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• Stolen SUV causes snag for special Halloween train excursion - Alaska Dispatch News

  22-10-2016 23:45
  
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  Stolen SUV causes snag for special Halloween train excursion
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  The Alaska Railroad's special Kid's Halloween Train encountered a scary situation Saturday morning — a stolen vehicle blocking the route in Anchorage's Spenard neighborhood. The special train, scheduled to make two, 2 ½-hour family-friendly ...
  
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• Alaska Democrats face internal strife over US Senate candidate - Alaska Dispatch News

  22-10-2016 20:14
  
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  Alaska Democrats face internal strife over US Senate candidate
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  U.S. Senate candidates, from left, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski, Ray Metcalfe and Margaret Stock, participate in a candidates forum at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention Friday at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch ...
  
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• Expect warmer conditions for the start of Alaska's winter - Alaska Dispatch News

  22-10-2016 04:38
  
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  Expect warmer conditions for the start of Alaska's winter
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  Arctic sea ice is scarce, ocean waters are warm and the coming months are expected to be warmer than normal in most of Alaska, weather experts say. The National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center forecasts that most parts of Alaska next month ...and more »
  
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• Alaska to pay $1 million for Planned Parenthood's legal fees after losing abortion-related lawsuit - Alaska Dispatch News

  22-10-2016 04:38
  
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  Alaska to pay $1 million for Planned Parenthood's legal fees after losing abortion-related lawsuit
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  Alaska Gov. Bill Walker's administration has agreed to pay $1 million to Planned Parenthood, closing a lawsuit in which the courts declared that an anti-abortion parental notification initiative was unconstitutional. The payment of Planned Parenthood's ...
  
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• Mixed influences expected to produce warmer conditions for the start of Alaska's winter - Alaska Dispatch News

  22-10-2016 04:22
  
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  Mixed influences expected to produce warmer conditions for the start of Alaska's winter
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  Arctic sea ice is scarce, ocean waters are warm and the coming months are expected to be warmer than normal in most of Alaska, weather experts say. The National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center forecasts that most parts of Alaska next month ...and more »
  
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• Anchorage Senate race pits labor leader against staunch industry supporter

  22-10-2016 03:25
  
  
  She’s a nurse. He likes to fly fish. They both brag about their grandchildren.
  Republican State Senator Cathy Giesell (Photo by Elizabeth Harball, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage)And they’re running against each other in what’s been called the nastiest election in Alaska this cycle.
  The Anchorage race between Republican Cathy Giessel and Independent Vince Beltrami could help determine the balance of power in the state Senate — and how Alaska takes o
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Oct. 21, 2016 - Alaska Public Radio Network

  22-10-2016 03:24
  
  Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Oct. 21, 2016
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  Interior Secretary Sally Jewell addressed AFN Friday. Jewell announced a new secretarial order that requires the Department to include native communities and traditional ecological knowledge in land management decisions. Sen. Sullivan address water ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Oct. 21, 2016

  22-10-2016 03:21
  
  
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  Listen NowInterior Secretary Sally Jewell announces inclusion of Native communities in land management
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  Interior Secretary Sally Jewell addressed AFN Friday. Jewell announced a new secretarial order that requires the Department to include native communities and traditiona
  
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• The race for U.S. Senate: Joe Miller

  22-10-2016 03:00
  
  Six years ago Joe Miller won the primary for U.S. Senate as a Republican but lost the general election. He’s running now as a Libertarian. Why is the Fairbanks attorney running for Senate under another party? What would he focus on if Alaskans vote to send him to Congress? We’ll ask when Libertarian candidate Joe Miller is our guest on the next Talk of Alaska.
  Candidate Joe Miller, with family in front row in 2014 (Photo by Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media &nd
  
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• Bringing science home: In St. Paul, a former student becomes the teacher

  22-10-2016 02:55
  
  The Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea are a magnet for scientists who come to study everything from fur seals to migratory birds. When they leave, that research often leaves with them.
  Dallas Roberts shares lettuce from St. Paul’s greenhouse with students. (Photo by Zoë Sobel, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Unalaska)But for the last nine years, the local tribe has found a way to bring it back home. Each fall, a group of scientists return — not to do research, but to share i
  
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• Sen. Sullivan address water concerns at AFN

  22-10-2016 02:27
  
  U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan spoke at AFN this afternoon about improving water and sewer access in rural Alaska and about helping Alaska Native veterans.
  Sen. Dan Sullivan addresses the 2016 AFN on Oct. 21, 2016 (Screenshot from live-stream of AFN)Sullivan said that he is working to raise awareness in Congress about the more than 30 villages that still don’t have running water or sewers.
  The federal government will give $1.4 Billion dollars nationwide to build new systems, but Sullivan says t
  
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• Internet attack spreads across US, disrupting major websites - Alaska Dispatch News

  22-10-2016 02:22
  
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  Internet attack spreads across US, disrupting major websites
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  SAN FRANCISCO — Major websites were inaccessible to people across wide swaths of the United States on Friday after a company that manages crucial parts of the internet's infrastructure said it was under attack. Users reported sporadic problems ...and more »
  
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• First Alaska woman charged with possessing child pornography gets no jail time - KTUU.com

  22-10-2016 02:08
  
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  First Alaska woman charged with possessing child pornography gets no jail time
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) A former Alaska woman who was sexually abused by her paternal grandfather and then, as an adult, downloaded and traded videos of child exploitation has avoided any jail. Brittany Alexandra Robinson, 25 was the first woman ...
  
