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• Through a student lens: Films focus on place, culture and climate change

  10-11-2016 22:29
  
  Five Mount Edgecumbe High School students took part in a film-making class last year and will showcase their work at a screening in Sitka tonight. The films focus on place, culture, and climate change in a handful of villages across the state.
  Emmett Williams has been in the film industry for decades. His work has taken him to Africa, South America and to big cities like New York and London. Most recently though, Sitka has been the focus of his storytelling career.
  “When I came to Sitka I
  
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• Juneau Police Department to outfit 40 officers with body cameras

  10-11-2016 22:29
  
  A policeman wears a body camera during 2016 St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in North Charleston, South Carolina. The Juneau Police Department plans to use grant money to outfit 40 of its officers with body cameras. (Creative Commons photo by North Charleston)The Juneau Police Department plans to outfit 40 of its officers with body cameras to improve evidence gathering, transparency and accountability.
  The department will have the money to buy those cameras after the Juneau Assembly approved
  
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• High tunnels bring warm-weather veggies to Alaska - UPI.com

  10-11-2016 21:19
  
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  High tunnels bring warm-weather veggies to Alaska
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  HOMER, Alaska -- In June 2012, mudslides and washouts from heavy rains shut down multiple stretches of the Alaska highway, the main thoroughfare for the refrigerated trucks that haul food north from the lower 48 states to Alaska's interior. As drivers ...
  
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• Alaska's Oil Cash Now Comes With Automatic Voter Registration - Bloomberg

  10-11-2016 17:42
  
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  Alaska's Oil Cash Now Comes With Automatic Voter Registration
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  The same day Alaskans delivered their state to Donald Trump, they voted nearly two to one to embrace a progressive new voter-registration reform. Under the new law, passed by referendum Tuesday, Alaskans who sign up to receive their annual payouts ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016

  10-11-2016 03:57
  
  
  Stories are posted on the APRN news page. You can subscribe to APRN’s newsfeeds via email, podcast and RSS. Follow us on Facebook at alaskapublic.org and on Twitter @aprn
  Listen NowState elections brings new leadership for the House
  Andrew Kitchenman, APRN-KTOO – Anchorage
  Yesterday’s election will have an impact on how Alaska’s legislature organizes. A new majority caucus formed today in the state house.
  Election Results Change Two House Seats
  Andrew Kitchenman, APRN-KTO
  
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• Meanwhile in McCarthy, it's back to the 'Edge of Alaska' - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-11-2016 03:16
  
  Meanwhile in McCarthy, it's back to the 'Edge of Alaska'
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  Scene from season three of “Edge of Alaska,” a Discovery Channel show set in Alaska. (Screen capture via Discovery.com). The Discovery Channel's "Edge of Alaska" is back. It's basically the same as the previous two seasons but with a few slight twists ...
  
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• Blood lines: Sealaska studies Alaska Native descendant dilemma - Alaska Public Radio Network

  10-11-2016 02:28
  
  Blood lines: Sealaska studies Alaska Native descendant dilemma
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  Jeremiah James learns to sew marine mammal furs at a workshop sponsored by the Sealaska Heritage Institute. (Photo courtesy Kathy Dye/Sealaska Heritage Institute). In some places, a regulatory definition–known as blood quantum– has superseded ...and more »
  
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• Blood lines: Sealaska studies Alaska Native descendant dilemma

  10-11-2016 02:27
  
  What makes a person Alaska Native?
  Jeremiah James learns to sew marine mammal furs at a workshop sponsored by the Sealaska Heritage Institute. (Photo courtesy Kathy Dye/Sealaska Heritage Institute)In some places, a regulatory definition–known as blood quantum– has superseded cultural ones.
  And a new study by the Sealaska Heritage Institute in Juneau tackles how that regulatory definition applies to marine mammal hunters.
  According to the federal government, Nathan Soboleff is one-eig
  
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• Could a Trump presidency impact Alaska resource development?

