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• Kodiak mayor seeks answers to police body-cam policy change

  10-08-2016 22:46
  
  The move by Kodiak Police Department to discontinue the use of video cameras attached to officers’ uniforms was a surprise to Kodiak Mayor Pat Branson and the city council.
  The discontinuance of using body cameras was confirmed in an e-mail from Police Chief Ronda Wallace.
  “Well, it’s an administrative and police policy,” Branson said. Branson was out of state last week. “The council doesn’t get into that. And we are being presented with th
  
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• Telecom CEOs offer differing takes on Alaska economy - Alaskajournal.com

  10-08-2016 22:25
  Telecom CEOs offer differing takes on Alaska economy
  Alaskajournal.com
  Alaska has two major telecommunications companies, each with its own target market, corporate strategy and — as was on display this week — belief in the future of Alaska's economy. In the first week of August, General Communications Inc. and Alaska ...and more »
  
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• Olympics: These games are in Alaska's wheelhouse - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  10-08-2016 22:24
  
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  Olympics: These games are in Alaska's wheelhouse
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  For the next couple of weeks we'll zone in on those 'once-every-four-years' sports. Call it Haley's Comet, Jr. Welcome to the Olympics. Michael Phelps. Sure there's traditional basketball, tennis and golf, but admit it, outside of these two weeks how ...
  
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• Alaska fishermen snag nearly 400-pound halibut - STLtoday.com

  10-08-2016 22:10
  
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  Alaska fishermen snag nearly 400-pound halibut
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  This Aug. 7, 2016, photo provided by Abigail Collins of KFSK radio in Petersburg, Alaska, shows fisherman Brian Mattson and the nearly 400-pound halibut he and Doug Corl caught in southeast Alaska. While it's a catch of a lifetime, it's about 60 pounds ...and more »
  
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• In Bethel House race, candidates question Democratic cred

  10-08-2016 22:03
  
  If you had to put the two Bethel House candidates somewhere on the political spectrum, they’d both be Democrats. But, maybe with a lowercase “d.”
  Bob Herron v Zach Fansler (Photo courtesy of KYUK)Each accuses the other of not being Democratic enough.
  House District 38 has one of the highest population of voters registered as Democrat. The district encompasses Bethel, the lower Kuskokwim River and several coastal villages.
  With no Republican challenger, the race w
  
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• Southeast Alaska man charged with murder of girlfriend - KTUU.com

  10-08-2016 21:45
  
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  Southeast Alaska man charged with murder of girlfriend
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  KLAWOCK, Alaska (Editor's note: This story by KRBD reporter Leila Kheiry is republished with permission.) More than a week after 27-year-old Judylee Guthrie was found dead next to a trail near Klawock on Prince of Wales Island, her boyfriend, Albert ...and more »
  
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• Surgeon General witnesses front lines of rural health care in Alaska's opioid epidemic - Alaska Public Radio Network

  10-08-2016 21:39
  
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  Surgeon General witnesses front lines of rural health care in Alaska's opioid epidemic
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  The national opioid epidemic gives no exception to rural Alaska. Later this year, the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, will release a report on substance abuse addiction and health. To prepare, the nation's top medical officer is meeting with ...and more »
  
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• Surgeon General witnesses front lines of rural health care in Alaska’s opioid epidemic

  10-08-2016 21:33
  
  The national opioid epidemic gives no exception to rural Alaska. Later this year, the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, will release a report on substance abuse addiction and health. To prepare, the nation’s top medical officer is meeting with health care providers around the country on ways to prevent or treat opioid addiction. He traveled last week to Napaskiak, a town of 500, located seven miles down the Kuskokwim river from Bethel.
  U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy in the Nap
  
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• Alaska midwives fear for their future after state proposes licensing fee increase - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  10-08-2016 21:28
  
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  Alaska midwives fear for their future after state proposes licensing fee increase
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Kyleigh Webb knows the pains of labor pretty well. Three years ago, she felt those pains for the fourth time on the top floor of Heritage Birth Center in downtown Anchorage, while her friends and family celebrated downstairs with a Moose's Tooth pizza ...
  
