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• Report: 50 percent of Alaska women report abuse by partner

  03-03-2016 22:33
  
  A new study says that half of women in Alaska say they have experienced intimate partner violence, sexual violence or both.
  KTUU-TV reports that the study from the University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center shows that 50 percent of women in 2015 reported having been subject to threats of physical violence or actual physical violence at some point in their lives. That figure is a decrease from the nearly 57 percent reported during a similar study in 2010.
  According to the report, intimate part
  
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• State moves to ban non-citizens from getting senior benefits

  03-03-2016 22:32
  
  State officials want to change eligibility requirements that now allow non-citizens to collect monthly senior benefits.
  The proposed change from Gov. Bill Walker and the state health department would remove 16 people from the program that pays monthly benefits to low-income senior citizens. It would save the state about $43,000 annually.
  Most of those who would be affected have not met the five-year residency requirement to receive benefits. Three others have moved to Alaska but don’t plan
  
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• Legislator propose changing age for school attendance

  03-03-2016 22:31
  
  A state legislator from Nome wants to change the ages for compulsory school attendance in Alaska public schools.
  Rep. Neal Foster has proposed legislation calling for attendance by children from age 6 and until they turn 18. Foster says he thinks age five would be better but thinks it’s reasonable to change the youngest age to six.
  Compulsory attendance under current law is for children between the ages of seven and 16.
  Nowadays, Foster says people are expected to graduate high school at a
  
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• Kodiak resident appointed interim deputy commissioner of Alaska Department of Education

  03-03-2016 22:09
  
  A long-time Kodiak resident and former school administrator recently stepped into the position of Interim Deputy Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development. Betty Walters began her new set of responsibilities Wednesday.
  Walters, who is originally from New York City, served as a school administrator in the Kodiak Island Borough School District for more than twenty years and, before yesterday, was the administrator for the Alaska Statewide Mentor Project, which provid
  
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• Angoon mayor unsatisfied with state response to tainted subsistence seal

  03-03-2016 22:07
  
  Angoon’s Mayor Albert Howard is trying to protect his village’s way of life. (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/KTOO)
  Hawk Inlet is healthy according to state officials. That’s the message Angoon received about three weeks after concerns were raised about high levels of mercury found in a subsistence seal. But Angoon’s mayor doesn’t feel comforted by the report.
  In the 20-page document, the state agencies say they appreciate the “citizen science” used to d
  
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• Reporter’s roundtable: Super Tuesday

  03-03-2016 19:00
  
  
  Republican voters in 12 states went to the polls to indicate which of the Republican candidates they want for the 2016 presidential race. On this week’s Alaska Edition, we review the results of the Republican poll, and what impact Alaska’s support may or may not have on a national level.
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  HOST: Ellen Lockyer
  GUESTS:John Aronno, Political Commentator, Alaska Commons
  Zachariah Hughes, Reporter, Alaska Public Media
  Richard Mauer, Reporter, Alaska Dispatch NewsKSKA (FM 91
  
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• It's So Warm in Alaska Snow Has to Be Brought in by Train for Iditarod - EcoWatch

  03-03-2016 16:48
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  It's So Warm in Alaska Snow Has to Be Brought in by Train for Iditarod
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  Don't miss out. Stay Informed. Get EcoWatch's Top News of the Day. Email. This winter has been shockingly warm in the Arctic, producing one of the mildest winters on record for Alaska. According to the National Centers for Environmental Information, ...and more »
  

• Mitt Romney: Trump is a 'phony ... playing the American public for suckers'

  03-03-2016 16:12
  
  Mitt Romney: Trump is a 'phony ... playing the American public for suckers' Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, delivered a sharp broadside against Donald Trump on Thursday, slamming the GOP's leading candidate as pandemonium sweeps the Republican Party.March 3, 2016
  
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• Mitt Romney: 'Trump is a phony, a fraud' who is 'playing the American public for suckers'

  03-03-2016 16:12
  
  Mitt Romney: 'Trump is a phony, a fraud' who is 'playing the American public for suckers' Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, plans to deliver a sharp broadside against Donald Trump on Thursday, slamming the GOP's leading candidate as pandemonium sweeps the Republican Party.March 3, 2016
  
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• Alaska's Biotech Sugar Daddy Is Showering Money on Startups - Bloomberg

  03-03-2016 13:15
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  Alaska's Biotech Sugar Daddy Is Showering Money on Startups
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  Alaska's economic eminence stems from the discovery of oil on the North Slope in the 1960s. But its more recent crown as a biotech sugar daddy started in March 2013 with a chance meeting on a flight from Boston to Seattle. David Fallace, then head of ...and more »
  

• It hasn't snowed enough in Alaska this year for the Iditarod to start properly - Quartz

  03-03-2016 13:01
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  It hasn't snowed enough in Alaska this year for the Iditarod to start properly
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  Every year, dozens of tough-as-nails mushers and their equally resilient sled dogs race 1,000 miles through the brutal Alaskan wilderness in the Iditarod. Sled dog races, of course, require that there be snow on the ground. The race is supposed to kick ...
  Alaska's epic dog race, the Iditarod, is being artificialized by lack of snowFusionall 8 news articles »
  

