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• Alaska Airlines to distribute 12000 discount travel vouchers at #GalaxyThrowback match - LA Galaxy

  26-05-2016 23:50
  
  Alaska Airlines to distribute 12000 discount travel vouchers at #GalaxyThrowback match
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  LA Galaxy fans attending the upcoming #GalaxyThrowback home match against Sporting Kansas City on Tuesday, June 2, at StubHub Center will receive an exclusive travel gift, courtesy of Alaska Airlines and its longstanding partnership with the five-time ...
  
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• Man charged after using stolen front loader to rob liquor store

  26-05-2016 23:15
  
  A man was charged with DUI, theft, and criminal mischief among other charges after he ran a front loader into an Anchorage Brown Jug liquor store in order to rob it at around 3 in the morning on Thursday.
  Repairman fix the front entrance to the Northern Lights Brown Jug following a front loader collision earlier that morning. (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)The driver, identified by police as 38-year-old Joseph Martin, allegedly stole the front loader from a ne
  
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• Craig woman killed in Southeast Alaska truck crash - Alaska Dispatch News

  26-05-2016 22:28
  Craig woman killed in Southeast Alaska truck crash
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• Tanana River erosion closes trail, threatens cabins at Big Delta State Historical Park

  26-05-2016 21:34
  
  Alaska State Parks officials have closed a section of trail in Big Delta State Historical Park near Delta Junction, because the Tanana River been cutting sharply into its southern bank where the trail is located. The extreme erosion now threatens a couple of historical cabins within the park. State and local officials are working on a plan to shore up the bank – and to come up with a way to pay for it.
  Delta Historical Society member Mary Leith checks out the trail closure at Big Delta Sta
  
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• How the suburbs killed a salmon creek and science informs its restoration

  26-05-2016 21:14
  
  Federally funded environmental science on a geologically doomed creek in Juneau could inform fish-saving restoration on other impaired water bodies.
  Duck Creek flows past the Nancy Street wetland and under Nancy Street in the Mendenhall Valley on Friday May 20, 2016 in Juneau, Alaska. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has awarded a watershed coalition a nearly $10,000 grant to collect water quality data to measure the effectiveness of environmental improvements on the creek. (P
  
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• UA Coop Extension Services in Sitka and Anchorage set for closure

  26-05-2016 20:56
  
  State budget cuts are hitting home. The Anchorage and Sitka offices of the University of Alaska Cooperative Extension Service are slated for closure by the end of October. UAF spokesperson Marmion Grimes said the closures reflect severe reductions in state funding.
  “The cooperative extension service statewide, needs to cut about a million dollars from its budget next year,” Grimes said. You know, like other units throughout the university, they are looking a a pretty steep reduction
  
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• Alaska Airlines: Virgin merger will improve efficiency, freshen brand

  26-05-2016 20:41
  
  An Alaska Airlines executive gave some details during Wednesday’s Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce lunch about the company’s recently announced merger with Virgin America.
  (Photo courtesy of Alaska Airlines and Virgin Airlines)Director of Sales and Community Marketing Scott Habberstad, who is a former Ketchikan resident, also stressed that while Alaska Airlines might consider it in the future, there are no plans to let dogs earn miles for their people. At least not yet.
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• Alaska Corrections officer faces federal drug charges - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  26-05-2016 18:54
  
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  Alaska Corrections officer faces federal drug charges
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  Alaska Department of Corrections Commissioner Dean Williams, center, speaks at a news conference on the arrest of a corrections officer while FBI Special Agent in Charge Martin Culbreth, left, and U.S. Attorney for Alaska Karen Loeffler listen ...and more »
  
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• Man charged in fatal South Anchorage shooting

  26-05-2016 18:18
  
  APD patrol SUV (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)One man is dead and another in custody after a fatal shooting in South Anchorage on Wednesday.
  Anchorage police have charged 23-year-old Andrew Robertson-Goughnour with 1st- and 2nd-degree murder, in the death of 19-year-old Brandon Merritt.
  According to an APD release, the two got into a verbal altercation at the Holiday gas station on Abbott Road, when Merritt approached Goughnour’s vehicle.
  Goughnour produced a
  
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• Brown bears draw hundreds to Alaska Peninsula for spendy spring hunt

  26-05-2016 14:54
  
  
  Hundreds of people have traveled to the Alaska Peninsula this month for a chance to bag a brown bear. Most hunters are non-residents who hire guides and charter flights, driving an estimated $10 million dollars of economic activity.
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  Dave Crowley, a wildlife biologist with ADF&G, tags a brown bear hide by the Naknek River (Photo by Hannah Colton, KDLG – Dillingham)On the bank of the Naknek River in King Salmon is Float Plane Row, where an Anchorage hunter just g
  
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• Rolling Meadows native survives brutal bear attack in Alaska - Chicago Daily Herald

  26-05-2016 12:20
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  Rolling Meadows native survives brutal bear attack in Alaska
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  A Rolling Meadows native is recovering from a brutal attack by a large brown bear in the remote Alaska wilderness, which at one point involved his head being in the bear's mouth, according to ABC News. Kenny Steck, who grew up in the suburbs but moved ...
  
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• It's not too early to start planning for the Alaska Run for Women - Alaska Dispatch News

  26-05-2016 08:04
  It's not too early to start planning for the Alaska Run for Women
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  It's not too early to start planning for the Alaska Run for Women - Alaska Dispatch News ...
  
