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• 60 years ago this week, a group of citizens created the Alaska we know today - Alaska Dispatch News

  30-01-2016 23:40
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  60 years ago this week, a group of citizens created the Alaska we know today
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  Vic Fischer's wife convinced him that as a young man, a recent immigrant and a newcomer to politics, he needed to campaign for election by going door to door, an idea that made him quite uncomfortable. Screwing up his courage, Fischer drove from ...
  

• News Minute: Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press - KHQ Right Now

  30-01-2016 11:38
  News Minute: Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press
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  BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Kristine Anigwe scored 27, Mikayla Cowling hit the go-ahead 3 with 5.2 seconds left and California escaped with a 74-71 win over Washington State on Friday night. Cowling, along with Courtney Range, added 18 points and Asha ...and more »
  

• Alaska police uncover tunnel system searching for fugitive - Fox News

  30-01-2016 10:31
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  Alaska police uncover tunnel system searching for fugitive
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  A fugitive convicted on drug and theft charges was arrested after authorities found him in an “elaborate tunnel system” underneath his Alaska trailer home Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT. The tunnels narrowed as the officers walked further through the system, ...
  Fugitive found in 'elaborate tunnel system' at Alaska trailer parkTBO.com
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• Want to Be Happier? Move to Alaska or Hawaii! - Youth Health Magzine

  30-01-2016 08:26
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  Want to Be Happier? Move to Alaska or Hawaii!
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  If you want a better sense of well-being, you might want to move to Hawaii or Alaska. Those two states came out on top in a new report on all 50 states based on their residents' reports of well-being. Hawaii has been a perennial top state in the ...and more »
  

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• Chris Thompson: Longtime Alaska priest Norman Elliott turns 97 - Alaska Dispatch News

  30-01-2016 07:15
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  Chris Thompson: Longtime Alaska priest Norman Elliott turns 97
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  The Venerable Norman H.V. Elliott remembers his long-time friend during a Solemn Mass of Christian Burial for Archbishop Emeritus Francis T. Hurley on Friday afternoon, January 22, 2016, at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish. Erik Hill / ADN. Well, it's ...
  

• Meet Alaska's climate change refugees - Quad-Cities Online

  30-01-2016 07:13
  Meet Alaska's climate change refugees
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  In the small town of Newtok, Alaska, a Yupik village of about 350 people, children once played on endless fields of frozen permafrost. Now, they splash in salt water pools and teeter on boardwalks as the permafrost below thaws and the Ninglick River ...
  

• Colorado Eagles Sean Zimmerman scores first goal in win over Alaska - Loveland Reporter-Herald

  30-01-2016 06:12
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  Colorado Eagles Sean Zimmerman scores first goal in win over Alaska
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  Colorado Eagles captain Trent Daavettila (45) celebrates a goal Friday night against the Alaska Aces. The Eagles won their fifth straight game, 5-2, as defenseman Sean Zimmerman scored his first two goals with the club. (Photo courtesy of Standout ...
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• Colorado Eagles top Alaska Aces for fifth straight win - The Coloradoan

  30-01-2016 05:54
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  Colorado Eagles top Alaska Aces for fifth straight win
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  The Colorado Eagles notched their fifth consecutive victory Friday night with a 5-2 win over the Alaska Aces at home. Colorado trailed 2-1 at the end of the first period, then responded with four unanswered goals. Sean Zimmerman scored his first and ...
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• Alaska prison guards union alleges bias in report on inmate deaths - Alaska Dispatch News

  30-01-2016 05:41
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  Alaska prison guards union alleges bias in report on inmate deaths
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  Larry Kobuk, 33, is seen being booked into the Anchorage Jail on Jan. 27, 2015, in this screengrab from a jail surveillance video. Kobuk died a short time later, after being pinned to the floor by guards. State of Alaska. The union representing state ...and more »
  

• Badger hockey defeats Alaska, 4-3 - Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3

