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• Laurie the Moose Lady puts 'heart and soul' Into roadkill - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-08-2016 21:10
  
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  Laurie the Moose Lady puts 'heart and soul' Into roadkill
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  Laurie Speakman, a volunteer driver with the Alaska Moose Federation, in Soldotna, Alaska, Aug. 25, 2016. Moose struck and killed on Alaskan highways are state property, and each can provide hundreds of pounds of meat to the needy. But lately ...
  
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• Let's talk, not litigate, over Indian country in Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-08-2016 21:09
  
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  Let's talk, not litigate, over Indian country in Alaska
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  Alaska Gov. Bill Walker comments at an April 2015 press conference in Juneau on efforts to ease adoption of Alaska Native children by Alaska Natives. With him are Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, right, and Julie Kitka, president of the Alaska Federation of ...
  
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• Exotic ticks appear to be establishing themselves in Alaska - Alaska ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-08-2016 16:47
  
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  Exotic ticks appear to be establishing themselves in Alaska - Alaska ...
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  While Alaskans have long endured dense mosquitoes and frigid air, we've always had the absence of venomous snakes and dog ticks. But the latter may be ...and more »
  
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• Exotic ticks appear to be establishing themselves in Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-08-2016 16:37
  
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  Exotic ticks appear to be establishing themselves in Alaska
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  While Alaskans have long endured dense mosquitoes and frigid air, we've always had the absence of venomous snakes and dog ticks. But the latter may be establishing themselves here. Ticks that infest red squirrels, snowshoe hares and a variety of birds ...
  
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• The Long Arc Is the Real Campaign, Especially In Alaska and Arizona - Indian Country Today Media Network

  27-08-2016 15:58
  
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  The Long Arc Is the Real Campaign, Especially In Alaska and Arizona
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  TRAHANT REPORTS—It's easy to be optimistic about the prospects for American Indian and Alaska Native candidates in this election and beyond. Our numbers are growing, organizations are getting stronger, and, best of all, the most remarkable, talented ...
  
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• Carney sworn in as 24th Justice of Alaska | Local News | newsminer ... - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  27-08-2016 10:14
  
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  FAIRBANKS — Fairbanks defense attorney Susan M. Carney became the 24th Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court at the Rabinowitz Courthouse on Friday ...
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• Carney sworn in as 24th Justice of Alaska - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  27-08-2016 10:14
  
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  Carney sworn in as 24th Justice of Alaska
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  People fill the Rabinowitz Courthouse for the installation of Susan M. Carney as a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court at the Rabinowitz Courthouse on Friday, August 26, 2016. Installation of Alaska Supreme Court Justice Susan Carney.and more »
  
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• Week 3 of Alaska high school football - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  27-08-2016 08:13
  
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  Week 3 of Alaska high school football
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  West High School broke open a close game in the second quarter, then had to hang on thwarting a late rally against host Chugiak High School at Tom Huffer Sr. Stadium. The Eagles (2-1) took a 21-7 into the half as Qyntyn Pilcher found Turek Taylor for a ...and more »
  
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• Week 3 of Alaska high school football | KTVA 11 News | The Voice of ... - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  27-08-2016 08:13
  
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  West High School broke open a close game in the second quarter, then had to hang on thwarting a late rally against host Chugiak High School at Tom Huffer Sr.and more »
  
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• Final vote count puts Westlake further ahead in Alaska's Arctic House district - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-08-2016 07:43
  
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  Final vote count puts Westlake further ahead in Alaska's Arctic House district
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  The gap between the two Democratic primary candidates in Alaska's northernmost House district grew from three votes to 21 after a final count Friday, with challenger Dean Westlake on the winning side over incumbent Rep. Ben Nageak. But the race may go ...and more »
  
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• Final vote count puts Westlake further ahead in Alaska's Arctic ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-08-2016 07:43
  
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  Final vote count puts Westlake further ahead in Alaska's Arctic ...
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  The gap between the two Democratic primary candidates in Alaska's northernmost House district grew from three votes to 21 after a final count Friday, with ...and more »
  
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• Highlights this weekend at the Alaska State Fair - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-08-2016 06:29
  
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  Highlights this weekend at the Alaska State Fair
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  Pre-game the fair by catching the floats and performers in the official State Fair Parade, which kicks off in downtown Palmer at 11 a.m. Saturday. After the festivities, head to the fairgrounds for Family Day – kids age 12 and under get in free, with a ...
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• Highlights this weekend at the Alaska State Fair - Alaska Dispatch ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-08-2016 06:29
  
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  Pre-game the fair by catching the floats and performers in the official State Fair Parade, which kicks off in downtown Palmer at 11 a.m. Saturday. After the ...
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• Alaska Boys & Girls Clubs Offer After School Programs - youralaskalink

