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• WCHA hands Alaska-Anchorage's Hubbs one-game suspension for blindside hit - USCHO

  19-11-2016 23:30
  
  WCHA hands Alaska-Anchorage's Hubbs one-game suspension for blindside hit
  USCHO
  The WCHA announced Saturday a one-game suspension to Alaska-Anchorage senior forward Dylan Hubbs. The suspension is a result of Hubbs' game misconduct infraction for contact to the head, which occurred at the 7:29 mark of the second period in ...and more »
  
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• Texting in Alaska Native languages? It just got easier thanks to a new app. - Alaska Dispatch News

  19-11-2016 21:07
  
  Texting in Alaska Native languages? It just got easier thanks to a new app.
  Alaska Dispatch News
  A screenshot of what it looks like to use Chert, from Apple's app store. The app adds an Alaska Native language keyboard on the iPhone, allowing people to type in all 20 Alaska Native languages. The left phrase, in Tlingit, means “Where is the basket?”.
  
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• Alaska National Guard organizes search for teen missing nearly a week - Fox News

  19-11-2016 18:47
  
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  Alaska National Guard organizes search for teen missing nearly a week
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  The Alaska National Guard is organizing a search Saturday for a 16-year-old boy who disappeared nearly a week ago after dropping of his girlfriend. KTUU-TV reported Friday that high school student David Grunwald, of Palmer, is the son of a retired ...and more »
  
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• FIGHT TO DEATH: 2 moose found frozen near remote Alaska village - Fox News

  19-11-2016 16:14
  
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  FIGHT TO DEATH: 2 moose found frozen near remote Alaska village
  Fox News
  Two moose were recently discovered frozen in battle and encased in ice near a remote village on Alaska's unforgiving western coast. Brad Webster, a middle school social studies and science teacher in Unalakleet, captured images of the massive animals ...
  2 moose found frozen mid-fight near remote Alaska villageU.S. News & World Report
  Two moose found frozen mid-fight in rural AlaskaDeutsche Welle
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• National park photo ops: As Alaska sheep forage, shooter hedges bets - Los Angeles Times

  19-11-2016 14:00
  
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  National park photo ops: As Alaska sheep forage, shooter hedges bets
  Los Angeles Times
  A family of Dall sheep forage for food on a hillside at Denali National Park & Preserve. I used a 200mm lens with a 2x teleconverter, making the lens a compact 400mm. There were several unusable, out-of-focus pictures, shot through the open window of ...
  
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• Abandoned Alaska: Fort Rousseau Causeway State Historic Park - KTUU.com

  19-11-2016 08:51
  
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  Abandoned Alaska: Fort Rousseau Causeway State Historic Park
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  Sitka, Alaska It was the 1930's and the United States saw a threat to its western coast from Japan. Defenses were built, including in Alaska. Some of them are still here today if you know where to look. As part of a KTUU Abandoned Alaska series channel ...
  
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• Coast Guard rescues boaters stranded on Alaska island - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  19-11-2016 06:14
  
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Coast Guard rescues boaters stranded on Alaska island
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – A Coast Guard helicopter crew has rescued four people stranded on an Alaska island after their boat capsized. Petty Officer Jon Paul Rios says no one was injured in the Friday morning capsizing in Marsha Bay near Knight ...and more »
  
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• Shots are plentiful for Aces, goals not so much — Alaska falls 5-1 at Wichita - Alaska Dispatch News

  19-11-2016 05:36
  
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Shots are plentiful for Aces, goals not so much — Alaska falls 5-1 at Wichita
  Alaska Dispatch News
  With Friday night's 5-1 road loss to the Wichita Thunder, the Alaska Aces slipped into their first slide of the ECHL hockey season. Opposing goaltenders have had plenty to do with that. Wichita's Scott Greenham, the former UAF masked man, snuffed a ...and more »
  
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• Blood Bank of Alaska says complaint to FDA has no merit - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  19-11-2016 05:01
  
