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• State considers major changes to Alaska LNG project - KTUU.com

  22-06-2016 23:12
  
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  State considers major changes to Alaska LNG project
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  This illustration shows what the liquefaction plant in Nikiski could look like if the Alaska LNG project is completed as planned. (Image courtesy of the Alaska LNG project.) By Rachel Waldholz, Alaska Public Media |. Posted: Wed 1:11 PM, Jun 22, 2016 |.and more »
  
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• Nenana runs out of money to complete bridge intended to open agricultural lands

  22-06-2016 22:15
  
  An ambitious plan to develop agricultural land west of Nenana is on hold until the town can find another $5 million to complete work build a bridge across the Nenana River.
  Nenana Mayor Jason Mayrand says the city has bought all the materials needed to build the Nenana River bridge, such as these enormous cast-concrete girders, and stockpiled them near the construction site. (Photo by Tim Ellis, KUAC – Fairbanks)Jason Mayrand scampers over a rock pile on the eastern bank of the Nenana Rive
  
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• Quintillion to begin laying subsea fiber optic cable

  22-06-2016 20:50
  
  Nome’s coast will get a little more crowded this summer, but it’s not dredging or your standard drilling that will add to the offshore activity.
  Both the subsea Arctic cable, and a terrestrial cable along the Dalton Highway, are seeing delays that could push the rollout of Quintillion’s ultrafast broadband network in rural Alaska to 2016 or beyond. (Image courtesy of Quintillion Networks)“We’re not drilling for something, we’re drilling a path for something,&r
  
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• Alaska Gets No Relief From Oil Rebound as Downgrades Sting Bonds - Bloomberg

  22-06-2016 11:18
  
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  Alaska Gets No Relief From Oil Rebound as Downgrades Sting Bonds
  Bloomberg
  Not even an 86 percent increase in the price of crude oil since February is enough to right Alaska's finances. The energy-rich state, which plans to sell $128 million of bonds on Wednesday, lost its AAA rank from the three biggest credit-rating ...
  
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• Alaska Airlines Flight Diverted After Man Allegedly Tried to Kiss Sleeping 16-Year-Old-Girl - ABC News

  22-06-2016 06:32
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  Alaska Airlines Flight Diverted After Man Allegedly Tried to Kiss Sleeping 16-Year-Old-Girl
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  Alaska Airlines Horizon Air Bombardier Q400 plane takes-off at the Portland, Oregon International Airport, December 30, 2015. 0 Shares. Email. An Alaska Airlines flight from Portland to Anchorage was diverted Tuesday after a man allegedly attempted to ...
  Police: Alaska Airlines flight from PDX diverted after man tried to kiss teen girlKATU
  Flight to Alaska diverted after man tries to kiss
  
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• Governor declares Invasive Species Awareness Week for Alaska - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  22-06-2016 05:26
  
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  Governor declares Invasive Species Awareness Week for Alaska
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Many people would agree that Alaska has one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. But some experts say that landscape could be threatened over time by invasive species. Gov. Bill Walker has declared June 20 through June 26 Invasive Species ...and more »
  
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• Alaska ornithologist charged for smuggling endangered, protected birds - KTUU.com

  22-06-2016 05:18
  
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  Alaska ornithologist charged for smuggling endangered, protected birds
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  ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - An Alaska ornithologist and longtime research associate with the University of Alaska Museum of the North was recently charged with several counts of illegally smuggling bird specimens into the United States. A federal indictment ...
  
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• New magazine hopes to capitalize on the Alaska food movement - Alaska Dispatch News

  22-06-2016 05:12
  
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  New magazine hopes to capitalize on the Alaska food movement
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  Mary Smith holds the new local food quarterly magazine Edible Alaska at the La Bodega liquor store in Anchorage. Smith, editor of the magazine, was distributing copies to retail outlets. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News). Mary Smith has had a ...
  
