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• New head of AKLNG calls for bigger Alaska role in gas line project - Alaska Dispatch News

  23-06-2016 23:24
  
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  New head of AKLNG calls for bigger Alaska role in gas line project
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  Keith Meyer is the new head of the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. (Alex DeMarban / Alaska Dispatch News). The new head of the state gas line corporation says it's time for the state to take a lead role in the megaproject from ExxonMobil. The state is ...
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• Actor Shia LaBeouf is hitchhiking in Alaska for art - Alaska Dispatch News

  23-06-2016 22:49
  
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  Actor Shia LaBeouf is hitchhiking in Alaska for art
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  Actor Shia LaBeouf, known for starring in blockbuster films including the Transformers series and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," is in Alaska for a collaborative art project called #TakeMeAnywhere, but not for much longer ...
  Art project brings actor Shia LaBeouf to southcentral AlaskaKTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaskaall 3 news articles »
  
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• Attorney General Craig Richards resigns abruptly

  23-06-2016 22:05
  
  The head of Alaska’s legal team announced today he is stepping down.
  Gov. Bill Walker, right, and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott listen to Attorney General Craig Richards as he presents information to lawmakers at a Q&A session with the Governor and key cabinet members to discuss legislator’s plans for reorganizing the Permanent Fund, April 20, 2016. (Photo by Skip Gray, 360 North)Alaska’s Attorney General Craig Richards has been the state’s top attorney since 2014 when he wa
  
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• Alaska attorney general resigns, cites personal reasons - Alaska Dispatch News

  23-06-2016 21:45
  
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  Alaska attorney general resigns, cites personal reasons
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  Alaska Attorney General Craig Richards at the Capitol in Juneau in 2014. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News). Craig Richards, Gov. Bill Walker's former law partner and one of his closest confidants, abruptly announced his resignation as attorney ...
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• Sunny skies, stiff winds greet bike relay racers in Haines

  23-06-2016 21:06
  
  It was the Year of the Headwind on this year’s Kluane-Chilkat International Bike Relay. But more than 1,100 riders managed to complete the 150-mile event from Haines Junction, Yukon, to Haines. As it does every year, the 24th annual race featured teams of eight, four, two, and solo riders – some out for the glory and some in it just for fun.
  A solo rider crests the summit during Saturday’s Kluane-Chilkat International Bike Relay. (Photo by Jillian Rogers – KHNS – Ha
  
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• Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor to speak at UAF in August

  23-06-2016 20:51
  
  United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor is scheduled to speak at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. UAF Summer Sessions will host Sotomayor at the Davis Concert Hall August 14th.
  Sonia Sotomayor (Photo courtesy of the White House)A release announcing her visit said details are still being worked out but that the public will be able to submit questions for Sotomayor.
  Sotomayor became the first Hispanic member of the Supreme Court when appointed to the panel by President Oba
  
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• 750-mile boat race to Alaska launches from Port Townsend - KING5.com

  23-06-2016 18:54
  
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  750-mile boat race to Alaska launches from Port Townsend
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  Dozens of boats are racing 750 miles from Port Townsend, Wash., to Ketchikan, Alaska. (Credit: KING). CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN GOOGLE+ PINTEREST. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. -- An intense 750-mile boat race started Thursday morning in Port ...
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• Interior Department announces annual land payments for Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  23-06-2016 18:06
  
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  Interior Department announces annual land payments for Alaska
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  WASHINGTON — More than $28 million is headed to rural Alaska communities in payment for their work supporting national parks, wildlife refuges and public lands, the Interior Department announced this week. The funds come as part of a nationwide grant ...and more »
  
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• Gov’s pipeline proposal raises eyebrows

  23-06-2016 03:45
  
  
  Keith Meyer took over as the new president of the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. in June 2016. Photo courtesy of AGDC.The state is considering a dramatically different approach in its effort to build a natural gas pipeline.
  After more than two years of working with the big three North Slope oil companies, state officials are proposing Alaska take a larger stake — or take complete control of the project.
  And that plan is raising some eyebrows.
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  The Alaska LNG project, as cur
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, June 22, 2016

  23-06-2016 03:44
  
  
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  Lawmakers to Pebble: Why not file already?
  Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Washington D.C.
  The proposed Pebble Mine was Exhibit A at a hearing in the U.S. House this morning. The Republican-led hearing was supposed to be a critical look at envir
  
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• Administrative change ahead for veteran benefits

  23-06-2016 03:27
  
  
  There’s an administrative change ahead for veterans across Alaska who get benefits through the VA.
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  A new director has been appointed to oversee the Portland and Anchorage offices in charge of benefits. William F. Streitberger is a Navy veteran, and worked earlier in the VA’s Regional Office in Hartford, Connecticut. In his new position, Streitberger is in charge of 405,029 former service members and dependents living in Oregon and Alaska, distributing about $20.5 milli
  
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• Mt. View’s first farmers market helps remake community’s image

  23-06-2016 03:01
  
  
  Shoppers at Mt. View’s first farmers market. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)Mountain View, one of the nation’s most diverse neighborhoods, has a long-standing image problem. But one Anchorage organization and a group of local vendors are trying to change that through a new farmers market.
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  A group of three young women are visiting the community for the first time, waiting for their friend to play music. They’ve stopped by a couple of places on the edge of the commu
  
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• Lawmakers to Pebble: Why not file already?