  27-08-2016 06:29
  
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  Alaska Boys & Girls Clubs Offer After School Programs
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  Anchorage, AK- School started this week here in Anchorage, and the Boys and Girls Clubs offer students a safe place to learn and grow, while having fun. The mission of the organization is to, “empower and inspire the diverse youth of Alaska to reach ...and more »
  
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• Back on track: Alaska Military Youth Academy cadets celebrate graduation - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  27-08-2016 06:22
  
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  Back on track: Alaska Military Youth Academy cadets celebrate graduation
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  For the last 22 weeks, Brandon Brown didn't have access to his phone or the internet. At the Alaska Military Youth Academy, he was also cut off from his old way of life. “Before I came to the academy, I was kind of like your typical slacker,” said Brown.
  
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• Pain doctor surrenders license to Alaska medical board - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-08-2016 04:33
  
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  Pain doctor surrenders license to Alaska medical board
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  Dr. Mahmood Ahmad awaits the start of his appeals hearing on Thursday morning, May 26, 2016, in the Atwood Building downtown. (Erik Hill / Alaska Dispatch News). An Alaska anesthesiologist accused of overprescribing painkillers to clients surrendered ...
  
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• State takes control of gas line megaproject; consultant warns of major risks

  27-08-2016 04:01
  
  
  Nikos Tsafos of Enalytica warned lawmakers of major unkowns in a state-led gas line project. “If I were taking over a $50 billion project, I would be a lot more worried than I feel folks are worried,” he said. (Photo by Rachel Waldholz, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage)The state of Alaska is formally taking over the massive North Slope gas line project.
  After months of mixed signals, Gov. Bill Walker’s administration and the state’s three current partners &nda
  
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• Exxon Mobil Backs Out of Proposed Alaska LNG Project - Wall Street Journal

  27-08-2016 04:00
  
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  Exxon Mobil Backs Out of Proposed Alaska LNG Project
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  Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM -0.22 % has decided not to invest in the next stage of a proposed natural gas export terminal in Alaska and said it would work with its partners to sell its interest in the project to the state government. The company's decision ...
  Oil partners in Alaska LNG pull out of project | KTVA 11 News | The ...KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Oil producers balk following new study calling Alas
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Aug. 26, 2016 - Alaska Public Radio Network

  27-08-2016 03:44
  
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  Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Aug. 26, 2016
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  The state of Alaska is formally taking over the massive North Slope gas line project. New Attorney General weighs in against ExxonMobil's tactics fighting climate change investigations. Rashah McChesney, Alaska's Energy Desk – Juneau. Since last ...
  Troopers say powerful painkiller found in Alaska heroin | Alaska ...Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  'A first in Alaska.' Heroin linked to villag
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Aug. 26, 2016

  27-08-2016 03:42
  
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  As state prepares to take over Alaska LNG project, consultant warns of major risks
  Rachel Waldholz, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage
  The state of Alaska is formally taking over the massive North Slope gas line project.
   
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• New Attorney General weighs-in against ExxonMobil’s tactics fighting climate change investigations

  27-08-2016 02:58
  
  Since last November, ExxonMobil has been the target of a growing number of state attorneys general investigating whether the company lied about its research about climate change.
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  Jahna Lindemuth, the new Attorney General of Alaska. (Photo by Graelyn Brashear, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)Alaska’s new attorney general has jumped into that fight and some lawmakers are saying it’s a flip-flop from the state’s original decision not to investigate the compan
  
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• Fairbanks citizens gather signatures to ban commercial marijuana sales

  27-08-2016 02:45
  Sponsors of a voter initiative to ban commercial marijuana businesses in the City of Fairbanks submitted over 500 signatures Friday in an effort to get the measure on the fall 2017 ballot. Petition sponsor Vivian Stiver, with the group “Drug Free Fairbanks”, says petitioners have gathered well above the 519 required, but the signatures must be of registered voters who live in the city, and are subject to review.
  “Say they look at the signatures, there are several that brin
  
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• The Hungry Chum: An eater's guide to the Alaska State Fair - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  27-08-2016 02:18
  
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  The Hungry Chum: An eater's guide to the Alaska State Fair
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  Sports fans talk about opening day like it's a religious experience of sorts. Some have called it a rebirth, heralded with pageantry. The players are nervous, the fans are on the edge of their seats and everyone hopes the weather holds. 2016 Alaska ...
  
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• Living Alaska: Fungus, festivals and a foraging movement - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  27-08-2016 02:18
  
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  Living Alaska: Fungus, festivals and a foraging movement
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  It felt like I was walking through the pages of a children's book. Vibrant green moss blanketed parts of Moose Meadow in Girdwood. Rain fell in a mist; leaving the fresh aroma of nature in the air and turning the hair sticking out from under my ball ...
  