  30-01-2016 04:50
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  Badger hockey defeats Alaska, 4-3
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  Ryan Wagner scored two goals to lead the Wisconsin Badgers defeated the Alaska Nanooks 4-3 in a men's hockey game at the Kohl Center Friday night. Related Content. More Recent Stories. Preview: Oklahoma at LSU · Preview: Tennessee at TCU ...
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• Alaska Democratic women lawmakers press gender-gap bill - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  30-01-2016 04:30
  Alaska Democratic women lawmakers press gender-gap bill
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  JUNEAU—Some Alaska legislators used the seventh anniversary of President Barack Obama's signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to make their own push to close the gender pay gap in the state. In a news conference hosted by the women of the ...and more »
  

• Recycling still works in Alaska -- if we do it right - Alaska Dispatch News

  30-01-2016 04:09
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  Recycling still works in Alaska -- if we do it right
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  OPINION: Recycling's benefits are a constant, but low energy prices and rejection of contaminated materials require a little more care in what we throw in the bins. Pictured: Piles of materials stand before sorting at Central Recycling Services in the ...
  

• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Jan. 29, 2016

  30-01-2016 04:05
  
  
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  LNG project faces “economic headwinds”
  Rachel Waldholz, APRN – AnchorageAs if lawmakers don’t have enough on their plates trying to close a $3.5 billion budget hole,  this week brought a reminder that the state is also tryi
  
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• Lawmakers hear Alaska LNG faces “significant economic headwinds”

  30-01-2016 03:30
  
  
   
  Members of the Senate Resources Committee heard testimony from representatives of ExxonMobil, BP and ConocoPhillips. Image courtesy of 360 North.
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  As if lawmakers don’t have enough on their plates trying to close a $3.5 billion budget hole, this week brought a reminder that the state is also trying to advance a natural gas mega — make that giga — project.
  That would be Alaska LNG, the effort to build a pipeline from the North Slope to Cook Inlet.
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• Lawmakers hear Alaska LNG faces “significant economic headwinds” - Alaska Public Radio Network

  30-01-2016 03:29
  Lawmakers hear Alaska LNG faces “significant economic headwinds”
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  Members of the Senate Resources Committee heard testimony from representatives of ExxonMobil, BP and ConocoPhillips. Image courtesy of 360 North. As if lawmakers don't have enough on their plates trying to close a $3.5 billion budget hole, this week ...and more »
  

• State legislature considers easing use of anti-opioid drug.

  30-01-2016 03:20
  
  
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  Thirty-three Alaskans died from heroin overdoses last year, a dramatic increase from just five years ago, when only four people died. Another 54 Alaskans died of prescription pain-reliever overdoses in 2015. Some of those deaths may have been prevented through the use of an opioid antidote, which can rapidly reverse overdoses.
  There is a legislative effort to make it easier for overdose victims to get the life-saving drug Naloxone.
  Some doctors feel comfortable prescribi
  
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• State says Moda members should keep paying premiums

  30-01-2016 03:12
  
  
  Lori Wing-Heier, the director of the Alaska Division of Insurance, discusses the circumstances of Moda Health’s departure from Alaska’s individual health insurance market, Jan. 29, 2016. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  The state division of insurance is working to reassure Moda health members today. The health insurer announced yesterday it’s pulling out of the individual market in Alaska and Oregon. That’s after both states put the company under supervision, citing the co
  
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• Two homicide victims identified by APD

  30-01-2016 03:06
  
  
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  Anchorage Police have released the names of the two victims found early Thursday morning on a beach near a local park. They are 19 year old Selina Annette Mullenax and 20 year old Foreignne Aubert-Morissette.
  Police are releasing few details in the case, including cause and time of death, pending autopsy results.
  Mullenax’s body was discovered by a person walking a dog near Earthquake park around 8:30 Thursday morning. Police arrived to investigate, and about an hour later,
  
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• Words with friends: Anchorage clerks arrange Assembly election

  30-01-2016 03:04
  
  
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  Anchorage voters will elect five of the city’s 11 Assembly members this April. Filing for those races opened Friday. City officials have devised an ingenious ritual to keep elections as fair and impartial as possible.
  The Clerk’s office isn’t exactly sure how long the Scrabble ritual has been going on. Barbara Jones guestimates the tiles are from a set that’s about ten years old. Photo: Zachariah Hughes.
  City Clerk Barbara Jones is surrounded by staff as sh
  
