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• Surprisingly, a few Alaska Ski Train tickets remain - Alaska Dispatch News

  14-01-2016 23:28
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  Surprisingly, a few Alaska Ski Train tickets remain
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  The Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage hosted the Ski Train in 2014. About 670 passengers, 70 volunteers and 35 ski patrollers passengers boarded an Alaska Railroad train headed north from Anchorage and Wasilla to Curry, north of Talkeetna, for a ...
  

• Cathartic Ink | INDIE ALASKA

  14-01-2016 20:59
  
  Tattooing became an itch Roger Sparks couldn’t scratch after a particularly grueling battle in the mountains of Afghanistan. What was the most intense combat of his career ended in a twist of fate when he met a group of men who helped him discover tattooing as a means of healing from the trauma.He learned to tattoo and opened up shop out of his Eagle River home. Now, with every moment of free time he can spare, Roger is paying the gift forward by tattooing others working through their own
  
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• Ronald McDonald House Coming to Alaska - KTUU.com

  14-01-2016 20:48
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  Ronald McDonald House Coming to Alaska
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  Alaska's first Ronald McDonald House is set to open next year. The special announcement was made this week by the Alaska Native Medical Center. LeeAnn Garrick with ANMC explains what this means for children in Alaska who need medical care.and more »
  

• Federal Subsistence Board votes to improve Alaska relations - Alaska Public Radio Network

  14-01-2016 20:26
  Federal Subsistence Board votes to improve Alaska relations
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  The Federal Subsistence Board voted Tuesday to work to re-establish better relations with the state of Alaska. A federal-state memorandum of understanding, or MOU, on subsistence expired last year over differences on data sharing, day-to-day operations ...
  

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• Federal Subsistence Board votes to improve Alaska relations

  14-01-2016 20:23
  
  The Federal Subsistence Board voted Tuesday to work to re-establish better relations with the state of Alaska.
  A federal-state memorandum of understanding, or MOU, on subsistence expired last year over differences on data sharing, day-to-day operations, and other issues.
  The agencies that make up the Federal Subsistence Board agreed last year to disagree with the state of Alaska on subsistence management. Federal laws dictate protection of wildlife and preservation of natural conditions and proc
  
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• Federal Subsistence Board to seek agreement with State

  14-01-2016 20:23
  
  The federal subsistence board voted Tuesday to work to re-establish better relations with the state of Alaska.
  A federal-state memorandum of understanding, or MOU, on subsistence expired last year over differences on data sharing, day-to-day operations, and other issues.
  The agencies that make up the federal subsistence board agreed last year to disagree with the state of Alaska on subsistence management. Federal laws dictate protection of wildlife and preservation of natural conditions and proc
  
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• 11-day trip to Alaska takes Bemidji State from eighth place to fourth - USCHO

  14-01-2016 20:08
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  11-day trip to Alaska takes Bemidji State from eighth place to fourth
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  Bemidji State's Nate Arentz had a three-point weekend against Alaska-Anchorage (photo: Jim Rosvold). Bemidji State made it look easy. Tom Serratore's squad left Bemidji, Minn., for Fairbanks, Alaska, on New Year's Eve. It took them 11 days and required ...
  

• Former Board of Fish nominee charged with PFD fraud

  14-01-2016 19:56
  
  A former head of the United Cook Inlet Drift Association and Alaska Board of Fisheries nominee is being charged with illegally collecting $7,422 in Alaska Permanent Fund dividends between 2009 and 2014.
  Roland Maw, who owns a home in Kasilof, was charged Wednesday in Juneau District Court with 17 counts of theft and unsworn falsification on his applications for six years of Permanent Fund dividends and for commercial fishing permits.
  According to the charges, Maw left the state for ove
  
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• Charges filed in shooting death on remote Shuyak Island

  14-01-2016 18:32
  
  A 44-year-old Anchorage man has been charged with first-degree murder and evidence tampering in the November shooting death of a man on a remote island near Kodiak.
  Alaska State Troopers say Steven Ridenour is charged in the death of 56-year-old Steven McCaulley of Port William on Shuyak Island.
  Shuyak Island is north of Afognak Island.
  Troopers took a call Nov. 17 requesting a check on people at Port Williams Wilderness Lodge.
  Troopers found McCaulley dead outside a bunkhouse and determined tha
  
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• Bill seeks to ban marriages on Alaska prison grounds

  14-01-2016 18:30
  
  A state lawmaker is proposing legislation that would prohibit inmate couples from getting married at Alaska’s prisons.
  The Juneau Empire reports Anchorage Republican Rep. Bob Lynn introduced the bill Friday, which he says is a matter of fairness. Lynn says it’s not fair to inmates whose partners live outside prison walls, when other inmates get married in prison and are able to share a cell with their spouse.
  The legislation would apply to both same-sex and heterosexual couples. It w
  
