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• Report: State saves $7.5M if lawmakers leave new Anchorage offices

  19-03-2016 04:51
  
  Report: State saves $7.5M if lawmakers leave new Anchorage offices The state would save $7.5 million over 20 years if the Legislature would move its Anchorage offices to the state-owned Atwood Building instead of buying its existing, remodeled office space, a new report says. March 18, 2016
  
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• Sanders campaign making push in rural Alaska before Democratic caucus

  19-03-2016 03:34
  
  Sanders campaign making push in rural Alaska before Democratic caucus With the state’s Democratic caucuses just a week away, Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign is making a big push in rural Alaska as well as the cities, with an eye on the 20 delegates up for grabs here.March 18, 2016
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Mar. 18, 2016

  19-03-2016 02:45
  
  
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  Walker: No update on Alaska LNG before April
  Rachel Waldholz, APRN – Anchorage
  When Governor Bill Walker held a press conference in February to announce changes coming to the Alaska LNG gas line project, he left most observers scratching
  
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• Walker: No Alaska LNG update before April

  19-03-2016 02:25
  
  Gov. Bill Walker at a press availability, January 28, 2016. Photo: Skip Gray/360North
  When Gov. Bill Walker held a press conference in February to announce that changes were coming for the Alaska LNG project, he left most observers scratching their heads over what’s next for the proposed pipeline.
  Standing beside representatives from the state’s three partners – ExxonMobil, BP, and ConocoPhillips — Walker said he would release more details in March.
  Today, 
  
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• Arctic Council meeting ends, climate change among topics

  19-03-2016 01:58
  
  A contingent of senior Arctic Council officials wrapped up a three-day meeting at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Thursday. And Friday morning, the U.S. chairman of the group reported on their deliberations, much of which dealt with the impact of climate change on the Arctic and how to adapt to it.
  U.S. Ambassador David Balton says on the final day of the Senior Arctic Officials’ meeting, he challenged participants to break out of what tends to be a short-term mindset that comes wi
  
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• Google driver-less cars not coming to Alaska anytime soon

  19-03-2016 01:51
  
  It may be a while before ice road truckers become ice road computers. But one of Google’s top lobbyists was in Juneau Thursday to talk about driver-less cars. Google state legislative affairs representative Ron Barnes wouldn’t commit to bringing autonomous vehicles to the Alaska anytime soon, saying that Google’s engineers determine where the company tests its cars.
  “Oh, we keep a list of places everywhere that might be somewhere we would need, but the engineering needs d
  
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• Renaming of Mt. McKinley to Denali recognized by tribal officials

  19-03-2016 00:09
  
  Renaming of North America’s highest peak from Mt. McKinley to Denali was recognized Wednesday by federal and tribal officials at the Tanana Chief’s Conference annual meeting in Fairbanks. Three other lesser publicized name changes were also highlighted.
  Denali, formerly Mt. McKinley (Photo courtesy of National Park Service)
  U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewel took action last summer to formally re-name Mt. McKinley to its traditional Athabascan name Denali. The executive ac
  
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• Alyeska Memories

  19-03-2016 00:00
  
  Chris Von Imhof
  Alyeska Resort is an amazing place to have as our backyard ski hill. On this edition of Outdoor Explorer, we’re talking about how it got that way. Recording in Girdwood, we have Chris Von Imhof, the father of Alyeska, at the Roundhouse museum up on the mountain, with many good stories. And we’ll have Rosey Fletcher, who became an Olympian on the runs that Von Imhof built. 
  HOST: Charles WohlforthGUESTS:  
  Chris Von Imhof, former manager, Alyeska Re
  
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