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• APD: gun used to shoot officer linked to five summer murders

  15-11-2016 23:04
  
  Anchorage Police said the gun used to “ambush” and shoot one of its officers early Saturday has now been linked to five area murders — committed from early July through late August.
  Mugshot of 40-year-old James Dale Ritchie. Ritchie was identified as the shooter in a police “ambush” on Nov. 12, 2016. He was shot and killed by APD officers. (Photo courtesy of Anchorage Police Department)On Tuesday at a press conference at its West Anchorage training fa
  
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• Alaska Sees 'Astounding' Rise in Temperature as 'Drill, Baby, Drill' Planned for Arctic - EcoWatch

  15-11-2016 21:43
  
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  Alaska Sees 'Astounding' Rise in Temperature as 'Drill, Baby, Drill' Planned for Arctic
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  As 2016 is set to be the warmest year on record, Alaskans are seeing an "astounding" rise in temperature. Throughout October, average temperatures in Alaska ran 6.7 degrees above normal. Barrow, the northernmost community in the U.S., set its warmest ...and more »
  
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• Obama’s last chance to weigh in on Arctic drilling has industry worried, enviros hopeful

  15-11-2016 20:08
  
  Shell’s Noble Discoverer drill rig leaving Unalaska Oct. 12, 2015. (Photo by John Ryan, KUCB – Unalaska)In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s upset election victory, President Barack Obama still has two months left in office to close out policy decisions and try to cement any final pieces of his legacy.
  One open question is offshore oil and gas leasing.
  Environmentalists want President Obama to place the Arctic off limits to offshore drilling, in part to combat climate change.
  The
  
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• The Alaska Legislature is planning to fix up its new Anchorage office building - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-11-2016 06:05
  
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  The Alaska Legislature is planning to fix up its new Anchorage office building
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  After a public outcry over an expensive renovation contributed to Alaska lawmakers abandoning their leased building downtown, they're now seeking bids to upgrade the replacement. According to bid documents, lawmakers want to construct new "legislative ...
  
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• Muslim Americans targeted as FBI sees rise in hate crimes - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-11-2016 05:49
  
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  Muslim Americans targeted as FBI sees rise in hate crimes
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  WASHINGTON — The FBI reported Monday that attacks against American Muslims surged last year, driving an overall increase in hate crime against all groups. The data, which is the most comprehensive look at hate crime nationwide, expanded on previous ...and more »
  
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• Permanent Fund makes winning bet on home-rental startup - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-11-2016 05:24
  
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  Permanent Fund makes winning bet on home-rental startup
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  The Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. has made another winning bet on a startup company, banking more than $300 million after providing early capital for a giant home-rental firm that took advantage of the collapse of the nation's housing market. That ...and more »
  
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• Oil industry needs environmentalists to protect it from itself - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-11-2016 04:04
  
  Oil industry needs environmentalists to protect it from itself
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  Oil lingers around the Exxon Valdez after it hit Blight Reef in Prince William Sound in March 1989. (Erik Hill / Anchorage Daily News). In 1969, as the age of big oil dawned in Alaska, a conference of experts gathered in Fairbanks to talk about how the ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Nov. 14, 2016

  15-11-2016 03:51
  
  
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  Listen NowUpdate: APD says officer ambushed and shot; officer in surgery, suspect dead
  Ellen Lockyer, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  No word yet on the status of the Anchorage police officer who was shot on Saturday downtown. APD spokeswoman Jennifer Castro says the as-yet, unidentified officer is recovering after
  
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• Dive into ocean science at Alaska SeaLife Center - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-11-2016 03:08
  
  Dive into ocean science at Alaska SeaLife Center
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  Greg Bremseth of Eagle River takes a picture of Jen Hennessey, who is visiting from Houston, Texas, outside the Steller sea lion exhibit at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward.(Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News). SEWARD — "Everyone in Alaska is ...
  