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• Alaska reality TV star Marty Raney gets into the home reno game with 'Homestead Rescue' - Alaska Dispatch News

  22-06-2016 05:11
  
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  Alaska reality TV star Marty Raney gets into the home reno game with 'Homestead Rescue'
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Marty Raney uses an excavator to clear land for a garden on the new show “Homestead Rescue.” (Screen capture via Discovery.com). There is a new Discovery Channel program called "Homestead Rescue" that I'm going to classify as an Alaska reality TV ...
  
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• Park Service seeks local, Alaska Native applicants for top jobs - KTOO

  22-06-2016 05:10
  
  Park Service seeks local, Alaska Native applicants for top jobs
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  The National Park Service logo on the shirt sleeve of Fire Management Officer Roger Wong in Inverness, California, Aug. 10, 2007. (Creative Commons photo by Sheraz Sadiq/kqedquest). The National Park Service has two top-level jobs open in Alaska right ...and more »
  
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• Negotiating the great work vs. play divide in Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  22-06-2016 04:55
  
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  Negotiating the great work vs. play divide in Alaska
  Alaska Dispatch News
  One of the great things about getting to remote places in the outdoors is the ability to tune out from the buzzing phone in my pocket and glowing screen from my workday. But coming back to these things and the frenzied pace of daily communication can ...
  
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• Alaska lawmakers weigh whether next special session should be in Anchorage - Alaska Dispatch News

  22-06-2016 04:30
  
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  Alaska lawmakers weigh whether next special session should be in Anchorage
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Legislative leaders are considering holding the upcoming special session at the Legislature's new Anchorage office building before the lease expires rather than in Juneau as Gov. Bill Walker has proclaimed. But the move is fiercely opposed by some ...
  Missing work: How often Alaska lawmakers show up for floor sessionsKTUU.comall 3 news articles »
  
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• Sparks woman killed in Alaska rafting accident 'loved to travel' - Reno Gazette Journal

  22-06-2016 03:58
  
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  Sparks woman killed in Alaska rafting accident 'loved to travel'
  Reno Gazette Journal
  Australia. Russia. Egypt. Ecuador. New Zealand. Those are just a few places 67-year-old Sparks resident Karen Todd visited in her lifetime. She loved to travel, her life partner Carol Sewell said Tuesday. Todd and Cheryl Minnehan, 69, of Elko Grove ...
  Women killed in Alaska rafting accident only ones on craftFairbanks Daily News-Minerall 7 news articles »
  
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• First snowfall of summer hits Alaska's Atigun Pass - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  22-06-2016 03:42
  
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  First snowfall of summer hits Alaska's Atigun Pass
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Travelers along the Dalton Highway should keep an eye out for big trucks, which provide supplies to the North Slope oil fields. News-Miner file photo. Dalton Highway and trans-Alaska pipeline. AL GRILLO. The trans-Alaska oil pipeline is seen ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, June 21, 2016

  22-06-2016 03:41
  
  
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  State considers major changes to Alaska LNG project
  Rachel Waldholz, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  Governor Bill Walker’s administration is considering major changes to the Alaska LNG project, the effort to build a massive natural gas pipe
  
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• Three-day long ceremony marks consecration of first Buddhist temple in Alaska - Alaska Public Radio Network

  22-06-2016 03:08
  
  Three-day long ceremony marks consecration of first Buddhist temple in Alaska
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  For the first time in Alaskan history, a Thai Buddhist temple in Anchorage has been fully consecrated, or made holy. It was a landmark event for Buddhists from the state and around the world. Three new monks wait for questions during the first official ...
  
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• State considers major changes to Alaska LNG project - Alaska Public Radio Network

  22-06-2016 03:08
  
  State considers major changes to Alaska LNG project
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  This illustration shows what a liquefaction plant could look like. (Source: Alaska LNG This illustration shows what the liquefaction plant in Nikiski could look like if the Alaska LNG project is completed as planned. (Image courtesy of the Alaska LNG ...and more »
  
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• Three-day long ceremony marks consecration of first Buddhist temple in Alaska

