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• Bill requires school board vetting for Alaska sex ed teachers - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-04-2016 23:53
  
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  Bill requires school board vetting for Alaska sex ed teachers
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  JUNEAU -- Sex education teachers in Alaska will have to be vetted by local school boards under a bill now headed to the floor of the Alaska Senate. House Bill 156 would also bar the state education department from requiring statewide standardized tests ...and more »
  
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• Bill requires school board vetting for Alaska sex ed teachers

  16-04-2016 23:44
  
  Bill requires school board vetting for Alaska sex ed teachers A bill that is headed to the floor of the Alaska Senate would require sex education instructors in Alaska to first be vetted by local school boards, and also bar state education officials from requiring statewide standardized tests until at least the spring of 2019.   April 16, 2016
  
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• Warmer Bering Sea will reduce future pollock harvests but raise prices - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-04-2016 23:11
  
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  Warmer Bering Sea will reduce future pollock harvests but raise prices
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  Rising temperatures in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska will reduce stocks and harvests of Alaskan pollock by mid-century, but there is a silver lining for the fishing industry, according to a new report: The ubiquitous whitefish gobbled around the ...and more »
  
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• Why some Alaska animals change color with the seasons -- and why others don't - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-04-2016 21:53
  
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  Why some Alaska animals change color with the seasons -- and why others don't
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  A short-tailed weasel hunts along the edge of Turnagain Arm in South Anchorage on Thursday, Feb.11, 2016. Bob Hallinen / ADN. This morning, through the west window, I noticed a flash of white. I looked up from breakfast to see a short-tailed weasel ...and more »
  
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• Will Houston become the pot capital of Alaska? - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-04-2016 21:02
  
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  Will Houston become the pot capital of Alaska?
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  Ron Bass and his wife Lacey Bass, owners of Calm N Collective, a Houston-based marijuana grow business, on their deck on Thursday, Apr. 14, 2016. Buy this Image. Loren Holmes / ADN. Show thumbnails Hide thumbnails Hide captions Show captions.and more »
  
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• Last days of Alaska Legislature packed with unfinished work - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  16-04-2016 18:47
  
  Last days of Alaska Legislature packed with unfinished work
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  JUNEAU — The Alaska Legislature is barreling toward the end of the 29th legislative session's end this Sunday with just about every single priority piece of legislation left unresolved. Still out pending is every single revenue-generating item, the ...and more »
  
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• TNT-Alaska quarters duel tips off - Inquirer.net

  16-04-2016 12:45
  
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  TNT-Alaska quarters duel tips off
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  After slumping its way to end the elimination round, Alaska reactivated Rob Dozier, who has recovered from his injury that has forced him to miss the Aces' first 10 games. In his first game back, the former Best Import helped Alaska beat NLEX, 104-98 ...
  Abueva's 23 leads Alaska past NLEXRappler
  Alaska's coach Compton glad Dozier's backGMA Newsall 17 news articles »
  
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• Alaska's Permanent Fund Loses Its Sacrosanct Status - Wall Street Journal

  16-04-2016 11:30
  
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  Alaska's Permanent Fund Loses Its Sacrosanct Status
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  For decades, touching Alaska's Permanent Fund—oil industry proceeds set aside for the state, which also provides payouts to residents—has been seen as a third rail of the state's politics. Now, legislators are fighting over whether and how to raid ...
  How to dig out of Alaska's budget hole without burying AlaskansAlaska Dispatch News
  Friday recap: House passes Medicaid reform billJuneau Empir
  
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• Classic companions: Camaraderie highlights Alaska wilderness trek - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  16-04-2016 10:29
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  Classic companions: Camaraderie highlights Alaska wilderness trek
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  Matt Cameron and Lindsay Cameron ski down the Anaktuvuk River during the 2016 Alaska Mountain Wilderness Ski Classic. 31 skiers left Galbraith Lake on April 3. The final skiers to complete the course arrived at the Wiseman finish line early on the ...and more »
  
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• NRA and gun safety group join fight over guns on University of Alaska campuses

  16-04-2016 07:12
  
  NRA and gun safety group join fight over guns on University of Alaska campuses The NRA and a gun violence prevention group founded by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are facing off in a campaign against a bill that would allow concealed weapons on UA campuses. April 15, 2016
  
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• Alaska lawmakers spare public radio but propose cutting public TV funding - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-04-2016 05:48
  
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  Alaska lawmakers spare public radio but propose cutting public TV funding
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  Darryl Tseu runs a camera as part of "Gavel Alaska" coverage of the Alaska Legislature. Skip Gray / Gavel Alaska. JUNEAU — Public radio appears to have largely escaped the Alaska Legislature's budget-cutting ax this year, but a House-Senate conference ...and more »
  
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• Alaska lawmakers spare public radio but propose cutting public TV funding

