Alaska news

• Environmental group clashes with BlueCrest on fracking

  28-06-2016 22:51
  
  The Center for Biological Diversity is calling for the National Marine Fisheries Service to stop BlueCrest Energy’s plans to conduct hydraulic fracturing of oil wells in Cook Inlet, citing concern for beluga whales.LGL Alaska Research Associates documented beluga whales in Cook Inlet as part of a photo identification project. The whales are listed as endangered.
  (Photo courtesy of LGL Alaska Research Associates)Kristen Monsell, staff attorney, sent a letter to NMFS on June 22. She said fra
  
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• Traveling Music 6-19-16

  28-06-2016 20:43
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  Tania Opland is playing a house concert Friday, June 24, hosted by Leslie Kleinfeld.  More info:  www.fit4health.biz
   
  Last Call
  Tania Opland / Tania Opland
  Tania Opland
  www.taniaopland.com
  3:03
   
  Jovano Jovanke
  Tania Opland and Mike Freeman / Traditional
  Cut To Rhythms
  www.opland-freeman.com
  2:06
   
  Lessa’s Ride
  Anne McCaffrey, Tania Opland, Mike Freeman / Anne McCaffrey, Tania Opland, Mike Freeman
  
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• Traveling Music 7-10-16

  28-06-2016 20:30
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  7-10-16
   
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  You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive
  The Websters and Scott Nygaard / Darrell Scott
  Ten Thousand Miles
  Lots of Rabbits Records, www.babyswan.com
  5:23
   
  Blues Don’t Mean A Thing
  Bill and the Belles / Traditional
  Live From Bristol
  www.billandthebelles.com
  2:24
   
  Bright  Sunny South
  Doc and Merle Watson / Traditional
  Down South
  Sugar Hill
  2:35
   
  Tear My Stillhous
  
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• Potholes to hashtags, Anchorage hires its first tech czar

  28-06-2016 20:26
  
   
  Brendan Babb previously worked in the private tech sector, and volunteered on tech-oriented civic projects. Photo via LinkedIn.The city of Anchorage is investing in a new approach to technology, aimed at expediting services to citizens.
  Last month, the city hired its first Chief Innovation Officer, part of a strategy to bring government data right to residents.
  Brendan Babb and I stared at a pothole in Midtown Anchorage as he fished out his iPhone.
  “Of course my phone’ll
  
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• Traveling Music 7-3-16

  28-06-2016 19:31
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  7-3-16
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  Don’t Take Me Back to the Chain Gang
  Brian Christianson / Traditional
  Brian Christianson and Friends
  [email protected]
  3:25
   
  Rocket Summer (instrumental)
  Alison Brown / John R. Burr
  The Company You Keep
  Compass Records
  5:21
   
  Madman Across the Water
  Bill Cooley / Bill Cooley
  The Return Journey
  NLM Records
  6:15
   
  Hey Baby Hey
  Robin Lee Berry / Greg Brown
  Going Driftless
  R
  
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• Native names in modern culture

  28-06-2016 05:21
  
  Words have power. Recently the federal government quit using certain words to describe ethnic groups. Words like Eskimo and Aleut. Young Alaska Native people are increasingly using their Native names on social media and professionally. There’s also a push by some to return to the original Native descriptors for places and landmarks.
  Savoonga Health Aides at the Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation Raven’s Ball. From left to right: Chantal Miklahook, Abby Seppilu, Briane Gologergen, Dani
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, June 27, 2016

  28-06-2016 04:17
  
  
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  Regents to discuss $40M deal for UAF engineering building
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  The University of Alaska Board of Regents is set to decide next steps for the partially completed engineering building at the Fairbanks campus.
  Lightning strikes spark fires all
  
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• Lightning strikes spark fires all over the Interior

  28-06-2016 03:26
  
  Fire fighting resources were stretched over the weekend as dozens of new wildfires were sparked by lightning across the interior. Alaska Division of Forestry spokesman Tim Mowry said thunderstorm activity resulted in starts from the Brooks Range to the Alaska Range.
  10,292 lightning strikes were recorded across Alaska between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. on June 26, 2016, according to the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center.“Saturday, Sunday we had 20,000 lightning strikes, roughly, and 60 new fir
  
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• How safe are your clothes? Speaker talks about everyday toxics, mountaineering

  28-06-2016 03:21
  
  How safe is your raincoat? Or your carpet? Biophysical chemist Arlene Blum, the director of the Green Science Policy Institute, is speaking in Anchorage Tuesday about how the chemicals in our everyday items could be impacting our health.
  Arlene Blum: There are certain families of chemicals that are known to be harmful. One example, people may not realize is stain-repellants, like Scotch-Guard which is used to make Gore-Tex and Teflon. Those are some of the most persistent chemicals. Like they wo
  
