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• Alaska Airlines removes passenger catcalling female flight attendant ... - Business Insider

  11-10-2016 23:27
  
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  Alaska Airlines allegedly removed a passenger from a plane after he verbally harassed a female flight attendant during her safety demonstration, according to a ...
  Alaska Airlines Passengers Get $500 After Fish, Formaldehyde Spill On LuggageThe Consumeristall 5 news articles »
  
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• Alaska Airlines kicked a passenger off a plane for catcalling a female flight attendant - Business Insider

  11-10-2016 23:27
  
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  Alaska Airlines kicked a passenger off a plane for catcalling a female flight attendant
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  Alaska Airlines allegedly removed a passenger from a plane after he verbally harassed a female flight attendant during her safety demonstration, according to a customer who was on the plane at the time of the incident. Amber Nelson, a passenger on the ...
  Alaska Airlines Passengers Get $500 After Fish, Formaldehyde Spill On LuggageThe Consumeristall 6 news articles 
  
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• Ferry storage costs close to a half-million dollars

  11-10-2016 22:17
  
  The M/V Chenega undergoes repairs in drydock at the Ketchikan Shipyard in 2014. (Photo by Heather Bryant, KTOO – Juneau)The Alaska Marine Highway System is paying more than $1,200 a day for long-term storage of two unused ferries.
  One critic says it would be better to sell them than to tie them up.
  The state has awarded contracts totaling more than $450,000 to tie up the ferries Taku andChenega for the next year.
  The ferry system already docks a number of ships each winter when lower passe
  
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• Report: Alaska's Permanent Fund a model for other states - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  11-10-2016 21:09
  
  Report: Alaska's Permanent Fund a model for other states
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  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Researchers are recommending other states look to Alaska's Permanent Fund to learn how to grow funds supported by natural resource extraction. The Pew Charitable Trust recently released a national study focusing on seven states ...
  Pew report sees Alaska ahead of other states in its 'sovereign wealth ...Alaska Public Radio Network
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• 'Edge Of Alaska' Returns With An Intense New Season And A Town Divided - The Inquisitr

  11-10-2016 21:07
  
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  'Edge Of Alaska' Returns With An Intense New Season And A Town Divided
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  McCarthy, Alaska, is a beautiful place inhabited by several colorful characters. Many of the people who call McCarthy home enjoy the solitude the area offers them, and they don't want to change a single thing. Despite what they want, change is slowly ...
  
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• Alaska courts downgrade with record bond sale for pension funds - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  11-10-2016 21:04
  
  Alaska courts downgrade with record bond sale for pension funds
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  Alaska, whose finances have been roiled by the oil-price crash, is issuing the biggest bond in its history and letting the proceeds ride in financial markets. Gov. Bill Walker is using money from next week's $2.4 billion sale -- the equivalent of $3 ...
  
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• Alaska Aces generate two late goals to force OT, but fall 4-3 to Stingrays - Alaska Dispatch News

  11-10-2016 08:12
  
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  Alaska Aces generate two late goals to force OT, but fall 4-3 to Stingrays
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  Granted, it was merely an exhibition hockey game, with an announced attendance of just 1,316, but the Alaska Aces elicited some noise from the crowd at Sullivan Arena when their two late goals delivered overtime Monday night. Then, silence. Patrick ...and more »
  
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• State rejects citizen bid for changes to Alaska predator control - Alaska Dispatch News

  11-10-2016 04:10
  
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  State rejects citizen bid for changes to Alaska predator control
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  The state's top wildlife official has denied a citizen challenge to Alaska's predator control policies. A group of 150 Alaskans in mid-August asked Gov. Bill Walker to replace deadly "intensive management" predator-control methods with nonlethal ones, ...and more »
  
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• Former Alaska assistant district attorney sues state over alleged harassing texts from trooper - Alaska Dispatch News

  11-10-2016 03:59
  
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  Former Alaska assistant district attorney sues state over alleged harassing texts from trooper
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  A former assistant district attorney's lawsuit against the state alleges her bosses fired her because she filed a sexual harassment complaint against an Alaska State Trooper. Florina Altshiler filed the lawsuit in Anchorage Superior Court last week ...and more »
  
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• Former Alaska assistant district attorney sues state over alleged ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  11-10-2016 03:59
  
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  A former assistant district attorney's lawsuit against the state alleges her bosses fired her because she filed a sexual harassment complaint against an Alaska ...and more »
  
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• One last chance to protest at the end of an era for the Tongass

  11-10-2016 03:54
  
  
  Part of the Tongass National Forest in April 2008. (Creative Commons photo by Xa’at)The federal government is getting close to finalizing a plan that could shape the future of timber in the Tongass National Forest. Various stakeholders have given input through the years. But if the objection letters are any indication, several agencies and groups are still not content — for different reasons.
  Listen NowBuck Lindekugel has been spending a lot of his time with maps. They’re color
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Oct. 10, 2016 - Alaska Public Radio Network

