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• Alaska-to-Denver flight diverted to Vancouver, suspect arrested - authorities - Yahoo News

  09-01-2016 23:27
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  Alaska-to-Denver flight diverted to Vancouver, suspect arrested - authorities
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  (Reuters) - A United flight en route to Denver from Anchorage, Alaska, was diverted on Saturday to Vancouver where a suspect was arrested due to "security concerns," authorities said. United Air Lines Flight 1104 landed safely at about 4:30 a.m. local ...
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• Death and the Civil War

  09-01-2016 21:12
  
  A soldier looking upon a Union soldier’s grave with the body of a Confederate soldier seemingly tossed aside in Antietam, Maryland. (September 1862) (Photo courtesy of Library of Congress) 
  Drawing heavily on This Republic of Suffering, historian and Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust’s acclaimed book, DEATH and THE CIVIL WAR  explores a critical but largely overlooked aspect of the Civil War experience: the immense and varied implications of the war’s staggerin
  
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• Russian Orthodox Christmas in Alaska: A multicultural, multilingual celebration - KTVA.com - Alaska News and Weather

  09-01-2016 20:18
  Russian Orthodox Christmas in Alaska: A multicultural, multilingual celebration
  KTVA.com - Alaska News and Weather
  Although most Alaskans celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25, members of the Russian Orthodox Church started their weeklong celebration on Jan. 7 – the date of Christ's birth, according to the Julian calendar. In many Alaska communities, the festivities are ...
  

• Closing a Budget Gap by Emptying Prisons - The Atlantic

  09-01-2016 16:25
  The Atlantic
  Closing a Budget Gap by Emptying Prisons
  The Atlantic
  Decreasing oil revenues have left Alaska facing a massive budget shortfall. The state has looked at all sorts of ways to cut costs, including slashing spending on roads, schools, and boats. Its newest plan could save almost half a billion dollars, and ...
  

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• US wildlife officials reject protections for an Alaska wolf in decline - Los Angeles Times

  09-01-2016 12:00
  Los Angeles Times
  US wildlife officials reject protections for an Alaska wolf in decline
  Los Angeles Times
  An Alexander Archipelago wolf roams in Juneau, Alaska, in 2008. The federal government reiterated its opposition to listing the wolf as endangered or threatened. An Alexander Archipelago wolf roams in Juneau, Alaska, in 2008. The federal government ...
  Southeast Alaska Wolves Denied 'Endangered' ListingNature World News
  Agency rejects endangered listing for Southeast Alaska wolfAlaska
  

• Do your job and solve the deficit problem: Alaska's future, not impact on re ... - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  09-01-2016 10:11
  Do your job and solve the deficit problem: Alaska's future, not impact on re ...
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  The president of the state Senate indicating he will introduce legislation to impose a statewide sales tax. Those recent developments should serve as yet another warning to Alaska legislators that the budget crisis is a real crisis and not the sort of ...and more »
  

• Alaska Supreme Court upholds school funding ruling - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  09-01-2016 10:11
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  Alaska Supreme Court upholds school funding ruling
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  FAIRBANKS — A ruling by the Alaska Supreme Court on Friday maintains a state requirement that local taxpayers contribute to public schools. Many education supporters breathed a sigh of relief at the decision, but the issue of the requirement applying ...
  Alaska Supreme Court upholds local school contributionJuneau Empire (subscription)
  Leaked documents point to misallocation of federal funds
  

• Former Miss Alaska advances on 'American Idol' - Alaska Dispatch News

  09-01-2016 05:33
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  Former Miss Alaska advances on 'American Idol'
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  Amalia “Malie” Delgado will advance to the next level of "American Idol" after winning over judges in the auditions held in Little Rock, Arkansas, and broadcast on Jan. 7. Screen capture via Fox. A former Miss Alaska, Amalia “Malie” Delgado, competing ...and more »
  

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• Shellfish farming becomes million-dollar industry in Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  09-01-2016 05:07
  Shellfish farming becomes million-dollar industry in Alaska
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  Weatherly Bates washes oysters at her shellfish farm in Halibut Cove on Wednesday, October 22, 2015. Bates and her husband operate an oyster and mussel farm in Halibut Cove. Loren Holmes / ADN. Alaska's mariculture industry has passed some ...
  

• Alaska must be bold, creative to put budget on a sustainable basis - Alaska Dispatch News

  09-01-2016 04:32
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  Alaska must be bold, creative to put budget on a sustainable basis
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Let's face it: Low oil prices mean that Alaska is about to fall off a fiscal cliff. And that's a scary thought. But a lot can be done to minimize the damage. Early in my career, I led numerous turnarounds of private companies in financial distress, and ...and more »
  

• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, January 8, 2016

  09-01-2016 03:36
  
  
  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
   
  Leaked documents point to misallocation of federal funds at tribal group
  Lakeidra Chavis, KYUK – Bethel
  The week before Christmas the Association of Village Council Presidents abruptly laid off 30 employees — about 7 p
  
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• Real estate remains real stable in Alaska’s largest market

  09-01-2016 03:29
  
  Despite dismal revenues from declining oil prices, the state’s largest real estate market remains strong.
  In an annual presentation to city officials on property values, Anchorage’s municipal assessor Bryant Robbins showed a steady rise in overall property values.
  Residential units are the bulk of Anchorage’s property tax base–assessed this year at $25.53 billion, a growth of about 3.5 percent percent over last year. On average, homes sold at $11,888 above their asse
  
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• Ahead of session, legislative bills trickle in

