• Troopers Suspect Moose Attacked, Killed Woman in Alaska - ABC News

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    Troopers Suspect Moose Attacked, Killed Woman in Alaska
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    Alaska State Troopers say the body of Pattie Cucinello was found Sunday in the driveway of her Wasilla home. Troopers' spokeswoman Megan Peters says in an email that investigators suspect a moose attack because there were moose tracks at the scene.
    Troopers: Woman apparently killed by moose in Mat-Su - Alaska ...Alaska Dispatch Newsall 13 news articles »
  • Sentencing delayed for former Vann's CFO to allow Alaska trip - KPAX-TV

    Sentencing delayed for former Vann's CFO to allow Alaska trip - KPAX-TV
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    Sentencing delayed for former Vann's CFO to allow Alaska trip
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    The sentencing of a man implicated in the federal fraud case involving a former Missoula electronics and appliance retailer is being delayed so as not to interfere with his vacation to Alaska. Former Vann's Chief Financial Officer Paul Nisbet has ...and more »
  • Quiet fire season concludes in Alaska - Juneau Empire (subscription)

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    Quiet fire season concludes in Alaska
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    Despite a hot start, the Alaska wildfire season finished well below normal, according to new figures from the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center. Slightly over half a million acres burned in wildfires this year, the center reported. In an average ...
    Alaska Division of Forestry Releases 2016 Wildfire Season Numbersyouralaskalinkall 2 news articles »
  • Coast Guard medevacs man from tug near Kotzebue

    Coast Guard medevacs man from tug near Kotzebue
    The Coast Guard rescued a man off a tugboat 57 miles south of Kotzebue on Friday, September 30th.
    A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter (foreground) in Kotzebue, Alaska, in August 2010. (Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Walter Shinn, U.S. Coast Guard)The 67-year-old had been suffering from symptoms of stroke when the 17th Coast Guard District command center received a medevac request.
    A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak Jayhawk helicopter deployed to the tug boat, Drew Foss. The man was hoi
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  • New addition will help food bank store even more food than before

    New addition will help food bank store even more food than before
    The Southeast Alaska Food Bank celebrated an increased capacity during an open house Saturday.
    The new addition allows the food bank to give away even more food than before.
    Jim Wilcox holds up a $100 donation on Saturday. (Photo by Quinton Chandler, KTOO – Juneau)Last year, Jim Wilcox was the board president, but he gave that up to head the food bank’s warehouse expansion.
    “I couldn’t do both, so I turned the presidency over to one of my buddies,” said Wi
  • New curriculum standards are changing instruction in Juneau schools

    New curriculum standards are changing instruction in Juneau schools
    Eli Wyatt is a second-grader at Glacier Valley Elementary School. He answered 19+34 =53.
    (Photo by Quinton Chandler, KTOO – Juneau)“Nineteen plus 34. Can you do it?” Tia Vreeland, a kindergarten and first-grade teacher at Glacier Valley Elementary School, asked her former student, Eli Wyatt.
    Eight-year-old Eli is in second grade. He made a return visit to Vreeland’s classroom to prove second-graders can add double digit numbers.
    This is the fifth year of a six-year c
  • Algo Nuevo October 2, 2016

    Algo Nuevo October 2, 2016
    Here’s the Sunday, October 2, 2016 edition of Algo Nuevo con Dave Luera —Something New with Dave Luera.
    If you have questions, comments or music requests for host Dave Luera, send email to [email protected] or post your comment at the bottom of this post.
    All tracks played are listed below in the following format:
    Song TitleArtist NameAlbum TitleCD LabelDuration
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    Europa
    Santana
    The Best of Sa
  • Alaska Court System gets first official Yup'ik interpreter - Alaska Public Radio Network

    Alaska Court System gets first official Yup'ik interpreter - Alaska Public Radio Network
    Alaska Court System gets first official Yup'ik interpreter
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    In the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta, where Yup'ik is the primary spoken language, the Alaska Court System has a new Yup'ik interpreter, who happens to be the first official interpreter for the language in the country. Crystal Garrison, who recently passed the ...
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  • Alaska Court System gets first official Yup’ik interpreter

