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• Park Service pushes for more Native representation in top-level jobs

  21-06-2016 23:57
  
  The National Park Service has two top-level jobs open in Alaska right now. One of those is here in Bristol Bay – Katmai National Park and Preserve out of King Salmon is hiring for a superintendent, and so is Western Arctic National Parklands out of Kotzebue.
  Katmai Calder, glacier, and Mt Griggs (Photo courtesy of the National Park Service)The Park Service is pushing for more Alaska Natives and locals to apply for those jobs.
  When Adrienne Fleek joined the National Park Service as the Alas
  
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• Experience Alaska's summer solstice with these 12 spectacular photos - Alaska Dispatch News

  21-06-2016 21:55
  
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  Experience Alaska's summer solstice with these 12 spectacular photos
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  Summer solstice is a big deal in Alaska. To celebrate the longest day of the year — when the sun never sets or barely sets across much of the state, offering just a few hours of cool twilight — many Alaskans take to the outdoors or stay up late to ...
  
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• Northwest Passage cruise marks turning point in Arctic tourism

  21-06-2016 21:47
  
  The Crystal Serenity berthed in Livorno, Itlay. Photo: Piergiuliano Chesi, Wikimedia CommonsOn August 16, the Crystal Serenity will steam out of Seward on a historic trip. The vessel will be the first big luxury liner to chart a course through the Northwest Passage, stopping in Kodiak, Unalaska and Nome before cruising through Canada’s far north to Greenland and then south to New York. The unprecedented voyage is generating excitement—and some trepidation.
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• Sailors, rowers to brave chilly 750-mile boat race to Alaska – no motors allowed - Fox News

  21-06-2016 21:26
  
  Sailors, rowers to brave chilly 750-mile boat race to Alaska – no motors allowed
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  More than 100 brave souls are preparing for an intense 750-mile Pacific boat race from Washington to Alaska -- an event described as "car camping in an enormous washing machine." Sailors, paddlers to test endurance on 750 miles of cold waters in the ...
  
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• Alaska man on snowmobile arrested on first day of summer - KTUU.com

  21-06-2016 21:04
  
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  Alaska man on snowmobile arrested on first day of summer
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  ANCHORAGE A 42-year-old Nikiski man faces a felony charge after driving a snowmachine drunk on the first day of summer. Alaska State Troopers took a call of a disturbance Monday between two men in the Kenai Peninsula community. Troopers say Kyle ...
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• Rating agencies warn Alaska: we’re watching you

  21-06-2016 19:00
  
  Construction on the Capitol building in Juneau on May 24, 2016. Photo: Rachel Waldholz/APRNIn his quest to remake Alaska’s finances, Governor Bill Walker has found a set of perhaps unexpected allies.
  They don’t live in Alaska – some of them have never been to Alaska – but they have the power to give Alaska lawmakers an ulcer every time they speak.
  They are the credit rating agencies.
  Like an individual’s credit score, Alaska’s credit rating is our calling
  
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• Chill out and listen to tales of Alaska's bush pilots, then take off to flightsee - Los Angeles Times

  21-06-2016 16:59
  
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  Chill out and listen to tales of Alaska's bush pilots, then take off to flightsee
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  Here's a chance to chill and learn history from America's Last Frontier: Alaska's bush pilots will share tales from the 49th state during free, summertime chats in Anchorage. For $30, you also can fly in a floatplane as part of the Talk on the Dock ...
  
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• Anchorage, Alaska, considers paying homeless people to clean up their own camps - Washington Times

  21-06-2016 16:59
  
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  Anchorage, Alaska, considers paying homeless people to clean up their own camps
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  This photo provided by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game shows a homemade spear that a homeless man used to kill a black bear cub that was sniffing around for food in an illegal camp site in Anchorage, Alaska, ... more > · View Comments Print.
  
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• Alaska cruise tour in pictures: Denali, Hubbard Glacier, more - Newsday

  21-06-2016 16:13
  
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  Alaska cruise tour in pictures: Denali, Hubbard Glacier, more
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  It had long been on my husband's must-do list to visit Alaska, fertile ground for a nature photographer like him. Somehow, though, we kept getting sidetracked, especially since the best way to see the 49th state is by cruise ship and neither of us is ...
  
