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• No surprises in U.S. House and Senate primaries

  17-08-2016 21:42
  
  An origami “I Voted” sticker dispenser among the sample ballots at an absentee and early voting polling place in the State Office Building, Aug. 15, 2016. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh, KTOO – Juneau)When it came to the federal races, Tuesday’s election held no surprises. As expected, Sen. Lisa Murkowski easily beat three lesser known Republican candidates.
  “I think we have the reality of a very, very strong campaign that worked from the very beginning to make sure nothing
  
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• Three incumbents to lose seats in Alaska election aftermath

  17-08-2016 21:38
  
  Three incumbents lost their seats according Tuesday election returns, including Democratic incumbent Bob Herron in the Yukon-Kuskokwim region’s House District 38, and two more failed to move from the House to the Senate. (Photo by KTOO)With the vast majority of precincts statewide now counted, a clear picture emerged in Tuesday’s election returns — and the short version is, a lot of incumbents will be unseated.
  The state’s Republican makeup saw a re-arrangment: three
  
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• Murder for Hire Alaska Man Wanted Federal Agents Killed - Federal Bureau of Investigation (press release) (blog)

  17-08-2016 19:14
  
  Federal Bureau of Investigation (press release) (blog)
  Murder for Hire Alaska Man Wanted Federal Agents Killed
  Federal Bureau of Investigation (press release) (blog)
  Former gun and explosives dealer Chris Guy Mannino made the sketch above to instruct a would-be hit man how to build a bomb. A partially shown map also provides directions to an intended victim's home in Fairbanks, Alaska. Mannino separately drew the ...
  
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• Alaska's 'Sleeping Lady' - Science Daily

  17-08-2016 17:57
  Alaska's 'Sleeping Lady'
  Science Daily
  Date: August 17, 2016; Source: Geological Society of America; Summary: Every year countless Alaskans and visitors gaze across Cook Inlet from Anchorage at the 'Sleeping Lady' silhouette of Mount Susitna. This scenic mountain and the more rounded ...and more »
  
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• Recover Alaska Takes on Alcohol Abuse with New Online Resources - Alaska Native News

  17-08-2016 17:32
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  Recover Alaska Takes on Alcohol Abuse with New Online Resources
  Alaska Native News
  alaska 211 Alaska's prevalence of alcohol dependence and abuse is 14 percent, twice the national average. Now, a new online resource aims to help Alaskans learn more about alcohol abuse, treatment options and the journey to recovery.
  
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• Incumbents feel sting of voters in Alaska primary election - Alaska Dispatch News

  17-08-2016 17:25
  
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  Incumbents feel sting of voters in Alaska primary election
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  Dirk Moffatt, left, and Emily Tedrick wave signs for Bob Lynn and Chris Birch, respectively, in South Anchorage on primary election day, Aug. 16, 2016. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News). Buy Photo. Wait 1 second to continue. A small number of ...
  LEGISLATURE: Incumbents losing several races in Alaska primary electionKTUU.com
  Young easily wins Alaska House primary raceFairbanks Daily News-Min
  
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• Coast Guard rescues pilot after plane crashes in Alaska - UPI.com

  17-08-2016 16:44
  
  UPI.com
  Coast Guard rescues pilot after plane crashes in Alaska
  UPI.com
  The crew of a Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter, similar to one pictured, rescued the pilot of a float plane that crashed Monday on the shoreline of a lake on Prince of Whales Island, about 26 miles east of Ketchikan, Alaska. Photo courtesy of Coast Guard.and more »
  
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• Von Imhof wins Republican primary for Senate L

  17-08-2016 11:35
  
  Natasha Von Imhof (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)Natasha Von Imhof won the three-way race for the Republican nominee for Senate District L Tuesday with 48 percent of the vote. Von Imhof, a former Anchorage School Board member, says one of her main challenges was gaining name recognition when running against Representative Craig Johnson. She says she thinks part of her appeal is that she listened to voters and didn’t focus on cutting the PFD.
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• Alaska Primary: Seaton Wins HD 31 - KBBI

  17-08-2016 11:00
  
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  Alaska Primary: Seaton Wins HD 31
  KBBI
  Because all three candidates were Republicans and there were no Democrats running, everything was decided in the primary. Listen. Listening... /. 2:27. Paul Seaton and his supporters wait for the primary results. Credit Shahla Farzan. Paul Seaton, who ...and more »
  
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• Alaska LNG submits second draft of resource reports - Kenai Peninsula Online

  17-08-2016 10:06
  Alaska LNG submits second draft of resource reports
  Kenai Peninsula Online
  Members of the public can get another look at the results of years of fieldwork conducted by the Alaska LNG Project now in the reports submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The resource report drafts, which detail everything about the ...
  
