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• Search called off for missing factory trawler Alaska Juris - KTUU.com - KTUU.com

  01-08-2016 23:45
  
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  Search called off for missing factory trawler Alaska Juris - KTUU.com
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  A fishing vessel that took on water last week forcing 46 people into life rafts is presumed sunk in about 5400 feet of water in the Bering Sea. That's according to ...
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• 3 hurt when truck crashes into building in downtown Anchorage - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-08-2016 22:32
  
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  3 hurt when truck crashes into building in downtown Anchorage
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  An Alaska Waste truck crashed into the AK Check Cashing building at 1028 E. Fifth Ave Monday, August 1, 2016, just before noon. Three people were injured. (Sarah Bell / Alaska Dispatch News). At least three people were injured Monday morning when a ...and more »
  
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• Northern Alaska Peninsula has strong 2016 sockeye returns

  01-08-2016 22:25
  
  Bob Murphy, the Area Management Biologist at Port Moller, said the North Peninsula has had a strong harvest so far this summer, with a little more than 3 million sockeye hauled in for the entire North Alaska Peninsula management area, including Nelson Lagoon and the Northwestern District harvests. That’s more than the 2.2 million sockeye harvest forecast.
  Wood River sockeye are pictured in this June 2016 photo.
  (Photo by KDLG Staff)Area M fishermen have hauled in nearly 9 million salmon so
  
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• Island’s Mammoths May Have Been Thirsty at Their Extinction

  01-08-2016 22:00 via nytimes.com
  Mammoths on Alaska’s St. Paul Island could have faced freshwater problems that could be experienced by island dwellers all over in a warming world.
  
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• Unlikely allies: U.S. and Russia work together on walrus

  01-08-2016 21:00
  
  What brought Soviet Russia and the U.S. together during the Cold War? Walruses.
  USGS Wildlife Biologist working at a haulout near Point Lay, Alaska. (Photo by Ryan Kingsbery/USGS)Now a new federal database, created with over a century of information, shows where those animals haul out on both sides of the border. And that’s especially important as sea ice disappears and the animals spend more time on land.
  Tony Fischbach says a cacophony of walruses has a lot of bass.
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• Early spring impacts peony growers

  01-08-2016 20:53
  
  Peonies are a growing Alaska export. In 2015, peony growers shipped more than 50,000 stems from Alaska, and Gov. Bill Walker recently declared July to be Alaska Peony Month for the second year in a row. But this year farmers were taken by surprise when the Alaska peony season came early.Peonies need to be kept in coolers just above freezing in order to keep the buds closed for shipping. (Photo by Casey Marsh, KBBI – Homer)Alaska’s cool summer weather allows peonies to grow during a t
  
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• Algo Nuevo July 31, 2016

  01-08-2016 20:00
  
  Here’s the Sunday, July 31th, 2016 edition of Algo Nuevo con Dave Luera — Something New with Dave Luera.
  If you have questions, comments or music requests for host Dave Luera, send email to [email protected] or post your comment at the bottom of this post.
  All tracks played are listed below in the following format:
  Song TitleArtist NameAlbum TitleCD LabelDuration
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  Europa
  Santana
  The Best of Santana
  Columbia
  506
   
  Mirala
  Ruben Ra
  
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• Top federal health official tours Alaska this week - KTUU.com

  01-08-2016 17:32
  
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  Top federal health official tours Alaska this week
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  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Acting Deputy Secretary Mary Wakefield will travel to Alaska to visit with community, healthcare, and tribal leaders about public health, social service and healthcare issues facing Alaskans, according ...
  
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• Passengers rescued after tour boat sinks

  01-08-2016 17:29
  
  Two humpback whales near Juneau Saturday, June 4, 2016. (Public Domain photo by NOAA Fisheries)Two boats rescued the passengers of a whale watching vessel that sank Sunday.
  U.S. Coast Guard PO3 Lauren Steenson said the tour boat Big Red reported it was taking on water early in the afternoon.
  “Coast Guard Watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast and there were a couple (of) good Samaritans that responded,” Steenson said.
  The See You, the first vessel to reach the Bi
  
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• Two teens dead in separate shootings in Anchorage over the weekend

  01-08-2016 17:27
  
  APD police vehicles (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)Two teenagers were killed over the weekend in separate shooting incidents in Anchorage.
  At around 2:00 a.m. Saturday, Anchorage Police were notified that 18-year-old Elijah Zeller was dropped off at an area hospital with a gunshot wound.
  Zeller was pronounced deceased at the hospital.
  APD is investigating Zeller’s death as a homicide.
  Officers responded to the weekend’s second fatal shooting just after
  
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• Teen dies in third Anchorage fatal shooting in 3 days

  01-08-2016 17:27
  
  
  APD police vehicles (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)Two teenagers were killed over the weekend in separate shooting incidents in Anchorage.
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  At around 2:00 a.m. Saturday, Anchorage Police were notified that 18-year-old Elijah Zeller was dropped off at an area hospital with a gunshot wound.
  Zeller was pronounced deceased at the hospital.
  APD is investigating Zeller’s death as a homicide.
  Officers responded to the weekend’s second fatal shooting
  
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• With $2 million liquidation sale, an Anchorage store chases larger ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-08-2016 07:12
  
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  With $2 million liquidation sale, an Anchorage store chases larger ...
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  Whitney Kazmierczak shops for a jacket at the 6th Avenue Outfitters outlet store on Friday, July 8, 2016 in downtown Anchorage. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch ...and more »
  
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