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• Board of Fish considers Yukon, Kuskokwim, Arctic fishery proposals

  14-01-2016 18:27
  
  (Photo by Ben Matheson / KYUK)
  The Alaska Board of Fisheries is meeting in Fairbanks this week. The board has reviewed proposals for the Yukon and Kuskokwim fisheries and will review those for the Arctic.
  There were over 20 proposals for the Yukon, 15 for the Kuskokwim, while the Arctic fishery, which includes Norton Sound and Port Clarence, had just six.
  Jim Menard, the Arctic Area Manager for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, says that’s because of the year they’ve had.
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• Board of Fish considers Arctic proposals

  14-01-2016 18:27
  
  (Photo by Ben Matheson / KYUK)
  The Alaska Board of Fisheries is meeting in Fairbanks this week. The board has reviewed proposals for the Yukon and Kuskokwim fisheries and will review those for the Arctic.
  There were over 20 proposals for the Yukon, 15 for the Kuskokwim, while the Arctic fishery, which includes Norton Sound and Port Clarence, had just six.
  Jim Menard, the Arctic Area Manager for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, says that’s because of the year they’ve had.
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• Warming Could Mean Major Thaw For Alaska Permafrost - Climate Central

  14-01-2016 18:23
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  Warming Could Mean Major Thaw For Alaska Permafrost
  Climate Central
  If you'd asked permafrost researcher Vladimir Romanovsky five years ago if he thought the permafrost of the North Slope of Alaska was in danger of substantial thaw this century because of global warming, he would have said no. The permanently frozen ...and more »
  

• Bethel City Council passes 6-month hold on marijuana applications

  14-01-2016 18:17
  
  Cannabis Plant. (Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
  To buy the city time to figure out its marijuana regulations, Bethel City Council has placed a six-month hold on processing any land use, zoning, or licensing approvals for marijuana operations in Bethel. The measure passed unanimously at Tuesday’s council meeting.
  The state will begin accepting marijuana applications next month and then reviewing them in May. But council members, including Chuck Herman, think that’s too
  
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• Former Alaska Fish Board appointee Roland Maw charged with PFD fraud - Alaska Dispatch News

  14-01-2016 16:59
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  Former Alaska Fish Board appointee Roland Maw charged with PFD fraud
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  Gov. Bill Walker's controversial one-time appointee to the Alaska Board of Fisheries was charged Wednesday with 17 counts of theft and unsworn falsification over his applications for six years of Permanent Fund dividends and for commercial fishing permits.
  Former Board of Fisheries nominee charged with PFD fraudJuneau Empire (subscription)
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• Grab a pint -- Alaska Beer Week is here - Alaska Dispatch News

  14-01-2016 16:50
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  Grab a pint -- Alaska Beer Week is here
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  Beer lovers, rejoice — Alaska Beer Week is back, and in addition to the Great Alaska Beer & Barleywine Festival, there are plenty of events around town to tickle your palate. You can meet the brewers, paint your own growler, try some unusual beer and ...and more »
  

• Shell lease requests offshore Alaska face scrutiny - UPI.com

  14-01-2016 12:14
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  Shell lease requests offshore Alaska face scrutiny
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  Environmental and conservation groups file to intervene in federal review of Shell's leases for operations off the coast of Alaska. Photo courtesy of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. Sign up for our Energy Newsletter. Preview our ...
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• Alaska women's hoops looks to build, men match up with Alaska Anchorage - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  14-01-2016 09:50
  Alaska women's hoops looks to build, men match up with Alaska Anchorage
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  FAIRBANKS—The Alaska Nanooks women's basketball team dug itself out of an early hole, winning two straight Great Northwest Athletic Conference last week at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Patty Center, while the Alaska men's hoops squad split a ...
  

• In fighting its legendary fires, Alaska counts on Durango pipeline - The Durango Herald

  14-01-2016 06:20
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  In fighting its legendary fires, Alaska counts on Durango pipeline
  The Durango Herald
  Alaska Fire Service Hotshots faced an intense fire season in 2015. Some of the best firefighters over the past decade have come from Durango, where people grow up outdoors and are accustomed to rugged country and high elevations. Each spring, those ...and more »
  

• In rural Alaska, a plan takes shape to rebuild military presence - Alaska Dispatch News

  14-01-2016 06:13
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  In rural Alaska, a plan takes shape to rebuild military presence
  Alaska Dispatch News
  A National Guard convoy that included Lt. Gen. Timothy Kadavy, the national head of the Army National Guard, and Brig. Gen. Laurie Hummel, head of the Alaska National Guard, visit the Kuskokwim River village of Napaskiak on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016.and more »
  

• Stop Wasting America’s Hydropower Potential

  14-01-2016 06:00 via nytimes.com
  We can be doing much more to generate electricity from hydropower, even without building new dams.
  
