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• Mudslide hits Railroad train near Cantwell

  15-09-2016 23:59
  
  A mudslide hit an Alaska Railroad train yesterday near Cantwell. Railroad spokesman Tim Sullivan said the 4:30 AM slide came down near track mile 322, hitting a northbound freight train.
  “The train did not derail. There were no injuries,” Sullivan said. “And at this point the train is moved out of that spot and we are currently clearing it out with excavators.”
  Sullivan said passenger trains were delayed Wednesday and some railroad passengers were moved by bus.
  
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• Community in Unity: Being Transgender

  15-09-2016 23:05
  
  Community in Unity is back! This year, Alaska Public Media’s community dialogue series will be recorded for radio and rebroadcast on KSKA 91.1 FM. The entire community is invited to join us at the Alaska Public Media studios for all of the events.
  Our first show, Being Transgender, will be recorded on Wednesday, September 28 at 7 pm. What does it mean to be transgender? How does a person know if their biological sex fits who they really are? How does our community welcome this growing popu
  
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• Mudslide hits Alaska Railroad freight train near Cantwell - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-09-2016 22:42
  
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  Mudslide hits Alaska Railroad freight train near Cantwell
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  A mudslide hit an Alaska Railroad freight train traveling from Anchorage to Fairbanks near Cantwell early Wednesday. There were no injuries and passengers on delayed trains were transferred to buses. (Alaska Railroad Corp.) An Alaska Railroad train was ...
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• Mudslide hits Alaska Railroad freight train - Alaska Dispatch News - Alaska Dispatch News

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  Mudslide hits Alaska Railroad freight train - Alaska Dispatch News
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  A mudslide hit an Alaska Railroad freight train traveling from Anchorage to Fairbanks near Cantwell early Wednesday. There were no injuries and passengers ...
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• Details slowly emerge surrounding Kodiak floatplane crash

  15-09-2016 22:42
  
  Details are slowly coming to light surrounding the crash last week of a floatplane flying for Island Air.
  According to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board, the de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver took off from the city of Kodiak Friday morning and was headed to Amook Bay and Zachar Bay. The report says it crashed at around 11:30 a.m.
  Clint Johnson, Chief of the NTSB Alaska Regional Office, said the crash happened during a scheduled stop at Uganik Lake, which is 35 miles from
  
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• Girdwood leaders urge more speed in police contract talks

  15-09-2016 22:27
  The ski resort hamlet of Girdwood could be left without police protection, if a contract with the city of Whittier is not finalized before October first. The state will close it’s Alaska State Trooper post in Girdwood in a little over two weeks, while contract negotiations between the municipality of Anchorage and Whittier for law enforcement services for Girdwood have yet to be completed.
  Sam Daniel heads the  public safety and utilities committee for the Girdwood Board of Supervisor
  
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• Save those cans, aluminum recycling returning to Bethel

  15-09-2016 22:15
  
  Hold onto those aluminum cans. Recycling is returning to Bethel, and ONC’s Environmental Coordinator Mary Matthias is leading the way. KYUK traveled with Matthias to what is potentially the largest site of used cans in Bethel and ground zero of where Matthias’ work will begin.
  Mary Matthias opening a conex of aluminum cans at the abandoned Bethel Recycling Center.
  (Photo by Anna Rose MacArthur, KYUK – Bethel)Transcript:
  KYUK: Okay, so this is the Bethel Recycling Center.
  Matthi
  
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• Top Alaska GOP Officials Resign Rather Than Back Liberal Murkowski Over Libertarian Joe Miller - Western Journalism

  15-09-2016 20:56
  
  Top Alaska GOP Officials Resign Rather Than Back Liberal Murkowski Over Libertarian Joe Miller
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  The Alaska Republican Central Committee voted over the weekend to remove one of its members over his decision to back newly-minted Libertarian U.S. senate candidate Joe Miller instead of the state's moderate GOP incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski, while ...
  
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• Pending vote, Sitka Assembly to dedicate one mill to electric fund

  15-09-2016 20:42
  
  During their meeting Tuesday night, the Sitka Assembly approved a key element of their plan to raise property taxes while making Sitka more affordable.
  In exchange for a 2 mill increase to property taxes, the Assembly is offering to dedicate one mill of revenue to the electric fund to stabilize rates. But will voters approve? (Photo by Emily Kwong, KCAW – Sitka)The ordinance said that if voters approve raising property taxes next month, from 6 mills to 8 mills, the revenue generated by one
  
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• State seeks to stop people from wrongfully claiming PFDs

  15-09-2016 20:07
  
  To stop people from wrongfully claiming Permanent Fund dividends, the Alaska Department Revenue has launched a new program to audit applications this month.
  The state government is using information from LexisNexis to identify applicants who will be asked for more information. The department will deny unresponsive applicants.
  The legislature funded the program this year. Dividends will be distributed beginning on Oct. 6.
  