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• How Did People Migrate to the Americas? Bison DNA Helps Chart the Way

  10-08-2016 20:48 via nytimes.com
  Two groups of experts generally agree when a gateway from Siberia to North America opened, but not on who used it first.
  
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• Trending: #FirstSevenJobs started with Juneau musician Marian Call

  10-08-2016 19:21
  
  Juneau singer-songwriter Marian Call has gone internet-famous again, this time with the Twitter hashtag #FirstSevenJobs.
  Marian Call performs at Wanderer’s Refuge in Chicago on Oct. 23, 2014. (Creative Commons photo by Jamie Bernstein)On Monday, Call explained where the idea came from on Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal.RYSSDAL: You get this idea about first seven jobs. Tell me how you got there.
  CALL: I’m writing a song about work. It might sound funny, but I don’t like to wr
  
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• Virgin America Earnings Miss: Why Alaska Air Investors Shouldn't Worry - Motley Fool

  10-08-2016 17:35
  
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  Virgin America Earnings Miss: Why Alaska Air Investors Shouldn't Worry
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  Unit revenue is sinking fast at Virgin America, but Alaska Air still made the right move by agreeing to acquire it. Adam Levine-Weinberg. (TMFGemHunter). Aug 10, 2016 at 11:35AM. Virgin America (NASDAQ:VA) quietly reported subpar earnings for its ...and more »
  
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• Alaska celebrates first annual Wild Salmon Day with public salmon ... - KTUU.com

  10-08-2016 17:33
  
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  Alaska celebrates first annual Wild Salmon Day with public salmon ...
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  Alaska's wild salmon are in the spotlight with Wednesday being the first ever Alaska Wild Salmon Day.
  AskForAlaska on first-ever Alaska Wild Salmon Day - Juneau EmpireJuneau Empire (subscription)
  Celebration of Alaska Wild Salmon Day includes emphatic 'No' to Chuitna coalAlaska Dispatch News
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• Alaska celebrates first annual Wild Salmon Day - KTUU.com

  10-08-2016 17:33
  
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  Alaska celebrates first annual Wild Salmon Day
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  Alaska's wild salmon are in the spotlight Wednesday as the state celebrates its first ever Alaska Wild Salmon Day. Proclaimed by Alaska Governor Bill Walker with the siging of House Bill 128, August 10 honors Alaska salmon as "the quintessential taste ...
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• Estes Park police chief says he's lucky he survived Alaska plane crash - The Denver Post

  10-08-2016 16:46
  
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  Estes Park police chief says he's lucky he survived Alaska plane crash
  The Denver Post
  The Estes Park Police Chief is back at work after surviving a plane crash in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness while on vacation. “It's by God grace we all made it through that plane crash cause they always don't turn out well,” said Chief Wes ...
  
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• Alaska Outfitter Defends Fishermen from Raging Grizzly with 9mm Pistol - American Hunter (press release) (blog)

  10-08-2016 16:30
  
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  Alaska Outfitter Defends Fishermen from Raging Grizzly with 9mm Pistol
  American Hunter (press release) (blog)
  I have been guiding brown bear hunters and fishermen and bear photographers from our homestead within Becharof National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska for 33 years and have had numerous close encounters with bears. Until now, I have never had to shoot an ...
  
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• Former WLA student answers Alaska's call - Fond du Lac Reporter

  10-08-2016 16:18
  
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  Former WLA student answers Alaska's call
  Fond du Lac Reporter
  PLYMOUTH - Karen Hjelle was looking for a unique internship experience while attending Lakeland University in Plymouth. She got one: Alaska. This summer, the university senior, who grew up in Malone and is a graduate of Winnebago Lutheran Academy ...
  
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• A farmers market sweetheart opens an Anchorage storefront - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-08-2016 16:17
  
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  A farmers market sweetheart opens an Anchorage storefront
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  When James Strong started selling Sweet Caribou macarons at Anchorage farmers markets a couple years ago he didn't have a grand plan for the future. In fact, he says, "we thought the baking would only last a summer." Well, that's certainly changed.
  