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  Blood Bank of Alaska says complaint to FDA has no merit
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  It's been three months since a former employee of the Blood Bank of Alaska filed a complaint against the nonprofit with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The former development director at the Blood Bank filed the complaint at the end of August.
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• New legislative leaders aim to take on gas and oil issues

  19-11-2016 03:37
  
  The sun rises on the North Slope between drill rigs, Nov. 6, 2012. (Creative Commons photo by Kevan Dee)A radical reshuffling in the state House has shifted control and the ruling philosophy for the upcoming session, but key questions on state energy policy remain the same.
  As the dust settles from the election lawmakers find themselves in a new world, with plenty of new faces, but they’re staring down some of the same issues that kept them locked in Juneau last session:
  Can the state affo
  
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• Blood Bank denies it put public at risk to boost finances

  19-11-2016 03:29
  
   
  Alaska Blood Bank CEO Bob Scanlon, left, and Board Chair Ryan York talk to reporters on Friday. (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)The Blood Bank of Alaska did not put residents at risk by mismanaging the state’s blood supply this summer, according to a 23-page report, detailed during a press conference held at the organization’s new building.
  The findings, released Friday come after a former employee sent a complaint to the Food and Drug Administr
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Nov. 18, 2016

  19-11-2016 03:09
  
  
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  Breaking: Offshore lease plan excludes Arctic
  Rachel Waldholz, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage
  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 this morning. The
  
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• U.S. Surgeon General report on addiction

  19-11-2016 03:00
  
  U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy in the Napaskiak clinic with Community Health Practitioner Augusta Williams and YKHC CEO Dan Winkelman. (Photo by Anna Rose MacArthur, KYUK – Bethel)Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health is a massive report looking at the $500 billion impact to the United States from alcohol and drug addiction. The Surgeon General’s office wants this report to help educate citizens and build a deeper underst
  
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• Sun sets in Barrow for the last time till Jan. 22 - Alaska Dispatch News

  19-11-2016 02:25
  
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Sun sets in Barrow for the last time till Jan. 22
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Twilight descends upon Barrow after its last sunset of the year, November 18, 2016. The view is looking approximately north, from atop the bank building in downtown Barrow. (UAF Ice Cam). At 1:31 p.m. Friday the sun set in Barrow for the last time. Ever.
  See ya, sun! Alaska's North Slope gets last sunrise until JanuaryKTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaskaall 5 news articles »
  
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• Bartlett Regional Hospital now recognizes broader gender identities

  19-11-2016 02:08
  
  A copy of Bartlett Regional Hospital’s new outpatient registration form asks for sex assigned at birth and gender identification with expanded options. (Photo illustration by Jeremy Hsieh, KTOO – Juneau)Bartlett Regional Hospital announced Thursday that at registration, its patients will now be asked for their gender identity. Patients will also be notified that they are protected against sex discrimination.
  The hospital said in a press release the changes are in response to fed
  
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• AK: Sitka’s Wild Foods Potluck

  19-11-2016 01:09
  
  Each November, the community gathers for its Wild Foods Potluck, bringing together family and friends from near and far.Moses Wiseman and Christian Charlie are students at Mt. Edgecumbe High School. Wiseman is from Chefornak and charlie is from Marshall, both small villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. (Photo by Emily Russell, KCAW – Sitka)If you think your Thanksgiving is the biggest, most mouth-watering meal of the year, then you haven’t been to Sitka’s Wild Foods Potluck. L
  
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• 49 Voices: Darlena Fritzler of Wasilla

  19-11-2016 01:05
  
  This week we’re hearing from Darlena Fritzler, of Wasilla. Fritzler is the Development Manager for the Alaska branch of the YWCA.
  Darlena Fritzler lives in Wasilla. (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)FRITZLER: Our mission is to eliminate racism and empower women. We’re actually not related to the YMCA at all, which is a very common misconception. The YWCA used to stand for Young Women’s Christian Association a very long time ago. Now it’s just i
  
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