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• GALLERY: Voting in Alaska

  08-11-2016 23:30
  
  1 of 6 The poll site in Port Heiden. (Photo from Port Heiden Village Council via KDLG)The poll site in Port Heiden. (Photo from Port Heiden Village Council via KDLG)A family arrives at the polls early Tuesday in Dillingham. (Photo courtesy of KDLG)A family arrives at the polls early Tuesday in Dillingham. (Photo courtesy of KDLG)Tyrone Pollard brought his father W.D. Pollard, 92, to vote in East Anchorage. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman, Alaska Public Media - Anchorage)Tyrone Pollard brought his fa
  
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• Live Senate Forecast Alaska - New York Times

  08-11-2016 23:13
  Live Senate Forecast Alaska
  New York Times
  Our best guess is that is on track to win in the Senate race in Alaska. As of , we think about of all votes in Alaska have been counted. Below, estimates for what votes have been counted and what votes remain.and more »
  
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• Alaskans travel to Standing Rock in opposition of Dakota Access Pipeline

  08-11-2016 20:51
  
  Protesters camp at Standing Rock. (Photo by Amanda Frank/KUAC)A delegation, made up of indigenous women from across Alaska, is at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota to support opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline.
  Faith Gemmill, originally of Arctic Village, said that she couldn’t watch what was happening in Standing Rock from Alaska and felt she needed to support the water protectors.
  “Every nation from Alaska is represented with our women,” Gemmill said.
  
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• DOJ Set to Approve Alaska Air Merger; Virgin America Shares Fly ... - TheStreet.com

  08-11-2016 20:45
  
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  DOJ Set to Approve Alaska Air Merger; Virgin America Shares Fly ...
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  Virgin will reportedly have to give up some gates at San Francisco and Los Angeles airports, among other considerations, before Alaska Air can buy it....VA.
  Leaked image reveals possible design for promotional Alaska-Virgin ...Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)all 2 news articles »
  
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• NPR National Election Coverage

  08-11-2016 19:45
  
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• Here's what you need to know about Election Day in Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  08-11-2016 17:30
  
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  Here's what you need to know about Election Day in Alaska
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Tuesday is Election Day! Democracy marches forward once again, with Alaskans joining the rest of the nation to settle one of the more caustic and remarkable campaigns in our history. Here's what you need to know about Election Day in Alaska: Casting a ...
  Alaska voters passing ballot measure on PFD voter registrationKTUU.com
  Number of registered Alaska voters at all-time highAlaska Public Ra
  
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• Alaska 2016 Presidential And State Election Results - NPR

  08-11-2016 16:02
  
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  Alaska 2016 Presidential And State Election Results
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  Live Election Results: Get Alaska's county-by-county presidential results, including demographic breakdowns. Plus, get the latest on ballot measures and races for governor, Senate and House. Election 2016. view results. Live blog · President · Senate ...
  
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• Election day: Getting out the vote, Alaska Native edition | The ... - The Economist (blog)

  08-11-2016 12:43
  
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  Election day: Getting out the vote, Alaska Native edition | The ...
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  IT WAS chilly and overcast on the eve of election day in Anchorage. A white van with a decal on the side that said “Get Out The Native Vote” pulled up to the front ...and more »
  
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• Lower 48 ivory bans hit Alaska Native carvers

  08-11-2016 05:06
  
  
  Dennis Pungowiyi shows off one of his favorite carving motifs, a mother walrus with her pup. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media)Recent measures to curb elephant poaching in Africa are having unintended consequences in Alaska.
  Listen NowThis July, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s near-total ban on the commercial ivory trade went into effect. At about the same time, state-level bans passed in California, Hawaii, New Jersey and New York, after targeted lobbying efforts f
  
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• Where to weep or cheer election returns in Anchorage

  08-11-2016 04:12
  
  
  If your plans called for watching the election returns at the Egan Center in Anchorage, think again. (File photo)If your habit on election night was to roll down to the Egan Center and watch the returns projected onto the wall, forget about it. The Alaska Division of Elections has discontinued Election Central, due to budget constraints. But you don’t have to weep or cheer at home alone. In Anchorage, at least, people have options.
  Listen NowAcross America, we are sorting ourselves into si
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Nov. 7, 2016

  08-11-2016 04:01
  
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  Listen NowLongtime Inupiaq leader and North Slope Mayor Edward Itta dies at 71
  Rachel Waldholz, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage
  Former North Slope Borough Mayor Edward Itta died Sunday in Utqiagvik, formerly known as Barrow. Family members say the cause was cancer. He was 71. Itta was a powerful voice for Nor
  
