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• Juneau PD: Intoxicated driver rams Governor’s Mansion

  29-04-2016 23:54
  
  Juneau police arrested a man late Thursday night for driving while intoxicated after finding him and a dog in a vehicle stuck in construction fencing at the Capitol.
  The Alaska Governor’s Mansion, Aug. 16, 2009. (Creative Commons photo by ~dgies)The Juneau Police Department described what happened in a press release.
  “Officers responded and arrested 49-year-old Alexander Oliphant of Juneau for driving while intoxicated. He was also later charged with refusal to take a breath test. A
  
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• Alaska's Folly: Politicians Contemplate a State Income Tax - Wall Street Journal

  29-04-2016 23:54
  
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  Alaska's Folly: Politicians Contemplate a State Income Tax
  Wall Street Journal
  The first and only state to ever abolish an existing income tax was Alaska. It happened in 1980 when the oil boom in Prudhoe Bay and the construction of the Alaska pipeline brought gushers of windfall-drilling royalties and fees into the state coffers ...
  Alaska cities brace for reduced state fundingAlaska Public Radio Network
  Alaska lawmakers move into former school due to Capitol renovationsKTUU
  
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• Republicans in Fairbanks to pick party leaders and national convention delegates

  29-04-2016 23:17
  Republicans in Fairbanks to pick party leaders and national convention delegatesThe Alaska Republican Party has convened in Fairbanks for its biennial convention, where it will pick new party leaders and select delegates to the party’s national convention in Cleveland in July.April 29, 2016
  
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• Video: To recruit for cleanup, Unalaska kids rap, dance to ‘Paper Planes’

  29-04-2016 23:07
  
  In a new public service spot out of Unalaska, fourth graders from Eagle’s View Elementary School sing and dance to the tune of rapper M.I.A’s “Paper Planes.” Unlike M.I.A., whose lyrics are about immigrant stereotypes, drugs and violence, the fourth graders are recruiting for a community cleanup.“We walk through the town and we comb the beach/
  We see plastic bags and Comet with bleach/Trash around town can be such a drag/So we walk through with this y
  
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• Sitka Tribe opens biotoxin lab to monitor PSP

  29-04-2016 23:05
  
  With warming ocean temperatures, the risk for paralytic shellfish poisoning can linger all year round. And Alaska has only one FDA-certified laboratory to test shellfish. There are no labs to protect those digging for their dinner, but that may soon change.
  Lab manager Michael Jamros stands with Chris Whitehead, founder of the Southeast Alaska Tribal Ocean Research group. The lab hopes to be regional testing hub for commercial and casual shellfish harvesters alike. (Photo by Emily Kwong, KCAW &n
  
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• Urban Native Life

  29-04-2016 23:00
  
  Indigenous peoples and languages of AlaskaMany Alaska Natives live in urban areas far from the places at the core of Native cultures– the rural communities with open lands, fish and wildlife. On the next Hometown Alaska we’ll have guests who have lived the urban Native experience. We’ll talk about the Alaska Native identity here in Anchorage– corporate, tribal, traditional and modern.
  HOST:
  Charles Wohlforth
  GUEST:
  Dr. Dalee Sambo Dorough, an Associate Prof
  
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• Board creates new regulations on retail marijuana consumption

  29-04-2016 22:47
  
  The board tasked with regulating Alaska’s nascent marijuana industry has approved draft regulations for how customers will be allowed to consume pot they buy in certain retail stores on site.
  Marijuana for sale at a dispensary in California. (Photo: Dank Depot via Flickr Creative Commons)The proposed rules, which will go out for public comment, call for retail stores that will be permitted to have on-site consumption to have the consumption area cordoned off from the rest of the store by a
  
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• Former North Slope Borough mayor ousted by voters files to reclaim the office

  29-04-2016 22:45
  
  Former North Slope Borough mayor ousted by voters files to reclaim the office Former North Slope Borough Mayor Charlotte Brower is one of nine people who are trying to fill the seat she lost when voters ousted her over ethical concerns. April 29, 2016
  
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• Troopers investigate 2 caribou wanton waste cases

  29-04-2016 22:34
  
  Alaska State Wildlife Troopers are investigating two cases of wanton waste of caribou in northwest Alaska.
  Troopers found multiple cow caribou killed and left to waste near the Kauk River. The say it’s likely the caribou were killed near the beginning of April.
  Troopers found another kill site 25 miles northwest of the first on the lower Baldwin Peninsula. Kotzebue is on the northern tip of the peninsula.
  Troopers say three cows were killed and salvaged during the third week of April.
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• Oops: Stories of Mistakes, Narrow Escapes, and Lucky Breaks

