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• Pipeline Promises: Alaska's quest for a natural gas line - KTOO

  20-09-2016 20:09
  
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  Pipeline Promises: Alaska's quest for a natural gas line
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  For more than 40 years, the state has tried, and failed, to bring natural gas from Alaska's North Slope to market. In all, there have been at least 10 different versions of the pipeline mega-project. And not one has come close to breaking ground. This ...and more »
  
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• KSKA 91.1 FM Streaming Issues

  20-09-2016 19:22
  
  Recently, we updated our streaming player to provide all of our listeners with a better streaming experience. Windows 10 devices were not able to play our stream using the operating system’s default player so we made the upgrade to an in-browser player. During this upgrade our stream URL had to be changed, resulting in some streaming outages from third party apps like NPR News and TuneIn. We have to either manually change the URL, or email the app developers the new URL.
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• Alaska emergency crews study up for nation’s first LNG by rail

  20-09-2016 18:54
  
  A cryogenic tank container used to carry liquefied natural gas by rail (photo by Elizabeth Harball).Standing next to a massive cylindrical rail car at the Anchorage Railroad Yard, Alaska Railroad Mechanical Supervisor Josh Cappel asked a fireman to test out the car’s hand-operated braking system.
  “Go ahead and fire that thing up tight. Come on, a little tighter than that — there you go!” Cappel joked, drawing laughs from the crowd of about 16 other members of th
  
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• In Kotzebue, revenue doubts loom as alcohol returns to the ballot

  20-09-2016 16:51
  
  On October 4th, Kotzebue will decide whether or not they want alcohol sold in the city. (Tyler Stup/KNOM)Since October 2011, the city-owned Kotzebue Package Store has been selling alcohol. Come October 4th, local voters will decide the fate of the store, when they’re asked if the city should ban alcohol sales all over again.
  Hans Nelson, resident of Kotzebue since 2009, says he led the alcohol ban solo from initial petition through signature collection and onto the ballot.
  “I was a l
  
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• Four charged with killing walrus in Alaska, causing stampedes - Fox News

  20-09-2016 16:15
  
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  Four charged with killing walrus in Alaska, causing stampedes
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  Four men from a village in northwest Alaska have been charged with killing walrus that came ashore in 2015 and leaving the meat to rot. ADVERTISEMENT. Federal prosecutors filed five misdemeanor charges that accuse the men of either shooting walrus ...and more »
  
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• Four charged with killing walrus in Alaska, causing stampedes | Fox ... - Fox News

  20-09-2016 16:15
  
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  Four men from a village in northwest Alaska have been charged with killing walrus that came ashore in 2015 and leaving the meat to rot.and more »
  
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• Alaska Railroad to haul two LNG containers in cost-effectiveness test - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  20-09-2016 10:11
  
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  Alaska Railroad to haul two LNG containers in cost-effectiveness test
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  The 40-foot cryogenic container is one of two the Alaska Railroad will be using to transport liquefied natural gas from Southcentral Alaska to Fairbanks as part of a demostration project this month. FAIRBANKS — This fall, the Alaska Railroad will be ...
  Alaska Railroad, firefighters prepare to make LNG historyKTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
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• 4 Point Hope residents charged in walrus kills - Alaska Dispatch News

  20-09-2016 06:59
  
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  4 Point Hope residents charged in walrus kills
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  Four Point Hope residents are facing federal charges alleging they shot and killed at least six walruses for their ivory tusks and then wastefully left the carcasses behind on a beach in Northwest Alaska last year. Adam Sage, Michael Tuzroyluk Jr., Guy ...and more »
  
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• Walker administration resurrects plan to borrow for pension shortfall - Alaska Dispatch News

  20-09-2016 05:59
  
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  Walker administration resurrects plan to borrow for pension shortfall
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  Alaska Gov. Bill Walker's administration is resurrecting a stalled plan under which it would use borrowed money to reduce the hundreds of millions of dollars that the state pays into its pension funds each year. The plan calls for as much as $3.2 ...
  
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• Hurricane-force winds forecast in Southcentral Alaska - Alaska ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  20-09-2016 05:10
  
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  Hurricane-force winds forecast in Southcentral Alaska - Alaska ...
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  Satellite imagery shows the Bering Sea storm system forecast to cause high surf in the Kuskokwim Delta on Monday and high winds and flooding in Southcentral ...
  Gulf storm will bring heavy wind, rain to southcentral Alaska Tuesday eveningKTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaskaall 6 news articles »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly Monday, Sept. 19, 2016

  20-09-2016 04:52
  
  
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  Rashah McChesney, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage
  For more than forty years, the state has tried — and failed — to bring natural gas from Alaska’s North Slope to market. In all, there have been at least ten different versions of the pipeline mega project. And no
  
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• BlueCrest noise frustrates area residents