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• Kenai reportedly in safer economic waters than rest of Alaska - Alaska Public Radio Network

  30-01-2016 02:39
  Kenai reportedly in safer economic waters than rest of Alaska
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  In the economic hurricane brewing the state, economists see the Kenai Peninsula as a relatively safe port in the storm. The prevalent message at this year's Industry Outlook Forum so far has been, good news, bad news. The two-day event, put on by the ...and more »
  

• Kenai reportedly in safer economic waters than rest of Alaska

  30-01-2016 02:38
  
  In the economic hurricane brewing the state, economists see the Kenai Peninsula as a relatively safe port in the storm.
  The prevalent message at this year’s Industry Outlook Forum so far has been, good news, bad news.
  The two-day event, put on by the Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District, brings together speakers representing various sectors of the Kenai Peninsula’s economy.
  Alyssa Rodrigues, economist with the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce 
  
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• Alaska Museum of Science and Nature shuts down temporarily - Alaska Dispatch News

  30-01-2016 02:35
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  Alaska Museum of Science and Nature shuts down temporarily
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  Artist James Havens paints on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013, as he nears completion of a mural called "Steps in Time" that he started July 5 on the exterior of the Alaska Museum of Science & Nature on Bragaw Street in Mountain View. Bill Roth. The Alaska ...and more »
  

• Juneau police make arrest for 2014 Kenney murder

  30-01-2016 02:25
  
  Juneau Police Chief Bryce Johnson says the department has arrested a suspect in the November 2014 stabbing death of Christopher Kenney.
  Chris Kenney’s ashes sit next to one of his wood carvings on a table stand in his brother Rob Kenney’s house. (Photo by Lisa Phu, KTOO)
  Police have arrested 28-year-old Nora Edith Thomas, who was Kenney’s live-in girlfriend in Juneau at the time of his death. She’s accused of second degree murder.
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• Halibut commission boosts coast-wide catch limit

  30-01-2016 02:14
  
  The International Pacific Halibut Commission Friday approved an increase in halibut catch limits for most of the coast.
  The joint U.S. and Canadian body oversees management of the prized bottom fish from California to Alaska. The commission held its annual meeting in Juneau last week.
  Commissioners approved a coast-wide catch of just under 30 million pounds for 2016. That’s an increase of two point two percent from last year’s limits.
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• Alaska sends second draft of transboundary agreement to BC - KSTK

  30-01-2016 02:00
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  Alaska sends second draft of transboundary agreement to BC
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  Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott sent the second draft of a Statement of Cooperation to British Columbia officials last week as part of an ongoing effort to preserve water quality and fisheries of the Stikine, Taku, Unuk and Alsek rivers. Mallott said although ...
  

• Alaska Airlines offers flexible travel policy if you have flights to areas affected by Zika virus - Q13 FOX

  30-01-2016 01:31
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  Alaska Airlines offers flexible travel policy if you have flights to areas affected by Zika virus
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  SEATTLE — Alaska Airlines announced a flexible travel policy for customers with current reservations to destinations reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to be affected by the Zika virus. Those destinations are Liberia; Costa ...and more »
  

• Cargo ship sets sail for Alaska after delay - Alaska Dispatch News

  30-01-2016 01:05
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  Cargo ship sets sail for Alaska after delay
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  After a two-week delay, Tote Maritime Alaska's cargo ship the North Star has finally set sail from Tacoma, bound for Anchorage. The company said in a press release on Friday that the ship successfully completed sea trials before departing at 7 a.m ...and more »
  

• Arctic Skiing

  30-01-2016 01:00
  
  In rural Alaska, you don’t usually see a lot of skiers, but that doesn’t really make sense, because snow is something the Arctic has plenty of. On the next Outdoor explorer, we’ll be talking to Lars Flora, a former olympian who has dedicated himself to spreading skiing across Alaska like a Nordic Johnny Appleseed, Elizabeth Rexford, who is one of his volunteers, and Jim Vordestrasse, who started skiing in Barrow in 1973.
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