  29-04-2016 22:30
  
   
  Arctic Entries this month brings you Oops: Stories of Mistakes, Narrow Escapes, and Lucky Breaks. In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long true story about themselves relating to the show’s theme. Local musicians perform a few songs as well. Proceeds made from
  
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• Sitka drivers told: Hands off your cell phone

  29-04-2016 22:28
  
  Alaska banned texting while driving in 2008. The maximum penalty for a first time offense is $10,000, the highest in the country. And in Sitka, the Assembly cracked down on the issue even further. On Tuesday night, the group passed a law that would fine those caught with a phone in their hand while driving. The policy intends to reduce distracted driving, but it’s rules are of deep concern to some local taxi drivers.
  Tuesday night (4-26-16), the Sitka Assembly passed a law that would fine
  
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• Advocate: In Conservation vs. Development Debate, Alaska Offers a Chance 'To Get it Right' - KUAC

  29-04-2016 22:26
  
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  Advocate: In Conservation vs. Development Debate, Alaska Offers a Chance 'To Get it Right'
  KUAC
  Alaska's undeveloped expanses represent one of the last opportunities to preserve intact habitat within the United States. But many of those lands also contain natural resources. Credit National Park Service. Public-lands managers in Alaska say climate ...and more »
  
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• Bethel prepares for first liquor store in 4 decades

  29-04-2016 22:10
  
  Bethel’s first liquor store in over 40 years is set to open next week. AC Quickstop received the town’s first liquor license last fall after decades of restricted alcohol sales, and Walter Pickett, AC general manager, says the store could open as early as Monday.
  The Bethel AC Quickstop. (Photo by Dean Swope, KYUK – Bethel)A few details still have to be worked out: wiring security cameras, hooking up a phone, and installing a bulletproof front door. Pickett
  
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• ACT’s Deathtrap

  29-04-2016 22:09
  
  Ira Levin’s Deathtrap at ACTAnchorage Community Theatre is currently presenting the thriller Deathtrap by Ira Levin and like with all thrillers, it’s hard to talk about without giving away too much. But David Eaton (Sydney Bruhl), Julie Anderson (Myra Bruhl) and Jordan Knudsen (Helga) manage to keep the conversation very much alive this week as they come by Stage Talk. Deathtrap performs Thursdays through Sundays through May 15th.
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  Steve Hunt
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• Gearing up for Alaska's wildfire season - Alaska Public Radio Network

  29-04-2016 22:02
  
  Gearing up for Alaska's wildfire season
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  Fire season has already started. The mild winter and lack of snow in Southcentral Alaska has firefighters nervous about the tinder dry conditions in and around the state's largest urban center. Interior Alaska is also an area of high fire danger this ...
  
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• Gearing up for Alaska’s wildfire season

  29-04-2016 22:00
  
  Funny River fire rages in the Kenai Keys area of the Kenai Peninsula May 25, 2014Fire season has already started. The mild winter and lack of snow in Southcentral Alaska has firefighters nervous about the tinder dry conditions in and around the state’s largest urban center. Interior Alaska is also an area of high fire danger this spring. Green up is early, but how much would new growth slow a big burn?
  HOST: Lori Townsend
  GUESTS:
  Tim Mowry, fire information officer, Department of
  
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• 49 Voices Jenna Holcomb of Anchorage

  29-04-2016 22:00
  
  This week we’re hearing from Jenna Holcomb in Anchorage. Holcomb is a life-long Alaskan and works at the Brown Bag Sandwich Company.
  Jenna Holcomb of Anchorage (Photo by Zoe Sobel, KUCB – Unalaska)HOLCOMB: I’ve lived in Alaska my whole life, essentially, until I was 18. And then I’ve been moving around and traveling and coming back since then. ‘Cause I was hanging out with really terrible people, like really bad influences in my life so I had to escape that, essenti
  
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• Hepatitis A, B, C

  29-04-2016 21:00
  
  The hepatitis C virus
  Three relatively common viral infections of the liver sound very similar in name but are quite different in communicability, complications, prevention and treatment. Immunization has been so successful that almost all hepatitis A in Alaska is acquired elsewhere by those not immunized. Immunization is eliminating B as well and helping prevent transmission from infected pregnant mothers to their babies. More than 90% of patients with hepatitis C are being
  
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• Anchorage Bowl Land Use Plan Map

