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• In Alaska, energy policy is key issue for some voters

  05-11-2016 03:27
  
  Don Kubley chats with guests during a meet-and-greet with U.S. Senate candidate Lisa Murkowski on Oct. 17, in Juneau. Kubley is supporting Donald Trump for President and says energy policy and Alaska’s future weighed heavily in that decision. (Photo by Rashah McChesney, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Juneau)Alaska’s energy future and its economic one are inseparably linked. But which presidential candidate can best help the state navigate that future? That depends on who you ask.
  
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• State, Native Corps ask U.S. Supreme Court to enter fray over polar bear habitat

  05-11-2016 03:17
  
  A polar bear mother watches carefully with her cubs along her side as their picture is taken, March 6, 2007. (Photo credit: USFWS)The State of Alaska and a dozen Native organizations have filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to overturn a ruling that designated vast swaths of coastal Alaska as critical habitat for polar bears.
  In 2010, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service set aside more than 187,000 square miles of land and water — an area larger than California — as
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Nov. 4, 2016

  05-11-2016 03:16
  
  
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  Listen NowWalker: Prostate cancer diagnosis won’t impair ability to perform duties
  Andrew Kitchenman, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  Gov. Bill Walker announced today he’s been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Following his doctor’s advice, he will have surgery in December to remove it.
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• Tanana Village public safety officers seek ability to carry guns

  05-11-2016 02:47
  
  Tanana Chiefs Conference Village public safety officers are on track to be the first in the state to carry guns.
  State legislators approved a bill in 2014 allowing for the arming of VPSO’s, and under a pilot project with the Alaska Department of Public Safety, Tanana Chiefs Conference officers will be the first to carry firearms. TCC VPSO Director Sargent Jody Potts tied the initiative to a proactive stance on public safety.
  ”We’re very heavily village-driven and in the village
  
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• Polaris Project seeks students from YK Delta

  05-11-2016 02:02
  
  The Polaris Project hires student researchers, like these, to study climate change in Siberia and Alaska. Next summer, the project will be based 50 miles north of Bethel and seeks local graduate and undergraduate students to work on it.
  (Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Research Center)A group that has been researching Arctic climate change in Siberia for eight years is shifting its focus to the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta. Next summer, Max Holmes is bringing his Polaris Project to&nbs
  
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• Alaskans travel to North Dakota to stand with Standing Rock

  05-11-2016 01:53
  
  A handful of Alaskans this week are heading to the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota. They’re joining thousands of Native Americans who have gathered there to protest the construction of an oil pipeline that they say threatens cultural artifacts and drinking water. An earlier plan to have the Dakota Access Pipeline cross the Missouri River north of the state capital was scrapped as a potential threat to Bismarck’s water supply.  The plan now is for the pipeline to
  
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• Walker: Prostate cancer diagnosis won’t impair ability to perform duties

  05-11-2016 01:40
  
  Gov. Bill Walker and (from left to right) Tessa Linderman (daughter), Sabrina Walker (daughter-in-law), Adam Walker (son), Lindsay Hobson (daughter), First Lady Donna Walker, Greg Hobson (son-in-law) and Jordan walker (son), as Gov. Walker talks to press about his prostate cancer diagnosis. Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott and Walker’s brother Bob Walker also attended. (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)Gov. Bill Walker announced today he’s been diagnosed with prosta
  
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• Study downplays leaking mine’s impact on fish

  05-11-2016 01:29
  
  A state Department of Fish and Game staffer works on sampling fish for a study on toxic metal concentrations in Tulsequah and Taku river fish. (Photo courtesy Department of Fish and Game)State biologists say a study shows pollution from an abandoned Canadian mine upstream of Southeast Alaska does not harm fish.
  A chief critic of the Tulsequah Chief Mine says the research doesn’t tell the whole story.
  The Tulsequah Chief, about 40 miles northeast of Juneau, has been closed for more tha
  
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• AK: Everyone is family at Gerry’s Barbershop

  05-11-2016 01:00
  
  Gerry Carrillo Sr. at his barbershop. He’s owned Gerry’s Barbershop for nearly 30 years. (Photo by Lakeidra Chavis, KTOO – Juneau)Gerry’s Barbershop has been around for nearly three decades in Juneau.
  Owner Gerry Carrillo Sr. emigrated from the Philippines in the mid-1970s, when he was 16. He started the shop after he was laid off from a state job in the 1980s. Now, he runs the shop with his daughter, Eva, and his son, Gerry Jr.
  They say that after awhile even the cl
  
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• 49 Voices: Candidates for Alaska Zoo president

  05-11-2016 00:55
  
  This week on 49 Voices: an election special. Zoo election, that is.
  Supporters of the Alaska Zoo will be electing a president of their own on Nov. 8. Today we’ll hear from three candidates — Aphun the polar bear, Denali the wolf and George the Magpie — as well as their two campaign managers, Stephanie Hartman and Heather Doncaster. The spoke with Alaska Public Media’s Anne Hillman.
  Donors to the Alaska Zoo can cast one vote per dollar given until Tuesday, Nov. 8.
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• The Alaska Range

  05-11-2016 00:00
  
  Alaska Range, the new book from Carl BattrealThe Alaska Range is the most dramatic topographic feature in Alaska, and among the greatest in the world, with North America’s tallest peak. We all know that, but you don’t really know it until you see it. On the next show, we’ll be talking about the Alaska Range, and the effort to capture it in a new book. Photographer Carl Battreal spent years photographing these immense mountains and the extraordinary weather and light and put tho
  
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• Alaska Gov. Walker diagnosed with prostate cancer - Alaska Dispatch News

  05-11-2016 00:00
  
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Alaska Gov. Walker diagnosed with prostate cancer
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Alaska Gov. Bill Walker announced Friday he was diagnosed with prostate cancer during a routine screening. In a prepared statement sent to news media ahead of a special news conference on a "personal" matter, Walker said his cancer is "treatable" and ...
  The Latest: Alaska governor has treatable prostate cancerSFGate
  Alaska governor diagnosed with treatable prostate cancerThe Daily Progress
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