  22-06-2016 03:07
  
  For the first time in Alaskan history, a Thai Buddhist temple in Anchorage has been fully consecrated, or made holy. It was a landmark event for Buddhists from the state and around the world.
  Three new monks wait for questions during the first official Buddhist monk ordination in Alaska. (Hillman/KSKA)A monk from Thailand speaks to the packed small sanctuary over a mic, a massive gold Buddha shinning from the wall behind him. People spill out the door, smartphones held high, trying to get photos
  
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• State considers major changes to Alaska LNG project

  22-06-2016 03:04
  
   
  This illustration shows what a liquefaction plant could look like. (Source: Alaska LNG)Gov. Bill Walker’s administration is considering major changes to the Alaska LNG project, the effort to build a massive natural gas pipeline from the North Slope.
  State officials said today the administration is considering increasing Alaska’s stake in the project — or even taking over ownership completely.
  That would be a radical shift from the structure as it’s curren
  
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• Tesoro gives up terminal to avoid antitrust case over gasoline - Alaska Public Radio Network

  22-06-2016 02:50
  
  Tesoro gives up terminal to avoid antitrust case over gasoline
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  Under pressure from the state, Tesoro has agreed to sell one of its two fuel storage terminals at the Port of Anchorage to avoid having a monopoly over the gasoline market in Alaska's Railbelt. Download Audio. Chief Assistant Attorney General Ed ...
  Alaska AG: Tesoro will have one year to sell or lease storage terminalSan Antonio Business Journal (blog)
  Tesoro Closes Acquisition of Marketing and Logistics
  
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• Tesoro gives up terminal to avoid antitrust case over gasoline

  22-06-2016 02:46
  
  Port of Anchorage. Photo: Corps of EngineersUnder pressure from the state, Tesoro has agreed to sell one of its two fuel storage terminals at the Port of Anchorage to avoid having a monopoly over the gasoline market in Alaska’s Railbelt.
  Chief Assistant Attorney General Ed Sniffen  says the state began investigating after Tesoro announced last year it planned to buy the Flint Hills tank farm at the Anchorage port. In addition to its Anchorage storage facilities, Tesoro also owns the s
  
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• Benefits bill for law enforcement, firefighters’ survivors falls short

  22-06-2016 02:31
  
  The survivors of law-enforcement officers and firefighters who die in the line of duty continue to face uncertainty over health insurance. That’s because the two houses of the Legislature couldn’t agree on a bill to provide benefits during the recent special session.
  State Trooper Sergeant Patrick “Scott” Johnson was just two and a half years from ensuring that his family would have health benefits through age 65 when he and Trooper Gabe Rich were killed in a shooting in
  
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• Driver charged with manslaughter in fatal Aleutians crash

  22-06-2016 01:40
  The driver of a passenger van that crashed on the remote Aleutian island of Atka, killing three passengers, has been charged with three counts of manslaughter.
  A warrant has been issued for the arrest of 28-year-old Sonny Iloilo, who is also charged with six counts of felony assault and driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
  Alaska State Troopers on June 14 received notice that a van carrying 10 people had crashed in Atka, a fishing village 1,200 miles southwest of Anchorage.
  The crash
  
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• Hoonah’s Native corporation names new CEO

  22-06-2016 01:13
  
  The Native corporation for the Southeast village of Hoonah will soon have its first shareholder CEO.
  Russell Dick will take over as Huna Totem CEO this fall. The Native corporation for Hoonah operates the Icy Strait Point tourist attraction. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska – Juneau)Huna Totem CEO and President Larry Gaffaney will leave this fall after seven years on the job. He’ll be replaced by Russell Dick, current chairman of the corporation’s board of directors.
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• Future of Denali Wolf pack in question

  22-06-2016 00:31
  
  A long studied and viewed Denali National Park wolf pack is on the verge of disappearing. The East Fork pack ranges near the park entrance, including on state land wolf advocates want closed to harvest.  The fate of the East Fork pack has also inspired a call for closer pack monitoring and rescue of any orphan pups.
  Denali wolf (Photo courtesy of National Park service) 
  The last known adult male of the East Fork Pack was observed from the air to be dead at a hunting camp on state land
  
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