  29-04-2016 20:41
  
  
  Municipality of Anchorage planners are engaged in a project that could outline how the city will look in 20 years. In the meantime, Anchorage neighborhoods are changing. Throughout the past decade, the city has seen growth that has brought forth new challenges. This week, a team of presenters has been hosting informational sessions around town on the Anchorage Bowl Land Use Plan Map Update. On this week’s Alaska Edition, these presenters will fill us in on how the community can further thi
  
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• Juneau man held for DUI in crashes at Governor's Mansion and Capitol - Alaska Dispatch News

  29-04-2016 20:16
  
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  Juneau man held for DUI in crashes at Governor's Mansion and Capitol
  Alaska Dispatch News
  A man who struck the Governor's Mansion with a vehicle he later crashed near the Alaska Capitol was arrested Thursday on drunken-driving charges, Juneau police said. Alexander Oliphant, 49, was charged with DUI and refusing to submit to a breath test, ...
  Police: Man rammed into governor's mansion, crashed at Alaska CapitolKTUU.com
  Drunk driver rams Alaska Governor's Mansion and f
  
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• Juneau man held for DUI in crashes at Governor's Mansion and Capitol

  29-04-2016 20:08
  
  Juneau man held for DUI in crashes at Governor's Mansion and Capitol A man who struck the Governor's Mansion with a vehicle he later crashed near the Alaska Capitol building was arrested Thursday on drunken-driving charges.April 29, 2016
  
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• Time-Lapse of Northern Lights in Alaska

  29-04-2016 20:03 via nytimes.com
  
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• AK: With the ‘Little a Triathlon’, a father grieves and gives

  29-04-2016 20:00
  
  Teacups that will be used for gifts at the triathlon. Photo credit: Annie FeidtHow do you begin to cope with the death of your child? J.T. Lindholm is answering that question, in part, by organizing a triathlon this summer. The event is a fundraiser for the family of an Eagle River girl named Maddy who died this month of ovarian cancer. Organizing the race has been a lot of work, but it’s also been a chance J.T. and his closest friends to channel their grief into a meaningful event.
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• Why is Gardens man driving 5000 miles to Alaska to build a log cabin? - MyPalmBeachPost

  29-04-2016 19:48
  
  Why is Gardens man driving 5000 miles to Alaska to build a log cabin?
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  PALM BEACH GARDENS — Graham Strickland has competitively raced bobsleds and motorcycles. His next adventure is driving from Palm Beach Gardens to Alaska, where he'll camp in a canvas tent while he builds a log cabin. The 45-year-old painter ...
  
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• United Continental Should Follow Alaska Air's Winning Playbook - Motley Fool

  29-04-2016 19:25
  
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  United Continental Should Follow Alaska Air's Winning Playbook
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  Steady cost reductions have been critical to Alaska Air's success in recent years. And that's a potential formula for better performance at United Continental. Adam Levine-Weinberg. (TMFGemHunter). Apr 29, 2016 at 1:25PM. A decade ago, Alaska Air ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Assisted Living Home Faces $75K Fine for Workplace Death - Insurance Journal

  29-04-2016 18:42
  
  Alaska Assisted Living Home Faces $75K Fine for Workplace Death
  Insurance Journal
  State labor officials have fined an Anchorage assisted living home $75,000 for alleged safety and health violations in the death of a caregiver who was killed by a resident of the home. The Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development announced ...
  
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• A Strong Quarter For Alaska Bodes Well For The Virgin America Acquisition - Seeking Alpha

  29-04-2016 18:18
  
  Seeking Alpha
  A Strong Quarter For Alaska Bodes Well For The Virgin America Acquisition
  Seeking Alpha
  Alaska Air Group reported excellent Q1 financial results, as much of the industry delivered mixed results. Virgin America Q1 results lag Alaska substantially, with the airline seeing higher operating costs and lower yield than Alaska. If Alaska can ...and more »
  
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• Alaska blasts Meralco for 2-1 semis lead - Inquirer.net

  29-04-2016 15:29
  
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  Alaska blasts Meralco for 2-1 semis lead
  Inquirer.net
  With their dreaded pressing defense working again, the Alaska Milk Aces clipped the Meralco Bolts, 92-72, and gained the pivotal 2-1 lead in their side of the Oppo PBA Commissioner's Cup Final Four faceoff at the Smart Araneta Coliseum Friday night.
  Defense leads Alaska past Meralco in critical Game 3 winRappler
  Alaska wins Game 3 for 2-1 semis leadThe Manila Times
  Alaska silences Meralco guns, moves within a win of return to PB
  
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• Alaska Seaplanes adds 23 seats to their fleet - Juneau Empire (subscription)

  29-04-2016 10:09
  Alaska Seaplanes adds 23 seats to their fleet
  Juneau Empire (subscription)
  The Juneau-based carrier Alaska Seaplanes has acquired two Cessna Caravans and a Cessna 207. Alaska Seaplanes will now operate four Cessna Caravans as part of their fleet and be able to serve 11 destinations from Juneau. The company is owned by ...
  