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• Closing the achievement gap by talking openly about racial equity

  15-11-2016 03:05
  
  Anchorage teachers and staff gathered at the Dena’ina Center on Nov. 11, 2016 to have conversations about racial equity in education. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)The Anchorage School District is trying to close its achievement gap and help all students succeed. One of its first steps is helping teachers, administrators, and other staff talk openly about race and racism and how they impact students.
  “It’s not comfortable to talk about racism,” First Alaskans Institute edu
  
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• Fairbanks Representative looks to improve rural internet

  15-11-2016 02:33
  
  Fairbanks State Representative David Guttenberg has a plan for improving internet service in rural areas of the state. Guttenberg said a bill he’s sponsoring would create a state corporation to contract with service providers to build infrastructure that’s too costly for individual companies to invest in.
  ”Put out a job that we need this many towers in these locations to fill the gap. We need this much fiber optics,” Guttenburg said. “The state owns that, and it jus
  
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• Kenai Borough Assembly may appropriate funds to defend invocation policy in court

  15-11-2016 02:31
  
  Protesters in front of the Kenai Peninsula Borough building in Soldotna. (Photo by Daysha Eaton, KBBI – Homer)Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Mike Navarre has proposed an ordinance that would pay for legal costs related to the Borough Assembly’s new invocation policy.
  According to a memorandum from the Mayor’s office released on Nov. 9, the Assembly has “received numerous comments challenging the legality” of its invocation policy.
  The policy was changed by Assembly m
  
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• Wind-farm developer asks court to overturn approval of GVEA Tariff

  15-11-2016 02:28
  
  The Delta Wind Farm can produce up to 2 megawatts with its two 900-kilowatt and one 100-kilowatt wind generators. (Photo courtesy of Alaska Environmental Power)Delta Wind Farm President and CEO Mike Craft is taking the Regulatory Commission of Alaska to court. Craft is asking a judge to overturn the commission’s approval of a Golden Valley Electric Association tariff filed last summer. He claims the tariff violates new state regulations intended to help renewable-energy projects — li
  
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• Another boost for biofuel: Waste wood helps power Alaska Airlines commercial jet - GeekWire

  15-11-2016 01:56
  
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  Another boost for biofuel: Waste wood helps power Alaska Airlines commercial jet
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  Aviation biofuel Sample bottles of biofuel sit on an Alaska Airlines counter at Sea-Tac. (Credit: Alaska Airlines). Alaska Airlines says it sent a Boeing 737 jet on the first commercial airline flight that was partially fueled by branches, stumps and ...
  Biofuel from logging scraps powers Alaska Airlines jet on cross-country flightThe Seattle Times
  Alaska Airlines to make history with flight power
  
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• Last chance in Alaska for characters in UAF professor's collection - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-11-2016 01:18
  
  Last chance in Alaska for characters in UAF professor's collection
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  A Dall sheep scampers along the rock cliffs high above the Seward Highway along the Turnagain Arm earlier this year. In “Where We Land” Daryl Farmer writes: “It was the drive around Turnagain Arm that started it, I think. It was sunny, those mountains ...
  
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• Video: Artifacts unearthed during TAPS construction remain relevant

  15-11-2016 01:14
  
  Underneath the Museum of the North in Fairbanks are rows upon rows of artifacts from across the state. One group of items, unearthed during the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, still have a role to play in Alaska’s modern development process. Scott Shirar, Archeology Collection Manager, offers a behind the scenes look at the artifacts, while Assistant Field Manager Bill Hedman (Bureau of Land Management) discusses the challenge of organizing data that is over 40 years old
  
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• UAF researchers map Alaska effects of melting permafrost - Alaska Public Radio Network

  15-11-2016 00:42
  
  UAF researchers map Alaska effects of melting permafrost
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  As average temperatures rise, two University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers are mapping permafrost's impact on Alaska. Vladimir Romanovsky and David McGuire are members of a team working to identify worldwide regions susceptible to thermokarst.and more »
  
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• UAF researchers map Alaska effects of melting permafrost

  15-11-2016 00:41
  
  As average temperatures rise, two University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers are mapping permafrost’s impact on Alaska. Vladimir Romanovsky and David McGuire are members of a team working to identify worldwide regions susceptible to thermokarst.
  Romanovsky said the natural process is the result of what happens when ice-rich permafrost begins to melt.
  “The water may run away or stay in place, but because of that, surface of land is subsiding,” Romanovsky said. “This subsi
  
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• New House majority boosts Southeast lawmakers’ power

  15-11-2016 00:40
  
  House District 36 Rep. Dan Ortiz speaks during a Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce lunch. (File photo by Leila Kheiry, KRBD – Ketchikan)After years in the legislative minority, all Southeast representatives are in positions of power.
  The new bipartisan House majority and Republican-led Senate majority have named Southeast lawmakers to chair six committees. There, they can influence budgets, pass legislation and kill bad bills.
  It’s been a rough road for Southeast legislators and their co
  
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