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• Searchers find missing Sterling man dead; no foul play suspected - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-09-2016 18:42
  
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  Searchers find missing Sterling man dead; no foul play suspected
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  A missing Sterling man's body was found Wednesday afternoon, three days after he was last seen taking a walk from his home. Alaska State Troopers said the body of 22-year-old Garyn Troost was discovered at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. "(V)olunteer ...and more »
  
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• Flint water help could spill into rural Alaska - Alaska Public Radio Network

  15-09-2016 18:34
  
  Flint water help could spill into rural Alaska
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  The Senate is likely to pass a Water Resources bill this week that would send $100 million to Flint, Michigan to resolve that community's drinking water crisis. But the bill could be a plum for rural Alaska, too. Listen now. U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan said ...and more »
  
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• Flint water help could spill into rural Alaska

  15-09-2016 18:33
  
  
  File photo by Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public MediaThe Senate is likely to pass a Water Resources bill this week that would send $100 million to Flint, Michigan to resolve that community’s drinking water crisis. But the bill could be a plum for rural Alaska, too.
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  U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan said the bill includes a new grant program he championed to help small and disadvantaged communities build water projects. Towns without household drinking water or wastewater service
  
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• Helicopter rescues 3 boaters stranded in southwest Alaska - The Daily Progress

  15-09-2016 18:32
  
  Helicopter rescues 3 boaters stranded in southwest Alaska
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  MANOKOTAK, Alaska (AP) — Three rural residents stranded after their boat ran aground were rescued Wednesday by chartered helicopter. Alaska State Troopers say 27-year-old Jeremiah Chukwuk, 26-year-old Alice Moxie and 27-year-old Daniel Tugutuk ...and more »
  
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• Alaska trains stuck for hours Wednesday after mudslide near Cantwell - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  15-09-2016 18:14
  
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  Alaska trains stuck for hours Wednesday after mudslide near Cantwell
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  A freight train headed north was stopped by a mudslide near Cantwell early Wednesday morning, Alaska Railroad spokesman Tim Sullivan says. The mudslide occurred around 4:30 a.m. and struck the train, but did not damage or derail it, Sullivan said.
  
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• Photos: Best of September 2016 - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-09-2016 18:04
  
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  Photos: Best of September 2016
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  A flag catches the breeze at the high point of the popular route up Flattop Mountain on Tuesday, September 13, 2016. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News). Buy Photo. Wait 1 second to continue. Fall colors, football, the fair and more: Select ...
  
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• Lessons I learned from an Alaska adventure - Shreveport Times

  15-09-2016 17:27
  
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  Lessons I learned from an Alaska adventure
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  I have always tried to heed the call to adventure. So when I got an invitation to explore Alaska, I had to go. The call came from an old friend. Her name is Ali. We had met in college, but I hadn't heard from her in more than seven years. I had no idea ...
  
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• Juneau police address concerns about race amid search for Alaska Native man - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-09-2016 17:12
  
  Juneau police address concerns about race amid search for Alaska Native man
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  When a 22-year-old Juneau white man with autism went missing last week and was found in less than 24 hours, questions arose from family and friends of a missing Alaska Native man — who is the same exact age — about police priorities in Native and ...and more »
  
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• See Alaska's captivating Northern Lights on this Fairbanks tour - Los Angeles Times

  15-09-2016 16:30
  
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  See Alaska's captivating Northern Lights on this Fairbanks tour
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  If you like light shows, you'll love this tour to see Alaska's aurora borealis, the dancing lights that draw visitors and residents alike into the cold night air every winter. The six-night Fairbanks, Alaska, tour will focus on the northern lights ...
  
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• Immediate Review of B.C. Mining Safety Demanded by Alaska Native Leaders - Indian Country Today Media Network

  15-09-2016 14:15
  
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  Immediate Review of B.C. Mining Safety Demanded by Alaska Native Leaders
  Indian Country Today Media Network
  The United Tribal work group says the International Joint Commission's involvement is needed now to ensure there are adequate safeguards to protect the salmon-rich Stikine (pictured), Taku and Unuk rivers from potential mining risks upstream in British ...
  
