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• High-tunnel gardening is booming on the Kenai Peninsula. Here's why. - Alaska Dispatch News

  06-08-2016 19:47
  
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  High-tunnel gardening is booming on the Kenai Peninsula. Here's why.
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  Alaska Stems garden has less than half-acre under high tunnels in Homer, Sunday, July 17, 2016. Owner Rachel Lord and her family built their high tunnels through the NRCS program. (Sarah Bell / Alaska Dispatch News). Buy Photo. Wait 1 second to ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, August 5, 2016

  06-08-2016 03:54
  
  Stories are posted on the APRN news page. You can subscribe to APRN’s newsfeeds via email, podcast and RSS. Follow us on Facebook at alaskapublic.org and on Twitter @aprn
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  Shell returns to Unalaska
  Zoe Sobel, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Unalaska
  Shell is back in Unalaska. Dutch Harbor was a staging area for Shell’s unsuccessful search for oil in the Arctic Ocean last year. This week, three ships — the Aiviq
  
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• BLM plan affects mining, subsistence and recreation

  06-08-2016 03:05
  
  The Bureau of Land Management recently released a proposed plan for over 6 million acres of federal property in the eastern interior. Crafted over 8 years with user input, the management plan offers new resource development potential and environmental protections.
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  The BLM Eastern Alaska Management Plan’s coverage area includes the White Mountains National Recreation and Steese National Conservation areas near Fairbanks, as well as the Forty Mile Mining District, and the Draanjik
  
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• Shell returns to Unalaska

  06-08-2016 02:52
  
  Shell is back in Unalaska. Dutch Harbor was a staging area for Shell’s unsuccessful search for oil in the Arctic Ocean last year. This week, three ships — the Aiviq, the Dino Chouest, and the Ross Chouest — associated with Shell’s Arctic efforts arrived in Unalaska on a mission to remove the last signs of that effort.
  The drilling unit Kulluk, towed by the anchor-handling vessel Aiviq, heads to its safe harbor location in Kiliuda Bay. (Photo courtesy of Shell Alaska)A She
  
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• Sitka chef competes for national seafood crown

  06-08-2016 02:48
  
  A Sitka chef has been chosen to compete in the 2016 Great American Seafood Cook-Off. On Saturday, Collette Nelson will battle chefs from across the country in front of a live TV audience in New Orleans. She is the owner and executive chef of the Mediterranean-inspired restaurant Ludvig’s Bistro in Sitka.
  The competition begins at 11:30 a.m on Saturday, August 6th. You can watch it live here: https://www.facebook.com/GreatAmericanSeafoodCookOff/
  Chef Colette Nelson
  
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• Surgeon General visits Palmer to discuss opioid epidemic

  06-08-2016 02:33
  
  Drug addiction, long viewed as a moral failing, is now recognized as a chronic brain disease. US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy brought this message to the Alaska Wellness Summit in Palmer on Thursday. Substance abuse caregivers, recovering addicts and health officials rubbed shoulders at the day-long meeting, with the common aim of combating the opioid abuse epidemic in Alaska.
  Vivek H. Murthy, the U.S. Surgeon General (Photo courtesy of the office of the Surgeon General)The Alaska Wellness
  
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• Man stabbed at Anchorage home dies of injuries

  06-08-2016 02:25
  A man stabbed early Friday morning in East Anchorage has died.
  Anchorage police say 19-year-old Allen Raymond was stabbed at a home on Penland Parkway south of the Northway Mall.
  Just before 2 a.m., police received a report of a possible home invasion.
  They arrived to find Raymond with stab wounds.
  He was transported to a hospital where he died.
  Police said there have been no arrests, no outstanding suspects and no additional concerns for public safety following the incident.
  
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• Study finds that benefits equalize pay rates of state and private sector workers

  06-08-2016 02:22
  
  State and local employees in Alaska are paid less than private-sector workers, but benefits make up the difference. That’s according to a new study from the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Institute for Social and Economic Research.
  Mouhcine Guettabi,
  Assistant Professor of Economics at UAA (Photo courtesy of University of Alaska Anchorage)Public workers earned 8 percent less than those in the private sector. But total compensation was about the same, since public employees have bet
  
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• Taking a trip to Sitka

  06-08-2016 01:00
  
  Photo: Kool Cats Photography, FlickrCharles took a road trip– or should we say a ferry trip– to Southeast Alaska last month, and while there recorded an edition of Outdoor Explorer on the town of Sitka. This historic community with its island-dotted waters is, in my opinion, the best place for an Alaskan to take a vacation without leaving Alaska. The boating and wildlife viewing are incredible, and we’ll also hear about the area’s surfing and science.
  HOST: Charles W
  
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• Kodiak Airport runway extension example of compromise

  06-08-2016 00:48
  
  A recently completed runway extension at the Kodiak Airport originally produced environmental concerns among local groups and a tribal organization, but some members of the community say they’re satisfied with the compromise that was reached.
  Tom Lance, the natural resources director for the Sunaq Tribe of Kodiak, said the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities ended up extending one runway 600 feet into the ocean by the Buskin River. He said there was another extension
  
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• AEDC 2016 3-Year Outlook

  06-08-2016 00:46
  
  This AEDC 3-Year Economic Outlook describes the likely trajectory of the local economy, based on an analysis of historical and current data, interviews with representatives of businesses and organizations in various sectors and analysis of current events. The Outlook considers trends in eight key indicators: population, employment, personal income, air passenger and freight volumes, building permits, Port of Anchorage tonnage, visitor industry activity and oil prices.
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• Southeast pink harvest expected to be below recent years

  06-08-2016 00:44
  
  The largest salmon harvest in Southeast Alaska, the pink salmon fishery, is ramping up. Harvests are forecasted to be below recent years.
  The dark areas are pink salmon between the falls in the Anan Creek south of Wrangell. (Photo courtesy of Troy Thynes)There are more pink salmon in Southeast Alaska than any other salmon species. They are indigenous runs all over the region. This year’s harvest region-wide is predicted at 34 million fish. That may sound like a lot but other years have far
  
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• Mount of polar bear shot in Alaska seized from Oklahoma airport - KTUU.com

  06-08-2016 00:33
  
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  Mount of polar bear shot in Alaska seized from Oklahoma airport
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  TULSA, Okla. (AP) Oklahoma game wardens have seized a mounted polar bear that had been on display at a Tulsa airport. Wardens confiscated the taxidermied bear Thursday night from Jones Riverside Airport. Tulsa County game warden Carlos Gomez ...and more »
  
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