  10-11-2016 02:24
  
  Now that Donald Trump is set to take over the White House, big changes could be coming for Alaska’s oil and gas industry. But even though Trump will see Alaska through a very different lens than Obama, a 180-degree policy shift isn’t likely to happen soon.
  A view of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by USFWS)Donald Trump’s unexpected victory could change the landscape for Alaska’s oil and gas industry. Robert Dillon, communications director for Senator Lisa Murk
  
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• Rapture, shock, ANWR: Alaskans react to Trump victory

  10-11-2016 02:22
  
  While Democrats have gained power in the state house, Donald Trump’s upset victory in the presidential race left Republicans at the national level in control of both the White House and Congress.
  Jerry Ward, a former state senator and Alaska state director for the Trump campaign, reacted to Fox News’s official declaration that Donald Trump had won the 2016 presidential election. (Photo by Rachel Waldholz/Alaska’s Energy Desk)Alaska voters went for Trump over Hillary Clinton, 51
  
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• Alaska Legislative races hold few surprises - Alaska Public Radio Network

  10-11-2016 01:30
  
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  Alaska Legislative races hold few surprises
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  Rep.-elect Justin Parish paces as he talks with the Alaska Dispatch News at Rockwell in Juneau on election night, Nov. 8, 2016. The Democrat held a narrow lead over incumbent Republican Rep. Cathy Munoz. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh, KTOO – Juneau).and more »
  
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• Cruising With Cardiologists to Alaska, and What I Learned - Canada Free Press

  10-11-2016 01:22
  Cruising With Cardiologists to Alaska, and What I Learned
  Canada Free Press
  I have a passion for ships so I've travelled and seen much of the world this way. But I'd never been to Alaska. So I recently joined a group of cardiologists on an educational cruise to a U.S. State blessed with magnificent scenery. It was a good ...
  
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• Democrats seize control of Alaska House, fracturing Capitol power structure - KTUU.com

  10-11-2016 01:08
  
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  Democrats seize control of Alaska House, fracturing Capitol power structure
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  ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - Alaska Democrats have at least one silver lining a day after seeing Congress and the presidency slip into Republican control. After knocking off seven members of the GOP House majority caucus in the primary election, another two ...
  Alaska House will be run by coalition while the Senate will remain under Republican controlAlaska Dispatch News
  Here's what Alaska's new House, Sena
  
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• Alaska Legislative races hold few surprises

  10-11-2016 01:07
  
  Rep.-elect Justin Parish paces as he talks with the Alaska Dispatch News at Rockwell in Juneau on election night, Nov. 8, 2016. The Democrat held a narrow lead over incumbent Republican Rep. Cathy Munoz. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh, KTOO – Juneau)In the state Legislature, only two of the 50 seats up for election have likely changed party hands. Anchorage Republican Liz Vasquez lost House District 22 to independent Jason Grenn. Juneau Republican Cathy Munoz lost District 34 to Democrat Justin Pa
  
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• Alaska crews deployed to Southeast US wildfires - Alaska Public Radio Network

  10-11-2016 00:35
  
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  Alaska crews deployed to Southeast US wildfires
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  Mud and mosquitos! Rain made for a messy commute as firefighters headed to the fireline Firefighters head to the fire line on the Spicer Creek Fire northeast of Tanana in 2015. (AFS Photo.) Alaska crews from multiple state and federal agencies are ...
  
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• Northern Lights Media announces deal to buy three Fairbanks TV stations

  10-11-2016 00:32
  Northern Lights Media, which operates Anchorage’s KTUU and KYES television stations, announced on November 8, that it has agreed to purchase three Fairbanks TV stations.
  The $8 million deal with Tanana Valley Television Company and Chena Broadcasting Company brings the KTVF, KXD, and KFXF stations under the Northern Lights Media umbrella.
  Andy McLeod, the general manager of Northern Lights Media, said he believes the stations will bolster the company’s news presence around the s
  
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• Lack of funding hinders maintenance of university’s aging infrastrucure

  10-11-2016 00:32
  
  Work continues on the UAF Engineering Building in Oct. 2016. (Photo via UAF Engineering Building Project Facebook Page)Aging infrastructure throughout the University of Alaska is causing a $1 billion maintenance crunch, and campuses are trying to find ways to cope with a growing backlog of projects.
  Michelle Rizk, the Vice President of University Relations, said the Board of Regents has been working for years to find ways to reduce the backlog of projects.
  “As our buildings have been aging
  
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• Alaska crews deployed to Southeast U.S. wildfires

  10-11-2016 00:32
  
  Firefighters head to the fire line on the Spicer Creek Fire northeast of Tanana in 2015. (AFS Photo.)Alaska crews from multiple state and federal agencies are headed to the Lower 48 to assist in firefighting efforts there.
  Tim Mowry, a public information officer for the Alaska Division of Forestry, said over the last two weeks more than a dozen Alaska people have been sent to drought-stricken areas in the Southeast United States.
  “Unlike Alaska and some of the places in the West, thes
  
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