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• Shooting outside Dimond Courthouse leaves one woman dead

  07-03-2016 23:54
  
  A gunshot that rang outside the Dimond Courthouse late this morning has left one woman dead and rattled nerves in the heart of the Capitol City.
  Juneau police outside the Dimond Courthouse, where a woman died from a gunshot wound. (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/KTOO)
  Reports of the shooting came in just after 11 a.m. today. Police think 34-year-old Miranda Ellen Davison shot herself in the chest with a handgun. No one else was hurt.
  Davison was in the news last year after taking a hatchet to f
  
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• Alaska Senate asks for budget feedback

  07-03-2016 22:35
  Alaska Senate asks for budget feedbackDo you think the Alaska Senate is proposing cuts to state government that go too deep? Not far enough? The Senate Finance Committee wants your feedback and has scheduled nearly two full days of public testimony to listen, starting Monday.March 7, 2016
  
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• Neff first out of Rainy Pass, takes lead

  07-03-2016 22:19
  
  After arriving to Rainy Pass, Hugh Neff wasted no time in getting back on the trail.
  Hugh Neff at the ceremonial Iditarod start. Neff was the first racer out of Rainy Pass. (Photo by Pat Yack, APRN – Anchorage)
  Neff arrived third into Rainy Pass, but was the first musher to leave. He stayed just long enough to get a brief veterinary exam and was on his way.
  Nicholas Petit was the first racer into Rainy Pass with Dallas Seavey arriving second.
  
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• Alaska Airlines is adjusting a plane's flight plan so passengers can see tomorrow's solar eclipse - The Verge

  07-03-2016 21:49
  The Verge
  Alaska Airlines is adjusting a plane's flight plan so passengers can see tomorrow's solar eclipse
  The Verge
  Lucky passengers on tomorrow's Alaska Airlines Flight 870 will get a special sight when they look out the window: a total solar eclipse. The flight from Anchorage to Honolulu purposefully adjusted its departure time so that the plane's passengers could ...
  Alaska Airlines changes Anchorage-Honolulu flight to catch total solar eclipseGeekWire
  Solar eclipse sweeps across Asia, Pac
  

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• Algo Nuevo: March 6, 2016

  07-03-2016 21:00
  
  Here’s the Sunday, March 6th, 2016 edition of Algo Nuevo con Dave Luera — Something New with Dave Luera.
  If you have questions, comments or music requests for host Dave Luera, send email to [email protected] or post your comment at the bottom of this post.
  All tracks played are listed below in the following format:
  Song TitleArtist NameAlbum TitleCD LabelDuration
   
  Europa
  Santana
  The Best of Santana
  Columbia
  506
   
  Ron Y Coca Cola
  Louie Martinez
  Sin Fronteras
  LPCVM
  
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• Encore: Faces of Alaska – Martin Buser

  07-03-2016 20:00
  
  Four-time Iditarod champion Martin Buser has become an Alaskan icon through his exploits behind a dogsled team.
  While much has been written about the Swiss-born musher, many have never heard the story of Buser deciding to make a life for himself and his family in Alaska and his long road to becoming a U.S. citizen.
  Alaska Public Media’s Lori Townsend sat down with Buser at Happy Trails Kennel in Big Lake, Alaska to talk about what it takes to build a career and business around mushing in
  
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• Walker administration reviewed but didn't pursue Slope gas-to-liquids pitch

  07-03-2016 19:49
  
  Walker administration reviewed but didn't pursue Slope gas-to-liquids pitch Gov. Bill Walker's administration had a consultant evaluate a pitch to turn North Slope gas to gasoline and ship it through the trans-Alaska pipeline. But a Walker spokeswoman says the idea was scuttled because it didn't pencil out.March 7, 2016
  
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• Jan Steves scratches in Skwentna

