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• Alaska Senate leaders: We need guns on UA campuses - Alaska Dispatch News

  13-02-2016 21:48
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  Alaska Senate leaders: We need guns on UA campuses
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  Leaders of the Alaska Senate know what we need to improve higher education: Get more concealed guns in the dorms and classrooms of the University of Alaska. According to Fairbanks Sen. Pete Kelly, the UA Board of Regents is infringing on the right of ...
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• 2 Alaska chefs to showcase state's seafood at prestigious NYC dinner - Alaska Dispatch News

  13-02-2016 20:42
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  2 Alaska chefs to showcase state's seafood at prestigious NYC dinner
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  Two Alaska chefs are headed to New York City to show off their skills at one of the nation's prestigious culinary institutions. Denali Park chef Laura Cole of 229 Parks Restaurant and Tavern and Juneau's Beau Schooler of The Rookery Café will host a ...and more »
  

• Getting familiar with Alaska fishermen - Alaska Dispatch News

  13-02-2016 20:19
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  Getting familiar with Alaska fishermen
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  Small-scale Southeast Alaska fisherman Tele Aadsen, taking during the summer of 2013. She has written extensively about women in the commercial fishing industry. Tele Aadsen. Fishing lives and fishing wives are set to be showcased for a national ...and more »
  

• Research Finds Harmful Algae Toxins in Alaska Marine Mammals - ABC News

  13-02-2016 08:35
  Research Finds Harmful Algae Toxins in Alaska Marine Mammals
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  A review of more than 900 marine mammals hunted, stranded or captured for research along Alaska's coast has found toxins from harmful algae in 13 species, creating concern that the natural poisonous substances could increase as water temperatures ...and more »
  

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• Blizzard strikes Alaska's northern-most coastal towns Friday - KTUU.com

  13-02-2016 06:31
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  Blizzard strikes Alaska's northern-most coastal towns Friday
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  A blizzard struck Alaska's northern-most communities Friday, with the National Weather Service warning residents of the Arctic Coast to prepare for freezing wind gusts up to 45 miles per hour. Children in Barrow stayed home, as schools called a rare ...and more »
  

• Project to deliver high-speed Internet to Alaska Arctic ramps up - Alaska Dispatch News

  13-02-2016 04:28
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  Project to deliver high-speed Internet to Alaska Arctic ramps up
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  A map depicting the expected distribution of an undersea cable to connect communities in Arctic Alaska to high-speed Internet (click to enlarge). Quintillion. The main part of a project that aims to deliver high-speed Internet to Northern and Western ...and more »
  

• Guarantee Alaska's PFD -- and an income tax -- in the constitution - Alaska Dispatch News

  13-02-2016 04:28
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  Guarantee Alaska's PFD -- and an income tax -- in the constitution
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  OPINION: If Alaska's lawmakers won't act on PFD and income tax, maybe they can let Alaska's people do the job. It's no secret that most of the politicians in Juneau look longingly at the Alaska Permanent Fund to solve the current budget crisis. That's ...
  Permanent Fund up in second quarter, down year-to-dateAlaskajournal.comall 2 news articles »
  

• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Feb. 12, 2016

  13-02-2016 03:50
  
  
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  FAA break-up bill clears US House committee
  Liz Ruskin, APRN – Washington D.C.A bill to privatize the nation’s air traffic controllers cleared the Transportation Committee in the U.S. House last night. Rep. Don Young says he amended it to p
  
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• Nicholas Begich III challenging Amy Demboski for Anchorage Assembly

  13-02-2016 03:40
  
  Nicholas Begich III challenging Amy Demboski for Anchorage Assembly Nicholas Begich III, the son of Nick Begich Jr. and the nephew of former U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, is running against incumbent Amy Demboski for an Assembly seat in Chugiak-Eagle River.  He is a registered Republican.February 12, 2016
  
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• Nicholas Begich III and Blake Merrifield file for Anchorage Assembly

  13-02-2016 03:40
  
  Nicholas Begich III and Blake Merrifield file for Anchorage Assembly Two candidates filed at the last minute Friday to challenge Assemblywoman Amy Demboski for her Chugiak-Eagle River seat: Nicholas Begich III, a nephew of former U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, and Blake Merrifield, a former candidate for state House. February 12, 2016
  
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• Traveling Music 2-21-16

  13-02-2016 03:35
  
  Traveling Music
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  2-21-16
   
  Format:
  Song TitleArtist / Composer
  CD Title
  Label
  Duration
   
  Wild Blossoms
  Nancy Conescu / Nancy Conescu
  Wild Blossoms
  Stinging Nettles Music
  3:11
   
