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• French company promises Western Alaska high speed internet - KTOO

  23-07-2016 23:45
  
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  French company promises Western Alaska high speed internet
  KTOO
  That's because, after years of planning and wrangling permits, Quintillion is finally ready to lay fiber optic cable from Prudhoe Bay to Nome. The telecom company has one vessel stationed in the Bering Sea and another close behind. The Ile de Brehat ...
  
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• Filing period enters home stretch for Interior Alaska - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  23-07-2016 17:15
  
  Filing period enters home stretch for Interior Alaska
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  FAIRBANKS — Seven people have filed for local government office, but one seat on the school board remains open halfway into the filing period at the Fairbanks North Star Borough. Qualified candidates can file for one of three seats on the Borough ...and more »
  
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• On Arizona basketball targets and Alaska's 6-8 export - Arizona Daily Star

  23-07-2016 10:52
  
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  On Arizona basketball targets and Alaska's 6-8 export
  Arizona Daily Star
  Forward Kamaka Hepa left Barrow, Alaska, for Portland in order to help his basketball development. prev. next. LAS VEGAS -- Kamaka Hepa moved from the nation's northernmost town in April to Oregon, enrolled at Portland's Jefferson High School and ...and more »
  
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• Governor should recognize value of Alaska groundfish industry - Alaska Dispatch News

  23-07-2016 08:05
  
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  Governor should recognize value of Alaska groundfish industry
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Something remarkable happened in my hometown of Kodiak recently. Roughly 1,000 people turned out to celebrate our groundfish trawl fishery. It was a family affair, with processing workers and their kids, fishing families, support businesses and local ...
  
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• Metlakatla resident to represent Alaska at DNC - KTOO

  23-07-2016 07:01
  
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  Metlakatla resident to represent Alaska at DNC
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  Gavin Hudson stands with a Bernie Sanders cardboard cutout during the Alaska Democratic Convention earlier this year. Hudson is headed to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia next week. (Photo courtesy Gavin Hudson). A Metlakatla ...and more »
  
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• Seattle Mariners executive Allison started as player in Alaska baseball leagues - Alaska Dispatch News

  23-07-2016 06:21
  
  Seattle Mariners executive Allison started as player in Alaska baseball leagues
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  From a little Alaska town too small to have its own baseball team to rising up in Major League Baseball front offices, Tom Allison's baseball journey was an improbable one — and it's not over. Allison, who attended Susitna Valley High near Talkeetna ...
  
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• Alaska's Republican delegation returns ready to unite behind Trump - Alaska Dispatch News

  23-07-2016 05:33
  
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  Alaska's Republican delegation returns ready to unite behind Trump
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  CLEVELAND — As workers here sweep up the last of the confetti from the Republican National Convention, quite a few Alaska delegates are heading home ready to join together behind presidential nominee Donald Trump. Trump was not Alaska's first ...
  Gusto levels vary as Alaskans embrace TrumpAlaska Public Radio Network
  GOP 2016: Dissent among Alaska delegates as Trump wins nomina
  
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• Alaska Gov. Walker's administration signs $275-an-hour contract with former attorney general - Alaska Dispatch News

  23-07-2016 05:06
  
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  Alaska Gov. Walker's administration signs $275-an-hour contract with former attorney general
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  Alaska Gov. Bill Walker's administration will pay Walker's former attorney general and law partner, Craig Richards, $275 an hour for oil and gas legal work. The contract was announced by Walker's office Friday afternoon, three days after it was signed ...
  Walker blocks bill that would allow lawmakers on Alaska gas line boardKTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
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• Putin policies put a little chill in Alaska-Russia relations - Alaska Dispatch News

  23-07-2016 04:04
  
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  Putin policies put a little chill in Alaska-Russia relations
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Russian Chukchi marine mammal hunters snack on whale intestine and walrus during a break on the Bering Sea coast near the village of Lorino. The boat crews recently took Alaska travelers from Provideniya to Russian's northeastern-most village of Uelen.
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, July 22, 2016

  23-07-2016 03:46
  
  
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  Supreme Court overturns parental notification law for minors seeking abortions
  Anne Hillman, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  The Alaska Supreme Court overturned the state’s parental notification law for minors who are seeking abortions. The vote
  
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• The Governor and gridlock

  23-07-2016 03:00
  Governor Walker’s plans for overhauling the system of funding state government has met with resistance from lawmakers and the public. Lawmakers are unhappy with his vetoes and cuts to the PFD but they haven’t mustered an override and they haven’t passed a fiscal plan. What can possibly break the divide between the Governor’s plans and the desires of lawmakers and the public?
  Gov. Bill Walker talks with reporters in his temporary offices in Juneau. He had just called the l
  
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• Head of USMC to visit military bases in Alaska this weekend - Alaska Public Radio Network

  23-07-2016 02:56
  
  Head of USMC to visit military bases in Alaska this weekend
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  The head of the U.S. Marine Corps is coming to Alaska this weekend, stopping at military installations in both Anchorage and the Interior. Listen now. General Robert B. Neller, Commandant of the Marine Corps (Photo courtesy of the Department of Defense).
  
