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• Alaska Airlines to build new maintenance hangar in Anchorage - KTUU.com

  02-08-2016 23:40
  
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  Alaska Airlines to build new maintenance hangar in Anchorage
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  Alaska Airlines plans to build a $40 million airplane maintenance facility on Old International Airport Road in Anchorage. When finished, the new hangar will ...
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• Former head of Alaska marijuana board booted by governor - The Advocate

  02-08-2016 22:56
  
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  Former head of Alaska marijuana board booted by governor
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  FILE - This April 27, 2016 file photo shows former Alaska Marijuana Control Board Chairman Bruce Schulte fixing his nameplate during a meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. A spokeswoman for Alaska Gov. Bill Walker on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016, said the governor ...
  Governor dismisses former chair of Alaska Marijuana Control BoardAlaska Dispatch News
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• Ketchikan assembly postpones vote on retail marijuana tax, sales tax cap measures

  02-08-2016 22:45
  
  After lengthy discussion Monday, two tax items on the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly agenda each were postponed: an increase to the sales tax cap and a tax on retail marijuana.
  A view of Ketchikan from the top of the Edmonds Street stairs. Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly voted to postpone measures on a retail marijuana tax and a sales-tax cap increase during session Monday. (Photo courtesy of the state)The retail pot tax discussion is an item that carried over from the
  
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• This Land Is Whose Land?

  02-08-2016 21:50 via takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com
  When it comes to federal lands, Republicans are putting profits ahead of public interest.
  
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• Alaska Aims to Keep Doctors Out of Classrooms With New Sex Ed Restrictions - Mic

  02-08-2016 21:13
  
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  Alaska Aims to Keep Doctors Out of Classrooms With New Sex Ed Restrictions
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  Republicans are taking their battle against Planned Parenthood to a new frontier: Alaskan classrooms, and sacrificing sex education resources despite sky-high rates of sexually transmitted infections among teens. The Juneau Empire recently reported ...and more »
  
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• Fatal Yakutat house fire likely caused by unattended cooking, police say - Alaska Dispatch News

  02-08-2016 21:05
  
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  Fatal Yakutat house fire likely caused by unattended cooking, police say
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  A house fire that killed a Yakutat man over the weekend was likely the result of unattended cooking, according to police in the Southeast Alaska community. Robert Beasley, the Yakutat Police Department's interim chief, identified the deceased as 36 ...
  
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• Lack of water drove Alaska island mammoths to extinction - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  02-08-2016 20:57
  
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  Lack of water drove Alaska island mammoths to extinction
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  BERLIN (AP) — Scientists say that one of the last surviving populations of woolly mammoths was likely driven to extinction by lack of drinking water. Mammoths lived on Alaska's St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea until about 5,600 years ago. They never ...
  Scarcity of fresh water doomed remnant woolly mammoth on Alaska islandAlaska Dispatch News
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• Alaska Eyes MRO Expansion In Anchorage - Aviation Week

  02-08-2016 18:13
  
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  Alaska Eyes MRO Expansion In Anchorage
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• Alaska Air (ALK) Stock Is Tuesday's 'Chart of the Day' - TheStreet.com

  02-08-2016 18:01
  
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  Alaska Air (ALK) Stock Is Tuesday's 'Chart of the Day'
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  Alaska Air (ALK) is a top regional carrier, with value boosted in part by its purchase of Virgin America (VA), TheStreet's Bob Lang and Chris Versace said. Annie Palmer. Follow. Aug 2, 2016 12:00 PM EDT. Get TheStreet Quant Ratings' exclusive 5-page ...
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• Alaska Editorial: Oil won't save us - Juneau Empire (subscription)

  02-08-2016 10:11
  Alaska Editorial: Oil won't save us
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  A report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration earlier this month contained a small but — from the Alaska view — telling notation. The July 11 report, “EIA projects rise in U.S. crude oil and other liquid fuels production beyond 2017 ...
  