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• $200,000 in state funds spent on PR for beer festival

  26-05-2016 04:12
  
  
  Nation-wide, craft brewing is on the rise, and Alaska is no exception: 3,947,554 gallons of beer were brewed in state during 2015.
  On Saturday, downtown Anchorage hosted the first ever tasting festival made up exclusively of small brewing and distilling companies based in Alaska. The small industry is thriving for a variety of reasons, including a recent appropriation through the state’s Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development.
  But taxpayer-funded support for the burgeo
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, May 25, 2016

  26-05-2016 03:46
  
  
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  Alaska corrections officer faces federal drug charges
  Ellen Lockyer, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  A Goose Creek prison guard has been arrested in connection with an alleged conspiracy to distribute drugs in the correctional facility. The correc
  
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• U.S. Senate bill includes $1B for icebreaker

  26-05-2016 03:24
  
  
  A U.S. Senate subcommittee has passed a bill that includes $1 billion to build a new polar icebreaker. Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Tuesday thanked the other members of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee for including the ship in its spending bill for next year.
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  The Coast Guard vessel Healy is considered a medium icebreaker. Photo: USCG.“With the insertion that you have made, Mr. Chairman, and to the members of the committee, of a billion-dollar commitment to an icebreak
  
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• Downtown Anchorage park to see major safety renovations

  26-05-2016 02:49
  
  
  In order to make a downtown Anchorage park safer, officials will destroy a decades-old fountain. It’s one of several measures Mayor Ethan Berkowitz introduced during an outdoor press conference in Town Square Park on Wednesday.
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  Mayor Ethan Berkowitz announces-design changes to Town Square Park to combat public safety problem (Photo by Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)“We’re gonna dismantle this fountain, make sure that the space in Town Squ
  
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• Walker ally on gas line board resigns to run for state Senate

  26-05-2016 02:01
  
  
  Luke Hopkins was identified with a hastily written name card, after being appointed to the AGDC board the day before. Photo: Rachel Waldholz, APRNOne of Gov. Bill Walker’s allies overseeing the effort to build a natural gas pipeline has resigned, and plans to run for state Senate.   
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  Former Fairbanks borough mayor Luke Hopkins, a Democrat, announced his resignation from the board of the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation in a letter to the governor today.
  
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• KRITFC signs an MOU with USFWS

  26-05-2016 01:20
  
  The Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission signed a historic memorandum of understanding, or MOU, with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The agreement is the first formalization of co-management between the Alaska tribes along the Kuskokwim River and the federal government.
  Chair Mike Williams Sr. signs the MOU with USFWS Yukon Delta Refuge Manager Ray Borne. (Photo by Charles Enoch, KYUK – Bethel) The full Kuskokwim River Intertribal Fish Commission, made up of representative
  
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• Historic agreement gives Kuskokwim tribes say in fish management

  26-05-2016 01:20
  
  
  The Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission signed a historic memorandum of understanding, or MOU, with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The agreement is the first formalization of co-management between the Alaska tribes along the Kuskokwim River and the federal government.
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  Chair Mike Williams Sr. signs the MOU with USFWS Yukon Delta Refuge Manager Ray Borne. (Photo by Charles Enoch, KYUK – Bethel)The full Kuskokwim River Intertribal Fish Commission, made up of repre
  
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• Alaska-Virgin merger will expand opportunities - KRBD

  26-05-2016 00:53
  
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  Alaska-Virgin merger will expand opportunities
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  A detail of a slide from Scott Habberstad's presentation to the Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce. An Alaska Airlines executive gave some details during Wednesday's Chamber of Commerce lunch about the company's recently announced merger with Virgin ...and more »
  
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• After bike impales daughter, mother sends public thank you to good samaritans

  26-05-2016 00:47
  
  In rural Alaska access to emergency medical care relies on many factors like distance, weather, and time of day. For one 10-year-old girl in Eek, emergency care also relied on one pilot’s good will after the child’s traumatic bike accident. KYUK talked with the girl’s mother and the pilot who helped them out.The plane that carried the mother and daughter to Bethel, pictured here in Napakiak in spring 2016. (Photo credit courtesy of Jerry White)Kimberly Hoffman is the child&rsqu
  
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• Alaska gas line board member quits for state Senate run, blaming legislative dysfunction - Alaska Dispatch News

  26-05-2016 00:39
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  Alaska gas line board member quits for state Senate run, blaming legislative dysfunction
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  JUNEAU — Six weeks after lawmakers narrowly confirmed his appointment to the board of the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., former Fairbanks borough mayor Luke Hopkins has quit, saying he wants to avoid politicizing the board while he runs for state ...
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• Alaska corrections officer faces federal drug charges

  26-05-2016 00:19
  
  A Goose Creek prison guard has been arrested in connection with an alleged conspiracy to distribute drugs in the correctional facility. The corrections officer faces federal charges.
  Dean Williams, commissioner of the state Department of Corrections and Karen Loeffler, a US District Attorney for Alaska (Photo by Ellen Lockyer, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)The criminal complaint charges corrections officer Adam Jason Spindler with conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to di
  
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• State educators adapt to new Every Student Succeeds Act

  26-05-2016 00:11
  
  The state education department is seeking public input on a new plan to meet Alaska’s unique education challenges. Under the new federal law, Every Student Succeeds Act, the state must design its own requirements to meet the standards under the new federal law.
  Every Student Succeeds replaces the old No Child Left Behind federal program. Margaret MacKinnon is a director of accountability with the Alaska department of education. She said the public is invited to attend any one of a series o
  
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