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• The Sun Will Never Rise In Barrow, Alaska Again - CBS Local

  23-11-2016 22:47
  
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  The Sun Will Never Rise In Barrow, Alaska Again
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  The headline is true: the sun will never, ever rise in Barrow, Alaska again due to a municipal technicality. On Friday, November 18 at 1:31 p.m., the sun set on Barrow not only for the last time in 2016, but for the last time ever. That area of Alaska ...
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• Alaska Range: Exploring The Last Great Wild - Anchorage Press

  23-11-2016 22:18
  Alaska Range: Exploring The Last Great Wild
  Anchorage Press
  Alaska, the great land, is filled with undiscovered wonders. Even for Alaskans, it's impossible to discover all the magical places and sights across the largest state in the nation. Photographer Carl Battreall had a similar realization during his ...
  
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• Two Athabascan men join Standing Rock protest

  23-11-2016 20:44
  
  On the chilly plains of North Dakota, organizers estimate that around 2,500 people are now gathered near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation to support the Great Sioux Nation, or Oceti Sakowin, in their efforts to stop an oil pipeline from crossing under the Missouri River near their reservation. The demonstrators, who call themselves water protectors, say they have been facing increasing violence from local law enforcement. Recently, two Athabascan men from Alaska visited the camps in Cannonbal
  
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• Correction: Alaska Railroad-Natural Gas story - Minneapolis Star Tribune

  23-11-2016 20:12
  
  Correction: Alaska Railroad-Natural Gas story
  Minneapolis Star Tribune
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In a story Nov. 21 about a lawsuit filed by an environmental group over gas shipments in Alaska, The Associated Press, relying on information in the lawsuit, reported erroneously that liquefied natural gas is highly volatile. LNG ...and more »
  
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• Trump picks Betsy DeVos, school voucher advocate, as education secretary - Alaska Dispatch News

  23-11-2016 20:04
  
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  Trump picks Betsy DeVos, school voucher advocate, as education secretary
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  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump stands with Betsy DeVos after their meeting at the main clubhouse at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, November 19, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar. Betsy DeVos is hardly a household name, but the ...and more »
  
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• Survey shows Alaska students drinking, smoking less - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  23-11-2016 19:08
  
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  Survey shows Alaska students drinking, smoking less
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  A new state survey suggests that Alaska teens are more aware about the dangers of smoking, drinking and doing drugs. The Alaska Youth Risk Behavior Survey, compiled by the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services and the Department of ...
  
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• Princess Cruises to expand in Alaska - USA Today - USA TODAY

  23-11-2016 16:43
  
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  Princess Cruises to expand in Alaska - USA Today
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  Princess Cruises will send seven ships to Alaska in 2018, up from six this year and in 2017. The line this week announced the 2,636-passenger Golden Princess ...and more »
  
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• Mountain View man beaten with hammer not expected to fully recover - Alaska Dispatch News

  23-11-2016 13:35
  
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  Mountain View man beaten with hammer not expected to fully recover
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  For years, Don Nelson spent Thanksgiving at the table of his longtime Anchorage friends David Robinson and Mickie Karr. This year will be very different. Nelson, 72, was bludgeoned in the head with a hammer by a group of teenagers that broke into his ...
  
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• Alaska sees 34 percent increase in motor vehicle traffic fatalities in 2016 - SitNews

  23-11-2016 12:37
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  Alaska sees 34 percent increase in motor vehicle traffic fatalities in 2016
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  (SitNews) Juneau, Alaska - Motor vehicle traffic fatalities are on the rise this year in Alaska, and the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) would like to remind travelers to drive with care as the holidays approach. As ...
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• Running Into Danger on an Alaskan Trail

  23-11-2016 11:00 via nytimes.com
  A confrontation with a wild black bear.
  