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• Longtime Inupiaq leader and North Slope Mayor Edward Itta dies at 71

  08-11-2016 03:53
  
  Former North Slope Borough Mayor Edward Itta died Sunday in Utqiagvik, formerly known as Barrow. Family members said the cause was cancer. He was 71.
  Listen Nowin 2009 testifying before Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. (Photo courtesy of Department of Interior)Itta was a powerful voice for North Slope communities. He was perhaps best known for first opposing, and then negotiating with Shell when the oil company wanted to drill in the Arctic Ocean. Above all, he insisted that Inupiaq
  
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• Edward Itta remembered for balancing two worlds

  08-11-2016 03:53
  
  
  Former North Slope Borough Mayor Edward Itta. (Photo courtesy of the Itta family)Former North Slope Borough Mayor Edward Itta died Sunday in Utqiaġvik, formerly known as Barrow. Family members said the cause was cancer. He was 71.
  Itta was a powerful voice for North Slope communities. He was perhaps best known for first opposing, and then negotiating with Shell when the oil company wanted to drill in the Arctic Ocean. Above all, he insisted Inupiaq communities have a say in development
  
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• Alaska Human Rights Commission proposes regulation changes to protect LGBTQ community

  08-11-2016 03:17
  
  Marti Buscaglia is the director of the Alaska State Commission for Human Rights. She took over the agency in May 2016. (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)Alaska’s Human Rights Commission is taking steps to legally protect members of the LGBTQ community from discrimination. Last week it passed a resolution that would interpret sex discrimination to include gender identity and sexual orientation. That’s the interpretation used by the US Equal Employment Oppor
  
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• Number of registered Alaska voters at all-time high

  08-11-2016 02:55
  
  More Alaskans than ever are eligible to cast ballots this year, thanks to record-high voter registration.
  The state added 22,000 registered voters compared with four years ago – for a total of 528,560 – that’s up four percent.
  While most Alaskans are nonpartisan or undeclared, most of the new voters are Republicans or Democrats. The Republicans added a little more than 6,000 voters since 2012, while the Democrats gained just over 5,000.
  Among third parties, the Alaska Independe
  
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• Cook Inletkeeper requests public notice on proposed fracking

  08-11-2016 02:47
  
  BlueCrest Energy is set to begin hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Cook Inlet this month.
  (Image courtesy of Cook Inletkeeper)The new fracking operation, which will occur about three and a half miles offshore, has faced steep opposition from Kenai Peninsula residents.
  Under current rules, the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission was not required to publicly release BlueCrest’s fracking permit application until after they had approved it.
  Bob Shavelson is the Executive Director of
  
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• Why Alaska judges don’t raise campaign funds to continue to serve, like other states’

  08-11-2016 01:05
  
  Campaign sign for a judge in Lexington Park, Maryland (Creative Commons photo by Elvert Barnes)Campaign sign for a judge in Lexington Park, Maryland (Creative Commons photo by Elvert Barnes)Did you ever wonder why you never see campaign signs for Alaska judges, like in other states?
  There are 33 judges on this year’s election ballot. Yet probably none of them are producing radio and television ads, putting fliers in the mail, or taking out ads in the newspaper promoting their credentials a
  
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• Homegrown and hydroponic: Veggies are St. Paul’s new subsistence food

  08-11-2016 01:05
  
  St. Paul’s greenhouse is named after an elder. It’s called Ludy’s Qalgadam Tagadaa, or Ludy’s Fresh Foods. (Zoë Sobel, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Unalaska)St. Paul’s greenhouse isn’t what you’d imagine. There’s no big glass structure. All the windows are covered from the inside. It’s underneath the city’s grocery store on the first floor of the building.
  It’s hydroponic. Blue and red LED lights hang suspended above th
  
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• Fourth-generation pilot takes to the skies with new air taxi

  08-11-2016 00:56
  
  Cade Schlagel (Photo by KDLG)There’s no question—air taxis are indispensable to Alaskans who live off the road system, where planes connect people and goods like trucks and cars do in bigger cities.  Some in the aviation industry are worried that Alaska will suffer from a pilot shortage in the coming years. But for Cade Schlagel, starting an air taxi business in his hometown of Dillingham this September, just a few years after graduating high school, was the natural thing to do.
  
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