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• New satellite-based technology aims to crack down on illegal fishing

  27-09-2016 23:00
  
  A satellite-based program from Google, Oceana, and SkyTruth hopes to help everyone track the movement of commercial fishing vessels around the world. (Image courtesy of Oceana.)Commercial fishing in Alaska is a multi-billion dollar industry. But every year, billions of dollars are lost to illegal fishing around the world. A new satellite-based surveillance system makes it easier to track illegal fishing. But some fishermen aren’t ready for Big Brother watching their every move.
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• SHI program trains educators to see Thru the Cultural Lens

  27-09-2016 22:42
  
  Jackie Kookesh is in charge of Thru the Cultural Lens. (Photo by Quinton Chandler, KTOO – Juneau)Juneau teachers and administrators were the students on Saturday at a Sealaska Heritage Institute seminar intended to help them see the world from their pupils’ perspectives.
  It’s part of an ongoing series called Thru the Cultural Lens in which educators learn about Southeast Alaska Native culture and history. Saturday, they gave presentations on 10,000 years of educa
  
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• Alaska volunteers help improve lives of those living in South Sudan ... - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  27-09-2016 22:30
  
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  Volunteers in Alaska have been working hard over the years to bring clean water, agriculture and health to the people of South Sudan. Now, they are hoping to ...and more »
  
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• The day the moose at Point Woronzof were really wild - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-09-2016 22:21
  
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  The day the moose at Point Woronzof were really wild
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  Visitors to Point Woronzof view a large bull moose as it ambles across the road on Monday afternoon, September 26, 2016, in West Anchorage. Several moose made appearances along the road as bulls courted cows between Postmark Drive and the point.and more »
  
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• Citizen scientists track crane population

  27-09-2016 21:47
  
  A sandhill crane looks and sounds like a modern day dinosaur.
  Lesser sandhill cranes in Homer, Alaska.
  (Photo courtesy of Nina Faust)They stand about three feet tall and have a six-foot wing span. They use their sharp four-inch beak for probing in the dirt and catching insects and small mammals.
  And sometimes, they use that long beak for defense.
  “That beak is a very very lethal weapon,” says Faust.
  That’s Nina Faust. She’s the co-founder of Kachemak Crane Watch, a non-pr
  
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• Former Anchorage middle school clerk charged with embezzling $50K - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-09-2016 20:28
  
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  Former Anchorage middle school clerk charged with embezzling $50K
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  Anchorage School District Superintendent Deena Paramo and Anchorage Police Department Detective Anthony Pate discuss the embezzlement case against former Gruening Middle School Financial Data Clerk Kellie Fagan on Tuesday morning, September ...
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• Politically charged tweets posted from state account during debate

  27-09-2016 19:27
  
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  Alaska Department of Health & Social Services spokeswoman Susan Morgan replied to questions about the tweets in an email. She wrote that department officials apologize.
  “Some recent tweets were inadvertently posted to our Twitter account by a DHSS staff member who was accidentally logged into the DHSS account instead of their personal account while on their personal phone at home,” Morgan wrote. “The inadvertent tweets were deleted and we will be reviewin
  
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• Feds Steal 100 Million Acres of Alaska During Summer of 2016 - MRCTV (blog)

  27-09-2016 16:29
  
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  Every US state has a motto. Some are interesting, like “Live Free of Die,” in New Hampshire, and some are sadly truthful, like, “Our Government is Vampiric” in Massachusetts. Just kidding. It's more along the lines of “We'll Tax You to Death,” or ...
  