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• Head of USMC to visit military bases in Alaska this weekend

  23-07-2016 02:55
  The head of the U.S. Marine Corps is coming to Alaska this weekend, stopping at military installations in both Anchorage and the Interior.
  General Robert B. Neller, Commandant of the Marine Corps (Photo courtesy of the Department of Defense)Commandant General Robert Neller’s visit is as part of effort assessing whether or not to base Marines in Alaska for part of the year for training. That’s according to a release from the office of Sen. Dan Sullivan, who invited Neller for the visi
  
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• Walker hires former attorney general as oil, gas consultant

  23-07-2016 02:49
  
  Gov. Bill Walker has hired Craig Richards as an oil and gas consultant, less than a month after Richards resigned as Alaska’s attorney general.
  Alaska Attorney General Craig Richards. (Photo by Josh Edge/APRN)Walker’s office on Friday released the contract signed earlier this week. The contract runs through year’s end and is for up to $50,000.
  Richards resigned last month as attorney general, citing a desire to re-focus on his family.
  As attorney general, Richards was a public
  
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• Two people drown in Noorvik, police report

  23-07-2016 02:30
  
  State troopers reported the drowning death of two people from the Northwest community of Noorvik this week. According to a press release, Merna Sheldon, age 54, and her son Albert Sheldon, age 34, were thrown from a skiff that had spun out of control on the Kobuk River Monday. 4-year-old Jim Sheldon, Merna’s grandson, remained onboard until the skiff ran aground on the river bank.
  The trio did not return on time from their trip to pick berries downriver, and a
  
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• State health officials investigate Salmonella illnesses in Bethel area

  23-07-2016 02:27
  
  The Alaska Division of Public Health is investigating salmonella infections in the Bethel area. A team is in Bethel to track down the source of the infection.
  Medical illustration of non-typhoidal salmonella. (Courtesy of the Center for Disease Control)Louisa Castrodale is an epidemiologist with the state’s Public Health division.
  “It’s not even the end of July and we had gotten about six cases of confirmed salmonella from the Bethel-YK area,” Castrodale said. &ldquo
  
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• Stika hospital treats first known Alaskan case of Zika Virus

  23-07-2016 02:05
  
  The state department of Health and Social Services announced the first known case of the Zika Virus in Alaska today. The patient was treated at SEARHC’s Mt. Edgcumbe Hospital in Sitka. The patient, a male from the midwest, traveled in Central America before arriving in Alaska, where he began to experience unusual symptoms.
  A digitally-colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of Zika virus. Andrea Ferrante hopes that the use of peptides will allow for vaccines for viruses such as Zi
  
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• Sitka hospital treats first known Alaskan case of Zika Virus

  23-07-2016 02:05
  
  
  The state department of Health and Social Services announced the first known case of the Zika Virus in Alaska today. The patient was treated at SEARHC’s Mt. Edgcumbe Hospital in Sitka. The patient, a male from the midwest, traveled in Central America before arriving in Alaska, where he began to experience unusual symptoms.
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  A digitally-colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of Zika virus. Andrea Ferrante hopes that the use of peptides will allow for vaccines for viruses
  
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• UAA professors fighting subpoenas from Pebble over Bristol Bay research - Alaska Dispatch News

  23-07-2016 01:53
  
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  UAA professors fighting subpoenas from Pebble over Bristol Bay research
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  Two University of Alaska professors say that subpoenas from Pebble Limited Partnership seeking evidence in its lawsuit against a federal agency are wasting university time and money and are a diversion from the science and research they should be ...
  
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• Alaska unemployment rate stays at 6.7 percent in June - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  23-07-2016 01:43
  
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  Alaska unemployment rate stays at 6.7 percent in June
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Alaska's unemployment stood at 6.7 percent in June, unchanged from a month earlier and up slightly from a year ago. The state Department of Labor says the slight uptick suggests that Alaska's economy is responding slowly to low ...
  Alaska's unemployment rate unchanged at 6.7 percent, analysts reportKTUU.comall 191 news articles »
  
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• Rains a boost to fire crews battling Alaska wildfire - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  23-07-2016 01:01
  
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  Rains a boost to fire crews battling Alaska wildfire
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  In this Wednesday, July 20, 2016 photo provided by the U.S. Army National Guard, an Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and a State of Alaska Division of Forestry helicopter dump several thousand of gallons of water onto the McHugh ...and more »
  
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• Revisiting Rowing

  23-07-2016 01:00
  
  Last summer Charles was contacted by the Anchorage Rowing Association to row crew in the Dave Thorsness Challenge, a regatta mostly for beginners, as well as getting a couple of rowing lessons to make sure he could do it. For this week’s show, we’re going back to hear the result, as Charles took a recorder along on this aquatic adventure. It was a fun and challenging experience.
  HOST: Charles Wohlforth
  GUESTS: 
  Ed Hall, founder, Anchorage Rowing Association
  Sue Sheard
  
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• AK: 2016: The year Bristol Bay landed its 2,000,000,000th salmon

  23-07-2016 00:28
  
  Bristol Bay is home to the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world. Over 132 years of commercial effort, now more than two billion salmon have been harvested from the Bay’s waters. In fact, the two billionth salmon was landed sometime, by someone, on July 6, 2016.
  James Shawcroft holds up what might have been the 2,000,000,000th commercially caught salmon in Bristol Bay’s history. At Coffee Point, July 6, 2016. (Photo by KDLG)It fell to Bob King, the longtime news director at KDL
  
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• 49 Voices: Trevor Shaw of Ketchikan

  23-07-2016 00:28
  
  This week we’re hearing from Trevor Shaw of Ketchikan. He’s an Alaska Delegate who’s been attending the Republican National Convention this week.
  Trevor Shaw at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, OH. (Photo by Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Cleveland)“I’m currently the youngest delegate from the Alaska delegation. My first convention. I just turned 21 back in May so it’s really exciting to be here. I wasn’t even old enough to vote
  
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