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• Alaska restaurant serving elk fined for calling it reindeer - PhillyVoice.com

  10-08-2016 11:51
  
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  Alaska restaurant serving elk fined for calling it reindeer
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — This might be an only-in-Alaska problem: A restaurant in Fairbanks that has told customers since 2013 it was serving reindeer tenderloin was actually giving them elk. And now The Pump House has been fined $50,000 by the state for ...and more »
  
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• Virginia boy identified as person who died in Alaska river - Juneau Empire (subscription)

  10-08-2016 10:14
  Virginia boy identified as person who died in Alaska river
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  ANCHORAGE — Alaska State Troopers say the boy who died in a weekend rafting accident was from Virginia. Troopers on Monday identified the boy as 14-year-old Joseph Cantler. His hometown was not immediately available. The boy and his brother, ...
  
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• The Great Alaska Staycation - Juneau Empire (subscription)

  10-08-2016 10:14
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  The Great Alaska Staycation
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  Alaska is special. We know this. When we first move here, we suffer all manner of hardship to glimpse God from a mountain ridge or pull up a halibut that can feed five. Yet, kids come, kids grow, career ladders are climbed, months blur, years fold into ...
  
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• Alaska criminal justice reform will fall short without treatment for addicts - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-08-2016 05:15
  
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  Alaska criminal justice reform will fall short without treatment for addicts
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Alaska's controversial crime bill passed through both houses of the Legislature, was signed by the governor and is now beginning to be implemented by the courts. Love it or hate it, SB 91 is now law. The law is sweeping reform in sentencing and ...
  
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• What $5M? Murkowski’s GOP rivals disregard long odds

  10-08-2016 04:25
  
  
  File photo: Lawrence OstrovskyU.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has raised more than $5 million for her re-election effort. She’s got big signs and TV ads across the state. But have you met the three men running against her in next week’s Republican Primary? We tried. We found two undaunted optimists running shoestring campaigns, and a third candidate who rebuffed our interview request on the grounds that he had too much to say.
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  Thomas Lamb of Anchorage looks whiskery and gruff but
  
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• Alaska has record warmth this year - WPTZ

  10-08-2016 03:43
  
  Alaska has record warmth this year
  WPTZ
  Alaska averaging 33.9 degrees over seven months may not seem warm to folks in the Lower 48. Related. Michael Phelps goes for more gold in Rio · Women's freestyle swimming gold... Baltimore police have racial bias,... Are recreational power plants the.
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - Alaska Public Radio Network

  10-08-2016 03:42
  
  Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, August 9, 2016
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has raised more than $5 million dollars for her re-election effort. She's got big signs and TV ads across the state. But can you name the three men running against her in next week's Republican Primary? Logistical-support ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 | Alaska Public Media - Alaska Public Radio Network

  10-08-2016 03:42
  
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  Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 | Alaska Public Media
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  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has raised more than $5 million dollars for her re-election effort. She's got big signs and TV ads across the state. But can you name the ...
  Only in Alaska: Restaurant busted for faux reindeer meatKXLY Spokaneall 5 news articles »
  
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• Alaska has record warmth this year - CNN

  10-08-2016 03:42
  
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  Alaska has record warmth this year
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  (CNN) Alaska averaging 33.9 degrees over seven months may not seem warm to folks in the Lower 48. But that just proves they haven't lived there. A not-far-above-freezing high from January 1 to July 31 is a virtual heat wave. This year's average is 8.1 ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, August 9, 2016

  10-08-2016 03:38
  
  
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  What $5m? Murkowski’s Republican challengers aren’t deterred
  Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has raised more than $5 million dollars for her re-election effort. She’s got big signs and TV ads acro
  
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• More than a dozen Alaska communities have too much lead in drinking water - KTUU.com

  10-08-2016 03:01
  
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  More than a dozen Alaska communities have too much lead in drinking water
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  ANCHORAGE (KTUU) Clean water is one of our most basic needs, but according to state environmental officials there are 15 public water systems across the state that are currently exceeding the lead action level. Exposure to lead over prolonged periods ...
  