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• University of Alaska Board of Regents changes testimony policy - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  17-08-2016 09:43
  
  University of Alaska Board of Regents changes testimony policy
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  FAIRBANKS — The University of Alaska Board of Regents has updated its public testimony policy, a response to calls for more opportunities for people to speak directly with the regents. The new policy, approved by the board in June but effective with ...
  
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• Alaska Judge Censured by State Supreme Court for 'Undignified ... - Newser

  17-08-2016 08:05
  
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  Alaska Judge Censured by State Supreme Court for 'Undignified ...
  Newser
  A Nome Superior Court judge who admitted in December he made "mistakes right and left" after transitioning from his job as an attorney onto the judge's bench ...
  Alaska's high court reprimands judge over 'undignified and ...Washington Timesall 4 news articles »
  
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• Due to climate change, a village in Alaska voted on whether it ... - The Week Magazine

  17-08-2016 07:43
  
  Due to climate change, a village in Alaska voted on whether it ...
  The Week Magazine
  Residents of a coastal village in Alaska being threatened by rising sea levels and thawing permafrost voted Tuesday on whether they should relocate to a new ...and more »
  
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• What’s causing Anchorage’s wave of homicides?

  17-08-2016 06:59
  
  Anchorage Police Chief Chris Tolley addresses reporters during a brief press conference in July of 2016. (Photo: Zachariah Hughes – Alaska Public Media, Anchorage)24 people have been killed so far in the municipality this year. That makes 2016 the fourth deadliest year in two decades, according to data provided by the Anchorage Police Department. In July alone there were nine homicides within the city. The figures come on the heels of 2015, which saw the highest number of murders
  
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• Luxury cruise ship sets sail for the Arctic - Alaska Dispatch News

  17-08-2016 06:53
  
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Luxury cruise ship sets sail for the Arctic
  Alaska Dispatch News
  The Crystal Serenity, a Crystal Cruises vessel, is docked in Seward on Tuesday. The luxury cruise ship is on its way to New York City via the Northwest Passage. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News). The once forbidding Arctic region, home to polar ...
  On the scene with the Crystal SerenityAlaska Public Radio Network
  First large cruise ship to depart Alaska on North West Passage voyageBBC Newsall 22 news articl
  
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• Alaska has yet to see a legal pot sale. But some banks are already shutting down accounts. - Alaska Dispatch News

  17-08-2016 05:11
  
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Alaska has yet to see a legal pot sale. But some banks are already shutting down accounts.
  Alaska Dispatch News
  A marijuana plant at a cultivation facility in Anchorage, Alaska on Wednesday, May 13, 2015. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News). Not a single gram of legal marijuana has yet been sold in Alaska, but some bank accounts tied to people in the emerging ...
  
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• Marian's Largen joins alma mater Alaska as assistant coach - USCHO

  17-08-2016 05:08
  
  SBN College Hockey (blog)
  Marian's Largen joins alma mater Alaska as assistant coach
  USCHO
  Former Alaska goaltender Erik Largen has left the head coaching position at Division III Marian to join the Nanooks as an assistant coach. Largen, a Fairbanks, Alaska, native, replaces Corbin Schmidt, who left for a new career opportunity in Minnesota.
  Largen Added as Assistant Coach for Alaska NanooksSBN College Hockey (blog)
  Alaska hockey brings on former player as new assistant coachwebcenter11all 4 ne
  
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• Internet buries Alaska state fair in mockery after they invite rappers ... - Raw Story

  17-08-2016 04:50
  
  Raw Story
  Internet buries Alaska state fair in mockery after they invite rappers ...
  Raw Story
  Organizers of an Alaska state fair have come under fire after a seemingly arbitrary decision to abruptly end a rap group's set and eject them from the festival.
  Alaska Editorial: Making sense of fair furorJuneau Empire (subscription)all 7 news articles »
  
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• Southwest Alaska village sees 3 overdoses, one fatal, in a few hours ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  17-08-2016 03:47
  
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  Southwest Alaska village sees 3 overdoses, one fatal, in a few hours ...
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  File photo: The Southwestern Alaska village of Quinhagak in late July 2016. (Lisa Demer / Alaska Dispatch News). In the space of a few hours Monday afternoon ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016

  17-08-2016 03:45
  
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  Alaskans cast Primary ballots at regular polling spots, also airports
  Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  Today is Primary Election day. In addition to the regular polling locations, you can also vote today at the airport in six Alaska cities.
  
