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• Fairbanks recycling vendor Total Reclaim reportedly failed best recycling practices

  27-07-2016 23:10
  
  The Fairbanks Borough continues to move forward with plans to consolidate recycling in the community. The municipality is in the process of acquiring a warehouse to serve as a recycling center. It is also searching for an organization to operate the facility. One of the local recycling groups interested in running it is coping with problems with a key vendor.
  For a decade Green Star of Interior Alaska has recycled electronic equipment in Fairbanks. But recently, at a Borough Recycling Commission
  
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• Kodiak Island Borough has highest rent in Alaska - Alaska Public Radio Network

  27-07-2016 23:01
  
  Kodiak Island Borough has highest rent in Alaska
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  The Kodiak Island Borough has the highest rent in the state. That's according to a publication from the Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development that looks at the cost of living in Alaska and economic trends for July 2016. Bill Cope (right ...and more »
  
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• Kodiak Island Borough has highest rent in Alaska

  27-07-2016 22:59
  
  The Kodiak Island Borough has the highest rent in the state. That’s according to a publication from the Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development that looks at the cost of living in Alaska and economic trends for July 2016.
  Bill Cope (right) and a butcher shop employee pose in 20th Century Market in downtown Juneau around 1950. (Photo courtesy of Violet Cope and featured on cover of Alaska Economic Trends, July 26, Volume 36 number 7.)Alyssa Rodrigues, an economist with the Al
  
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• Traveling Music 7-31-16

  27-07-2016 22:41
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
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  Upcoming concerts:
   
  Saturday, August 13, Irish Club of Alaska presents Galway Days.
  Free music and vendors on the lawn of Carr-Gottstein Building at Alaska Pacific University from 11 AM- 6:00 PM including nationally known musicians below.
  Concert 8 PM at Anchorage Museum at Rassmuson Center featuring fiddler Caitlin Warbelow (originally from Fairbanks), Kevin Crawford and Patrick Doucey.
   
  Sunday, Aug. 28 at 7 Rogues and Wenches in concert a
  
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• State medical examiner identifies man who died off Ketchikan

  27-07-2016 22:36
  
  A man found dead in waters off Ketchikan has been identified as a 63-year-old resident.
  Alaska State Troopers say the state medical examiner identified the man as Harris Hunter Wood II.
  An autopsy determined that Wood drowned.
  Troopers shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday responded to a call of a body floating in Tongass Narrows off the North Tongass Highway.
  
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• Researchers find new whale species in Western Alaska

  27-07-2016 21:27
  
  Researchers think they’ve found a new species of whale in Western Alaska. A new study published in Marine Mammal Science is identifying the find as a relative of the Baird’s beaked whale.
  This skeleton hanging at Unalaska High School is the only full specimen of a new species of whale, long known but only recently classified. (Photo courtesy Unalaska School District)It doesn’t have an official name yet. Researchers aren’t quite that far along in the process of actually ca
  
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• Where are the herring? Unalaska’s fishery remains on hold while seiners search

  27-07-2016 21:14
  
  The commercial herring fishery is on hold in Unalaska — because no one can find the fish.
  (Credit Public Domain, US Government work, via Wikimedia Commons.)The herring season opened more than a week ago. So far, fishermen haven’t had any luck, even with a spotter pilot searching from above.
  “There’s been no appreciable harvest at all,” said Frank Kelty on the Unalaska Fisheries Report. “The fish appear to be well offshore and in very deep water where the sein
  
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• Eight tons of chum salmon destroyed after truck spill in Juneau

  27-07-2016 19:08
  
  An estimated 16,000 to 18,000 pounds of chum salmon were destroyed after a truck overturned in downtown Juneau Monday afternoon. The spill blocked Egan Drive, a major roadway leading in and out of downtown.
  Crews load salmon back into fish totes after a tuck rollover on Egan Drive on July 25th, 2016. (Photo by Mikko Wilson, KTOO – Juneau)Department of Environmental Conservation’s Environmental Health Inspector Jason Wiard received phone calls after the spill. He said he cal
  
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• Dozens rescued from sinking fishing boat off Alaska - Fox News

  27-07-2016 13:44
  
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  Dozens rescued from sinking fishing boat off Alaska
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  Two Good Samaritan vessels rescued 46 people Tuesday night who abandoned their sinking fishing boat in the Bering Sea off Alaska's Aleutian Islands, the Coast Guard said. #BreakingNews @USCGAlaska VIDEO of 64 crewmembers abandoning ship in ...
  46 crew members rescued from sinking ship in Alaska watersThe Seattle Times
  Recovery plan underway for fishing vessel abandoned by crewAlaska Dispatch News
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• Assembly vote means Anchorage business can start growing legal pot

  27-07-2016 11:48
  The Anchorage Assembly voted unanimously Tuesday night to approve a move forward for the municipality’s first commercial cannabis business, setting the stage for crops of legal marijuana to be planted in the weeks ahead.
  The step is one of the first meaningful tests of the local approval process in the state’s evolving commercial cannabis regulatory scheme. But the Assembly held up another permit from passage, signaling local officials want the final say in determining the
  
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• 46 crew members rescued from sinking ship in Alaska waters - The Seattle Times

  27-07-2016 06:52
  
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  46 crew members rescued from sinking ship in Alaska waters
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  The Fishing Company of Alaska, based in Renton, owns the 220-foot Alaska Juris that started sinking in the Bering Sea shortly before noon on Tuesday. Share story. By. Jessica Lee. and. Hal Bernton. Seattle Times staff reporter. Merchant vessels rescued ...
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  Owner of factory trawler abandoned by crew also owned Alaska RangerKTUU.com
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• If election repeats history, will Dems enjoy another ’08 or suffer a ’68?