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• Alaska state employee accidentally tweets criticism of Trump's ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-09-2016 05:43
  
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  For a few minutes Monday night, it appeared the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services had some pretty strong feelings about the presidential ...and more »
  
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• Alaska State Troopers K-9 killed near Palmer was 1st to die in line of duty - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-09-2016 04:50
  
  Alaska State Troopers K-9 killed near Palmer was 1st to die in line of duty
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  PALMER — The dog killed during a police pursuit near Palmer early Sunday is the first Alaska State Troopers "K-9" to be killed in the line of duty. A driver who troopers say sped away from a traffic stop — 25-year-old Palmer resident Almando Abarca ...and more »
  
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• Alaska's Byron Nicholai gets a presidential audience - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-09-2016 03:50
  
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  Alaska's Byron Nicholai gets a presidential audience
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  Byron Nicholai, a teenager from Toksook Bay who has gained a major following for his traditional Yup'ik singing and drumming and original songs, performed on Monday for perhaps his most memorable audience yet — President Barack Obama. Nicholai ...
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Sept. 26, 2016

  27-09-2016 03:45
  
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  State Superior judge okays Mat-Su marijuana vote
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  A state Superior court judge is allowing a Matanuska-Susitna Borough marijuana vote to go forward. Earlier Monday Judge David Zwink in Palmer issued an order allowing the October 4 ballot initiative on a Boroug
  
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• Body of missing hiker found in Sitka

  27-09-2016 02:58
  The body of a missing hiker was found by searchers in Sitka on Friday afternoon.
  Michael Hansen was 37-years-old. The avid outdoorsman – who also enjoyed fishing, berry picking and swimming – was reported missing last Monday, after he did not return from a solo hiking trip up Mt. Verstovia in Sitka.
  Throughout the week, Sitka Search and Rescue received assistance from the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Forest Service, the Alaska State Troopers, the Sitka Police and Fire Departments, and a nu
  
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• Sitka’s hospitals consider integrating operations

  27-09-2016 02:44
  
  A consultant’s plan released this month recommends Sitka’s two hospitals combine operations.
  Sitka Community Hospital is considering sharing services and management with SEARHC’s Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital. (Photo by SCH FoundationThe municipally owned Sitka Community Hospital and the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium’s Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital currently compete.
  But both agreed earlier this year to hire a consultant to examine options for survival in the face of fina
  
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• Doyon’s $2b discount: Fair play or ‘rip off’?

  27-09-2016 02:43
  
  File photo by Tristan Tom, CC.Doyon, the Fairbanks and Interior Alaska Native Regional Corporation, was in federal court in Washington D.C. today, trying to keep the discount it was to get almost two years ago, when it bid billions of dollars on spectrum, a portion of the public airwaves reserved for wireless broadband. The discount is worth nearly $2 billion.
  But after the auction concluded in January 2015, the Federal Communications Commission ruled that Doyon’s company, Northstar,
  
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• Mat-Su voters to decide on pot, parks and Assembly seats

  27-09-2016 02:42
  Matanuska-Susitna Borough’s election is October fourth. While an initiative on the area – wide ballot regarding a ban on retail marijuana could lure voters to the polls, they will also decide on filling two Borough Assembly seats. But one Assembly race is re-awakening an old conflict.
  A bit of spice was added to the spaghetti lunch at the Palmer Moose Lodge last week, when Mat-Su District 1 incumbent Jim Sykes faced challenger Brian Endle in candidate debate.
  Sykes is fresh from a su
  
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• State Superior judge okays Mat-Su marijuana vote

  27-09-2016 02:31
  
  A state Superior court judge is allowing a Matanuska-Susitna Borough marijuana vote to go forward. Earlier Monday Judge David Zwink in Palmer issued an order allowing the October 4 ballot initiative on a Borough ban against commercial marijuana to stay on the ballot.
  Two lawsuits filed against the Borough this month asked the courts to force the Borough to take Proposition B-1 off the Borough ballot.
  In Monday’s action, Zwink also combined both lawsuits in which the plaintiffs allege
  
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• Guide in mauling near Angoon was storied Fish & Game researcher LaVern Beier

  27-09-2016 02:22
  
  Alaska State Troopers have identified the hunting guide involved in Thursday’s Admiralty Island bear mauling as 63-year-old LaVern Beier of Juneau.
  A brown bear in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo courtesy Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)Authorities say Beier, a big game hunting guide, was with client Douglas Adkins of Jenkins, Kentucky, on Thursday evening on Admiralty Island near Angoon. They startled a brown bear on the beach which led to a brief attack on Adkins, who the
  