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• New report shows microcephaly in Alaska is rarer than previously ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  23-11-2016 07:54
  
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  New report shows microcephaly in Alaska is rarer than previously ...
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  Cases of microcephaly, a birth defect characterized by an unusually small head, are rarer in Alaska than was previously reported, according to a new report from ...
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• New head of Federal Subsistence Board says local voices are essential - Alaska Public Radio Network

  23-11-2016 04:09
  
  New head of Federal Subsistence Board says local voices are essential
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  Hydaburg Mayor Anthony Christianson has been appointed the new chair of the Federal Subsistence Board. Anchorage teacher surprised with national award. Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage. An Anchorage teacher was surprised to learn ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016

  23-11-2016 04:05
  
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  New head of Federal Subsistence Board says local voices are essential
  Rachel Waldholz, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage
  Hydaburg Mayor Anthony Christianson has been appointed the new chair of the Federal Subsistence Board.
  Anchorage teacher surprised with national award
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• North Slope schools expand curricula to ‘reflect ideologies of the Inupiat’

  23-11-2016 03:50
  
  
  North Slope government and history is now part of high school graduation requirements for all North Slope Borough schools.
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  The borough school board passed a new policy this month making the curriculum change mandatory for students, beginning with freshmen who start in 2017.
  Pausauraq Jana Harcharek, the Inupiat education director for the North Slope Borough school district, said this change has been years in the making.
  “And it goes back probably to the formation of the Nor
  
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• New head of Federal Subsistence Board says local voices are essential

  23-11-2016 03:10
  
  Hydaburg Mayor Tony Christianson in Eek Inlet off Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. (Photo courtesy The Nature Conservancy)Hydaburg Mayor Anthony Christianson has been appointed the new chair of the Federal Subsistence Board.
  The board governs subsistence hunting and fishing on all federal land in Alaska, covering some 60 percent of the state. It’s been at the center of major controversies like the fight over king salmon on the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers.
  Christianson has served
  
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• Ferry study recommends changes

  23-11-2016 02:59
  
  The ferry Malaspina makes a rare appearance near downtown Sitka in 2010. A new report suggests a public corporation be formed to manage ferry operations. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska News) 
  A new ferry governance study released by the Southeast Conference, a regional development organization, concluded that the Alaska Marine Highway System should break into two agencies to prepare for the future. The study examined ferry operations in Alaska and elsewhere.
  Report author Jo
  
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• AWARE program expands to combat sexual assault at UAS

  23-11-2016 02:58
  
  University of Alaska Southeast (Photo by Lisa Phu, KTOO – Juneau)One out of every eight UAS students said they experienced some form of sexual misconduct or sexual assault between 2015 and 2016. That’s according to the Alaska Justice Statistical Analysis Center at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
  Lori Klein tracks reports of sexual discrimination for the University of Alaska Southeast as its Title IX coordinator.
  “Dating violence, domestic violence, gender-based discriminati
  
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• Anchorage teacher surprised with national award

  23-11-2016 02:53
  
  An Anchorage teacher was surprised to learn today that he was the recipient of the Milken Educator award from the Milken Family Foundation. The Milken Family Foundation is a national group whose goals are improving education, public health and medical research. The award is given to recognize teachers for their dedication to both their school and their communities.1 of 4 Chester Valley Elementary students slowly revealed the amount the Milken Educator Award-winner would receive. (Photo by Wesley
  
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• Group files suit over secrecy involving Alaska Railroad's LNG-shipping permit - Alaska Dispatch News

  23-11-2016 02:02
  
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  Group files suit over secrecy involving Alaska Railroad's LNG-shipping permit
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  A national conservation group based in Arizona is suing the Federal Railroad Administration for refusing to disclose documents sought under the Freedom of Information Act after the agency allowed the nation's first experimental rail shipments of ...
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• 4 percent: Anchorage may get a sales tax

  23-11-2016 00:53
  
  Wikicommons photo by JerichoAlaska’s largest city could see a sales tax.
  Anchorage Assembly member Bill Evans is readying a measure that could bring a four percent tax on goods and services.
  “People have been pretty upset about the rising property taxes. There’s a limit to what I think you can bear in property taxes in a municipality this size,” Evans said by phone Tuesday. “So diversifying the revenue stream, I think, makes a lot of sense, and takes in some people
  
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