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• Appreciating community volunteers

  18-11-2016 23:00
  
  Each year about this time, Hometown Alaska hosts a special program to recognize the work that volunteers do in our state and in our city. It’s valuable to take a moment and imagine the power of this movement. Here is how idealist.com summarizes their value:
  “Volunteers have an enormous impact on the health and well-being of communities worldwide. Think of all the ways that volunteers make a difference in day-to-day life:
  Volunteers deliver critical services—from serving as volu
  
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• Creating Trauma-Informed Communities

  18-11-2016 21:00
  
  Photo: Flickr, Enrique SaldivarOur understanding of brain development and the impact of adversity and chronic stress in childhood are changing how we understand risk and how we think about solutions. Thanks to a decade-old study conducted by Kaiser Permanente and the CDC, scientists now know that chronic stress, also known as toxic stress, caused by traumatic experiences during childhood such as child maltreatment or neglect, parental substance abuse, or sexual abuse have a direct link with an i
  
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• Obama administration bars new oil, gas exploration off Alaska - CNBC

  18-11-2016 19:24
  
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  Obama administration bars new oil, gas exploration off Alaska
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  The Obama administration on Friday blocked the sale of new permits to drill oil and gas in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off Alaska.
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• Updated: Offshore leasing plan excludes Arctic

  18-11-2016 19:08
  
  
  Shell’s Noble Discoverer rig, in Unalaska in 2012. (KUCB-Unalaska file photo)UPDATE: 3:24 p.m. by Rachel Waldholz and Liz Ruskin
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  The Obama administration has removed the Arctic Ocean from any new oil and gas leasing for the next five years.
  The Interior Department announced its new plan for offshore leasing Friday morning.
  The plan does not include any new lease sales in the Beaufort or Chukchi Seas off Alaska — which had been included in an earlier draft.
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• Breaking: Offshore lease plan excludes Arctic

  18-11-2016 19:08
  
  Shell’s Noble Discoverer rig, in Unalaska in 2012. (KUCB-Unalaska file photo)The U.S. Interior Department has announced its new five-year plan for oil and gas leasing in federal waters, and it does not include any new lease sales in the Arctic. The plan calls for one lease sale for northern Cook Inlet, in 2021.
  Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, in a written statement, said the department was forgoing lease sales in the Beaufort and Chukchi due to the “unique and challenging Arcti
  
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• Obama administration cancels Arctic offshore lease sales through 2022 - Alaska Dispatch News

  18-11-2016 19:07
  
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  Obama administration cancels Arctic offshore lease sales through 2022
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  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has canceled proposed plans to market Arctic offshore oil leases through 2022, setting up an early conflict for president-elect Donald Trump who has said he wants to increase U.S. oil production. The Interior ...
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• ACT’s The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

  18-11-2016 18:54
  
  ACT’s The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in rehearsalJoseph Robinette’s stage adaptation of C. S. Lewis’ popular story of four children who enter a magical world through an ordinary wardrobe, meet fantastic characters and begin a battle between good and evil opens November 18 as Anchorage Community Theatre presents The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Director Dave Block and actors Hadley Earl and Todd Sherwood drop by Stage Talk this week to talk about the show which runs T
  
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• Alaska Town Bids Farewell to the Sun - Newser - Newser

  18-11-2016 16:10
  
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  At 12:54pm local time Friday, the sun will rise in Barrow, Alaska. Thirty-six minutes later, it will set—and won't be seen again there until Jan. 22.and more »
  
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• Cleaning Asia's Debris Off Alaska's Shores - Wall Street Journal

  18-11-2016 15:29
  
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  Cleaning Asia's Debris Off Alaska's Shores
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  In March 2011, Japan was hit with the double disaster of an earthquake and a tsunami off its Pacific coast. Four months later, the effects began washing up thousands of miles away, in some of America's wildest and most remote places. The quake and ...
  
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• Alaska DIYers try to flip 'n' move on a new reality show - Alaska Dispatch News

  18-11-2016 06:21
  
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  Alaska DIYers try to flip 'n' move on a new reality show
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  If you feel like I do, you're probably ready for some trivial news about Alaska reality TV. It's been a weird couple of weeks, you know, with the Cubs winning the World Series and all. So let's get right back to it! Thankfully, there are two things ...
  
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• Remembering Nancy McGuire

  18-11-2016 04:04
  Early this morning, long time Nome Nugget editor and publisher Nancy McGuire died. McGuire had been battling cancer and in her last editorial bid a fond farewell to her beloved Nome community and residents. John Handleland is a former mayor of Nome and was a long time friend of the tenacious journalist. He says McGuire was born and raised on a Pennsylvania farm. She became an educator and moved to Nome in 1973 and bought the Nome Nugget in 1982. He says she was proud that the paper is the oldest
  
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• Kotzebue brothers make first app for all 20 Alaska Native languages