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• Attorney: Alaska's political contribution limits founded on shaky ground - Alaska Dispatch News

  29-04-2016 05:45
  
  Attorney: Alaska's political contribution limits founded on shaky ground
  Alaska Dispatch News
  A past leader of campaign finance reform in Alaska said Thursday he relied on average incomes and nationwide contributions to set the $500 individual candidate contribution limit that has long been a mainstay of Alaska politics, addressing a central ...and more »
  
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• Attorney: Alaska’s political contribution limits founded on shaky ground

  29-04-2016 05:41
  
  Attorney: Alaska’s political contribution limits founded on shaky ground A past leader of campaign finance reform in Alaska said in federal court testimony Thursday that he relied on average incomes and nationwide contributions to set the $500 individual candidate contribution limit that has long been a mainstay of Alaska politics.April 28, 2016
  
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• Murkowski halts federal work toward removal of feral cattle from two islands

  29-04-2016 04:08
  
  Murkowski halts federal work toward removal of feral cattle from two islands A passage in the 2016 federal budget, inserted by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, forbids the Fish and Wildlife Service from moving cattle off Chirikof and Wosnesenski islands in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.April 28, 2016
  
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• Murkowski halts federal work toward removal of feral cattle from Aleutian islands

  29-04-2016 04:08
  
  Murkowski halts federal work toward removal of feral cattle from Aleutian islands A passage in the 2016 federal budget, inserted by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, forbids the Fish and Wildlife Service from moving cattle off Chirikof and Wosnesenski islands in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.April 28, 2016
  
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• State’s largest school district, 48K students to be led by an Alaskan–but which?

  29-04-2016 03:53
  
  
   
  Dr. Deena Paramo, left, and Dr. Steve Atwater are the two finalists in ASD’s search for a new superintendent. Photos courtesy of ASD.The 48,000 students in the Anchorage School District could have a new superintendent as early as next week.
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  The district is unusually large for a city the size of Anchorage, ranking 97th in the country. That brings along a sprawling array of needs that have made it difficult to find and keep a superintendent. A months long search has yie
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Apr. 28, 2016

  29-04-2016 03:37
  
  
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  Negotiators reach deal on excess power program earnings
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  House and Senate negotiators have reached agreement for use of any excess earnings from a fund set up to help rural areas faced with high electricity costs.
  Political intrigue at t
  
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• House science committee grills McLerran on EPA’s effort to block Pebble

  29-04-2016 03:01
  
  
  EPA Region 10 Administrator Dennis McLerran testified in front of a Houseoversight committee Thursday. It was McLerran who decided to move forward with a Clean Water Act 404c determination in the Bristol Bay watershed, following an ecological risk assessment done by EPA. The House committee has been investigating whether or not that was fair to Pebble Mine and proper for EPA. KDLG’s Dave Bendinger has more:
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• Political intrigue at the Alaska Republican Convention - Alaska Public Radio Network

  29-04-2016 02:55
  
  Political intrigue at the Alaska Republican Convention
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  TOWNSEND: The state Republican Convention started this afternoon in Fairbanks. We sent APRN reporter Liz Ruskin to check it out. Liz, how's it going there? Download Audio. Party chair Peter Goldberg holds an orientation for first-time delegates to the ...and more »
  
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• Political intrigue at the Alaska Republican Convention

  29-04-2016 02:52
  
  
  TOWNSEND: The state Republican Convention started this afternoon in Fairbanks. We sent APRN reporter Liz Ruskin to check it out. Liz, how’s it going there?
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  Party chair Peter Goldberg holds an orientation for first-time delegates to the state convention (Photo by Liz Ruskin, APRN – Washington D.C.)RUSKIN: Good! I’m in the Westmark in Fairbanks, and About 400 people are coming here, from around the state, 160 of them now are vying to be a delegate to the national c
  
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• Former Alaska Senator Gravel to speak at UAA - Alaska Public Radio Network

  29-04-2016 02:49
  
  Former Alaska Senator Gravel to speak at UAA
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  Former Alaska U.S. Senator Mike Gravel is in Alaska this week. The outspoken Democrat is known for being fiercely independent, famously reading the Pentagon papers on the floor of the Senate in 1971 at a time when President Richard Nixon refused to ...
  
