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• Unhinged Alaska: It's all relative - Kenai Peninsula Online

  02-07-2016 23:49
  Unhinged Alaska: It's all relative
  Kenai Peninsula Online
  The last few weeks have been amazing for numerous fishing buffs pursuing fins on the lower peninsula. Especially if they were able to drag their gluteal regions out of the horizontal position at quasi-dark-thirty. Unless you have a vampire dangling ...
  
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• Aleutian seabirds are showing the effects of a changing marine ecosystem - Alaska Dispatch News

  02-07-2016 23:45
  
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  Aleutian seabirds are showing the effects of a changing marine ecosystem
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  UAA professor Douglas Causey fires at a cormorant during the US Fish and Wildlife Service research boat R/V Tiglax's trip in 2015, near Attu Island. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News). The bodies of seabirds tell stories of the rapid change taking ...
  
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• Retracing an 1885 river journey - and investigating a moose mystery - Alaska Dispatch News

  02-07-2016 21:01
  
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  Retracing an 1885 river journey - and investigating a moose mystery
  Alaska Dispatch News
  LOWER TANANA RIVER — On a day like this 121 years ago, a hungry U.S. Army explorer passed here at the mouth of Fish Creek, where clear water collides with the cloudy Tanana. Henry Allen did not stop to fish. He had food and further exploration on his ...
  
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• Could Brexit impact Alaska's fishing industry? - Alaska Dispatch News

  02-07-2016 18:59
  
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  Could Brexit impact Alaska's fishing industry?
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  The United Kingdom's recent vote to exit the European Union — dubbed Brexit — has turned seafood trading on its head. For 43 years the U.K. has been a major part of the 28-country EU, and what the pullout will mean for longstanding business ...and more »
  
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• 'Alaskan Bush People' Ditch Alaska Again! Was It To Avoid Reuniting Ami With Her Family? - The Inquisitr

  02-07-2016 18:52
  
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  'Alaskan Bush People' Ditch Alaska Again! Was It To Avoid Reuniting Ami With Her Family?
  The Inquisitr
  'Alaskan Bush People' Ditch Alaska Again! Was It To Avoid Reuniting Ami With Her Family? Toni Matthews. So the Alaskan Bush People cast just ditched Alaska — again! Hat tip to the Inquisitr writer Alycia Ancell, who previously reported the story.and more »
  
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• 3-man catamaran finishes first in Race to Alaska - Yakima Herald-Republic

  02-07-2016 17:41
  
  3-man catamaran finishes first in Race to Alaska
  Yakima Herald-Republic
  KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — A three-man team on a catamaran has finished first in the motorless Race to Alaska, beating last year's winning time by more than a day. The Ketchikan Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/29jQHaX ) that captain Randy Miller and ...and more »
  
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• On to Alaska - International Falls Journal

  02-07-2016 15:09
  
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  On to Alaska
  International Falls Journal
  Ray musher Ryan Anderson hits the trail at the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon in Two Harbors. prev. next. ×. 4 remaining of 5. Welcome! We hope that you enjoy our free content. Ryan Anderson is one step closer to fulfilling a lifelong dream.
  
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• New at Mount Marathon: No dogs allowed; men race first - Alaska Dispatch News

  02-07-2016 08:22
  
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  New at Mount Marathon: No dogs allowed; men race first
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  Backdropped by Resurrection Bay, women near the top of Mount Marathon during the 2014 race. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News). The big news at Mount Marathon this year — other than an all-out ban on dogs in downtown Seward — is a flip-flopped ...and more »
  
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• Walker administration continues brawl with oil producers for gas-marketing details - Alaska Dispatch News

  02-07-2016 07:05
  
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  Walker administration continues brawl with oil producers for gas-marketing details
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  The Walker administration on Thursday continued to fight Alaska's major oil producers for details about how they will sell their Prudhoe Bay natural gas, refusing to approve an annual activity plan at one of the nation's largest oil fields until it ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Natives win major land rights case - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  02-07-2016 06:32
  
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  Alaska Natives win major land rights case
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  FAIRBANKS—Alaska Native communities won a significant victory against the state of Alaska on Friday when a federal appeals court ruled that tribes in the state have the right to place their land in federal trust. For decades, the Department of ...
  State loses another round in fight against feds over Alaska tribal landsAlaska Dispatch News
  Tribes in Alaska can now take lands into trustAlaska Public Ra
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, July 1, 2016