  18-11-2016 04:02
  
  
  The new Chert app consolidates characters from all 20 Alaska Native languages on an iPhone keyboard. (Image: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)When Barrow officially changes its name back to Utqiaġvik on December 1st, people all over are going to encounter the same typographical issue: writing out the “ġ” character.
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  Alaska Native languages have faced a growing technological challenge: meshing alphabets with all the new tools for commun
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016

  18-11-2016 03:54
  
  
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  Judge upholds Walker’s veto halving Permanent Fund dividends
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  Governor Bill Walker’s veto of half the Permanent Fund dividend money will stand for now. A judge found Thursday that Walker had the authority to cut the money.
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• ConocoPhillips puts historic Kenai LNG plant up for sale

  18-11-2016 03:42
  
  An LNG tanker fills up at the ConocoPhillips liquid natural gas export facility in Nikiski, Alaska. When it opened in 1969, it was the only facility of its kind in the U.S. to get a license to export its gas to Japan. For more than forty years, the state has attempted to develop similar projects to bring natural gas from the North Slope to market, none of those projects have broken ground.
  (Photo courtesy of ConocoPhillips)ConocoPhillips is looking to leave the natural gas business in Cook Inlet
  
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• Alaska ferry system plans more fare hikes

  18-11-2016 02:49
  
  The Alaska Marine Highway System plans its next round of fare changes to start May 1, when the new summer schedule begins.
  AMHS spokesperson Jeremy Woodrow said it’s the second year of a five-year effort to equalize ticket prices.
  “What we’re trying to do is bring similar distance fares into a similar price across the entire system. So you’re getting what you pay for, no matter where you are in the system,” Woodrow said.
  Most fares are being raised by only
  
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• UFA hones in on salmon habitat issues

  18-11-2016 02:35
  An Alaska commercial fishing advocacy group is beginning to get an idea of what its new Salmon Habitat Information Program – or SHIP – will look like. The program is aimed at engaging commercial fisherman around the state in salmon habitat issues.
  United Fishermen of Alaska, which represents 35 Alaska commercial fishing organizations, conducted a fishermen survey this summer.
  SHIP Director Lindsey Bloom said they were asked to list their priorities.
  “Fisherman, while they&rsquo
  
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• Arctic Slope Regional Corporation now able to search for Arctic oil and gas

  18-11-2016 01:53
  
  The Alaska Native corporation representing the North Slope has bought two federal leases in the Beaufort sea formerly owned by Shell. That gives the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, or ASRC, the right to explore for oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean, which has historically been controversial in the region.
  Arctic Ocean (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey)Rex Rock, Sr., is the President and CEO of ASRC.  He announced Wednesday that the corporation has acquired Shell’s leases
  
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• Alaska Native corporation acquires oil and gas leases in Arctic waters

  18-11-2016 01:53
  
  The Alaska Native corporation representing the North Slope has bought two federal leases in the Beaufort sea formerly owned by Shell. That gives the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, or ASRC, the right to explore for oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean, which has historically been controversial in the region.
  Arctic Ocean (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey)Rex Rock, Sr., is the President and CEO of ASRC.  He announced Wednesday that the corporation has acquired Shell’s leases
  
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• Judge upholds Walker’s veto halving Permanent Fund dividends

  18-11-2016 01:52
  
  The Alaska Permanent Fund Corp.’s exterior sign. A judge ruled in favor of the corporation and upheld Gov. Bill Walker’s veto of half of dividend funding. (Photo by Skip Gray, 360 North)Governor Bill Walker’s veto of half the Permanent Fund dividend money will stand for now. A judge found Thursday that Walker had the authority to cut the money.
  In a lawsuit, Sen. Bill Wielechowski sought to reverse Gov. Walker’s veto of $666 million. He argued in court that the const
  
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• Anchorage man charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a minor

  18-11-2016 01:39
  
  On Wednesday, an Anchorage grand jury charged 63-year-old Paul Allen Harris on one count of kidnapping, two counts of sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree and one count of sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree.
  Harris has been in custody since June after a man reported his daughter was kidnapped and sexually abused by Harris. If convicted, Harris faces 99 years in prison for the kidnapping and sexual abuse.
  Harris is scheduled to be arranged tomorrow.
  
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• Anchorage man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a minor

  18-11-2016 01:39
  
  
  On Wednesday, an Anchorage grand jury indicted 63-year-old Paul Allen Harris on one count of kidnapping, two counts of sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree and one count of sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree.
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  Harris has been in custody since June after a man reported his daughter was kidnapped and sexually abused by Harris. If convicted, Harris faces 99 years in prison for the kidnapping and sexual abuse.
  Harris is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow.
  
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• Perseverance Theatre’s Not Medea

  18-11-2016 01:35
  Allison Gregory’s “meta-theatre” play Not Medea mixes modern motherhood with the Greek myth of Medea and tosses in some audience participation as well. And, as part the National New Play Network Rolling World Premier, Perseverance Theatre brings it to life this week at the Sydney Laurence Theatre (playing November 11-20). Director Tom Robenolt, Actor Shelly Virginia and Anchorage Perseverance Theatre General Manager Josh Lowman drop by the studio this week to tell us all about
  
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