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• Former Alaska Senator Gravel to speak at UAA

  29-04-2016 02:49
  
  
  Former Alaska U.S. Senator Mike Gravel is in Alaska this week. The outspoken Democrat is known for being fiercely independent, famously reading the Pentagon papers on the floor of the Senate in 1971 at a time when President Richard Nixon refused to release them to reporters. He also attempted a run for President in 2008.
  Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (Photo courtesy of Jim Palmer)Gravel will be speaking tonight at the University of Alaska Anchorage about Alaska’s place in the world and
  
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• Traveling Music 5-1-16

  29-04-2016 02:43
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  5-1-16
   
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  Song TitleArtist / Composer
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  Down in the Lonesome Draw
  Cahalen Morrison & Eli West / Cahalen Morrison
  I’ll Swing my Hammer with Both My Hands
  www.cahalenandeli.com
  4:37
   
  Summertime Heart
  Tim Easton / Tim Easton
  Since 1966 / Volume 1
  www.timeaston.com
  3:48
   
  Coyote In Love
  Jack Dwyer Band / Jack Dwyer
  Live in Portland
  www.jackdwyer.com
  3:15
   
  Steamboat Captain
  Guy Davis / Guy Davis
  Sweethear
  
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• Lawmakers pile on in DC Pebble fight

  29-04-2016 01:47
  
  Lawmakers pile on in DC Pebble fight Members of Congress convened Thursday to argue the fate of the proposed Pebble mine, with some Republicans framing the EPA’s actions to block the project as a sign of anti-industry environmental aggression.April 28, 2016
  
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• Lawmakers from both parties pile on in D.C. fight between Pebble and EPA

  29-04-2016 01:47
  
  Lawmakers from both parties pile on in D.C. fight between Pebble and EPA Members of Congress convened Thursday to argue the fate of the proposed Pebble mine, with some Republicans framing Environmental Protection Agency actions to block the project as anti-industry environmental aggression.April 28, 2016
  
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• Negotiators reach deal on excess power program earnings

  29-04-2016 01:45
  
  House and Senate negotiators have reached agreement for use of any excess earnings from a fund set up to help rural areas faced with high electricity costs.
  Sen. Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel, during a Senate Finance Committee meeting, March 29, 2016. (Photo by Skip Gray, 360 North)A conference committee Thursday agreed to legislation that would allow for 70 percent of excess earnings from the Power Cost Equalization endowment fund to be put to other uses. Of that percentage, any amount up to $30 mill
  
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• Federal Board closes caribou hunting to non-locals in the Northwest Arctic

  29-04-2016 01:40
  
  In the Northwest Arctic, caribou hunting has been contentious for years. Alaska’s largest herd continues to decline, while tensions have emerged between rural subsistence users and outside hunters.
  (Photo courtesy of Alaska Department of Fish and Game)Last week, the Federal Subsistence Board voted to close the vast area to all but local caribou hunters. The closure will last for one year, but biologists aren’t sure it will make much difference.
  From Kotzebue to Kobuk, from the Chukch
  
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• Hooligan make strong return to Chilkoot and Chilkat

  29-04-2016 01:36
  
  The hooligan are back. After last year’s disappointing runs in the Chilkoot and Chilkat rivers, Haines and Klukwan subsistence fishermen are excited that this spring’s return has been abundant. Area biologists don’t know why the runs fluctuate so much. But they’re trying to bolster research to understand the traditionally important fish a little better.
  Sonny Williams holds a male and female hooligan. (Emily Files)To find out whether the hooligan are running, all you
  
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• Alaska cities brace for reduced state funding

  29-04-2016 01:25
  
  Alaska’s larger cities could see a drop in state funding as Community Revenue Sharing is scaled down. Anchorage takes the biggest hit. Juneau could lose over a million dollars in the next few years. Meanwhile, some rural communities could receive more.
  The Alaska state capitol building in Juneau. (Public Domain photo)Back in 1999, “Believe” by Cher hit number one on Billboard magazine’s Hot 100.
  And like Cher, Alaska’s policy makers believed the state had enoug
  
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• Alaska's oil bust results in crude reality for state budget - CBS News

  29-04-2016 01:07
  
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  Alaska's oil bust results in crude reality for state budget
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  JUNEAU, Alaska -- Oil closed on Thursday at $46 a barrel -- that is a 20 percent drop from a year ago. The oversupply has oil-producing states like Alaska over a barrel. The nation's tallest state is in a $4 billion hole. Alaska is known for peaks that ...
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