    Alaska Court System gets first official Yup’ik interpreter
    In the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta, where Yup’ik is the primary spoken language, the Alaska Court System has a new Yup’ik interpreter, who happens to be the first official interpreter for the language in the country. Crystal Garrison, who recently passed the National Center for State Courts’ written exam for Court Interpreter, has become the first Yupik speaker to do so. And she didn’t just barely pass – she got a score of 93.
  • Photos: Bull moose tangle on opposite sides of a fence - Alaska Dispatch News

    Photos: Bull moose tangle on opposite sides of a fence - Alaska Dispatch News
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    Photos: Bull moose tangle on opposite sides of a fence
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    A pair of bull moose battled each other from opposite sides of a chain-link fence along Raspberry Road, near the entrance to Kincaid Park, on Sunday. The "outside" bull ended up getting tangled up in the fence's barbed wire and had to be tranquilized ...and more »
  • 2 hunters rescued, 1 mauled near Hoonah

    2 hunters rescued, 1 mauled near Hoonah
    A brown bear mauling prompted the Coast Guard to rescue two hunters from a mountain near Hoonah and bring them to Juneau Saturday afternoon. Only one of the hunters was injured.
    U.S. Coast Guard search & rescue demo at the 2016 Juneau Maritime Festival (Photo by David Purdy, KTOO – Juneau)Coast Guard Lt. Greg Isbell said the injured hunter explained they were hiking a mountain when the bear ambushed them.
    “He had described that he had multiple puncture wounds, and the bear had gr
  • Kim Kardashian tied up and robbed at gunpoint in Paris - Alaska Dispatch News

    Kim Kardashian tied up and robbed at gunpoint in Paris - Alaska Dispatch News
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    Kim Kardashian tied up and robbed at gunpoint in Paris
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    Journalists stand Monday in front of the entrance of a luxury residence on the Rue Tronchet in central Paris, where masked men robbed U.S. reality TV star Kim Kardashian West at gunpoint . REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes. PARIS – Masked men put a gun to ...and more »
  • The 'Jewel' of Alaska Returns Home, Explains How Yodeling Saved Her Life - Fox News

    The 'Jewel' of Alaska Returns Home, Explains How Yodeling Saved Her Life - Fox News
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    The 'Jewel' of Alaska Returns Home, Explains How Yodeling Saved Her Life
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    Jewel Kilcher may have sold over 30 million records and carved out a lasting career that has undergone countless transformations since she first emerged with her poetic-folk album "Pieces of You" in 1995, but these days, the singer-songwriter just ...
    Jewel returns to the Kilcher family homestead for Alaska The LastStarcasm.net
    Alaska, The Last Frontier Exposed: What Time & Channel Is the Show On Toni
  • The 'Jewel' of Alaska Returns Home, Explains How Yodeling Saved ... - Fox News

    The 'Jewel' of Alaska Returns Home, Explains How Yodeling Saved ... - Fox News
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    The 'Jewel' of Alaska Returns Home, Explains How Yodeling Saved ...
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    Singer/songwriter Jewel Kilcher tells us about going home to Alaska, writing her memoir, and how yodeling saved her life.
    Alaska The Last Frontier cast adds Jewel Kilcher in Season 6 surpriseStarcasm.netall 4 news articles »
  • Charlo Greene: Why Alaska TV anchor faces 54 years for marijuana sales - Christian Science Monitor

    Charlo Greene: Why Alaska TV anchor faces 54 years for marijuana sales - Christian Science Monitor
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    Charlo Greene: Why Alaska TV anchor faces 54 years for marijuana sales
    Christian Science Monitor
    Charlo Greene, a former TV reporter who quit her job to advocate for marijuana legalization, could be imprisoned for decades for offenses related to the substance. By Amanda Hoover, Staff October 3, 2016. Save for later Saved. close. The Alaska ...
    Former Alaska reporter faces 54 years in jail for pot club - USA TodayUSA TODAY
    Former Alaska reporter faces 54 years in jail f
  • Consumer demand for Alaska cruises growing again - Juneau Empire (subscription)

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    Consumer demand for Alaska cruises growing again
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    Passengers and crew debark the Holland America Line cruise ship Volendam on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016 at the Port of Juneau. The Volendam is the last cruise ship of the 2016 tourist season to stop in Juneau. More than 1 million passengers passed through ...and more »
  • Officials: No Survivors Found After Plane Crashes in Alaska - ABC News

