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• Video: Alaska Native students learn how to reduce heating costs - Alaska Dispatch News

  23-01-2016 05:49
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  Video: Alaska Native students learn how to reduce heating costs
  Alaska Dispatch News
  A group of middle school students from western Alaska visited Anchorage this week to get a glimpse of a college existence, and to learn fundamentals of science, technology, engineering and math, also known as STEM. STEM is a worldwide movement that ...and more »
  

• Traveling Music 1-31-16

  23-01-2016 05:22
  
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  1-31-16
   
  Format:
  Song TitleArtist / Composer
  CD Title
  Label
  Duration
   
  Weather With You
  Andrea Zonn / Neil Finn, Tim Finn
  Love Goes On
  Compass Records
  3:33
   
  Jump The Broom
  Adrienne Young and Little Sadie / Adrienne Young and Will Kimbrough
  The Art of Virtue
  Addabelle Records
  3:37
   
  You Are What I Am
  J.D. Crowe and the New South / Gordon Lightfoot
  J.D. Crowe and the New South
  Rounder
  2:17
   
  Somebody More Like You
  Nickel Creek / Sean Watkins
  
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• Federal Agency Calls for Research Into Alaska Seabird Deaths - ABC News

  23-01-2016 04:53
  Federal Agency Calls for Research Into Alaska Seabird Deaths
  ABC News
  A federal laboratory that assesses disease in wildlife is calling for more research into the deaths of thousands of common murres and other seabirds off Alaska's coast. The National Wildlife Health Center, part of the U.S. Geological Survey, on Friday ...and more »
  

• Alaska students find comfort from Hope Squads - Daily Herald

  23-01-2016 04:04
  Daily Herald
  Alaska students find comfort from Hope Squads
  Daily Herald
  Students from Mountain Village, Alaska visited the Hope Squad at Pleasant Grove High School this week. 2016-01-22T20:00:00Z Alaska students find comfort from Hope SquadsLaura Giles Daily Herald. 3 minutes ago • Laura Giles · 0. Last year, students at ...
  

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• Sen. Gardner: Lawmakers need committee to vet budget bills

  23-01-2016 03:40
  
  
  Senate Minority Leader Berta Gardner introduced legislation yesterday to create a permanent Ways and Means committee in the Senate. It’s a companion to a bill introduced by Rep. Sam Kito, a Democrat from Juneau, in the House earlier this week.
  Sen. Berta Gardner. (Photo by Josh Edge, APRN – Anchorage)
  I spoke with Gardner as part of a series of conversations with Legislative leaders this week. She says the committee would provide a forum where legislators can understand the cost
  
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• On methane, Alaska tells feds to clean up their act first - Alaska Public Radio Network

  23-01-2016 03:38
  On methane, Alaska tells feds to clean up their act first
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  The Interior Department has proposed new rules aimed at reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. Download Audio. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and oil and gas production is a significant source. The Obama Administration wants ...and more »
  

• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Jan. 22, 2016

  23-01-2016 03:37
  
  
  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
   
  Sen. Gardner: Lawmakers need committee to vet budget bills
  Lori Townsend, APRN – Anchorage
  Senate Minority Leader Berta Gardner introduced legislation yesterday to create a permanent ways and means committee in the Senate. It’s a com
  
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• On methane, Alaska tells feds to clean up their act first

  23-01-2016 03:34
  
  
  The Interior Department has proposed new rules aimed at reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.
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  Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and oil and gas production is a significant source. The Obama Administration wants to cut methane emissions from the industry by 45 percent within a decade.
  The proposed new rules won’t have much impact in Alaska. They apply to operations on federal land, while the vast majority of drilling here takes place on state l
  
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• Alaska soldiers talk Bergdahl, Serial podcast

  23-01-2016 03:33
  
  
  A picture of then-Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl. Photo from United States Army via Wikimedia Commons
  Alaska soldiers are weighing in on Bowe Bergdahl, an Army infantryman who was part of a unit within the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry division stationed at Fort Richardson when he walked away from his post in Afghanistan in 2009.
  Bergdahl’s case has drawn national attention, and is even the focus of season two of Serial, a wildly popular podcast. But what soldiers are saying ab
  
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• Home sales fell in several Alaska markets at the end of last year - Alaska Dispatch News

  23-01-2016 03:25
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  Home sales fell in several Alaska markets at the end of last year
  Alaska Dispatch News
  In Anchorage, home sales were down 3.5 percent at the end of 2015 compared to the same time in 2014. In Anchorage, Fairbanks, Southeast Alaska and the upper part of the Kenai Peninsula, home sales dipped in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to data ...
  

