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• Legislators would crash state finances on principle, at everyone's expense - Alaska Dispatch News

  04-06-2016 16:07
  
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  Legislators would crash state finances on principle, at everyone's expense
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  We're facing the likelihood that the Alaska Legislature won't make meaningful progress this year in solving the fiscal crisis that threatens our state. The budget deal that passed this week set up the Legislature to leave Juneau at any time with ...
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  04-06-2016 09:18
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• Alaska riders saddle up for the year's first quarter horse show - Alaska Dispatch News

  04-06-2016 04:42
  
  Alaska riders saddle up for the year's first quarter horse show
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  Karen Erickson and her horse Killian say cheese after showing in the English class during the Alaska State Quarter Horse Association show Friday, Jun. 3, 2016 at the William Clark Chamberlin Equestrian Center in Anchorage. (Loren Holmes / Alaska ...
  
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• Troopers retrieve body from fatal Kodiak Island lodge fire - Alaska Dispatch News

  04-06-2016 04:11
  
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  Troopers retrieve body from fatal Kodiak Island lodge fire
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  Responders assess a fire at the Parks Cannery near Uyak Bay on Kodiak Island on June 2. (U.S. Coast Guard photo). Alaska State Troopers said Friday they reached the scene of a fatal fire at a Kodiak Island lodge and recovered a body from the debris.and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, June 3, 2016

  04-06-2016 03:08
  
  
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  Gov. Walker declares June 3 as Dutch Harbor Remembrance Day
  Zoe Sobel, KUCB – Unalaska
  Governor Bill Walker has declared June 3rd to be recognized as Dutch Harbor Remembrance Day. Statewide all flags will fly at half-mast to recognize Japan&r
  
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• Senate votes to lower health insurance premium increases for individuals and families

  04-06-2016 02:44
  
  
  The Senate voted 15 to 2 Friday to pass a bill to lower health insurance premium increases for individuals and families.
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  Insurance Division Director Lori Wing-Heier, in Juneau Jan. 29th, 2016 (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)State Insurance Division director Lori Wing-Heier told lawmakers last week that the individual insurance market could collapse if the Legislature doesn’t pass the bill.Anchorage Republican Senator Mia Costello supports the bill and notes that insu
  
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• BLM continues work on cleaning debris from North Slope oil drilling

  04-06-2016 02:30
  
  
  The Bureau of Land Management continues to work on cleaning up the debris from decades-old experimental oil drills on Alaska’s North Slope.
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  BLM had set an ambitious agenda for work this past winter, but only completed clean up for 10 wells. They planned on 14. BLM’s Legacy Wells Project Coordinator Nicole Hayes said Friday that the highest priority wells are located at Umiat, Barrow and Cape Simpson.
  “The reason why these were identified as the highest priority w
  
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• Numerous fires reported with causes ranging from lightening strikes to human error

  04-06-2016 02:26
  
  
  Four new fires have been reported Friday, two of them human caused.  A house fire in Delta threatened wild-lands, but was contained and is out.  A Palmer fire erupted when a homeowner set fire to an old chicken coop.  Fire responders issued a warning after dousing the flames.  Two lightening sparked fires continue to burn.  The Big Mud Fire, southwest of Tanana, has consumed 300 acres so far. BLM fire crews are monitoring that blaze.  And the Aropuk fire, on federal
  
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• Cause of Kodiak fire still a mystery as troopers work to identify victims

  04-06-2016 02:01
  
  
  There is still no official word from authorities as to the identities of the victims of the fire yesterday morning at a remote Kodiak Island lodge that claimed one life and injured three. State Trooper spokesperson Megan Peters says Troopers made it to the site late Thursday evening, and are still working to identify the victim.
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  The U.S. Coast Guard and emergency medical personnel transfer patients from a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter to an ambulance in Kodiak, Alaska, June 2, 2016. Th
  
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• UA Board of Regents approves $909.8M operating budget

  04-06-2016 02:00
  
  
  The University of Alaska Board of Regents meets in Anchorage on June 3, 2016. (Photo by Josh Edge/APRN)The University of Alaska Board of Regents have adopted the system’s $909.8 million operating budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
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  Just under $335 million of that comes from the state.
  That means the university system faces a $40 million budget shortfall, rather than the $75 million discussed previously.
  “That’s a big difference,” UA President Jim Johnsen s
  
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• AK: “Walk to Fisterra”: A Fairbanks musician’s pilgrimage through Spain

  04-06-2016 01:50
  
  
  “Walk to Fisterra” is a new documentary film showing tonight in Fairbanks featuring Alaskan born cellist Dane Johansen walking over 500 miles carrying his cello on his back, playing the Bach Cello Suites along the Spanish pilgrimage to Carmino de Santiago. Johansen is the son of Fairbanks School of Talent Education founder and current Fairbanks Suzuki Institute Music Director Gail Johansen so learning a string instrument was almost a given in the Johansen household. Johansen picked u
  
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• Athletes with Diabetes

  04-06-2016 01:00
  
  Diabetes does not mean the end of an athletic career. On the next Outdoor Explorer we’ll meet elite athletes and adventurers who deal with this disease. It’s fascinating how these athletes meet this challenge, dealing with blood chemistry while climbing mountains or swimming in a triathlon. We’ll also discuss how kids and parents work through it and stay active in Alaska as well. 
  We’ll also hear from a pair of teenage friends who’ve supported each o
  
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• Department of Environmental Conservation seeks herbicide for invasive Elodea plant

  04-06-2016 00:44
  
  The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation is considering a state sought permit to apply an herbicide to 3 Fairbanks area water bodies infested with the invasive plant Elodea.  Floridone has proven successful at battling back the aquatic weed known to choke out fresh waters.
  Elodea hangs off a boat at Chena Lakes. (Photo by Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks) 
  The interior waters targeted for floridone application are Chena Lakes and Slough in North Pole, and Tochaket Slough no
  
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• U.S. Senate bill could give five Southeast “landless” Native groups land.

  04-06-2016 00:22
  
  A U.S. Senate bill introduced last week could allow Alaska Natives in five Southeast communities to form urban corporations. Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell each stand to gain about 23,000 acres of land if the bill passes. But, the legislation does not come without controversy.
  Photo by Josh Edge, APRN – Anchorage: Senator Lisa MurkowskiIn 1971, more than 200 Native corporations formed under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, known as ANCSA. But, Haines, Ketchika
  
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• Gov. Walker declares June 3 as Dutch Harbor Remembrance Day

  04-06-2016 00:15
  
  Governor Bill Walker has declared June 3rd to be recognized as Dutch Harbor Remembrance Day. Statewide all flags will fly at half-mast to recognize Japan’s World War II attack on Dutch Harbor.
  Buildings burning after the first Japanese attack on Dutch Harbor, Alaska (USA), 3 June 1942. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army)The 1942 bombing was the first hostile action on Alaskan soil; twenty-fiveservice men were killed.
  Later on, Dutch Harbor was attacked again as well as the communit
  
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• UAF researchers study effects of wildfires and thawing permafrost on carbon production

  04-06-2016 00:09
  
  A new study co-authored by two UAF researchers suggests that contrary to previous studies Alaska’s wildfires and thawing permafrost may not generate more carbon that its ecosystems can capture – at least, through the end of the century.
  That’s potentially positive short-term news. But the study by David McGuire and Scott Rupp advises that Alaska could yet become a net producer of carbon if temperature increases, permafrost thaw and wildfire frequency and intensity are much grea
  
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