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• Reality Check: Hoping for greatness as alcohol meets cameras in 'Alaska Proof' - Alaska Dispatch News

  14-01-2016 05:59
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  Reality Check: Hoping for greatness as alcohol meets cameras in 'Alaska Proof'
  Alaska Dispatch News
  While it seems like the entire world, and by world I actually mean Internet, is watching “Making a Murderer,” there is a new Alaska show airing on Thursday. "Alaska Proof" is an eight-part series about the making of vodka at the Alaska Distillery. I ...
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• Lawmaker seeks investigation into Alaska's high gasoline prices - Alaska Dispatch News

  14-01-2016 05:11
  Lawmaker seeks investigation into Alaska's high gasoline prices
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Gasoline prices have plummeted across the U.S. but the monthly average has recently begun to drift upward in Alaska, prompting allegations from a lawmaker that the state's only gasoline refiner is manipulating prices — first down, in response to ...and more »
  

• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016

  14-01-2016 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
   
  Report: EPA acted ‘without bias or predetermination’ in Bristol Bay
  Dave Bendinger, KDLG – Dillingham
  A report released Wednesday by the EPA’s Inspector General office says the agency’s work in Bristol Bay related t
  
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• Report: EPA fair in regulating Pebble

  14-01-2016 02:37
  
  
  A report released Wednesday by the EPA’s Inspector General found the agency’s work in Bristol Bay regulating the development of proposed mines like Pebble has been unbiased and done without a predetermined outcome.
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  The Nushagak District, shown in this June 2015 photo, is one of five commercial fishing districts in Bristol Bay. (KDLG photo)
  While the EPA’s role is currently being challenged by Pebble in federal court, the agency is touting the IG’s repo
  
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• UA president paints bleak fiscal picture

  14-01-2016 02:34
  
  
  University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen offered his “State of the University” Tuesday night. Johnsen’s remarks were made on campus and carried on the web and broadcast on radio. His remarks did not depart much from earlier statements he’s made that tough choices lie ahead.
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  Jim Johnsen at a meet and greet in Juneau, July 7, 2015. Johnsen is a candidate for University of Alaska president. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)
  In his opening remarks Tuesday, UA Pres
  
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• On marijuana clubs, Fairbanks defers to state lawmakers

  14-01-2016 02:32
  
  
  The Fairbanks City Council has put off consideration of an ordinance that would outlaw marijuana clubs. 
  Clubs which do not sell the drug, but provide a venue for paying members to consume it, have sprung up in Alaska since the passage of a statewide marijuana legalization initiative in 2014. The Fairbanks City Council is deferring to state legislators on the club issue.
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  Marijuana club ban ordinance sponsor, Fairbanks city council member David Pruhs made the decision to postp
  
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• Marijuana tax to go before Anchorage voters

  14-01-2016 02:32
  
  
  Anchorage voters will get the chance to decide whether or not to tax cannabis in the months ahead. Both law-makers and industry advocates support the proposed tax, but disagreements over regulation continue to grow.
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  Discussion of a proposed plan to tax retail sales of cannabis products started with an frank disclosure by downtown Assembly Member Patrick Flynn.
  “In the last month I’ve been approached by a former colleague interested in starting a cannabis related inter
  
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• Ninilchik: Future hub of Kenai public transit?

  14-01-2016 01:27
  
  Public transit service is coming to the Kenai Peninsula soon, according to Ninilchik Traditional Council – the governing body for the Ninilchik Tribe. The Federal Transit Administration recently awarded the organization a $300,000 grant to get the service started for tribal members and the general public.
  The transit building built by the Ninilchik Traditional Council.
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  “So we have a two-bay garage and we’re looking at probably getting 15-passenger buses t
  
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• Alaska 1 of 6 states with no lottery

  14-01-2016 01:17
  
  As if the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot weren’t inconvenient enough, people who live in the six states that don’t participate have to put in considerable extra effort if they want a ticket.
  In Nevada, they have to drive across the desert and wait in lines that can stretch for hours. In Hawaii and Alaska, they need to cross an ocean or mountains to reach a lottery kiosk.
  None of the six states has a lottery of any kind.
  Religious beliefs have posed a barrier in Alabama, Missis
  
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• NTSB releases preliminary report in downtown crash

  14-01-2016 00:50
  
  The National Transportation Safety Board says wreckage from a small airplane that struck a downtown Anchorage building last month was incinerated in the post-crash fire.
  The NTSB released the preliminary report Wednesday into the Dec. 29 crash that killed the pilot, Doug Demarest. A family spokeswoman said his death was a suicide.
  The plane struck the building that houses the law firm in which Demarest’s wife is a partner. The impact severed the plane’s right wing, which continued in
  
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