, money laundering, illegal firearm possession, and violence by a group with ties to the national Bloods gang.
  “U.S. Marshals Service took him into custody at 2:30,” sai
  
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• Ex-Husky Martin Breunig returns to Alaska Airlines Arena as a star with Montana - The Seattle Times

  12-12-2015 02:55
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  Ex-Husky Martin Breunig returns to Alaska Airlines Arena as a star with Montana
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  Montana's Martin Breunig (12) fights for a rebound against Gonzaga's Ryan Edwards (25) during the second half of Tuesday's game. (Young Kwak/AP). Martin Breunig spent two seasons with the Huskies and did not get much playing time before transferring ...and more »
  

• Finding Refuge for Salmon, Cold Water Preferred

  12-12-2015 02:52 via nytimes.com
  As climate change alters the world of salmon in the Pacific Northwest, a search is beginning for cold-water places for them to hide.
  
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• Juneau convenes town hall discussion on heroin

  12-12-2015 02:47
  Legislators, police officers and behavioral health specialists will gather this weekend in Juneau for a town hall discussion on heroin. They’ll be focused on finding local solutions to help people suffering with addiction.
  Michele Morgan started Stop Heroin, Start Talking as a grassroots initiative — a homespun way to get the word out about what she saw happening in her community. After throwing events and printing our flyers on her own dime, Morgan is now the one getting h
  
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• Mother of teen shot in face speaks out on gun violence

  12-12-2015 02:19
  In the end of October, 19-year-old Caia Delavergne was shot in the head by a new acquaintance. Incredibly, she survived. Now, her mother, Chelan Schreifels  is speaking out against gun violence.
  Schreifels is organizing an Orange Walk in Anchorage. It’s part of a larger national movement to raise awareness of gun violence in honor of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary.
  Schreifels says her daughter was hanging out with a man named Conor when his best friend Christian
  
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• Fairbanks 4 settlement: Say you’re guilty and go

  12-12-2015 02:07
  Supporters of the Fairbanks Four rallied outside the state court house in Fairbanks on Friday. The protest was spurred by a proposed settlement in the long contested case of the four Native men who claim they were wrongfully convicted for the 1997 murder of John Hartman.
  The settlement proposed by attorneys representing the Fairbanks Four and the state of Alaska would free George Frese, Kevin Pease and Eugene Vent. Marvin Roberts is already out on parole.
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• Young defends right to arms for people on ‘no-fly’ list

  12-12-2015 00:38
  
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  Alaska Congressman Don Young doesn’t think much of the proposal to bar people on the no-fly list from buying guns.
  “Those that are talking about – what they’re doing is against the Constitution,” he said on the House floor Thursday. “And I will fight until my dying breath to make sure that we have the ability to retain the Second Amendment.”
  President Obama pitched the idea last week from the Oval Office as a matter of common sense.
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• Haines skiers ask to lawfully XC on roads

  12-12-2015 00:04
  
  With cuts to plowing services, it might be time to consider an alternate mode of transport if that big snow storm ever comes. But skiing on roads in the Haines borough is illegal, and those gliding down local thoroughfares can be dinged with a fine.
  One ski enthusiast is spearheading a campaign in hopes of changing that minor offense.
  Some Haines’ residents are hoping to change a local law that prohibits skiing on roads. (Jillian Rogers)
  Currently Erik Stevens has collected nearly 140 sign
  
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