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• UAF researcher looks at causes of the 9/11 World Trade Center attack

  28-06-2016 03:15
  
  A University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher is working to unravel a lingering mystery of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. The collapse of Building 7, near the Twin Towers, has long been a centerpiece of theories that the 9/11 attacks were part of a government conspiracy. UAF Engineering professor J. Leroy Hulsey is taking a scientific approach to scrutinize what happened to the building.
  Dr. J Leroy Hulsey is funded by the group “Arch
  
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• UAF researcher looks at 9/11 World Trade Center mystery

  28-06-2016 03:15
  
  
  A University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher is working to unravel a lingering mystery of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. The collapse of Building 7, near the Twin Towers, has long been a centerpiece of theories that the 9/11 attacks were part of a government conspiracy. UAF Engineering professor J. Leroy Hulsey is taking a scientific approach to scrutinize what happened to the building.
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  Dr. J Leroy Hulsey is funded by the gr
  
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• Kavairlook shooting suspect found in Ohio

  28-06-2016 02:57
  
  The alleged shooter of John Kavairlook (kuh-VAIR-look) Junior has been arrested by Fairbanks police.
  Kavairlook was gunned down outside of the Rock N Rodeo Bar in Fairbanks last May.
  The alleged shooter is Patrick Dale Burton, age 23.  He was located in Cleveland, Ohio and is currently in custody awaiting possible extradition to Alaska on charges of first degree murder.
  Fairbanks Police Detective Peyton Merideth said that, unlike the previous two out-of-state arrests in connection to the Ka
  
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• Sealaska critic Mick Beasley elected to board of directors

  28-06-2016 02:51
  
  One of Sealaska’s most vocal critics is now a member of the Southeast regional Native corporation’s board of directors.
  Sealaska shareholder Michael Lee Beasley is author of the term- limits resolution. (Photo courtesy Michael Lee Beasley)Shareholders chose Michael Beasley, also known as Mick, as one of four winning candidates, according to results announced at Sealaska’s annual meeting Saturday in Ketchikan.
  He came in behind three incumbents, each of who ran as the board slat
  
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• Regents to discuss $40M deal for UAF engineering building

  28-06-2016 02:42
  
  The University of Alaska Board of Regents is set to decide next steps for the partially completed engineering building at the Fairbanks campus.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that the board will hold a special meeting Monday to vote on $37.5 million in bonds that will allow the building to be completed. President Jim Johnsen had approved the meeting earlier this month, saying the building is “an opportunity waiting for investment.”
  The project had started after the Alaska Leg
  
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• Japanese kayakers paddle Aleutian chain

  28-06-2016 02:12
  
  Cold Bay to Unalaska is nearly 200 miles. By plane, it takes about an hour. By kayak, it’s nearly a month. Akio Shinya made the trip — with three others — in 24 days.
  “I am old man, 69-years-old,” Akio Shinya said. “So very hard, but now I am happy.”
  Over the past 16 years, he has taken six kayak trips to the Aleutian Islands. A place he considers special.
  “Kayak was born here,” Shinya said. “Aleutian Island chain. They h
  
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• Norwegian tanker runs aground near Nunivak Island

  28-06-2016 02:08
  
  A Norwegian tanker ran aground near Nunivak Island last week. According to a US Coast Guard press release, the chemical tanker was carrying over 14 million gallons of fuel when it hit bottom a little after 9 a.m. Friday.
  U.S. Coast Guardsmen conduct preflight checks on a Coast Guard HC-130H Hercules stationed in Kodiak. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth)The 24-member crew was able to refloat the vessel minutes after the grounding and anchored in deeper water
  
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• 2017 Iditarod sign-ups begin

  28-06-2016 02:03
  
  52 mushers have signed up so far for the 2017 Iditarod. Sign-ups opened on June 24th and include a lengthy list of top names and newcomers.
  Mitch Seavey finishes the 2016 Iditarod in second place. (Photo by David Dodman/KNOM)2016 Iditarod champion, Dallas Seavey, is set to race alongside his father, Mitch Seavey. Western Alaska veterans Pete Kaiser of Bethel and Richie Diehl of Aniak are also set to compete.
  Some other big names signed-up over the weekend, including nine of the to
  
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• Tagging baby seals for science near Yakutat’s glacial fjords

  28-06-2016 00:53
  
  Researchers move slowly through the ice in Disenchantment Bay hoping to get close
  enough to net a seal. (Photo by Jamie Womble, National Park Service)Summer is an important time for seal pup development. So the federal government is asking vessels — like cruise ships — to stay farther away from harbor seals in glacial fjords. Biologists are tracking the population in Disenchantment Bay near Yakutat to see how the new guidelines are working.
  Tagging 45 precocious baby seals is no easy
  
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