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    Officials: No Survivors Found After Plane Crashes in Alaska
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    Authorities say rescuers did not find any survivors after a small plane carrying three people crashed in a remote area of western Alaska. Alaska State Troopers say its helicopter crew located wreckage of the plane near the coastal village of Togiak ...
    NTSB: Wreckage of Togiak plane crash that killed 3 'highly fragmented'Alaska Dispatch News
    Three dead in Alaska plane crashUPI.com
    The Latest: Investigators
  • Fairbanks couple reflects on lifetime devoted to study of Alaska ... - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

    Fairbanks couple reflects on lifetime devoted to study of Alaska ... - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
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    Fairbanks couple reflects on lifetime devoted to study of Alaska ...
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    Molly Lee left, sits next to her husband Michael Krauss in their Fairbanks area home on Thursday afternoon, September 29 2016. The couple are the Spotlight ...and more »
  • National courts center certifies first Yupik interpreter - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

    National courts center certifies first Yupik interpreter - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
    National courts center certifies first Yupik interpreter
    Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
    BETHEL, Alaska (AP) - A court interpreter in Alaska is the first certified in the Yupik language by the National Center for State Courts. Crystal Garrison has spent the last 15 years working at the Alaska Court System in Bethel and scored a 93 on the ...and more »
  • Alaska Drone Racing League takes flight - KTUU.com

    Alaska Drone Racing League takes flight - KTUU.com
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    Alaska Drone Racing League takes flight
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    ANCHORAGE (KTUU) The Alaska Drone Racing League is slowly taking off in Anchorage and the Mat-Su Valley. Those racing in the league say it's like Star Wars pod racing. Sunday the league met at the Northway Mall racing quad drones on a homemade ...
  • Anchorage airport police officer, corrections officer lose certifications - Alaska Dispatch News

    Anchorage airport police officer, corrections officer lose certifications - Alaska Dispatch News
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    Anchorage airport police officer, corrections officer lose certifications
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    The Alaska Police Standards Council voted in mid-August to take the badges of two men: an airport police officer who removed ammo from work and tried to sell it online, and a corrections officer accused of "undue familiarity" with a female inmate ...and more »
  • With PFD payouts near, Alaska needs cash - lots of it. Here's how it gets here. - Alaska Dispatch News

    With PFD payouts near, Alaska needs cash - lots of it. Here's how it gets here. - Alaska Dispatch News
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    With PFD payouts near, Alaska needs cash - lots of it. Here's how it gets here.
    Alaska Dispatch News
    In the age of electronic transactions, it would be easy to spend every cent of this year's $1,022 Permanent Fund dividend without converting it to cash. But enough Alaskans still use paper currency that each fall, without fail, banks here ratchet up ...
    Parties seek speedy resolution in Alaska dividend lawsuitFairbanks Daily News-Miner
    Possible Future for Alaska LNG Overseas
  • With PFD payouts near, Alaska needs cash - lots of it. Here's how it ... - Alaska Dispatch News

    With PFD payouts near, Alaska needs cash - lots of it. Here's how it ... - Alaska Dispatch News
    Alaska Dispatch News
    With PFD payouts near, Alaska needs cash - lots of it. Here's how it ...
    Alaska Dispatch News
    In the age of electronic transactions, it would be easy to spend every cent of this year's $1,022 Permanent Fund dividend without converting it to cash.
    Parties seek speedy resolution in Alaska dividend lawsuitFairbanks Daily News-Miner
    Possible Future for Alaska LNG Overseaswebcenter11all 37 news articles »
  • Alaska artists burn giant masks in museum ceremony - Alaska Dispatch News

    Alaska artists burn giant masks in museum ceremony - Alaska Dispatch News
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    Alaska artists burn giant masks in museum ceremony
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    Betsy Winkle signs the large wooden “Hepatitis” mask at the Anchorage Museum on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. Winkle's brother, Frew Winkle, was adopted from Ethiopia where his parents both died. “Aggravated Organizms” is a collection of masks carved by ...
  • Hoonah hunter survives bear attack in Southeast Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

    Hoonah hunter survives bear attack in Southeast Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News
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    Hoonah hunter survives bear attack in Southeast Alaska
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    A deer hunter from Hoonah was injured in a brown bear attack on Chichagof Island in Southeast Alaska Saturday, and was saved when his hunting partner shot and killed the attacking bear, Alaska State Troopers reported. Anthony Lindoff, 36, of Juneau and ...
    Hunters attacked by bear on southeast Alaska island ...The Daily Progressall 11 news articles »

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