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• Highway Robbery: Roadkill Meat Intended for Charity Stolen in ... - Field and Stream (blog)

  27-08-2016 02:15
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  Photo by Flickr/toffehoff Two moose cross a road in Alaska. According to Associated Press, thieves are lifting dead moose off the road before Alaska can claim ...
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• Highway Robbery: Roadkill Meat Intended for Charity Stolen in Alaska - Field and Stream (blog)

  27-08-2016 02:15
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  Highway Robbery: Roadkill Meat Intended for Charity Stolen in Alaska
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  According to Associated Press, thieves are lifting dead moose off the road before Alaska can claim the carcasses. Moose killed by cars are state property in Alaska, and a program run by state troopers routinely salvages usable roadkill as meat for the ...
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• Moose and vehicles: Dangerous mix

  27-08-2016 02:10
  
  Increasing darkness ups the chance of drivers hitting wildlife on Alaska roads. Moose collisions present the most common and dangerous hazard, and a few factors are common to most accidents.
  (Photo by Hagerty Ryan, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)University of Alaska Fairbanks geography student Job Noordeloos is finishing up a masters project on moose vehicle collisions in the Fairbanks North Star Borough.
  ”I’m from the Netherlands. I arrived here three years ago in Alaska,” Noo
  
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• Troopers say powerful painkiller found in Alaska heroin

  27-08-2016 01:20
  Alaska State Troopers say lab tests showed the presence of the powerful painkiller Fentanyl in heroin seized from a village where four people recently overdosed on heroin, including one woman who died.
  Troopers say 19-year-old Jamie Roberts died in the village of Quinhagak died earlier this month and two others were flown to Bethel, where they were treated and released. Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peterson says the fourth person was treated locally.
  According to troopers, heroin seized in the com
  
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• Migratory duck tests positive for bird flu in Fairbanks

  27-08-2016 01:10
  
  A sample taken from a south migrating mallard duck in Fairbanks, has tested positive for bird flu. Avian influence is carried by wild birds, but the disease is far more deadly to domestic poultry.
  State Veterinarian Dr. Bob Gerlach said only low pathogen strains have been found in Alaska bird samples in the past. Dr. Gerlach said this month’s Alaska mallard sample is also the first from a wild bird to test positive in North America since 2014, and the strain is very similar to that one, wh
  
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• AK: Hammer-time in Haines

  27-08-2016 01:10
  
  
  You may have heard NPR’s Morning Edition running their “Unsung Museums” special this summer. Well it turns out Alaska has its fair share of them, including the hammer museum in Haines. It’s a place where hammers are revered, and boast stories both heartfelt and weird. The Hammer Museum has been open for more than a dozen years, providing a public display not to be matched.Listen now
  A 19-foot hammer guards the outside of the Hammer Museum in Haines. The museum features 2,
  
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• 49 Voices: Fia Ape of Anchorage

  27-08-2016 01:05
  
  
  This week we’re hearing from Fia Ape in Anchorage. She moved here from Hawaii and just started 10th grade at West High.
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  APE: To be honest, school in Hawaii… it’s different. It’s not like up here. It’s, I should say, it’s like low education. Comparing to up here, there’s more education and there’s more things for me to learn.
  First I was thinking of joining choir cause I love to sing. I learned that friends come and go all the time. Frie
  
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• Foraging for Edible Foods in AK

  27-08-2016 01:00
  
  Photo: Mark ByzewskiAlaska may not be a huge farming state, but it is full of food, and not only for meat eaters. The woods and beaches are rich in edible plants and fungus that can be delicious and not difficult to find. As we’re going to learn on the next show, many of Alaska’s edible plants are extremely common and preparation is easy. In the second half of the show, we’ll be talking about the banner year for mushrooms that we’re having in late summer and fall of
  
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• Longtime manager ousted from three village corporations

  27-08-2016 00:56
  
  Aleknagik Natives Ltd. board president Molly Chythlook confirmed Tuesday that Fred Nishimura had been fired as the business manager for the village corporation.
  A sign posted on the door of the Aleknagik building in downtown Dillingham, where the ANL office is located.
  (Photo by KDLG – Dillingham)Leadership for Ekwok Natives Ltd. said Nishiumura’s contract as business manager had been “terminated,” and said an independent investigation was underway. Panarqukuk, Inc., a su
  
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• Colorful bear statues spring up in Alaska's largest city - WJLA

  27-08-2016 00:23
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  Colorful bear statues spring up in Alaska's largest city
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  A life-size, fiberglass bear statue painted with nature scenes and rubber boots, part of a "Parade of Bears" display, stands in front of offices of Great Land Trust on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016, in Anchorage, Alaska. The statues were installed to ...and more »
  
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