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• Alaska delegation condemns Trump for Gold Star family comments - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  02-08-2016 10:00
  
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  Alaska delegation condemns Trump for Gold Star family comments
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  FAIRBANKS — Alaska's Congressional delegation joined a chorus of criticism on Monday that condemned Donald Trump's for his criticism of a Gold Star family, the parents of an Army officer killed in action. During last week's Democratic National ...
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• Large exercise tests Alaska soldiers with real-life scenario - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  02-08-2016 07:25
  
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  Large exercise tests Alaska soldiers with real-life scenario
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  The largest training exercise in Alaska in 15 years is happening at the Donnelly Training Area, just outside Delta Junction. Five thousand soldiers and support personnel are participating in a war exercise that's as realistic as possible. The Alaska ...
  
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• With new facility, Alaska Rock Gym isn't just for climbers anymore ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  02-08-2016 05:56
  
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  With new facility, Alaska Rock Gym isn't just for climbers anymore ...
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  Climbers scale 46-foot walls in the roped climbing area, which features 78 rope lines, as the Alaska Rock Gym holds a soft opening on Monday, August 1, 2016, ...and more »
  
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• Scarcity of fresh water doomed remnant woolly mammoth on Alaska island - Alaska Dispatch News

  02-08-2016 05:45
  
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  Scarcity of fresh water doomed remnant woolly mammoth on Alaska island
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  A research team sets up on a frozen lake on St. Paul Island in 2013. Isotope analysis from the Bering Sea island has determined a likely extinction cause for its remnant mammoth population. (Matthew Wooller). As glaciers melted and the seas rose after ...
  Alaska's Woolly Mammoths Likely Died of ThirstNewser
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• How health care costs are bleeding Alaska dry - Alaska Dispatch ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  02-08-2016 05:45
  
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  How health care costs are bleeding Alaska dry - Alaska Dispatch ...
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  The health care industry is sucking the life out of Alaska's businesses and state government. Slowing this massive wealth transfer of medical bills and insurance ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, August 1, 2016 - Alaska Public Radio Network

  02-08-2016 03:45
  
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  Alaska News Nightly: Monday, August 1, 2016
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  The National Park Service is partially re-opening the road into Denali National Park where a large mudslide crossed it near mile 67, west of the Eielson Visitors Center on Saturday. Heavy rain hits Fairbanks area. Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks. The ...
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, August 1, 2016

  02-08-2016 03:42
  
  
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  Denali National Park road partially re-opened after large mudslide
  Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks
  The National Park Service is partially re-opening the road into Denali National Park where a large mudslide crossed it near mile 67, west of the Eielson Vis
  
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• Charges dropped in case of kidnapping and rape at remote Alaska cabin after alleged victim dies - Alaska Dispatch News

  02-08-2016 03:26
  
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  Charges dropped in case of kidnapping and rape at remote Alaska cabin after alleged victim dies
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  The Fairbanks district attorney dropped criminal charges last week against a man alleged to have beaten, sexually abused and held captive a woman in a remote cabin after the victim — the main witness in the case — suddenly died. Without the alleged ...and more »
  
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• Accuser dies, charges dropped in case of kidnapping and rape at ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  02-08-2016 03:26
  
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  Accuser dies, charges dropped in case of kidnapping and rape at ...
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  The Fairbanks district attorney dropped criminal charges last week against a man alleged to have beaten, sexually abused and held captive a woman in a ...and more »
  
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• 4.2-magnitude earthquake shakes southcentral Alaska - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  02-08-2016 03:07
  
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  4.2-magnitude earthquake shakes southcentral Alaska
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  A magnitude 4.2 earthquake was recorded by the Alaska Earthquake Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks just before 4:30 p.m. Monday. The earthquake, recorded at 4:24 p.m. about 19 miles north of Hatcher Pass, was felt throughout Anchorage, ...
  
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• Ninilchik tribe sets net in Kenai River

  02-08-2016 02:56
  
  The Ninilchik Traditional Council has for years been seeking approval to use a more effective method for catching their subsistence allocation of sockeye salmon on the Kenai River and late last week, they got that opportunity.
  On July 27, the Federal Subsistence Board approved the tribe’s emergency special action request to operate a community subsistence set net fishery on the Kenai.
  Approval came after a lawsuit filed in 2015.
  But the change has drawn stiff opposition from other fisherme
  
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• Heavy rain hits Fairbanks area

  02-08-2016 02:52
  
  The Denali mud slide is the result of heavy rain. The park reports measuring nearly 8 inches of rain at Eielson last week. National Weather Service meteorologist Benjamin Bartus said July precipitation there was extreme.
  “From July 1st to the 30th, not including the 31st, the Eielson visitor center saw 16 inches of rain which is incredible,” Bartus said.
  Weekend rain also bumped up last month’s precipitation tally in Fairbanks, where Bartus says July 2016 ranked as the 4th wett
  