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• Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announces inclusion of Native communities in land management

  22-10-2016 02:03
  
  Interior Secretary Sally Jewell addressed AFN Friday. Jewell announced a new secretarial order that requires the Department to include native communities and traditional ecological knowledge in land management decisions.
  The White House Tribal Nations Conference convenes leaders from the 567 federally recognized tribes to interact directly with high-level federal government officials and members of the White House Council on Native American Affairs (Photo courtesy of the Department of the Interi
  
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• Whittier signs contract extending police protection to Girdwood

  22-10-2016 01:49
  Community leaders in Girdwood have signed an interim contract with the city of Whittier for police protection for the ski-resort town.
  Girdwood lost its Alaska State Trooper post in September, due to state budget cuts.
  Girdwood’s Public Safety Advisory Committee has been working on a plan to bring law enforcement into the community. In April, Girdwood voters approved a service area tax to pay for police protection.
  The interim contract provides two Whittier police officers for Girdwood thr
  
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• Meteors, aurora and clear skies forecast for Southcentral Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  22-10-2016 01:47
  
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  Meteors, aurora and clear skies forecast for Southcentral Alaska
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  Attention sky watchers: A meteor shower, active aurora forecast and clear skies will converge over Southcentral Alaska this weekend. The Orionids meteor shower has been underway since early October. Meteors will peak overnight Friday but will continue ...
  
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• Big tobacco stands trial in Bethel court

  22-10-2016 01:42
  
  (Credit Ron Cruz / Flickr Creative Commons)Big tobacco is standing trial in Bethel’s court.
  Dolores Hunter of Marshall and her two children are suing the cigarette and tobacco company Philip Morris USA and its parent company, Altria Group, for product liability, fraud, and the wrongful death of their family member, Delores’ common law husband, Benjamin Francis, of Pilot Station. Francis died in 2004 of lung cancer after a long history of cigarette smoking.
  The civil jury trial began&
  
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• Bethel drug bust nets 7 adults

  22-10-2016 01:38
  
  A Bethel drug bust has netted seven adults in a raid conducted by the Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit and Bethel police. 47 grams of heroin, a half pound of crack cocaine and 64 thousand dollars cash was seized from a private residence in Bethel on Thursday.
  According to a dispatch from Alaska State Troopers, charges have been filed against Eric Kinegak, 34, Anthony Washington Sr, 57 and Anthony Washington Jr., 30, and Melissa Beans, 36, all of Bethel. Two California men, Shawayne Jenkins, 34, a
  
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• JPD finds explosive device in impounded car being prepped for auction

  22-10-2016 01:34
  
  Juneau police found an explosive inside an impounded car being prepared for auction.
  Police spokeswoman Erann Kalwara said a disposal team destroyed the explosive on Tuesday.
  “We’re not sure exactly who the property in the vehicle belonged to, but there doesn’t appear to be any nefarious attempts or anything of significance we need to be concerned about with that particular device,” she said.
  The device consisted of a seal bomb and other homemade explosive materials,
  
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• AK: The crafty side of AFN

  22-10-2016 01:10
  
  People have come to Fairbanks from all over the state to sell their handmade goods during the Alaska Federation of Native Conference this week. At the craft fair, you can find everything from ivory carvings and hand-made masks to mukluks, kuspuks and even kippered salmon. With few available jobs in the villages, these handicrafts and homemade foods are one of the few ways people pay their bills.
  The annual Alaska Federation of Natives convention is well known for its craft fair.
  Edna Deacon is f
  
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• Troopers arrest 7, seize cocaine and heroin in Bethel drug bust - Alaska Dispatch News

  22-10-2016 01:05
  
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  Troopers arrest 7, seize cocaine and heroin in Bethel drug bust
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  A roughly two-month-long investigation into the Bethel drug trade ended Thursday with Alaska State Troopers making more than half a dozen arrests, after seizing more than $350,000 in drugs and money at a single home. A Friday trooper dispatch said that ...and more »
  
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• 49 Voices: Josh Lynch of Fairbanks

  22-10-2016 01:05
  This week we’re hearing from Josh Lynch in Fairbanks. Originally from Texas and Arkansas, Lynch will be experiencing his first snowy winter this year.
  Josh Lynch of Fairbanks (Photo courtesy of Josh Lynch)LYNCH: I feel like I have what any person from the south would consider a moderate exposure to snow. I can remember maybe a day every two or three years where school would be cancelled on account of snow.  But of course in Arkansas, school gets cancelled on account of an inch maybe a
  
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• Revisiting Wildlife Hazards in Context

  22-10-2016 01:00
  
  The terror of being attacked by a bear is a nightmare for many outdoors people, and a lot of time is spent worrying and planning for it. We’ll put wildlife hazards in context. What should you know to be safe, how can you improve your chances, and why aren’t you thinking about all the other things that could get you, and that are a lot more common. Join host Charles Wohlforth and guests to discuss bears, moose and other backcountry hazards.
  Video footage of a bear charge in Jasper Nat
  
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• Idaho beer with Alaska-sounding name stirs controversy after ... - KTUU.com

  22-10-2016 00:54
  
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  Idaho beer with Alaska-sounding name stirs controversy after ...
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  An Idaho beer with an Alaska-sounding name has entered the Anchorage market, much to the dismay of one of the oldest and largest craft breweries in the Last ...and more »
  
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