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• Alaska restaurant serving elk fined for calling it reindeer

  10-08-2016 02:53
  
  This might be an only-in-Alaska problem: A restaurant in Fairbanks that has told customers since 2013 it was serving reindeer tenderloin was actually giving them elk.
  And now The Pump House has been fined $50,000 by the state for mislabeling the meat.
  The parent company of the restaurant agreed to pay the criminal fine, donate $10,532 to three non-profit food groups and publically apologize.
  Restaurant co-owner Vivian Bubbel (buh-BEL) says an advertisement with the apology ran Saturday in the Fa
  
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• Rural Alaska teachers gain cultural insight at fish camp | Alaska ... - Alaska Public Radio Network

  10-08-2016 02:47
  
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  Rural Alaska teachers gain cultural insight at fish camp | Alaska ...
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  Alaskan educators from around the region recently gathered in Council to do a little summer homework. Helping certify educators, Nome's Northwest Campus ...and more »
  
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• Rural Alaska teachers gain cultural insight at fish camp

  10-08-2016 02:42
  
  Alaskan educators from around the region recently gathered in Council to do a little summer homework. Helping certify educators, Nome’s Northwest Campus hosted teacher camp, a unique opportunity to learn about the space where Alaskan schooling and Alaskan culture intersect.
  Salmon caught in a seine net in the eastern Norton Sound, just up the Bering Sea coast from Nome. (Photo by KNOM)At teacher camp, that space is a packed living room in Tom and BeeJay Gray’s fish camp. Kathy K
  
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• Company makes a business out of playing in nature

  10-08-2016 02:24
  Two adventurers have turned a hobby into a career and now spend their time traveling the country and recording trails via video so that other people can hike, bike, run, and ride them.
  This summer, Discover Kodiak hired Trail Genius to record real-time video and collect information about roughly 28 trails in Kodiak, including Termination Point, Pyramid, and Barometer, using ATVs, their own two legs, and their equipment.
  Jason Manders said he and his partner Amanda Campbell are based in Wisconsin
  
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• Logistical-support soldiers enabled Army to hold biggest Alaska training exercise in years - Alaska Public Radio Network

  10-08-2016 02:18
  
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  Logistical-support soldiers enabled Army to hold biggest Alaska training exercise in years
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  Some 5,000 soldiers from around the country and Canada are headed back home after a grueling three-week field-training exercise on ranges around Fort Greely. Arctic Anvil was the biggest exercise U.S. Army-Alaska has held since 2001. It was intended to ...and more »
  
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• Logistical-support soldiers enabled Army to hold biggest Alaska training exercise in… - Alaska Public Radio Network

  10-08-2016 02:18
  
  Logistical-support soldiers enabled Army to hold biggest Alaska training exercise in…
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  Some 5,000 soldiers from around the country and Canada are headed back home after a grueling three-week field-training exercise on ranges around Fort Greely. Arctic Anvil was the biggest exercise U.S. Army-Alaska has held since 2001. It was intended to ...and more »
  
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• Logistical-support soldiers enabled Army to hold biggest Alaska training exercise in years

  10-08-2016 02:17
  
  Some 5,000 soldiers from around the country and Canada are headed back home after a grueling three-week field-training exercise on ranges around Fort Greely. Arctic Anvil was the biggest exercise U.S. Army-Alaska has held since 2001. It was intended to test the Stryker Brigade’s warfighting abilities. But it also challenged the soldiers who provide logistical support that make operations like Arctic Anvil happen.
  Iowa National Guard members pack up Wednesday from a training range near Fort
  
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• In Alaska, $100 is worth only $94.61, study says - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-08-2016 01:48
  
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  In Alaska, $100 is worth only $94.61, study says
  Alaska Dispatch News
  It's no surprise to people in Alaska that life in the Last Frontier can be expensive. But new 2014 data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis shows just exactly how far Alaskans' money goes in state. The Tax Foundation, a think tank, crunched the ...
  