  09-01-2016 02:43
  
  Bills related to Medicaid and the governor’s power to accept additional federal money for a budget item are included in the first batch of measures filed ahead of the upcoming legislative session.
  They follow Gov. Bill Walker’s actions last year to expand Medicaid after legislators tabled the issue for further review.
  Walker followed a process in state law by which a governor can go through a certain committee when seeking to spend more in federal or other funds than allocated by law
  
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• FWS proposes tighter rules on predator hunting in refuges

  09-01-2016 02:38
  
  
  A wolf assesses the odds of stealing scavenged food from a brown bear, while two ravens feast on bits of food at the edges. Photo by Gordon Haber.
  The state of Alaska has, in recent years, loosened the rules for hunting wolves and bears, but federal wildlife managers aren’t going along with it. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed new rules for predator hunting on national refuges in Alaska.
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  The agency has proposed to ban taking brown bears with bait, hunting wo
  
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• Judge sends LIO case to trial

  09-01-2016 02:35
  
  
  A state judge handed down a significant ruling Thursday on a case involving the controversial lease for the state’s Legislative Information Office in downtown Anchorage.
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  Read Judge Patrick J. McKay’s order denying the motion for summary judgement.
  The case centers on claims made by attorney James Gottstein, who owns the building next to the LIO, and alleges the lease agreement between legislators and developers is illegal. There are also allegations of threats and dama
  
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• Facebook says Ketchikan is indeed in Alaska

  09-01-2016 02:35
  
  According to Facebook, Ketchikan is finally located in Alaska.
  A cruise ship is docked at Ketchikan’s downtown Berth 2. Such ships brought about 1 million passengers to Southeast in 2015. (Photo by Leila Kheiry)
  The Ketchikan Daily News reports that after almost a year of complaints, the social media giant has fixed a glitch that listed updates geotagged to Ketchikan as “Ketchikan, Washington.”
  A similar problem occurred on Wikipedia.
  Earlier this week, a Facebook spokeswo
  
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• UAF engineering chases sparse funding, looks to private sector

  09-01-2016 02:32
  
  Conoco-Phillips is donating a half-million dollars to help complete an engineering building at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. It is the second large donation by industry directed to the project. But it’s questionable the building will see students anytime soon, given Alaska’s fiscal climate.
  With Conoco-Phillips’ $500,000 donation, UAF’s engineering building has attracted $1 million in private gifts. It’s still just a fraction of the funding needed to fini
  
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• Alaska has 2 years to change IDs before air travel restrictions - Alaska Dispatch News

  09-01-2016 01:45
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  Alaska has 2 years to change IDs before air travel restrictions
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  On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security announced a timeline on when states -- including Alaska -- must come into compliance with the Real ID Act or face travel restrictions. States without compliant identification cards will have until Jan. 22 ...and more »
  

• AK: For Tlingit engineer, Juneau bridge connects Alaskans

  09-01-2016 01:02
  
  
  More than 100 years after the creation of the Alaska Native Brotherhood, a new bridge in Juneau has been named in honor of the Native organization. But it’s not the first. The predecessor to the current bridge was actually designed by a man who has his own unique and interesting ties to the Alaska Native civil rights movement.
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  Roy Peratrovich Jr. stands next to one of the bronze medallions he designed for the first Brotherhood Bridge created in 1965. The medallions wer
  
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• AK: For pioneering Tlingit engineer, Juneau bridge a historical endeavor

  09-01-2016 01:02
  
  
  More than 100 years after the creation of the Alaska Native Brotherhood, a new bridge in Juneau has been named in honor of the Native organization. But it’s not the first. The predecessor to the current bridge was actually designed by a man who has his own unique and interesting ties to the Alaska Native civil rights movement.
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  Roy Peratrovich Jr. stands next to one of the bronze medallions he designed for the first Brotherhood Bridge created in 1965. The medallions wer
  
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• 49 Voices: Ron Levy of Soldotna

  09-01-2016 00:25
  
  
  This week, we’re hearing from Soldotna photographer Ron Levy, who uses his art to highlight causes like the destruction of Mexican forests. Levy says the onslaught of digital photography spurred him to focus his lens beyond Alaska stock images.
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• Alaska to Become the First State With Legal Cannabis Cafés - Leafly

  09-01-2016 00:23
  Leafly
  Alaska to Become the First State With Legal Cannabis Cafés
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  Alaska is poised to become the first U.S. state to allow cannabis consumption in businesses open to the public. The Alaska Marijuana Board has been hard at work drafting regulations, and cafés could become part of Alaska's cannabis culture as soon as ...and more »
  

• Reprise: Historic Alaska Expeditions

  09-01-2016 00:00
  
  Alaska’s outdoors people may think they’re tough, but how about paddling 40 days in a dugout canoe in the rains of Southeast Alaska in October and November, dressed in wool, without modern gear? That’s what John Muir did, and his writings about the experience changed science and started the Alaska tourism industry. On the next Outdoor Explorer, repeating a favorite show from July, 2014, join host Charles Wohlforth and guests to talk about Muir’s historic expedition a
  
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• Historic Alaska Expeditions

  09-01-2016 00:00
  
  This week we revisit a conversation from 2014 that we really enjoyed. Alaska’s outdoors people may think they’re tough, but how about paddling 40 days in a dugout canoe in the rains of Southeast Alaska in October and November, dressed in wool, without modern gear? That’s what John Muir did, and his writings about the experience changed science and started the Alaska tourism industry. On the next Outdoor Explorer, join host Charles Wohlforth and guests to talk about Muir&rs
  
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