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• Alaska Airlines CEO: We Don't Need Long-Haul International Flights - TheStreet.com

  15-09-2016 14:05
  
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  Alaska Airlines CEO: We Don't Need Long-Haul International Flights
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  Alaska Airlines, looking to become the fifth national airline if a merger with Virgin America is approved, has no plans to operate long-haul international flights. Ted Reed. Follow. Sep 15, 2016 8:00 AM EDT. Get TheStreet Quant Ratings' exclusive 5 ...
  The best airlines in the US revealed: Alaska Airlines is ranked number one (for the second year running)Daily Mailall 2 news articles »
  
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• Veterans Choice didn't ease health care woes, especially in Alaska - Reveal

  15-09-2016 14:00
  
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  Veterans Choice didn't ease health care woes, especially in Alaska
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Tina Cramer Showers keeps one vomit bucket on the narrow stairway of her Anchorage townhouse, another at her bedside. It was there, during a grueling course of cancer treatment last year, that the Air Force veteran settled in for ...
  
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• The School Doomed by Climate Change - The Atlantic

  15-09-2016 13:30
  
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  The School Doomed by Climate Change
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  NEWTOK, Ala.—In Dawn Wilson's classroom, fourth-graders are writing a story about what they would need to survive if their families were forced to quickly leave their homes and relocate down river. Astutely, her young students tick off the essentials ...
  
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• Alaska State Board of Education & the University of Alaska Board of Regents Hold Joint Meeting - SitNews

  15-09-2016 08:50
  Alaska State Board of Education & the University of Alaska Board of Regents Hold Joint Meeting
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  "Aligning our two organizatons will start us down the path toward creating a robust culture of education in Alaska,” said University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen. “We know that by 2025, Alaska will demand that 65 percent of its workforce have some ...
  
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• Alaska Court: Homeless People Possessing Marijuana Not Protected by Constitution - Alaska Commons

  15-09-2016 06:35
  
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  Alaska Court: Homeless People Possessing Marijuana Not Protected by Constitution
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  The Alaska Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the Alaska Constitution's privacy protections do not apply to homeless people found in possession of marijuana. During a traffic stop in September of 2010, Michael Lee Murphy was arrested in Homer when ...
  
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• Alaska Delegation on Health Insurance and King Cove Road - webcenter11

  15-09-2016 05:30
  
  Alaska Delegation on Health Insurance and King Cove Road
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  Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, along with Congressman Don Young claim the legislation will help Alaskans that are struggling with the high cost of health insurance, and will attract more insurance companies to the state. Alaska is currently ...and more »
  
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• Starting in October, Real ID Act will take effect on Alaska military bases - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-09-2016 05:22
  
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  Starting in October, Real ID Act will take effect on Alaska military bases
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  Starting Oct. 10, Alaska state identification cards will no longer be enough if you want to get on base. According to press releases from both Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and Fort Wainwright, starting in October people with just an Alaska ID card, ...
  Alaska may not get REAL ID waiver by deadlineWashington Timesall 5 news articles »
  
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• Alaska state IDs soon won't be enough to get you admitted to JBER ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-09-2016 05:22
  
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  Alaska state IDs soon won't be enough to get you admitted to JBER ...
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  Starting Oct. 10, Alaska state identification cards will no longer be enough if you want to get on base. According to press releases from both Joint Base ...
  Alaska may not get REAL ID waiver by deadlineKTUU.com
  Alaska and other states get 90-day extension for REAL ID rulesFairbanks Daily News-Minerall 6 news articles »
  
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• Alaska Legislature considers marijuana social clubs - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-09-2016 05:22
  
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  Alaska Legislature considers marijuana social clubs
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  Cynthia Franklin, executive director of the Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office, testifies during a hearing before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees at the Anchorage LIO on Wednesday, September 14, 2016, downtown. (Erik Hill / Alaska Dispatch ...
  As retail sales near, Alaska marijuana industry still lacks unified voiceThe Cannabist
  Marijuana industry advocates criticize slowness of regula
  
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• Alaska Legislature considers marijuana social clubs - Alaska ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-09-2016 05:22
  
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  Alaska Legislature considers marijuana social clubs - Alaska ...
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  Cynthia Franklin, executive director of the Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office, testifies during a hearing before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees at ...
  As Alaska marijuana sales near, industry lacks unified voiceThe Cannabist
  Marijuana industry advocates criticize slowness of regulation ...Alaska Public Radio Networkall 7 news articles »
  
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• 2 small schools in Southeast Alaska shut their doors - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-09-2016 04:34
  
  2 small schools in Southeast Alaska shut their doors
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  Two Southeast schools in tiny towns have shut their doors this year after their enrollments were expected to sink below 10 students, the minimum for full state funding. The school in Port Protection, on the north end of Prince of Wales Island, had only ...
  
