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• Federal agency has long list of questions for state-led Alaska LNG project - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-11-2016 23:11
  
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  Federal agency has long list of questions for state-led Alaska LNG project
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  The federal agency responsible for conducting the environmental review for the $55 billion Alaska LNG project has sent project officials 268 pages of comments and questions — a demand for information from several state and federal agencies that will ...and more »
  
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• Anchorage Assembly budget makes several cuts to increase police force

  16-11-2016 22:33
  
  The Anchorage Assembly passed a $504 million operating budget during it’s Tuesday night meeting, up slightly from last year’s budget of $488 million. Increases are going primarily to pay for a larger police force.
  Modest cuts were made across the board to departmental budgets, grant programs and public transportation.
  Assembly member Eric Croft summed up a process that’s gone relatively smoothly since the budget was first introduced by the mayor’s administration a few mon
  
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• Four new pot shops approved in Anchorage

  16-11-2016 22:28
  
  The Anchorage Assembly approved four new cannabis businesses within the municipality on Tuesday during its regular meeting.
  They include two retail shops and a manufacturing facility in the Anchorage Bowl, as well as a shop in Girdwood that shares a location with a laundromat.
  However, the body voted to postpone weighing in on local permits for Arctic Herbery. The business was on track to be the first pot shop in Anchorage, but came under fire when state investigators found evidence marijua
  
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• Coast Guard still investigating what sank the Alaska Juris

  16-11-2016 22:00
  
  Crewmembers abandoned the F/V Alaska Juris after it began taking on water on July 26. Investigators with the U.S. Coast Guard will interview witnesses at public hearings in December.( Photo courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard District 17)It’s been four months since the F/V Alaska Juris sank in the Bering Sea, and the U.S. Coast Guard is still trying to figure out why its engine room flooded, forcing 46 crew-members to abandon ship near Kiska Island.
  Lt. Rven Garcia leads the investigati
  
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• A gun used to shoot an officer in Alaska has been linked to five unsolved homicides, police say - Washington Post

  16-11-2016 22:00
  
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  A gun used to shoot an officer in Alaska has been linked to five unsolved homicides, police say
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  Anchorage police officer Arn Salao encountered 40-year-old James Dale Ritchie early Saturday morning after a report of an unpaid cab fare, authorities in Alaska said. Salao tried to stop the man, according to a police department news release. But ...
  Gun used to shoot Alaska police officer tied to five murdersFox News
  Alaska Cop Shooter's Gun Used in 5 Homicides Amid S
  
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• Gov. Walker shakes up executive office, announces new chief of staff - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-11-2016 21:57
  
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  Gov. Walker shakes up executive office, announces new chief of staff
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  Halfway through his four-year term, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker announced a shakeup of his leadership team Wednesday, replacing chief of staff Jim Whitaker with Scott Kendall, an attorney fresh from U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's victorious re-election campaign.and more »
  
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• South Anchorage auto-shop shooting brings murder charge - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-11-2016 21:10
  
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  South Anchorage auto-shop shooting brings murder charge
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  Anchorage police investigate the scene near Old Seward Highway and 74th Avenue on Tuesday, November 15, 2016. Police said they found one man dead and took another man into custody nearby. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News). A man arrested in ...and more »
  
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• Light earthquake shakes southeast Alaska - KTUU.com

  16-11-2016 20:55
  
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  Light earthquake shakes southeast Alaska
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Officials say a light earthquake rattled southeastern Alaska Wednesday morning but there were no immediate reports of damage. The Alaska Earthquake Center say the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 4.7 and was centered ...and more »
  
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• Dakota Access pipeline protesters march in Anchorage

  16-11-2016 20:32
  
  
  Demonstrators march to the Anchorage 5th Avenue Mall to protest the Dakota Access pipeline project. (Elizabeth Harball, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage)Alaskans joined protesters around the country Tuesday staging demonstrations against the Dakota Access pipeline project, including two in Anchorage.
  Listen NowThe Standing Rock Sioux Tribe objects to the project in North Dakota because they worry it will harm their water supply and disturb sacred sites. Their cause has drawn support
  
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• Abandoned Alaska: Once a thriving naval base, now an Adak ghost town - KTUU.com

  16-11-2016 18:38
  
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  Abandoned Alaska: Once a thriving naval base, now an Adak ghost town
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  ADAK, Alaska (KTUU) - The military has had a presence in Alaska since before statehood. While investments in military infrastructure, personnel and equipment have caused major growth to Alaska's economy, what happens when bases become obsolete?and more »
  
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• Alaska Air: San Diego-BWI non-stops latest in cross-country push - USA TODAY