  07-03-2016 18:49
  
  Jan Steves, pictured here at the Sunday race start, scratched from Iditarod 44 after reportedly crashing. Photo by Ben Matheson / Alaska Public Media.Iditarod veteran Jan Steves, of Willow, scratched early this morning at the Skwentna checkpoint – 83 miles into the race.
  Steves reportedly suffered broken ribs and dislocated collarbone after a crash on her way into the Skwentna checkpoint.
  According to a press release, due to the injury she was concerned she would not be able to c
  
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• Teams work out the kinks in the Iditarod’s early stages

  07-03-2016 18:42
  
  (Photo by Patrick Yack/Alaska Public Media)
  It was busy overnight in Skwentna as teams passed through the second checkpoint on the Iditarod Trail and made their way into the Alaska Range.
  Teams are shaking out the kinks early as they settle into race mode.
  Spectators stood around a blazing orange, crackling bonfire. They swigged beer and swung their hips in time as a live band played a few tunes. Snowmachines buzzed by on the river and the northern lights glowed faintly.
  In the distance, mushers
  
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• Petit takes early lead en route to Rainy Pass

  07-03-2016 17:33
  
  Nicolas Petit at the 2016 Iditarod ceremonial start. (Photo by Ben Matheson)
  Girdwood musher Nicolas Petit has taken an early lead in the 2016 Iditarod.
  He’s approaching the Rainy Pass checkpoint, which stands 153 miles into the race.
  Aliy Zirkle from Two Rivers, Big Lake’s Kelly Maixner, and Willow musher Dallas Seavey trail Petit, as they make their way from Finger Lake to Rainy Pass.
  The rest of the pack is spread from Skwentna to Finger Lake.
  
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• 2016 Iditarod’s Scandinavian contingent the largest ever

  07-03-2016 17:23
  
  
  Joar Leifseth Ulsom at the 2016 Iditarod ceremonial start in Anchorage. (Photo by Emily Schwing/KNOM)
  Red, white and blue flags flew high at this year’s Iditarod start line, but they weren’t the flags one might expect at an American race.
  These flags bear the Scandinavian cross and they were flown by fans who came out to cheer on more than ten percent of the race field.
  There are more Scandinavians in this year’s Iditarod than ever before.
  Iditarod – Day 1
  Two Anchorage-b
  
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• Murkowski mines energy industry for major campaign funds

  07-03-2016 06:36
  
  Murkowski mines energy industry for major campaign funds Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski is -- financially speaking -- ready for 2016. She spent 2015 amassing a multimillion dollar, record-breaking war chest for her burgeoning third-term campaign. March 6, 2016
  
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• As Alaska Warms, the Iditarod Adapts

  07-03-2016 06:00 via nytimes.com
  The dogs, the mushers and the sleds were ready for the beginning of the annual race from Anchorage to Nome, but there was one thing missing: the snow.
  
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• PHOTOS: 85 Iditarod Mushers Head for Nome

  07-03-2016 05:43
  
  Mike Williams Junior of Akiak is running his sixth Iditarod Sled Dog race. Photo by Ben Matheson / Alaska Public Media.The 2016 Iditarod kicked off Sunday at Willow Lake as teams departed two minutes apart. First on the trail was Scott Janssen, the “Mushing Mortician.” Martin Koenig of Montana was the last musher to leave Sunday afternoon.Hundreds of race fans lined the chute on Willow Lake to send off one of the largest fields in years under warm March sunlight.APRN’s Zacharai
  
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• University of Alaska has key role to play in our future economy - Alaska Dispatch News

  07-03-2016 04:17
  Alaska Dispatch News
  University of Alaska has key role to play in our future economy
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  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 ...and more »
  

• As Alaska Warms, the Iditarod Adapts - New York Times

  07-03-2016 01:52
  New York Times
  As Alaska Warms, the Iditarod Adapts
  New York Times
  ANCHORAGE — The Iditarod dog-sled race has gripped the imagination here for a long time, partly because it captures the idea, cherished by Alaskans, that a true-north wildness lies just over the horizon, and anyone getting there must first face a ...
  Iditarod: "The last great race"CBS News
  Mushers set off from Alaska town as Iditarod race beginsFox News
  Fire officials say to 'expect an early start' to Alaska wildfire seaso
  

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