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• Alaska Airlines to build new $40 million hangar in Anchorage

  02-08-2016 02:37
  
  Alaska’s current maintenance hangar in Anchorage, Alaska. (PRNewsFoto/Alaska Airlines)Alaska Airlines is building a new $40 million maintenance hangar at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. The airline says the project, announced Friday, will let them service a growing fleet of bigger, more efficient planes.
  Regional vice president Marilyn Romano said the new hangar is part of a bigger investment in the state that amounts to more than $100 million, including termina
  
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• Another warm spring means another year of bountiful berries across Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  02-08-2016 02:28
  
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  Another warm spring means another year of bountiful berries across Alaska
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  Evangeline Chamberlain, 1, eats a blueberry while berry picking at Arctic Valley on Friday, July 29, 2016. Sarah Beth Chamberlain, left, and neighbor Ingrid Schuart filled their containers with blueberries and crowberries to bake with and store for the ...
  
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• Fisherman found dead on boat near Wrangell

  02-08-2016 02:23
  
  A crew member on a fishing vessel west of Wrangell Island was found dead Saturday morning. Wrangell Search and Rescue responded to the scene after the Coast Guard was notified around 5:47 am Saturday.
  Charles Richards (photo via Facebook)Charles Richards of Seattle was found unresponsive in his bunk by a crew member. He was 28 years old.
  Richards was taken to the Wrangell clinic where he was pronounced dead and was transferred to the state medical examiner’s office in Anchorage for autopsy
  
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• Denali National Park road partially re-opened after large mudslide

  02-08-2016 02:08
  
  The National Park Service is partially re-opening the road into Denali National Park where a large mudslide crossed it near mile 67, west of the Eielson Visitors Center on Saturday. The agency reports that crews working around the clock over the weekend, were able to clear a lane through the one hundred foot long slide of mud and debris. Visitors who had been stranded west of the slide were able to get out Sunday, and traffic was also allowed through again at 8 this morning. Another opening is s
  
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• Alaska's senators react to Trump comments - KTUU.com

  02-08-2016 02:03
  
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  Alaska's senators react to Trump comments
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  Anchorage (KTUU) Alaska's senators are reacting to comments made by GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump about the parents of an Army captain killed by a car bomber in Iraq. Khizr Khan, the father of Captain Humayun Khan, spoke last week at the ...
  Alaska Sen. Sullivan condemns Trump comments criticizing military familyFairbanks Daily News-Minerall 3 news articles »
  
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• Knife discovered at Kodiak Community Archaeology site

  02-08-2016 01:45
  
  The Alutiiq Museum’s Community Archeology program led to the discovery of a knife this week.
  Patrick Saltonstall holds Alutiiq knife. (Photo courtesy of Alutiiq Museum & Archeological Repository)Alutiiq Museum Curator of Archaeology, Patrick Saltonstall, says they’re in the fourth year of digging the Kashevaroff site at Salonie Creek, and focus on a different spot each time. He says they’re about to finish up on the current section and they’ve been uncovering many obj
  
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• Techno contra brings new life to traditional dance in Sitka

  02-08-2016 01:23
  
  If you live in Sitka, you’ve definitely heard of contra dance. And if you live on planet Earth, you’ve certainly heard of techno or electronic dance music (EDM).
  A lively crowd dances at Techno Contra. (Photo by Katherine Rose, KCAW – Sitka)You may not expect much of a cross-section between the two communities, but once a month at the Larkspur Cafe that’s exactly what you’ll find.
  Contra dancing is a type of folk dance, with European and Appalachian origins. It&rsqu
  
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• Search called off for Alaska Juris

  02-08-2016 00:43
  
  The search for the abandoned fishing vessel Alaska Juris has been called off.
  The unified command in charge of the search — consisting of the Coast Guard, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, and the Fishing Company of Alaska — in a press release say the vessel is presumed sunk in the Bering Sea in 5,400 feet of water.
  According to the release, the Unified Command activated the fishing vessel Alaska Endeavor, the salvage tug Resolve Pioneer, and a Coas
  
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