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• Alaska's daylight is dwindling. Here are 24 tips for surviving the wintertime blues. - Alaska Dispatch News

  11-11-2016 22:53
  
  Alaska's daylight is dwindling. Here are 24 tips for surviving the wintertime blues.
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  Amy Hollinhead walks a portion of the trail toward Flattop Mountain near the Glen Alps trailhead of Chugach State Park on Thursday. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News). Alaska's long, dark winters are notorious for turning fun-loving, active Alaskans ...
  
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• 'Supermoon' to grace Earth's skies for next few nights - Alaska Dispatch News

  11-11-2016 22:12
  
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  'Supermoon' to grace Earth's skies for next few nights
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  The moon rises over the Chugach Mountains in this eastward view on 36th Avenue on Friday, November 11, 2016. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News). CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The largest, brightest full moon in nearly seven decades will be on display in ...and more »
  
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• Keep Arctic Alaska In Play For America's Economic, Energy Security - Investor's Business Daily

  11-11-2016 21:50
  
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  Keep Arctic Alaska In Play For America's Economic, Energy Security
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  Overcoming limits on energy in arctic Alaska is yet another challenge that President-elect Trump faces. (AP). MARK J. PERRY; 11/11/2016. Facebook · Twitter · LinkedIn · Print · Share · Reprints. Despite the challenges the U.S. economy has endured in ...and more »
  
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• Lung Cancer

  11-11-2016 21:00
  
  Photo courtesy Caren on FlickrNot all people diagnosed with lung cancer smoke and in fact lung cancer is a disease that can affect anyone. Today most people who get lung cancer have either stopped smoking years earlier or never smoked. So, what are the current risk factors, what are the symptoms, and what are the treatment options? Lung cancer is the topic and our guests are Dr. Jorge Gomez, Medical Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and Marge Stoneking
  
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• Return to 'Mount McKinley'? Trump's intentions are unclear - Alaska Dispatch News

  11-11-2016 19:04
  
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  Return to 'Mount McKinley'? Trump's intentions are unclear
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  On the eve of President Obama's historic trip to Alaska last year, candidate Donald Trump blasted one high-altitude administration action. If elected, Trump declared on Twitter, he would restore the McKinley name to North America's tallest peak ...
  
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• Brief system outage reported at Alaska Airlines - KIRO Seattle

  11-11-2016 18:52
  
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  Brief system outage reported at Alaska Airlines
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  The airline was answering customers on Twitter who said they can't print a passenger manifest and that a system had crashed. Related Headlines. In this Oct. 10, 2016 photo, Mua Migi, left, watches his. Airline wins right to weigh passengers before ...
  System outage affects Alaska Airlines, others FridayKING5.com
  Alaska Air outage affects flights at Sea-Tacseattlepi.com
  Alaska Air adds new Pacific Northwest flights, premiu
  
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• Celebrating Veterans Day with events across Alaska - KTUU.com

  11-11-2016 18:13
  
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  Celebrating Veterans Day with events across Alaska
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  ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - Across the country, people will celebrate Veterans Day on Nov. 11, a holiday honoring all veterans of past wars as well as those currently serving. The abridged story of the holiday is that the day was originally commemorated as ...and more »
  
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• An Alaska View of an Ever-Warming World - Seeker

  11-11-2016 16:36
  
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  An Alaska View of an Ever-Warming World
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  Increasing wildfires, melting permafrost and warmer winters are all signs in the north of a warming world. John McColgan of the Alaskan Type I Incident Management Team (Bureau of Land Management, Alaska Fire Service). Among numerous other promises, ...
  The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people | ScienceScienceall 37 news articles »
  
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• U of Alaska Reverses Plan to Cut Skiing, Track - Inside Higher Ed

  11-11-2016 09:30
  
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  U of Alaska Reverses Plan to Cut Skiing, Track
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  Johnsen had originally proposed eliminating the sports at the university's Anchorage and Fairbanks campuses in an attempt to save money. Johnsen's plan was to create a consortium of the two Division II colleges, essentially creating one athletic ...
  University of Alaska president reverses proposal to cut ski and track teamsAlaska Dispatch News
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• NTSB: Bad weather may have contributed to Southcentral Alaska plane crash - Alaska Dispatch News

  11-11-2016 05:02
  
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  NTSB: Bad weather may have contributed to Southcentral Alaska plane crash
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  Bad weather may have contributed to the plane crash that killed an experienced Alaska pilot flying to a Lake Clark family homestead on Oct. 28, according to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report. David McRae, 55, sent a text message ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016

  11-11-2016 03:59
  
  
  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 NowTransitions in gas line team as state takes charge of project
  Elizabeth Harball, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage
  The team working on the Alaska LNG gas line project is undergoing a shift as the state prepares to take over.
  Longtime private-sector engineer to head state’s oil and gas division&n
  
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• New House majority names slate of chairpersons