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• Alaska's senators say no to Democrats' gun control push - Alaska Dispatch News

  21-06-2016 06:01
  
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  Alaska's senators say no to Democrats' gun control push
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  WASHINGTON — Alaska's senators voted in line with the Republican Party Monday night as the U.S. Senate blocked four gun control amendments, both senators saying Alaskans have been loud and clear in favor of preserving individuals' access to firearms.
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• FBI says 2015 Alaska small plane crash was intentional act - Fox News

  21-06-2016 05:07
  
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  FBI says 2015 Alaska small plane crash was intentional act
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The FBI says there was no threat to national security when a pilot crashed a small airplane into office buildings in the downtown area of Alaska's largest city late last year. The Anchorage FBI office says in a release Monday that ...
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• Alaska House Majority press secretary accused of assault, put on leave - Alaska Dispatch News

  21-06-2016 04:00
  
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  Alaska House Majority press secretary accused of assault, put on leave
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  Anchorage police said they arrested Will Vandergriff, the long-time press secretary for the Alaska House Majority, following an investigation into an assault on a woman last week, and the House speaker said Monday that Vandergriff has been put on ...
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• More bulk toilet paper, more Alaska miles - Juneau Empire (subscription)

  21-06-2016 03:42
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  More bulk toilet paper, more Alaska miles
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  On Monday, wholesale giant Costco started accepting Visa credit cards, including the Alaska Airlines Signature card. Back | Next. On Monday, wholesale giant Costco started accepting Visa credit cards, including the Alaska Airlines. Lisa Phu | Juneau ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, June 20, 2016

  21-06-2016 03:39
  
  
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  Murkowski, Sullivan vote no on gun limits
  Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Washington D.C.
  In the U.S. Senate today, gun control measures failed to get enough votes to advance. Alaska’s U.S. senators voted with their fellow Republicans
  
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• Legislators respond to Walker’s latest special session

  21-06-2016 03:18
  
  
  Alaska’s Legislature will have another 30 days beginning on July 11th to pass a long-term fiscal plan for funding state government. That’s because Governor Bill Walker called them back for another special session. Legislators had a mixed response to the call. Some say they’re open to working on new proposals they expect from Walker. But others are skeptical toward the governor’s approach and say the Legislature can return to the issue next year in the regular session.
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• More than 200 people work to put out Tetlin River Fire near Tok

  21-06-2016 03:03
  
  
  More than 200 people are working the Tetlin River Fire, south of Tok. The wildfire, suspected to be human caused, has grown to over a thousand acres since starting Friday southwest of the village of Tetlin. Alaska Division of Forestry spokesman Tim Mowry said the village, 16 miles off the Alaska Highway, is the focus of suppression efforts.
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  “Protect the airstrips on the outskirts of the village and keep the fire from entering the village,” Mowry said. “Thus
  
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• FBI: No national security threat in ’15 Alaska plane crash

  21-06-2016 02:38
  
  
  The FBI says there was no threat to national security when a pilot crashed a small airplane into office buildings in downtown Anchorage late last year.
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  The Anchorage FBI office says in a release Monday that it was an intentional act but an isolated incident. Both the FBI and the National Transportation Safety Board have closed their investigations into the Dec. 29 crash that killed the pilot, Doug Demarest.
  The Cessna 172 piloted by Demarest clipped a building housing a law firm o
  
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• Murkowski, Sullivan vote no on gun limits

  21-06-2016 02:35
  
  
  by Liz Ruskin/APRNIn the U.S. Senate today, gun control measures failed to get enough votes to advance. Alaska’s U.S. senators voted with their fellow Republicans, saying the two Democratic proposals would have infringed on Second Amendment rights.
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  Sen. Dan Sullivan says the limits focus on the wrong problem.
  “What we’re talking about in terms of Orlando or San Bernardino, it’s not a gun control issue. It’s a terrorism issue,” he said. “An
  
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• Dillingham woman missing after leaving Juneau treatment center in March

  21-06-2016 01:50
  
  A Dillingham woman has been missing in Juneau for nearly three months. The family of 30-year-old LoriDee Wilson has no information on her whereabouts, but continues to hope that she’ll be found alive.
  LoriDee Wilson, 30, of Dillingham was reported missing in Juneau in late March. (Photo courtesy of Wilson’s family)Wilson went to Juneau in mid-March to get drug addiction treatment program at the Rainbow Recovery Center.Wilson’s older sister Gwen Larson said she last spoke t
  
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• Underpaid Alaska contractors bear burden of Buccaneer’s bankruptcy

  21-06-2016 01:27
  
  Alaskans were outraged after a group of oil companies based in Texas went bankrupt and stuck them with the bill. The name Buccaneer is equivalent to dirt in some corners of Southcentral Alaska. While drilling for oil and gas in Cook Inlet two years ago, a Buccaneer Energy subsidiary was ruined in a corporate bankruptcy. They left behind dozens of businesses that want their money.
  Lloyd Moore inside his office at Moore & Moore Services in Homer. (Photo by Quinton Chandler, KTOO
  
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• Kiehl proposes ordinance to outlaw LGBT discrimination in Juneau

  21-06-2016 01:17
  
  In an old hospital cafeteria, voices and footsteps echo off the nearly bare walls and empty offices. Toys and big stuffed animals are strewn about in various states of packing.
  Matt Magnusson gives a tour of the Catholic Community Service’s Family Resource Center in Juneau, June 17, 2016. He says everyone jokes that this hallway is haunted. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh, KTOO – Juneau)Matt Magnusson is showing me around a wing of St. Ann’s Center where Catholic Communit
  
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