  02-07-2016 03:20
  
  
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  Tribes in Alaska can now take lands into trust
  Lori Townsend, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  Tribes in Alaska can move forward with petitioning the federal government to take lands into trust. A federal appeals court today dismissed the state of
  
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• If you're concerned about Alaska's economic challenges, maybe you could start a peony farm - Alaska Dispatch News

  02-07-2016 02:34
  
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  If you're concerned about Alaska's economic challenges, maybe you could start a peony farm
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  Alaska Peony Distributors gave away flowers to their guests at an event on Monday to acknowledge the beginning Alaska's short peony harvesting season, which runs from late June to early September. "Our climate, our position on the globe allows us to ...
  
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• 49 Voices: Brian Weed of Juneau

  02-07-2016 02:26
  
  This week we’re hearing from Brian Weed in Juneau. Weed is a corrections officer by day and a mine explorer in his free time.
  (Screenshot of Brian Weed from Indie Alaska video by Kaysie Ellingson)WEED: My father used to work on Douglas Island for Department of Transportation. And when I was about 12 years old, he would make me go to work for him in the summer time. Little did he know, the second largest mine in the world, the Treadwell Mine, was located on Douglas Island about a half-mile
  
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• Whale deaths near Anchorage, Glacier Bay prompt investigation

  02-07-2016 02:15
  
  A humpback whale that stranded near Kake in September, 2013. Photo courtesy of Kate SavageResearchers are trying to determine what caused the deaths of three large whales found along Alaska’s coastline within a single week in late June, and whether the fatal strandings might be related to a big spike in whale deaths in the region last year.
  A fin whale died in Knik Arm near Anchorage on June 22. Four days later, a humpback was found dead off Point Carolus in Glacier Bay National Park.
  
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• Tribes in Alaska can now take lands into trust

  02-07-2016 01:56
  
  Tribes in Alaska can move forward with petitioning the federal government to take lands into trust. A federal appeals court today dismissed the state of Alaska’s challenge in the trust litigation.
  Indian Country status in Alaska would afford the same protections as reservation lands in the lower 48.
  In 2007, Alaska tribes sued the Interior Department for the right to take land into trust. Even after a legal opinion from the Interior Department said it was discriminatory to treat tribes in
  
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• AK: The solitary rhythm of life at a remote Air Force installation

  02-07-2016 01:34
  Scattered across Alaska are 15 radar sites in some of the most remote areas of the state, feeding information to a command center in Anchorage. Keeping them humming 365 days a year are tiny crews of private contractors who live there for months at a time. To a lot of people, the prospect sounds crazy. To others the solitary rhythm makes total sense.
  
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• Here are the top-paying jobs in Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  02-07-2016 01:00
  
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  Here are the top-paying jobs in Alaska
  Alaska Dispatch News
  It's probably not a surprise that doctors are some of the best-paid people in Alaska. But a new list breaks down exactly which jobs, across all industries, rake in the biggest salaries. Zippia, a career information company, recently published a ranking ...
  
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• Adventures in Halibut Cove

  02-07-2016 01:00
  
   
  HOST: Charles WohlforthGUESTS:  
  Clem Tillion, pioneer in the re-settlement and establishment of current Halibut Cove.
  Tammy and Carl Jones, Owners of the Cove Light Inn
  Marian Beck, owner and manager of The Saltry Restaurant
  LINKS:
  The history of Halibut Cove
  Cove Light Inn on Facebook
  Cove Country Cabins
  The Saltry Restaurant
  PARTICIPATE: Facebook: Outdoor Explorer (comments may be read on-air)
  BROADCAST: Thursday, July 07, 2016. 2:00 pm – 3:00 p.m.
  
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• Alaska changes HS diploma requirements; no more SAT, ACT

  02-07-2016 00:58
  
  A law that made taking a college aptitude test such as the SAT or ACT mandatory for getting a high school diploma expired yesterday. This signaled an end to 12 years of requiring students to take some form of test, in addition to passing a standard high school curriculum, to get a diploma.
  Students wait to receive their diplomas at Sullivan Arena (Photo by Anne Hillman, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)For Alaska students attending high school between 2004 and 2014, the High School Graduati
  
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