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• Traveling Music 8-14-16

  10-08-2016 01:24
  Traveling Music
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  I Haven’t Said I Love You in a While
  O’Connor Band / Forrest O’Connor
  Coming Home
  Rounder
  3:53
   
  You Can’t Stop
  Claudia Schmidt / Claudia Schmidt
  It Looks Fine From Here
  Red House
  3:14
   
  What Have I Been Saying?
  O’Connor Band / Forrest O’Connor
  Coming Home
  Rounder
  3:48
   
  If I Needed You
  Misty River / Townes Van Zandt
  Rising
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• In Alaska, $100 is only worth $94.61, think tank says - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-08-2016 01:23
  
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  In Alaska, $100 is only worth $94.61, think tank says
  Alaska Dispatch News
  It's no surprise to people in Alaska that living in the Last Frontier can be expensive. But new 2014 data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows just exactly how far your money goes here. The Tax Foundation, a think tank, crunched the numbers and ...
  
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• Set-netters get emergency opener

  10-08-2016 01:21
  
  Commercial sockeye fishing in upper Cook Inlet will be decided on a day-by-day basis from here until the end of the season.
  Credit Alaska Department of Fish and Game“We’re going to provide the set-net fishery with a 12-hour opening and then we’ll reassess after we get the data in from that period, the catches in from that period. And we’ll reassess where we’re at with escapement of sockeye, and we’ll also take a look at king salmon. And so it will be kind of a
  
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• Alaska restaurant serving elk fined for calling it reindeer - U.S. News & World Report

  10-08-2016 01:16
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  Alaska restaurant serving elk fined for calling it reindeer
  U.S. News & World Report
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — This might be an only-in-Alaska problem: A restaurant in Fairbanks that has told customers since 2013 it was serving reindeer tenderloin was actually giving them elk. And now The Pump House has been fined $50,000 by the ...
  Pump House Restaurant guilty of passing off New Zealand deer as Alaska reindeerFairbanks Daily News-Minerall 5 news artic
  
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• Beaver float plane crashes near Mirror Lake, no fatalities - Alaska Public Radio Network

  10-08-2016 01:13
  
  Beaver float plane crashes near Mirror Lake, no fatalities
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  There were no fatalities after a Dehavilland Beaver float plane crashed Monday afternoon on Mirror Lake south of Kokhanok [Iliamna Lake]. The Beaver had 6 passengers and 1 pilot onboard and was leaving the area after a day's fishing on Moraine Creek.and more »
  
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• State Department to hear transboundary mine concerns

  10-08-2016 01:12
  
  U.S. State Department officials are in Southeast Alaska this week to talk about transboundary mines. The Environmental Protection Agency also has sent representatives.
  Sulphurets Creek, which drains naturally occurring rusty water from the KSM mine prospect, enters the Unuk River upstream from Southeast Alaska. Tribal officials worry mining will send polluted water into British Columbia rivers that flow into Alaska. KSM officials say their pollution-control designs will keep that from happening.
  
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• Beaver float plane crashes near Mirror Lake, no fatalities

  10-08-2016 01:07
  
  There were no fatalities after a Dehavilland Beaver float plane crashed Monday afternoon on Mirror Lake south of Kokhanok [Iliamna Lake]. The Beaver had 6 passengers and 1 pilot onboard and was leaving the area after a day’s fishing on Moraine Creek. Mitchell Gallo is a senior air safety investigator with the NTSB
  “It occurred during the airplane’s takeoff run. It ended up onshore, that’s where it impacted not too far in,” Gallo said. “And
  
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• Longtime finance director out at Mat-Su Borough - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-08-2016 01:05
  
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  Longtime finance director out at Mat-Su Borough
  Alaska Dispatch News
  PALMER — The Matanuska-Susitna Borough's long-serving finance director is no longer at that post. Tammy Clayton's "employment ended" on July 15, according to Borough Manager John Moosey. He would not say whether Clayton chose to leave or was ...and more »
  
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• Building New Partnerships For American Indian And Alaska Native Health - Health Affairs (blog)

  10-08-2016 00:04
  
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  Building New Partnerships For American Indian And Alaska Native Health
  Health Affairs (blog)
  Montana is home to federally recognized tribes on seven reservations, one state-recognized tribe, and a large urban American Indian population. Health disparities among American Indian and Alaska Native people are a serious, longstanding problem ...
  
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