  27-07-2016 04:56
  
  
  Bernie Sanders (Photos: Liz, Ruskin/ Alaska Public Media)Delegates at the Democratic National Convention today officially nominated Hillary Clinton for president,to widespread cheering. But outside the Wells Fargo Center, thousands of Bernie Sanders supporters banged on security fences, shouting “election fraud.” It’s still not clear if many of the 12 million Sanders voters will comearound to Clinton. Alaskans attending the convention in Phila
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, July 26, 2016

  27-07-2016 03:56
  
  
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  Fishing vessel takes on water near Adak
  Molly Dischner, KDLG – Dillingham
  The United States Coast Guard says the Alaska Juris, a 229 foot fishing vessel, was reported to be taking on water this afternoon in the Aleutians. The Coast Guard rep
  
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• The Latest: 2nd Rescue Ship Arrives at Alaska Sinking Site - ABC News

  27-07-2016 03:14
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  The Latest: 2nd Rescue Ship Arrives at Alaska Sinking Site
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  A second Good Samaritan vessel has arrived to help rescue 46 people who abandoned a fishing boat in Alaska's Aleutian Islands. Coast Guard Petty Officer Lauren Steenson says the plan is to have the 46 crew members transfer to the two vessels, and then ...
  Coast Guard: 46 abandon ship in Alaska waters, await rescueNBC2 News
  Coast Guard: 46 people abandon sinking ship in Alaska's Aleutian chain; no reported injuries
  
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• Fishing vessel takes on water near Adak

  27-07-2016 03:01
  
  
  The United States Coast Guard says the Alaska Juris, a 229 foot fishing vessel, was reported to be taking on water this afternoon in the Aleutians. The Coast Guard reports 46 people in survival suits abandoned ship in three life rafts. As of 4 p.m., the Coast Guard was on the way to the ship which was 174 miles from Adak.
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  The ship is owned by the Fishing Company of Alaska, which is based in Seattle. Another FCA vessel, the Alaska Ranger, sank in 2008 killing five p
  
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• Alaska DMV director resigns - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-07-2016 02:47
  
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  Alaska DMV director resigns
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  Amy Erickson, who was hired to run the DMV in 2013 under former Republican Gov. Sean Parnell, resigned in June. A spokeswoman for the Alaska Department of Administration, the DMV's supervising agency, declined to say why Erickson resigned, and ...
  
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• Dispatches from the DNC: Sanders supporters, including Alaska ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-07-2016 02:45
  
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  Dispatches from the DNC: Sanders supporters, including Alaska ...
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  ADN reporter Erica Martinson is in Philadelphia covering Alaskans and Alaska issues at the Democratic National Convention. Sanders supporters exit protest ...
  Alaska delegation goes for Sanders at national Democratic conventionFairbanks Daily News-Minerall 3 news articles »
  
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• UAF student acquitted of rape charge sues school for withholding degree

  27-07-2016 02:11
  
  
  A former University of Alaska Fairbanks student is suing the school for withholding his diploma. In February Nolan Youngmun was acquitted of charges he raped another UAF student. Youngmun’s attorney says the University has dragged its feet in its own investigation and lacks the authority to withhold the diploma.
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  In April 2015 a UAF student accused fellow student Nolan Youngmun of rape. Youngmun was a UAF hockey player and petroleum student set to graduate that spring. Two separa
  
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• Moody’s downgrades Alaska credit rating; fourth downgrade this year

  27-07-2016 02:08
  
  
  Sens. Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks, and Charlie Huggins, R-Wasilla, linger after the Senate adjourned sine die, July 18, 2016. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded Alaska’s credit rating for the second time in six months, citing the state’s massive budget deficit and its failure to find a long-term political solution.
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  In a report released Monday, Moody’s wrote that Alaska’s savings accounts will buy the state “se
  
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• Chickaloon man charged with assaulting rafters along river

  27-07-2016 01:47
  
  A man suspected of using a knife to confront a rafting party along the Chickaloon River has been charged with four counts of felony assault.
  Alaska State Troopers say 56-year-old Bruce Harrison of Chickaloon, claiming the group was trespassing, on Monday untied a raft carrying five juveniles and kicked it into fast water toward rapids.
  A guide swam to the raft and took control of it.
  Online court records Tuesday did not list an attorney for Harrison.
  The incident began when one of four rafts fro
  
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• Crew safe as Homer Seiner remains capsized off Alaska Peninsula

  27-07-2016 00:38
  
  Four crew-members escaped safely when their fishing boat rolled over near the Alaska Peninsula on Friday.
  “So just before 8 p.m. this past Friday, our district watch standers received an EPIRB alert of a 41-foot fishing vessel, Carmelina, located approximately 35 nautical miles west of Kodiak Island,” said U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Kelly Parker in Kodiak. “The vessel had capsized with four people on board. The crew of the good Samaritan vessel Spartan recovered all four pe
  
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