• Report: 50 percent of Alaska women report abuse by partner - Bowling Green Daily News

  03-03-2016 11:31
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  Report: 50 percent of Alaska women report abuse by partner
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A new study says that half of women in Alaska say they have experienced intimate partner violence, sexual violence or both. KTUU-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1UAVwNg ) that the study from the University of Alaska Anchorage ...
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• Can an Independent Immigration Lawyer Win in Alaska? - Roll Call (registration)

  03-03-2016 11:04
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  Can an Independent Immigration Lawyer Win in Alaska?
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  Stock (third from left), a respected legal scholar, has previously testified before Congress. (CQ Roll Call). While Alaska Democrats do not currently have anyone to run against incumbent Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the party is working to allow ...
  

• Alaska needs university research and education - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  03-03-2016 10:06
  Alaska needs university research and education
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  To survive the present and thrive in coming years, Alaska must transition its economy — transition from a state that derives most of its capital by grasping at the export value of a single resource, oil, to one that generates wealth by applying ...
  

• First oil flows from Alaska reserve set aside in '23 - WRAL.com

  03-03-2016 08:13
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  First oil flows from Alaska reserve set aside in '23
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  NUIQSUT, Alaska — Rising from the edgeless, wind-scoured, snow-covered tundra on Alaska's North Slope lies a million-pound drilling rig pulling the first commercial oil from a reserve set aside nearly a century ago. ConocoPhillips is the first oil ...
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• First Oil Flows From Alaska Reserve Set Aside in '23 - ABC News

  03-03-2016 08:07
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  First Oil Flows From Alaska Reserve Set Aside in '23
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  Rising from the edgeless, wind-scoured, snow-covered tundra on Alaska's North Slope lies a million-pound drilling rig pulling the first commercial oil from a reserve set aside nearly a century ago. ConocoPhillips is the first oil company to draw crude ...
  First Oil Pumped from Alaska ReserveUSA TODAYall 7 news articles »
  

• Studies uncertain on how adaptable Alaska crab species are to ocean acidification - Alaska Dispatch News

  03-03-2016 05:50
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  Studies uncertain on how adaptable Alaska crab species are to ocean acidification
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  That's according to the findings of two recent studies from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that examined the effects of acidification on Tanner and blue king crab in the state's waters. One of those studies found Tanner crab larvae ...
  

• Alaska doctor overcame sexism for adventure and tough cases - Alaska Dispatch News

  03-03-2016 05:42
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  Alaska doctor overcame sexism for adventure and tough cases
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  Dr. Nancy Sydnam began practicing medicine in Anchorage in 1955, worked on the Yukon and in the Aleutians, and retired in 2010, at age 81. She is being inducted in the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame. Marc Lester / ADN. Dr. Nancy Sydnam had to postpone ...
  

• Engine overhaul stalls ferry sale

  03-03-2016 04:55
  
  Mat Su’s ferry, Susitna is in Seattle , awaiting repairs, but so far, the Borough Assembly is balking about paying for four engine overhauls. This week’s Matanuska Susitna Borough Assembly meeting made little progress on finding a final resolution for the ailing ship.It is a little like peeling an onion.. one layer only reveals another layer. And at Tuesday night’s Mat Su Borough Assembly meeting, Assembly members got new information about how those repairs need to proceed. Ear
  
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• Clinton and Sanders campaigns gear up for Alaska Democratic caucuses - Alaska Dispatch News

  03-03-2016 04:50
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  Clinton and Sanders campaigns gear up for Alaska Democratic caucuses
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  Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, smiles as Sen. Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, speaks during the CNN Democratic presidential debate Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher). With the dust barely settled from Alaska's Super Tuesday ...
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  Ted Cruz narrowly defeats Trump in Alaska's Super
  

• Clinton and Sanders campaigns gear up for Alaska Democratic caucuses

  03-03-2016 04:45
  
  Clinton and Sanders campaigns gear up for Alaska Democratic caucusesWith about four weeks until the Alaska Democratic caucuses, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are opening campaign offices in the state. March 2, 2016
  
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• Murkowski: Where’s that Arctic port?

  03-03-2016 04:26
  
  
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  When President Obama was in Alaska last year, he said he wanted to advance plans for a deepwater port in the Alaskan Arctic, possibly in Nome. Today, Sen. Lisa Murkowski followed up on that with the head of the Army Corps of Engineers.
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski speaks on the senate floor. (YouTube screenshot/Sen. Lisa Murkowski)
  “Given the President’s support for this, why have we not included construction funding going forward in this next fiscal year?”Murkowski asked
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Mar. 2, 2016 - Alaska Public Radio Network

  03-03-2016 04:22
  Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Mar. 2, 2016
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  When President Obama was in Alaska last year, he said he wanted to advance plans for a deepwater port in the Alaskan Arctic, possibly in Nome. Today, Sen. Lisa Murkowski followed up on that with the head of the Army Corps of Engineers. Why Alaska ...and more »
  

• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Mar. 2, 2016

  03-03-2016 04:21
  
  
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  Murkowski seeks funding for deep-water port in Alaska
  Liz Ruskin, APRN – Washington D.C.
  When President Obama was in Alaska last year, he said he wanted to advance plans for a deepwater port in the Alaskan Arctic, possibly in Nome. Toda
  
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• Warm winter changes nature of seal hunting

  03-03-2016 04:19
  
  
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  The warm winter has extended far north of Anchorage as well. The spring season for bearded seals, or ugruk, has come nearly two months early for some hunters in Western Alaska.  Warm weather makes the hunt a little easier, but locals are concerned about precarious sea ice and unpredictable weather.
  