  16-04-2016 05:42
  
  Alaska lawmakers spare public radio but propose cutting public TV funding Public radio appears to have largely escaped the Legislature’s cuts this year, but a House-Senate conference committee Friday proposed to eliminate the state’s $600,000 annual operating grant for public TV.April 15, 2016
  
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• Where to cut and where to add as Alaska leaders address fiscal pinch - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-04-2016 04:37
  
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  Where to cut and where to add as Alaska leaders address fiscal pinch
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  Alaska legislators have been cutting state expenses, but they have focused on little cuts that only deal with a few percent of our $4 billion deficit. At the same time, they have avoided a big cut that could make a real difference. Credits to the oil ...and more »
  
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• Rethinking Alaska economic diversity: Port Clarence and the Port of Nome - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-04-2016 04:08
  
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  Rethinking Alaska economic diversity: Port Clarence and the Port of Nome
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  OPINION: A network of small-scale port developments and international partnerships would spur a variety of benefits for Alaska as it's looking to diversify its revenue stream. Pictured: The Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St-Laurent makes an ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Apr. 15, 2016 - Alaska Public Radio Network

  16-04-2016 04:02
  
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  Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Apr. 15, 2016
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  The Legislature Friday narrowly approved former Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor Luke Hopkins to serve on the board responsible for developing the Alaska gas pipeline. Renewable Energy Fund, casualty of budget crunch, may get new life.
  Alaska Legislature confirms Hopkins to gas line board after contentious debateFairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Hopkins stays on AGDC, barely; Fish board members confirm
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Apr. 15, 2016

  16-04-2016 04:01
  
  
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  Former Fairbanks Borough Mayor to serve on pipeline board
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  The Legislature Friday narrowly approved former Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor Luke Hopkins to serve on the board responsible for developing the Alaska
  
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• Proposed motor fuels, mining, and fisheries’ taxes rolled into one bill

  16-04-2016 03:58
  
  Three tax proposals have been rolled into one bill being considered by a state House committee.
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  Rep. Steve Thompson, R- Fairbanks, co-chair of the House Finance Committee, believes that the motor fuels’ taxes fit together well with the proposals or mining and fisheries taxes. (File photo by Skip Gray/360 North)A draft rewrite of Gov. Bill Walker’s motor fuels tax bill, rolled out by the House Finance Committee, also adds in proposed increases in mining and fisheries ta
  
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• Renewable Energy Fund, casualty of budget crunch, may get new lifeline

  16-04-2016 03:57
  
  
  Kwigillingok has five wind turbines. The project was supported in part with a grant from the Alaska Energy Authority’s Renewable Energy Fund. Photo: Rachel Waldholz/APRNOne casualty of the state’s budget crisis this year is investment in renewable energy.
  Since 2008, Alaska’s Renewable Energy Fund has supported scores of projects around the state, with more than 130 currently in the works – most of them aimed at replacing expensive diesel fuel with everything from wi
  
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• New proposal cuts all state funding to public television

  16-04-2016 03:07
  
  Public television would lose its state funding in a budget proposal adopted by the Legislature’s budget conference committee Friday.
  Rep. Les Gara, D- Anchorage, was the only committee member to object to the cut for public television. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)The committee removed all $600,000 that Governor Bill Walker proposed for public TV.
  The committee approved Walker’s $2 million request for public radio, as well as $44,000 for the Alaska Public Broadcasting Commissio
  
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• Former Fairbanks Borough Mayor to serve on pipeline board

  16-04-2016 02:42
  
  The Legislature Friday narrowly approved former Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor Luke Hopkins to serve on the board responsible for developing the Alaska gas pipeline.
  Luke Hopkins at an AGDC bard meeting in 2015. Hopkins was recently confirmed to the Alaska Gasline Develpoment Corporation by both house of the Legislature. (File photo by Rachel Waldholz, APRN)And it also confirmed Dean Williams as the commissioner of the Department of Corrections.
  A joint session of both houses voted 31 to 27
  
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• Final vote count: Girdwood to pay for police, Marsett beats Schuster

  16-04-2016 02:24
  
  Election workers process results at City Hall on election night. Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media.A week and a half after ballots were cast, outstanding votes in Anchorage’s municipal election have all been counted, and the results have upended two races.
  By just two votes, the residents in the Girdwood Valley Service Area have opted to tax property to pay for police protection once the State Troopers leave this summer. The split stands at 410 for, and 408 against.
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• Low clouds a possible factor in Wrangell-Angoon plane crash

  16-04-2016 01:56
  Weather may have been a factor in April 8th’s plane crash on Admiralty Island. The crash killed the pilot and two passengers and badly injured another person on board.
  A photo of a Cessna 206 from Sunrise Aviation’s website.The Sunrise Aviation flight began in Wrangell and was headed to Angoon, about 110 miles to the northwest.
  A preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report says pilot David Galla had changed course due to low clouds and reduced visibility.
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• 49 Voices: John Giraldo of Anchorage