  11-11-2016 03:37
  
  
  Rep. Geran Tarr addresses the Alaska House of Representatives in 2014. Tarr and Andy Josephson will replace Benjamin Nageak (seated, right) and David Talerico as the co-chairs of the House Resources Committee. (Photo by Skip Gray, Gavel Alaska)The new House majority will be taking a different approach to legislation next year. That became clear today, as the majority named the committee chairpersons who will guide the agenda.
  Listen NowFor example, House Resource Committee co-chairs Geran Tarr a
  
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• Longtime private-sector engineer to head state’s oil and gas division

  11-11-2016 03:34
  
  
  Chantal Walsh poses with a sign wishing the University of Alaska Fairbanks a happy 100th birthday, on Sept. 23, 2016, in Fairbanks, Alaska. Walsh has just been named as the director of the Department of Natural Resources Oil and Gas division. (Photo courtesy JR Ancheta/University of Alaska Fairbanks)A private sector petroleum engineer and consultant will lead the state’s oil and gas division.
  Listen NowChantal Walsh, of Anchorage, will join the Department of Natural Resources at the end of
  
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• About 120 to leave gas line team as state takes charge of project

  11-11-2016 03:34
  
  
  Prudhoe Bay at night. Gov. Bill Walker’s team hopes state leadership will mean North Slope gas can someday make it to market. (Photo by J Weston/Flickr Creative Commons)At a meeting of the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation board on Nov. 11, corporation vice-President Frank Richards said staff are winding up the project’s first phase, which includes early design and engineering work — called preliminary front-end engineering and design, or pre-FEED.  The project is not
  
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• Retail marijuana sales in Juneau could begin this month

  11-11-2016 03:20
  
  Rainforest Farms’ marijuana grows in Juneau on Monday. Co-owner James Barrett says these plants will provide the first legal marijuana for sale in Juneau. (Photo courtesy of Rainforest Farms)Juneau’s first legal retail marijuana sales could begin by month’s end.
  James Barrett co-owns Rainforest Farms, and no other business in Juneau has cleared as many of the regulatory hurdles to legally grow and sell pot, as his has.
  “We have a couple of inspections next week. And right
  
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• High-level U.S., Canadian military chiefs meet again to confer on Arctic training, operations

  11-11-2016 03:17
  
  A second Chinook helicopter carrying U.S. and Canadian general/admiral-ranking officers and their staffs kicks up dust Tuesday upon landing at Black Rapids Training Site after a flight from Eielson Air Force Base. (Photo by Tim Ellis, KUAC – Fairbanks)Ten high-level U.S. and Canadian commissioned and noncommissioned officers toured the Army’s Black Rapids Training Site in Delta Junction, Nov. 15.
  The event was part of an ongoing series of meetings intended to enable commanders of the
  
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• Trial of Kavairlook murder suspects postponed until January

  11-11-2016 03:06
  
  A hearing on Tuesday in Fairbanks Superior Court postponed the trial date for the four men accused of the killing of John Kavairlook Jr. The trial was scheduled to begin next week, but now is set to begin on January 23rd of next year.
  Kavairlook was shot and killed outside of the Rock N Rodeo Bar on the Old Steese Highway in Fairbanks in May, 2015.  Four suspects fled the scene, and then scattered across the country.  While Fairbanks police have since identified all four of those suspe
  
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• University of Alaska takes sports off the budget chopping block

  11-11-2016 02:18
  
  The University of Alaska has decided not to cut six sports teams. UA President Jim Johnsen rescinded an earlier cost saving recommendation that men’s and women’s ski teams at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and ski and indoor track programs at the University of Alaska Anchorage be eliminated.
  Cutting the teams would have saved a projected $1.1 million, but would have dropped both UAF and UAA below the NCAA 10 team minimum. Both schools had requested waivers from the ten team requ
  
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• Veteran Town hall to be held in Palmer

  11-11-2016 02:07
  
  This weekend, the first Veteran Town Hall to be held in Alaska is happening in Palmer.
  The event is part of a growing national movement to better integrate the lives and experiences of veterans with the civilian world. Veterans Town Halls are non-partisan opportunities for former service members to speak to an audience for ten minutes apiece about “what it felt like to go to war.” Non-veterans are invited to listen. The forums started last year in Massachusetts from an idea by former
  
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• New online service aims to ease commutes, encourage alternative transportation

  11-11-2016 01:45
  
  Municipality of Anchorage’s Chief Innovation Officer Brendan Babb presents LinkAK at City Hall in Anchorage on Nov. 10, 2016. (Photo by Josh Edge/APRN)The Municipality of Anchorage launched a new online application to help ease Alaska commutes and encourage alternative forms of transportation.
  Brendan Babb is the municipality’s chief innovation officer and one of the driving forces behind the city’s new trip planner – LinkAK
  “This app has a lot of potential for carp
  
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