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• LGBTQ history bus tour highlights changing acceptance in Anchorage

  17-08-2016 03:29
  
  Participants load the bus for the LGBTQ history bus tour outside of the Raven. (Hillman/Alaska Public)During the rowdy pipeline construction days, bars lined 4th Avenue in downtown Anchorage. Many of those establishments were surprisingly open to gay and lesbian Alaskans. On a bus tour this summer, passengers learned the role those places played in local LGBTQ history.
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  Myrna Lachoy stood at the front of a bus with a bull horn, pointing out the locations of old Anchorage bars. “I
  
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• Petition sent to Walker asking for predator control reform

  17-08-2016 03:11
  
  A petition signed by 150 Alaskans sent to Governor Bill Walker, asks for changes to state predator control programs. The letter sent Monday asked the governor to replace lethal predator control methods with non-lethal techniques, to terminate use of radio collars to locate and kill wolves, and to prohibit intensive management programs within 5 miles of federal conservation lands, like national parks. According to petitioner, wildlife advocate and biologist Rick Steiner of Anchorage, signers hail
  
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• On the scene with the Crystal Serenity

  17-08-2016 03:07
  
  
  Tonight, the cruise ship Crystal Serenity will cast off from Seward for a first-of-it’s kind trip through the Arctic’s Northwest Passage to New York City. It’s the first luxury liner to attempt the route — and the largest passenger ship by far.Many people are wondering if it’s a sign of what’s to come, as the Arctic sees increasingly ice-free summers.
  The Crystal Serenity berthed in Livorno, Itlay. Photo: Piergiuliano Chesi, Wikimedia CommonsRachel Waldholz, f
  
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• Ketchikan youth detention facility to close Sept. 15

  17-08-2016 02:30
  
  The Ketchikan Regional Youth Facility, a detention center for juvenile offenders, will close Sept. 15.
  The Ketchikan Regional Youth Facility will close Sept. 15th due to state budget cuts. (Photo by Leila Kheiry, KRBD – Ketchikan)The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services announced Monday that the closure will mean the loss of 15 jobs, and that Ketchikan-area youth who require detention now will be sent to Juneau.
  Ketchikan’s youth facility was built in 2002, and was st
  
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• AWAC Presents: “Qatar: More than just oil and natural gas”

  17-08-2016 02:23
  
  
  Listen in as Ambassador Mohamed Jaham Al Kuwari discusses Qatar’s increasing role in the world, oil and natural gas development as vehicle for change, his country’s efforts in defeating extremism, and the 2022 FIFA World Cup, among other things with General Joseph Ralston (USAF, Retired).
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  Ambassador Al Kuwari, Ambassador H.E. Mohammed Al Kuwari was born on May 20,
  Ambassador Al Kuwari1958 in Qatar. He received his Bachelor’s degree in politi
  
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• 2016 Alaska Primary Elections

  17-08-2016 02:15
  
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• Coast Guard suspends search for missing fisherman, Arnold Skeek

  17-08-2016 01:58
  
  The Coast Guard stopped looking for Arnold Skeek, the missing 27-year-old fisherman from Kake, early Monday afternoon. Authorities believe he fell from the Beaufort Sea, 60-foot fishing tender, into Auke Bay on Sunday.
  Arnold Skeek, far right, is a fisherman who authorities believe fell overboard into Auke Bay on Sunday. (Photo courtesy of Amy Meats)Skeek’s family presumes he is dead. His sister, Amy Meats described how the news of her brother’s disappearance reached the family.
  
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• At DNR, new leader tackles ‘maze’ of oil and gas development on federal land

  17-08-2016 01:52
  
  From Soldotna to the North Slope to Anchorage, the state’s newest natural resources commissioner has spent his career weighing in on energy issues all over the state. Now, Andy Mack has been tapped by Gov. Bill Walker to help guide the state through the maze of federal regulations required to develop oil and gas resources.
  Alaska Natural Resources Commissioner Andy Mack at a press conference in Anchorage on June 28, 2016. (Photo by Graelyn Brashear, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)He
  
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• Traveling Music 8-21-16

  17-08-2016 00:40
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  8-21-16
   
  Format:
  Song TitleArtist / Composer
  CD Title
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  Walk Beside Me
  Red Molly / Tim O’Brien, Darrell Scott
  Light in the Sky
  www.redmolly.com
  3:09
   
  Who Knows Where the Time Goes
  Nanci Griffith / Sandy Denny
  Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back To Bountiful)
  Elektra
  5:34
   
  The Canyon
  Shonti Elder / Shonti Elder
  Bow Drawn
  www.shontielder.com
  3:13
   
  Love Like This
  Ann Reed / Ann Reed
  Timing is Everything
  Turtlecub Productions
  
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• Alaskans cast Primary ballots at regular polling spots, also airports

  17-08-2016 00:32
  
  Today is Primary Election day. In addition to the regular polling locations, you can also vote today at the airport in six Alaska cities: Ted Stevens International in Anchorage, Fairbanks International, Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan and Kodiak. Each airport location has ballots for all 40 of Alaska’s election districts. The polls are open until 8 p.m. tonight.
  
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• Alaskans can cast Primary ballots at regular polling areas or certain airports

  17-08-2016 00:32
  
  Today is Primary Election day. In addition to the regular polling locations, you can also vote today at the airport in six Alaska cities: Ted Stevens International in Anchorage, Fairbanks International, Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan and Kodiak. Each airport location has ballots for all 40 of Alaska’s election districts. The polls are open until 8 p.m. tonight.
  
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