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• What's up in Anchorage this week: Musicfest, Oktoberfest, designfest - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-09-2016 04:09
  
  What's up in Anchorage this week: Musicfest, Oktoberfest, designfest
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  Food, dancing, beer and fun at the annual Oktoberfest celebration in 2007 at the Egan Center in downtown Anchorage. (Bob Hallinen / Anchorage Daily News). Tap Root Fall Music Festival. Tap Root Public House is hosting an outdoor concert in Spenard ...
  
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• Traveling Music 9-18-16

  15-09-2016 04:02
  Traveling Music
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  9-18-16
   
  Format:
  Song TitleArtist / Composer
  CD Title
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  Same Old River
  Sam Bush / Jeff Black
  Glamour & Grits
  Sugar Hill
  5:37
   
  So Sang The River
  Bill Staines / Bill Staines
  One More River
  Red House Records
  3:50
   
  Wings of Horses
  Peter Rowan / Peter Rowan / A. R. Rowan
  Dust Bowl Children
  Sugar Hill
  3:15
   
  Daughters and Sons
  Tommy Sands / Tommy Sands
  Singing of the Times
  Green Linnet
  3:37
   
  This Old River
  Frank Solivan
  
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• Longtime oil worker named deputy commissioner for Alaska ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-09-2016 03:48
  
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  A longtime oilfield engineer is the new deputy commissioner for the Alaska Department of Natural Resources. Mark Wiggin, once a lead startup engineer at the ...
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• ‘Lullaby Project’ connects mothers to kids through prison walls

  15-09-2016 03:47
  
  
  Shawn Muese and Hilary Morgan teamed up for the Lullaby Project, where Muese wrote a song for her children. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)A program aimed at helping mothers who are in prison connect with their kids is called the Lullaby Project. Professional musicians work with inmates at the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center in Eagle River to write songs for the inmate’s children then the musicians record them onto a CD.
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  When the program began about two months ago, Shawn Muese
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016

  15-09-2016 03:42
  
  
  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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  Marijuana industry advocates criticize slowness of regulation
  Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO – Juneau
  Alaska’s top marijuana regulator said pot will be on sale by February. But industry advocates expressed frustration Wednesday that it’s taken ne
  
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• Dead body discovered in Unalaska Creek

  15-09-2016 02:42
  
  Police are investigating after a dead body was discovered Monday in Unalaska’s Ruth Rock Creek at the end of Captains Bay.
  (Photo by Laura Kraegel, KUCB – Unalaska)The Department of Public Safety has identified the man as 46-year-old Gregg T. Kortesma, who was found with “significant head injuries” by a pair of local hikers.
  Police say Kortesma worked sporadically in Unalaska over the last 20 years, most recently on the fishing vessel Alaska Trojan.
  They know Kortesm
  
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• Whistleblowers allege financial, perational misconduct against Alaska Blood Bank - Juneau Empire (subscription)

  15-09-2016 02:39
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  Whistleblowers allege financial, perational misconduct against Alaska Blood Bank
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  Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, left, chats with Blood Bank of Alaska CEO Bob Scanlon on Sept. 1 after donating a pint of blood and signing a proclamation that September is Alaska Blood Drive and Donation Challenge Month. A week earlier, a group of employees ...and more »
  
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• Whistleblowers allege financial, operational misconduct against ... - Juneau Empire (subscription)

  15-09-2016 02:39
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  Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, left, chats with Blood Bank of Alaska CEO Bob Scanlon on Sept. 1 after donating a pint of blood and signing a proclamation that ...and more »
  
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• Whistleblowers allege financial, operational misconduct against Alaska Blood Bank - Juneau Empire (subscription)

  15-09-2016 02:39
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  Whistleblowers allege financial, operational misconduct against Alaska Blood Bank
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  Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, left, chats with Blood Bank of Alaska CEO Bob Scanlon on Sept. 1 after donating a pint of blood and signing a proclamation that September is Alaska Blood Drive and Donation Challenge Month. A week earlier, a group of employees ...and more »
  
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• Marijuana industry advocates criticize slowness of regulation