  20-09-2016 04:36
  
  
  Residents of a tiny Kenai Peninsula subdivision near Anchor Point thoughtthey had a little slice of peace and quiet. But a tract of homestead landto the south held an oil test well. And now it’s home to 38 acres of anactive oil well, processing train, natural gas flare, workers’ camp, truckfilling station and a five-story rig that is about to start drilling 30more wells.
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  When Herff Keith retired from the Alaska Railroad in Anchorage in 2007, hewanted a change of pace. Some
  
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• BlueCrest neighbors adjust to life near a bustling oil pad

  20-09-2016 04:36
  
  
  Herff Keith lives next door to BlueCrest Energy’s oil drilling pad. A construction crane and new oil drilling rig can be seen in the background. (Photo by Jenny Neyman/KBBI)Residents of a tiny Kenai Peninsula subdivision near Anchor Point thought they had a little slice of peace and quiet. But a tract of homestead land to the south held an oil test well. And now it’s home to 38 acres of an active oil well, processing train, natural gas flare, workers’ camp, truck
  
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• Brewfest donations questioned

  20-09-2016 04:35
  
  
  A Juneau organization that fights heroin abuse will take a quarter of the money raised during the city’s annual brew fest. Its participation raised the question: Is it appropriate for an anti-heroin group to take donations from a beer festival – especially considering Alaska’s high rates of alcoholism?
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  There’s a stage, live music and a large room packed with people drinking from short glasses of beer. The organization Juneau – Stop Heroin, S
  
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• North Star Borough School Board member seeks to change school’s name

  20-09-2016 04:31
  
  
  A member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board is asking to change the name of an elementary school. Michael O’Brien says Badger Road Elementary is named for a convicted pedophile. The historical records show Harry M. Badger admitted to abusing a 10 year old girl.
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  Fairbanks School board Vice-President Mike O’Brien said when he first ran for office, several people told him about Harry M. Badger. One hundred years ago the official land recorder was acc
  
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• Accidental Shooting in Juneau

  20-09-2016 04:30
  
  
  A 17-year-old Juneau boy was killed in an accidental shooting outside a home in the Mountain Wood Circle neighborhood Saturday morning. The boy was one of four males preparing for a duck hunt according to a Juneau Police Department press release.He was reportedly standing outside of a truck when he tried to pull his shotgun out of the back seat by its barrel. The shotgun went off and the boy was hit in his torso.The rest of the hunting party was standing outside of the truck during the shoo
  
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• Eagle River Suspect Sought

  20-09-2016 04:26
  
  
  At last check, Anchorage police were still on the scene of a gun related incident in Eagle River that started shortly before noon on Monday. According to APD spokesperson Renee Oistad, police got a call regarding a man with a gun threatening people inside a residence.
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  A SWAT team is on the scene at the Husky Street home.
  Oistad would not comment on the incident, because it has not been resolved yet.
  Several people exited the home at the time police were called. Police say th
  
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• LNG rail shipments to begin demonstrations

  20-09-2016 04:22
  
  
  The Alaska Railroad will be the first to transport liquefied natural gas by rail in the United States. The Alaska Railroad Corporation was granted permission by the Federal Railroad Administration to move LNG last year and testing is slated to start next week.
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  Alaska Railroad spokesman Tim Sullivan said “the corporation plans to begin demonstration shipments September 27th and that LNG containers are on loan to the railroad for testing.”
  Sullivan said “Eigh
  
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• Pipeline Promises: Alaska’s quest for a natural gas line

  20-09-2016 04:20
  
  
  An LNG tanker fills up at the ConocoPhillips liquid natural gas export facility in Nikiski, Alaska. When it opened in 1969, it was the only facility of its kind in the U.S. to get a license to export its gas to Japan. For more than forty years, the state has attempted to develop similar projects to bring natural gas from the North Slope to market, none of those projects have broken ground. (Photo courtesy of ConocoPhillips)
  For more than forty years, the state has tried, and failed, to bring na
  
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• Gas Line Tour

  20-09-2016 04:20
  
  
  An LNG tanker fills up at the ConocoPhillips liquid natural gas export facility in Nikiski, Alaska. When it opened in 1969, it was the only facility of its kind in the U.S. to get a license to export its gas to Japan. For more than forty years, the state has attempted to develop similar projects to bring natural gas from the North Slope to market, none of those projects have broken ground. (Photo courtesy of ConocoPhillips)
  For more than forty years, the state has tried, and failed, to bring na
  
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• Elementary school student in Kotzebue diagnosed with bacterial meningitis - Alaska Dispatch News

  20-09-2016 00:27
  
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  Elementary school student in Kotzebue diagnosed with bacterial meningitis
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  State health officials are investigating a case of bacterial meningitis diagnosed in a Kotzebue elementary-school student Saturday. The Monday announcement of the June Nelson Elementary School student's diagnosis came less than 24 hours after another ...and more »
  
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