  23-06-2016 02:22
  
  Media visit to a Pebble exploratory drill rig. 2012 file photo by Jason Sear/KDLG.The proposed Pebble Mine was Exhibit A at a hearing in the U.S. House this morning. The EPA took steps to block the Southwest Alaska mine even though Pebble Partnership hasn’t applied for permits yet. The Republican-led hearing was supposed to be a critical look at environmental regulation, but the focus shifted as lawmakers of both parties kept asking the same question: Why hasn’t Pebble filed for its
  
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• Anchorage DA to decide whether to charges House spokesman

  23-06-2016 02:06
  The Anchorage district attorney will soon decide whether to file assault charges against the spokesman for the majority caucus of the Alaska House of Representatives.
  KTUU reports Will Vandergriff was arrested for felony assault after police say he was involved in an altercation with a woman at an Anchorage apartment late in the evening on June 12.
  District Attorney Clint Campion tells The Associated Press that he needs more information on the case, but expects to decide on charges within a week
  
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• Government officials may be too optimistic about market with respect to PFD

  23-06-2016 01:59
  
  State government officials might be too optimistic about the market when planning to use money from the Alaska Permanent Fund to help pay for state government.
  That’s what the chief executive officer of the corporation that manages the Alaska Permanent Fund told the editorial board of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner on Tuesday.
  A bill before lawmakers would take 5.25 percent of the market value, or about $2.5 billion dollars, to help pay for state government.
  The fund’s CEO, Angela Ro
  
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• Government officials may be too optimistic about market with respect to Permanent Fund

  23-06-2016 01:59
  
  
  State government officials might be too optimistic about the market when planning to use money from the Alaska Permanent Fund to help pay for state government.
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  That’s what the chief executive officer of the corporation that manages the Alaska Permanent Fund told the editorial board of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner on Tuesday.
  A bill before lawmakers would take 5.25 percent of the market value, or about $2.5 billion dollars, to help pay for state government.
  The fund’s
  
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• Alaska State Troopers extend Girdwood coverage through September

  23-06-2016 01:13
  
  Alaska State Troopers will extend their coverage of Girdwood throughSeptember 30th of this year.
  Troopers say this should give the community enough time to negotiate acontract with the Whittier Police Department.
  In the meantime, Troopers will continue to provide services to TurnagainArm communities.
  Troopers were previously slated to vacate the Girdwood post on July 1st.
  
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• In public hearing, support nearly unanimous for Juneau ordinance to ban LGBT discrimination

  23-06-2016 01:01
  
  The Juneau Assembly heard nearly unanimous support for a proposed ordinance that would protect people from discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation in a committee meeting Tuesday evening.
  More than 60 people crowded into the Juneau Assembly Chambers to listen to testimony on Juneau’s proposed anti-discrimination ordinance. (Photo by Lakeidra Chavis, KTOO – Juneau)Thirty people testified on the ordinance, including Rev. Sue Bahleda of the Resurrection Lutheran Ch
  
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• Dr. Neal Hitch will lead Museum of The Aleutians

  23-06-2016 00:32
  
  Dr. Neal Hitch is The Museum of The Aleutians new executive director. The museum’s board of directors unanimously offered him the position last month. And he just signed his contract to begin work on August 15.
  The Museum of the Aleutians (Photo by Chrissy Roes, KUCB – Unalaska)Suzi Golodoff — chair of the board — said Hitch stood out from his cover letter
  “He said, and I’ll quote here,” Golodoff said. “He says, ‘I have two core beliefs
  
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• Clouds delay Midnight Sun Baseball Game

  23-06-2016 00:18
  
  Fairbanks annual Midnight Sun Baseball Game continues Wednesday night after being suspended early that morning due to low light.
  The Alaska Goldpanners are off to a strong start in the 111th edition of the Midnight Sun Baseball Game at Fairbanks Growden Park. The home team is leading the Kenai Peninsula Oilers 8 to nothing through 6 innings, in the suspended game.
  With 6 innings done and a team ahead, the game could have been considered complete, but as clouds blocked the midnight sun
  
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