• Denali Park proposes to better protect wolves

  23-01-2016 02:19
  
  Denali National Park and two conservation groups are asking the Alaska Board of Game to consider proposals aimed at better protecting park wolves. The proposals are not currently in line for review until next year.
  A wolf carrying a caribou leg. (File photo: NPS)
  Denali National Park chief of resources Dave Shirokauer says the park’s proposal would eliminate overlap of state spring wolf hunting and bear baiting seasons along the parks northeast boundary.
  “We do know that two members
  
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• Buser dropped to last, dinged with 2 penalties

  23-01-2016 01:51
  
  Martin Buser has been dropped to last place and without prize money for this year’s Kuskokwim 300. The race committee made the decision yesterday after reviewing evidence of Buser committing two penalties: leaving the trail and receiving help to feed his dogs.
  Martin Buser at the 2016 K300 Mushers Meeting. (Photo by Chris Pike.)
  Before the race, Race Marshal Nels Alexie warned the mushers that teams who veered from the trail would receive harsh penalties.
  K300 Board Chairman and Race Co-Fo
  
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• Bill to update Alaska Military Code of Justice advances - Washington Times

  23-01-2016 01:40
  Bill to update Alaska Military Code of Justice advances
  Washington Times
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - A bill to update Alaska's Uniform Code of Military Justice is making progress through the state House, advancing Friday from a judiciary committee review. It is expected to be scheduled for a vote by the full House. Lawmakers ...and more »
  

• Mass seabird deaths prompt federal attention

  23-01-2016 01:36
  
  Common Murres, like the one held by FWS Leslie Slater on the beach along the Spit in Homer, are turning up along beaches all around the Kachemak Bay area. (Photo: Leslie Slater, FWS) 
  A federal agency is calling for more research into large-scale mortality of common murres and other seabirds off Alaska’s coast.
  The National Wildlife Health Center, an arm of the U.S. Geological Survey that assesses the impact of disease on wildlife, on Friday issued a wildlife bulletin on the deaths of
  
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• For a few Alaska fish, 1964 earthquake spurred rapid evolution - Alaska Dispatch News

  23-01-2016 01:36
  Alaska Dispatch News
  For a few Alaska fish, 1964 earthquake spurred rapid evolution
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Oceanic (top) and freshwater (bottom) stickleback collected from a pond on Middleton Island show distinctions between two populations. The top fish in each pair is female (their abdomens are swollen with eggs) and the bottom is male. Courtesy Emily Lescak.and more »
  

• KSKA Program Schedule: Freakonomics, Reveal & More, Oh My!

  23-01-2016 01:01
  
  Freakonomics Radio will air on KSKA Mondays 7-8 p.m.
  Change is in the air, listeners. And it’s an exciting time to be a public radio station! Programs like Reveal and Freakonomics that were once only available sporadically are now available weekly. KSKA-Anchorage is adding those programs to its weeknight line-up along with fresh storytelling from The Moth Radio Hour.
  The 7:00 p.m. repeat of Fresh Air with Terry Gross will now play at 10:00 p.m. weeknights. The 7:00 p.m. bloc
  
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• Wilderness Medicine

  23-01-2016 01:00
  
  The nightmare of anyone leading a backcountry trip, with your family or other people relying on you, is that someone is seriously hurt, falls in the water, or gets too cold. You can’t get the person to a doctor for many hours or even days. You just don’t know what to do. On the next Outdoor Explore, we’re going to talk about that terrifying situation and how to solve it. We’re talking about wilderness medicine with Dr. Andy Elsberg, who is an experienced outdoors man
  
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• Northern Lights 300 pack heads to Finger Lake

  23-01-2016 00:16
  
  The Northern Lights 300 got underway at noon Friday, despite questionable snow conditions earlier this month. The sled dog race started in Big Lake at Martin Buser’s Happy Trail Kennels and will take mushers and their teams to Yentna, and Finger Lake than back to Big Lake.
  Race organizer Sue Allen says crisp temperatures at the race’s start are creating ideal conditions.
  “Really a beautiful day for racing, perfect for dogs. A little icy in our take off chute, but the trail is v
  
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• Murkowski sees departures, promotions of top staff

  23-01-2016 00:08
  
  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski today announced a slew of staff changes. Current and former employees say the timing of the multiple departures is coincidental, but the change begins at the top.
  For those of you keeping score at home, sharpen your pencils: Michael Pawlowski, will take over as Murkowski’s chief of staff. Pawlowski, better known in Alaska as “Fish,” has been working for Murkowski in Washington for a little more than a year.  He is a former Alaska legislative aide a
  
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