  The Scarlet Tide
  Alison Krauss / T-Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello
  Cold Mountain
  Sony UK
  2:59
   
  Rain or Shine (banjo instrumental)
  Alison Brown / Brown, Burr
  The Company You Keep
  Compass
  4:17
   
  Spring and All
  Mary Chapin Carpenter / Greg Brown
  Going Driftless
  Red House Records
  3:38
   
  
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• Solutions sought for lack of detox beds in South central Alaska

  13-02-2016 02:53
  
  The Ernie Turner Center in Anchorage. (Credit: Wayde Carroll Photography)
  More than 60 people seek detox beds in Anchorage every day, but only 14 are available. The director of the Ernie Turner Center, the only detox provider in the area, says it’s a huge problem. A coalition of Anchorage congregations, AFACT, is hosting a town hall meeting Monday night to talk about solutions.
  Detox centers provide medical and emotional support for people who are trying to rid their bodies of alcohol or d
  
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• Petersburg inmate caught by police

  13-02-2016 02:38
  
  Petersburg Police have apprehended an inmate who escaped from the Petersburg jail Friday morning.
  Jacob Sturgeon (Photo courtesy of the Petersburg Police Department)
  Police chief Kelly Swihart says officers arrested 22-year-old Jacob Sturgeon of Petersburg just before 4 p.m. Friday in a shed behind a home on Lumber Street near downtown Petersburg. Swihart says Sturgeon was on the second floor of that shed and officers used pepper spray to get him to come out an
  
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• State senator introduces bill to limit late-term abortions

  13-02-2016 02:33
  
  State senator introduces bill to limit late-term abortions Senate Majority Leader John Coghill introduced a bill Friday that would require doctors to determine whether a fetus could survive outside the womb before performing an abortion.February 12, 2016
  
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• Humane society addresses uproar over Coco’s last day

  13-02-2016 02:21
  
  A couple gave up their dog to Juneau’s animal shelter on a Saturday morning in December. That same evening, they had a change of heart and wanted the dog back, but it was too late. The dog had already been euthanized.
  Coco was a small, long-haired Chihuahua mix. (Photo courtesy of Gordon Garlock)
  Gastineau Humane Society called the dog aggressive and not a viable candidate for adoption. The Juneau couple wishes they’d been notified before the dog was put down.
  “She was just our
  
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• KPC graduate takes first job with BlueCrest

  13-02-2016 01:58
  
  BlueCrest Energy pledged to hire four Kenai Peninsula College graduates to work at their drilling site near Anchor Point. The company made good on its promise. One of BlueCrest’s local hires says the job is the next step in what he hopes will be a promising career.
  Jayce Robertson (Photo by Quinton Chandler, KBBI – Homer)
   Jayce Robertson has worked a lot of different jobs over the past 10 years.
  “…construction – residential and commercial construction –
  
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• Chugach National Forest Town Hall Meeting

  13-02-2016 01:00
  
  Photo by Erin McKittrick; Creative Commons license
  Chugach National Forest, and especially Prince William Sound, takes in some of the most extraordinary scenery and protected wilderness in Alaska, if not the entire United States. Charles Wohlforth shares what he learned when he attended the Chugach National Forest town hall meeting, hosted by the Sierra Club.  The U.S. Forest Service discusses their update of the forest plan, and you’ll hear from people who think that’s bot
  
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• Leverage your leopard: the biz behind Alaska’s only zoo

  13-02-2016 00:42
  
  If you’ve ever wanted to feed a snow leopard, a moose, or a pack of wolves, this year you’ve got a chance. Albeit, for a tidy sum.
  It’s part of a package deal at the Alaska Zoo–one piece in a funding strategy particular to non-profits in the high north: Finding ways to bring in extra cash during the long, lean winter months ahead of tourist season.On a recent Monday afternoon, zookeeper Timothy Lescher split a side of caribou ribs with a hand-saw.
  “I
  
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• Sass first to leave Dawson in Yukon Quest

  13-02-2016 00:14
  
  It was warm and misty on the Yukon River as Brent Sass left Dawson City with thirteen dogs just after midnight.
  Brent Sass feeding his dogs. (Photo by Molly Rettig, KUAC – Fairbanks)
  Snowdrifts, ice melt and gold mines are just a few things mushers have to look out for in the second half of the Yukon Quest. The warm weather has caused some of the glaciated hillsides to melt onto the trail. Allen Moore said he was hoping to get through before it gets too bad.
  “Right now they’re
  
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