  16-04-2016 01:40
  
  This week we’re hearing from John Giraldo of Anchorage. On most days John is working as a supervisor, but in his free time he’s an extreme alpinist.
  John Giraldo (Photo by Kaysie Ellingson, Alaska Public Media)GIRALDO: I’m John Giraldo and I do a lot of climbing with as little work as possible in between.
  I love the adventure and the mental capacity that climbing requires. It’s a really neat marriage of physical and mental aspects.
  You get like all tunnel vision and you&r
  
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• Alaska Air Guard recounts skiers' rescue - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  16-04-2016 01:03
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  Alaska Air Guard recounts skiers' rescue
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  This Monday, April 11, 2016, photo provided by the Alaska Air National Guard, shows part of a four-man man team skiing on the Harding Ice Field near Seward, Alaska, attempting to reach two skiers who had been stranded for days by blizzard conditions.
  AP Exclusive: Alaska Air Guard Recounts Skiers' RescueABC News
  Alaska icefield rescue effort had help -- from Oklahoma via satelliteAlaska Dispatch Newsa
  
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• New Trails and Trail Maintenance

  16-04-2016 01:00
  
  Chugach State Park MapWe are a trail community in Anchorage and across our region of Alaska. The variety and purposes for our trails is amazing. In town, we have the bike trails, which are also ski trails and transportation routes, and the single-track bike trails. In Chugach State Park there are hiking trails that are also used for cycling, horseback riding and many winter sports. On our next show we’re talking about trails, how they get built and maintained, and how we can
  
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• EPA retiree, pulled back into Pebble, says he’s done

  16-04-2016 00:59
  Retired EPA scientist Phil North. (Photo: Liz Ruskin/APRN)Retired EPA scientist Phil North, the man the Pebble Partnership says was the mastermind behind the effort to block its proposed mine in southwest Alaska, spent a full day answering questions from a congressional committee Thursday.
  Now that the staff of the House Science Committee is done questioning him, North says his involvement in the Pebble mine is over.
  “I hope it is,” he clarified, in an interview on the
  
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• APOC recommends Skagway Assemblyman pay $22,000 fine for incomplete disclosures

  16-04-2016 00:51
  An Alaska Public Offices Commission investigation of Skagway Assemblyman Dan Henry’s annual financial filings found that he violated state regulations by providing incomplete information about his income.
  The APOC report says Henry deprived the public of information meant to provide government transparency. It recommends the longtime elected official pay a penalty of about $22,000.
  Henry’s alleged financial omissions came to light earlier this year when he pled guilty to willful fail
  
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• AK: Mayuri dancers bring Bollywood to Anchorage

  16-04-2016 00:46
  
  Where ya gonna go when looking for a professional dance group to demonstrate the intricacies of traditional Indian dance? Russia, of course. Or that’s what the Asian Alaskan Cultural Center did to bring Mayuri, a group of twenty or so young dancers, to Anchorage. The the troupe performed for high schools this week and for the public Friday evening  at the Alaska Performing Arts Center.
  Several members of the Mayuri Dance Group (Photo courtesy of the Mayuri Dance Group)It’s dress
  
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• Young skiers enjoy the Nana Nordic Program in Ambler, AK

  16-04-2016 00:29
  
  in 2011, an Olympic skier started a program to get kids in four Western Arctic villages in Alaska outside and on skis. Five years later, that program, known as NANA Nordic, has expanded to 40 villages statewide, with help from over 100 volunteer cross-country ski coaches.
  Children participating in the Nana Nordick Ski program. (Photo by Emily Schwing, KNOM – Nome)KNOM’s Emily Schwing was in Ambler last week, where she watched as more than 80 kids from villages in Alaska’s Weste
  
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• Vehicle access to subsistence grounds at issue in three-day trial

  16-04-2016 00:26
  
  Superior Court Judge Philip Pallenberg heard closing arguments on Wednesday in the case of Rosalie and Reuben Loewen versus the State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources, and co-defendants. The trial centered on vehicular access to a popular hooligan fishing spot on the Chilkoot River owned for seven years by the Loewens.
  The issue at the heart of this case is simple.
   
  Tlingit subsistence users say they’ve had unfettered access to the river for centuries and want to continue th
  
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• Pat Stack named top child-care admin in the state

  16-04-2016 00:15
  A Ketchikan day care administrator was recognized last week with a statewide award for his work with young children.
  Pat Stack reads a story to kids at the PeaceHealth Ketchikan child care center, run out of Holy Name School. Stack recently was named the top child care administrator in Alaska. (Photo by Leila Kheiry, KRBD – Ketchikan)Pat Stack plays with kids all day, and he’s great at it. So great, he was named this year’s top child care administrator in the state by the Assoc
  
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