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• Why Alaska Republicans chose Cruz (and Trump, too)

  03-03-2016 04:17
  
  
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  Alaska Republicans chose Texas Sen. Ted Cruz as their presidential candidate Tuesday — bucking the trend on a night when Donald Trump took seven states. Cruz received over 36 percent of the vote, with Trump taking about 34 percent.
  More surprising than the results was the record-breaking turnout.
  At 21,930 voters, the turnout for the Alaska GOP’s Presidential Preference Poll exceeded the 2012 record — 14,100 votes — by 57  perc
  
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• Legislature proposes new state bank

  03-03-2016 04:16
  
  
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  Two Democratic state legislators are proposing a state bank. Fairbanks Representative Scott Kawasaki and Anchorage Representative Chris Tuck say House Bill 364 would help fill state coffers and aid small business.
  Representative Scott Kawasaki says he and Representative Chris Tuck modeled their bill on North Dakota’s bank, the only state bank in the nation. Kawasaki says it’s been in operation for almost a century. The idea is for the bank to make loans to Alaskans who
  
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• Alaska’s credit downgraded from AAA to AA1

  03-03-2016 04:07
  
  
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  The Moody’s credit rating agency has downgraded Alaska’s credit rating, affecting more than $744 million of outstanding general obligation bond debt.
  Citing heightened volatility in the state’s revenues and an unprecedented imbalance caused by the state’s reliance on oil prices, the ratings agency assigned drop Alaska from an AAA to an AA1.
  According to the agency’s credit opinion, even if the state cuts spending significantly it cannot keep pace with
  
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• Time for another approach on Alaska gas line fiscal certainty - Alaska Dispatch News

  03-03-2016 04:05
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  Time for another approach on Alaska gas line fiscal certainty
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  Alaskans have just been told gas line contract negotiations have not progressed satisfactorily. Thus, there is no time left to get a constitutional amendment allowing a vote on fiscal certainty on the 2016 ballot. The proposed amendment would provide ...and more »
  

• Are Alaska lawmakers heading toward another end-of-session meltdown? - Alaska Dispatch News

  03-03-2016 04:05
  Are Alaska lawmakers heading toward another end-of-session meltdown?
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  JUNEAU — Alaska lawmakers say they're taking steps to avoid repeating last year's disastrous budget gridlock, which lasted nearly two months through a pair of special sessions. But House minority Democrats, whose support is needed to unlock the state ...and more »
  

• Alaska stores apparently spared as Sports Authority declares bankruptcy - Alaska Dispatch News

  03-03-2016 04:05
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  Alaska stores apparently spared as Sports Authority declares bankruptcy
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  Sports Authority announced Wednesday that it would close 140 stores, but the Alaska locations -- including this one in South Anchorage -- will apparently be spared, according to store managers. Erik Hill / Alaska Dispatch News. Colorado-based sporting ...and more »
  

• Justice Center: Fewer Alaska women report sexual violence, abuse by partner - KTUU.com

  03-03-2016 03:37
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  Justice Center: Fewer Alaska women report sexual violence, abuse by partner
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  Half of adult women in Alaska – 50.3 percent – say they have experienced intimate partner violence, sexual violence, or both, at some point in their lifetimes. That's according to a new survey conducted by the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA ...
  

• Whatcom Museum returns sacred blanket to tribes of Alaska - The Bellingham Herald

  03-03-2016 02:22
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  Whatcom Museum returns sacred blanket to tribes of Alaska
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  Participants look at a Tlingit Chilkat blanket that had been in the Whatcom Museum collection for 40 years. The blanket was returned to the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska in a repatriation ceremony Friday, Feb. 19 ...
  

• Mat-Su ferry stalled out in Seattle as Assembly delays repair funding

  03-03-2016 02:10
  
  Mat-Su ferry stalled out in Seattle as Assembly delays repair funding After a heated debate, the borough assembly on Tuesday decided to delay a decision to transfer $1.9 million from a land management fund to pay for an engine overhaul needed before the beleaguered boat can finally be sold.March 2, 2016
  
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• Alaska Air joins airlines hoping to fly to Cuba - The Seattle Times

  03-03-2016 00:45
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  Alaska Air joins airlines hoping to fly to Cuba
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  Alaska Airlines said Wednesday it has applied to fly two daily nonstop flights from its Latin America gateway of Los Angeles to Havana. Share story. By Ángel González. Seattle Times business reporter. Alaska Airlines is one of eight U.S. airlines to ...
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