  15-09-2016 02:32
  
  Alaska’s top marijuana regulator said pot will be on sale by February. But industry advocates expressed frustration Wednesday that it’s taken nearly two years since voters approved the sales.
  Cannabis plant(Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)And legislators say they’d like to see the state allow marijuana consumption in private clubs. Some lawmakers would also like state officials work to improve marijuana businesses’ access to banks.
  Alcohol and Marijuana Control Of
  
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• State Natural Resources department hires new oil and gas overseer

  15-09-2016 02:27
  
  Mark Wiggin will be the new deputy commissioner at the Department of Natural Resources (Photo courtesy DNR)The Alaska Department of Natural Resources announced it has hired a new deputy commissioner in charge of oil and gas.
  Mark Wiggin left Brooks Range Petroleum to take the post, where he worked as an engineering and development manager.
  The deputy commissioner role has been vacant since March, when Marty Rutherford temporarily stepped in to the lead role at the Department of Natural Resources
  
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• Petersburg opposes Mental Health logging plan

  15-09-2016 02:09
  
  Petersburg’s Borough Assembly on Tuesday voted to send a letter urging a land exchange rather than logging Alaska Mental Health Trust lands on a steep hillside above Mitkof Highway south of downtown.
  This map shows the section of Deer Mountain that Alaska Mental Health has proposed logging.Local residents and homeowners are concerned about landslides that have occurred on that hillside and the potential for increased risk if the slopes are logged.
  The Alaska Mental Health Trust board last
  
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• U.S.-Canada trade deal creating uncertainty in Southeast timber market

  15-09-2016 02:03
  
  The U.S. is in the midst of negotiations with Canada over an agreement on Canadian lumber imports. Many U.S. sawmill owners argue that the Canadian mills receive government subsidies on government-owned lands, making it difficult for the U.S. market to compete. The 2006 softwood lumber trade agreement, meant to level the playing field, expired last year and a one-year freeze on tariffs, a tax on imported goods and services, ends in October. The uncertainty of new tariffs is affecting Southe
  
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• Search continues for Sterling man last seen on Sunday - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-09-2016 01:22
  
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  Search continues for Sterling man last seen on Sunday
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  Family and friends of a Sterling man last seen near his home Sunday evening are asking for help from the community in an ongoing search, with no sign of him spotted so far. Alaska State Troopers said in a brief dispatch that they conducted an initial ...and more »
  
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• Search continues for Sterling man last seen on Sunday - Alaska ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-09-2016 01:22
  
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  Search continues for Sterling man last seen on Sunday - Alaska ...
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  Family and friends of a Sterling man last seen near his home Sunday evening are asking for help from the community in an ongoing search, with no sign of him ...and more »
  
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• Charges: Murder suspect confessed shooting Glacier BrewHouse co-worker - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-09-2016 01:03
  
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  Charges: Murder suspect confessed shooting Glacier BrewHouse co-worker
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  Tommy Rumph Jr. was arraigned in the Anchorage Correctional Complex on Wednesday on charges of first-degree and second-degree murder in the shooting death of 30-year-old Treavonne Owens on Tuesday morning. (Bill Roth / Alaska Dispatch News).and more »
  
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• Charges: Murder suspect confessed shooting Glacier BrewHouse co ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-09-2016 01:03
  
  Charges: Murder suspect confessed shooting Glacier BrewHouse co ...
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  Tommy Rumph Jr. was arraigned in the Anchorage Correctional Complex on Wednesday on charges of first-degree and second-degree murder in the shooting ...and more »
  
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• One Skagway Assembly seat may be vacant soon, but won’t be on election ballot

  15-09-2016 00:47
  
  In less than a month, Skagway voters will cast ballots for two open borough assembly seats, but one more seat may be vacant soon.
  Dan Henry (Photo courtesy The Skagway News)Some residents have spoken up at recent meetings about their hopes for the future of that spot on the assembly.
  Earlier this year, longtime Assemblyman and restaurant owner Dan Henry was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for failing to file his income taxes.
  He must report to a federal prison facility by Nov. 1.
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• Homer tourism reaches all-time high

  15-09-2016 00:31
  
  Homer, the little town at the “End of The Road,” is becoming an increasingly popular travel destination.
  Kayakers in Kachemak Bay.
  (Photo courtesy of the Homer Chamber of Commerce)Jan Knutson is the Visitor Center Coordinator with the Homer Chamber of Commerce. She said that 2016 has been a record-breaking year for the Homer tourism industry.
  “It has been a banner year for Homer and the surrounding area in terms of the number of the visitors. This year we had over 12,600 visito
  
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