  11-10-2016 03:48
  
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  Alaska officials say the first application by an Alaska Native entity to put lands into federal trust has been submitted to the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs. One last chance to protest at the end of an era for the Tongass. Elizabeth Jenkins, Alaska ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Oct. 10, 2016

  11-10-2016 03:48
  
  
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  Alaska officials say the first application by an Alaska Native entity to put lands into federal trust has been submitted to the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  One last chance to protest at the end of an era for the Tongass
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• Pew report sees Alaska ahead of other states in its ‘sovereign wealth fund’

  11-10-2016 02:59
  
  A national report said other states can learn from the example of the Alaska Permanent Fund as they seek to grow their own funds built from natural resource extraction.
  Listen NowThe Pew Charitable Trusts focused on seven states that have funds from extraction revenue, which the report describes as “sovereign wealth funds.” According to Pew, Alaska is one of only two state funds whose purpose is well-defined by state law. And the report found that it’s one of three states
  
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• State says first federal trust status application filed

  11-10-2016 02:53
  
  Alaska officials say the first application by an Alaska Native entity to put lands into federal trust has been submitted to the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  Listen NowThe state Department of Law says it was notified by the BIA about the application filed by the Craig Tribal Association. Officials say the state has 30 days to comment.
  The application seeks federal trust status on a one-acre lot in the city of Craig that holds the tribe’s administration building.
  A recent decision by th
  
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• Troopers investigate death of woman in Willow home

  11-10-2016 02:26
  Alaska State Troopers are investigating the death of a woman at a home in Willow.
  Troopers say 41-year-old Elizabeth Foster was found dead Sunday morning.
  The death is being investigated as a homicide.
  A 14-year-old boy was taken into custody. He’s been referred to juvenile authorities.
  
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• Buckets of formaldehyde and fish spill on Alaska Airlines flight ... - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  11-10-2016 02:26
  
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  Alaska Airlines has apologized to passengers aboard an Anchorage-bound flight from Barrow Friday after buckets containing fish and formaldehyde leaked in ...
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• Commissioner turns down challenge of predator control rules

  11-10-2016 02:20
  
  Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game commissioner has rejected calls from petitioners critical of the state’s predator control rules to change the hunting program.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that 150 Alaska residents signed a petition in August that was sent to Gov. Bill Walker. They sought to have Walker replace lethal predator control with nonlethal methods and advocated for a 5-mile buffer zone to protect wolves and bears around national parks and national wildlife ref
  
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• GOP unites behind Trump after weekend defections

  11-10-2016 02:14
  
  Donald Trump in Trump Tower. 2015 file photo: Michael VadonBoth of Alaska’s U.S. senators said over the weekend they won’t support Republican Donald Trump for president, not after seeing him brag on a 2005 videotape that being a star meant he was free to grab women by the private parts. Rep. Charisse Millett, an Anchorage Republican and the state House majority leader, also announced Sunday she’s no longer supporting Trump. But as of today, the Republican party in Alaska was of
  
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• Grant issued to hospitals for offering legal aid to patients

  11-10-2016 01:51
  
  Hospitals typically are not in the business of providing legal aid to patients, but several tribal health facilities in Alaska are going to start doing just that. The pilot project is being funded through a multi-state grant that’s placing AmeriCorps volunteers in tribal facilities in six states. KNBA’s Joaqlin Estus reports:
  
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• Arson suspected in Sunday morning market fire in Dillingham

  11-10-2016 01:46
  
  Dillingham Police Officer Craig Maines stretches crime scene tape around the front of the N&N Market in downtown Dillingham, after fires damaged the inside Sunday morning.
  (Photo by KDLG)Dillingham Volunteer Fire Department was called to the scene before 8 a.m. Sunday to a fire in the N&N Market.
  An automatic sprinkler system apparently kept the early morning fires allegedly set inside the market down, but not out.
  “When we made entry, the building was full of smoke, pretty he
  
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• Canoe steaming carries on Tlingit and Haida tradition

  11-10-2016 01:30
  
  To transform a hollowed-out log into a dugout canoe requires more than expert carving — it requires steam, and lots of it. Earlier this week the skies over Eagle Beach in Sitka were filled with smoke and steam, as a carving team worked to transform a cedar dugout into an elegant, seaworthy canoe.
  Tommy Joseph feels the warm water after the batch of lava rocks are taken out. (Photo by Emily Russell – KCAW – Sitka)David Katzeek sings and drums alongside the nearly 30- foot long c
  
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