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• Alaska Wildlife Troopers ask public’s help in solving 4 cases of killed moose

  27-09-2016 02:19
  
  More than a week after they began an investigation of the killing of four moose that were left unsalvaged in three areas along the Richardson Highway south of Fairbanks last week, Alaska Wildlife Troopers are asking for the public’s help.
  Three of the four moose killed and left unsalvaged last week had “sub-legal” size racks, too small or otherwise illegal to harvest. (Photo courtesy of UAF)Wildlife Trooper Tim Abbott said it’s been a week and day since he checked out the
  
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• Obama addresses tribes one more time

  27-09-2016 02:13
  
  Byron Nicholai, far right, welcomes President Obama to the stage at 8th White House Tribal Nations Conference. (Image: C-Span.)President Barack Obama addressed his final White House Tribal Nations Conference today. The most famous Yup’ik singer on Facebook, Byron Nicholai of Tooksook Bay, welcomed Obama to the stage.
  Obama said it was privilege, over his eight years in the White House, to spend time with Native people and he said he visit more tribal communities than any prior president. H
  
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• Obama addresses tribes one last time

  27-09-2016 02:13
  
  
  Byron Nicholai, far right, welcomes President Obama to the stage at 8th White House Tribal Nations Conference. (Image: C-Span.)President Barack Obama addressed his final White House Tribal Nations Conference today. The most famous Yup’ik singer on Facebook, Byron Nicholai of Toksook Bay, welcomed Obama to the stage.
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  Obama said it was privilege, over his eight years in the White House, to spend time with Native people and he said he visit more tribal communities than any prior pr
  
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• Lance Mackey withdraws from 2017 Iditarod

  27-09-2016 01:13
  
  Lance Mackey ahead of the 2015 Iditarod. (Photo By Patrick Yack – Alaska Public Media)The Iditarod Trail Committee announced Monday that former champion Lance Mackey has withdrawn from the race, citing health reasons.
  The committee shared the news through its Facebook page, writing Mackey is on a “journey to improving his health.”
  Mackey is a cancer survivor, and has had difficult time in the last two Iditarods, scratching in 2016 midway through the race.
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• ‘I’m a girl’: Knowing who you are at 4-years-old

  27-09-2016 00:58
  
  
  Rusty and Lola read a cupcake cookbook together. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media.)The American Academy of Pediatrics says most kids have a stable sense of gender identity by the time they are four. Rusty is one of them. Rusty may have been born a boy, but she knows she is definitely a girl.
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  Four-year-old Rusty is really focused.
  “This is Shopkin,” she says, pulling out tiny, cartoonish plastic models of food and household items that are plastered with giant eyes and goof
  
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• Nanwalek school converts garage into classroom

  27-09-2016 00:39
  
  Nanwalek School is getting some relief from overcrowding after a garage/shop area was converted into a new classroom over the summer.
  An aerial photo of Nanwalek School.
  (Photo Courtesy of Ron Keffer)Principal Nancy Kleine said the new classroom for sixth through 12th-graders has made students more comfortable and enthusiastic about learning.
  “The kids just seem really happy to come to school this year. It’s almost like they have a place now. We have a pretty large middle school grou
  
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• State cuts will stifle Southeast’s economic growth

  27-09-2016 00:02
  
  Southeast Alaska has seen economic growth in the last five years but that growth could soon be stalled by state budget cuts. That was the message being shared at the Southeast Conference going on in Petersburg this week.
  Maelani Schijvens presents “Southeast Alaska by the Numbers 2016″ to the Southeast Conference in Petersburg, Sept. 20. (Photo by Angela Denning, KFSK – Petersburg)By nearly all accounts, Southeast Alaska has seen growth in recent years. An annual economic repor
  
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