  16-11-2016 16:46
  
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  Alaska Air: San Diego-BWI non-stops latest in cross-country push
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  Alaska Airlines is staking out a claim as a major player on cross-country routes from the U.S. West Coast. Alaska Airlines will add non-stop service between San Diego and Baltimore/Washington International (BWI), launching one daily round-trip flight ...
  Alaska Airlines adds nonstop flights from DC to Calif.WTOP
  Alaska Airlines flies passengers using wood-based biofuelAutoblog (blog)
  Alaska Airlines operates 'f
  
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• Shots fired, 1 man dead in South Anchorage - Alaska Dispatch News - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-11-2016 05:43
  
  Shots fired, 1 man dead in South Anchorage - Alaska Dispatch News
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  Police work in the area of Trejohn Auto Sales on Old Seward Highway on Tuesday afternoon, where they said they found one man dead and took another into ...and more »
  
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• NPR reporter Corey Flintoff on his Alaskan beginnings

  16-11-2016 04:04
  
  
  If you’re a dedicated public radio listener than the dulcet tones of long time journalist Corey Flintoff are familiar to you. Flintoff retired in October after 27 years with NPR. He got his start in public broadcasting at KYUK in Bethel and then for APRN in Anchorage before he was hired by NPR to be a foreign correspondent. Flintoff says his first assignment was in New Dehli where he had easy access to officials within India’s government, but his last assignment in Moscow, not so muc
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016

  16-11-2016 03:59
  
  
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  Listen NowAPD: gun used to shoot officer linked to five summer murders
  Sean Doogan and Josh Edge, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  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
  
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• Expect Alaska fishing, hunting, trapping fees to leap next year - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-11-2016 03:07
  
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  Expect Alaska fishing, hunting, trapping fees to leap next year
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  Anglers, hunters and trappers will fork over more cash next year to pursue their favored critter — in some cases considerably more. Virtually every Alaska hunting, fishing and trapping license will be more expensive — up to 80 percent more for ...
  
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• In Emmonak: need for repairs is urgent after fire cripples water system

  16-11-2016 02:54
  
  A fire in Emmonak has damaged the local water treatment plant.
  Emmonak’s mayor Wilbur Hootch, Sr. said the cause of the fire is a suspected pump overload. The fire damaged the main vacuum pump.
  Technicians are working to keep community pipes from freezing. To do that, a main storage water tank must be filled. Hootch said a failure to fill that tank could be costly.
  ”If we don’t have enough water level in our 100,000+ storage tank, once our low and high pressure freeze up we&rsq
  
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• Dillingham grocery store stocks local, hydroponic greens

  16-11-2016 02:42
  
  No wind. No critters. No rain. Just the whir of machines and the smell of basil greet Kyle Belleque as he inspects his hydroponic garden. This Dillingham resident and lifelong rural Alaskan has been gardening for years, but this year is the first time he’s grown a garden in a containerized box. Rows of succulent lettuce, kale, and chard fill floor to ceiling shelves on either side of this shipping container that has been converted into a hydroponic farm.
  Kyle Belleque in his hydroponi
  
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• Obama’s Alaska regs could cling long into Trump’s term

  16-11-2016 02:21
  
  Photo by Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public MediaAs a candidate, President-elect Donald Trump said he’d liberate business by striking as much as 70 percent of federal regulations. Trump vowed to dump Obama-era policies and unleash the energy industry to produce more oil, gas and coal. It would seem like good times for natural resource extraction in Alaska. But Trump will find some policies easier to dismantle than others.
  President Obama’s policies for Alaska are embedded in a variety of docum
  
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• Will President Trump follow through on changing Denali’s name back to Mt. McKinley?

  16-11-2016 02:01
  
  President-elect Donald Trump made many a campaign promise during his run for the White House; shutting down the Environmental Protection Agency, and killing the Affordable Care Act were among those promises. But one of Trump’s rhetorical pledges affects Alaskans specifically: his Twitter vow to re-name Denali.President Obama wants to change the name of Mt. McKinley to Denali after more than 100 years. Great insult to Ohio. I will change back!
  — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) Sept
  
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• Native leaders hold symposium to discuss strengthening self-government

  16-11-2016 01:23
  
  Alaska Native leaders from across the state are gathered in Fairbanks for a tribal self-governance symposium. The three-day event is sponsored by University of Alaska Fairbanks, the University of Arizona, the Tanana Chiefs Conference and the Casey Foundation. One of the organizers, UAF assistant professor of tribal management Kari Stevens, said the symposium grew out of a similar tribal gathering in Fairbanks last fall on co-management of fish and game.
  ”We had over 200 participants at tha
  
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