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• Tyonek Corporation expands aircraft maintenance, cyber warfare wing

  16-05-2016 23:10
  
  Tyonek Native Corporation (Courtesy PRNewsFoto/Tyonek Native Corporation)Tyonek Native Corporation’s aviation services wing is expanding its aircraft maintenance and cyber warfare business with the acquisition of a new facility in Mississippi.
  Tyonek Native Corporation CEO James Hoffman says work at the Selex Galileo Stennis Facility will focus on military intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance areas, in addition to unmanned aircraft systems – commonly referred to as drones:
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• Alaska Dispatch News drops Associated Press

  16-05-2016 22:45
  
  Citing primarily cost, Alaska Dispatch News Executive Editor David Hulen said his company dropped its contract with the Associated Press on Thursday.
  Inside pages of Wednesday’s Alaska Dispatch News — minus the AP content. (Photo illustration by Rashah McChesney, KTOO – Juneau)“There’s no bad blood, there’s no grudge. I’ve got absolutely nothing against AP. But as a service that we pay money for, it just didn’t pencil out for us,” Hulen&
  
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• Alaska temperature records fall during statewide weekend heat wave - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-05-2016 22:10
  
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  Alaska temperature records fall during statewide weekend heat wave
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  While participants raced in the Alaska Women's Gold Nugget Triathlon on Sunday, Anchorage was shattering that date's temperature record by 7 degrees. High temperature records fell from Barrow to Juneau as a heatwave affected most of the state. Bill ...and more »
  
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• Bethel alcohol sales spill over into nearby villages

  16-05-2016 22:04
  
  Kuskokwim villages say they’re feeling the effects of Bethel’s new liquor store. The shop opened last week in the Kuskokwim’s hub after decades of banned sales.
  Bethel recently made alcohol sales legal after nearly 40 years of prohibition. (Creative commons photo courtesy of Scott Olson – Getty Images)In Akiak, Tribal Police Officer Cynthia Ivan has been keeping a call log to compare how alcohol sales in Bethel have increased the amount of emergency calls in her village.
  
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• Alaska Dems to fight for Sanders at DNC as minor fissures emerge

  16-05-2016 05:19
  
  
  Alaska Democratic Party Members seated by house district at the state convention in Anchorage. Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media.Alaska Democrats spent the weekend in Anchorage picking delegates for the party’s national convention in Philadelphia this July and setting priorities for the year ahead.
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  Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has 13 pledged delegates from Alaska, while Secretary Hillary Clinton received three. Alaska’s four super-delegates do not have to
  
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• Alaska Dems plan to fight for Sanders at DNC

  16-05-2016 05:19
  
  Alaska Democratic Party Members seated by house district at the state convention in Anchorage. Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media.Alaska Democrats spent the weekend in Anchorage picking delegates for the party’s national convention in Philadelphia this July, and setting priorities for the year ahead.
  Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has 13 pledged delegates from Alaska, while Secretary Hillary Clinton receives three. Alaska’s four super-delegates do not have to announce whom
  
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• At tense Alaska Democratic convention, allegations of Clinton favoritism fly

  16-05-2016 04:35
  
  At tense Alaska Democratic convention, allegations of Clinton favoritism fly The head of the Democratic National Committee found a mostly warm reception at the Alaska Democratic convention this weekend, though some Bernie Sanders fans walked out on her keynote speech in protest.May 15, 2016
  
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