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• Young Couple, Grandma and 8-Week-Old Infant Found Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide in Alaska: Cops - PEOPLE.com

  26-11-2016 23:01
  
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  Young Couple, Grandma and 8-Week-Old Infant Found Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide in Alaska: Cops
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  Authorities are investigating an apparent murder-suicide after four bodies were found in a hotel room in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Friday, according to a statement released by the Fairbanks Police Department. Police responded to a call from hotel staff at ...
  Fairbanks police say hotel deaths were murder-suicideAlaska Dispatch News
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• Alaska's gas pipeline dreams - High Country News

  26-11-2016 18:55
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  Alaska's gas pipeline dreams
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  A decades-long plan to deliver the state's gas reserves to the market remains in purgatory. Krista Langlois Nov. 26, 2016 From the print edition · Print; Share; Subscribe · Donate Now. In the summer of 1970, Bill Walker was hanging around the Johnson ...
  
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• New mapping shows extent of yellow-cedar die-off in Alaska; analysis forecasts big losses in the future - Alaska Dispatch News

  26-11-2016 18:25
  
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  New mapping shows extent of yellow-cedar die-off in Alaska; analysis forecasts big losses in the future
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  Yellow-cedars, iconic temperate rainforest trees that can live for a thousand years, are dying over vast swaths of warming Alaska and British Columbia. Now, for the first time, there are maps showing the full distribution of yellow-cedars, the extent ...
  
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• Alaska outdoorsmen create a card game for hunters - The Olympian

  26-11-2016 18:08
  
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  Alaska outdoorsmen create a card game for hunters
  The Olympian
  In this Oct. 24, 2016 photo, Jim Clark plays a game of Gut Pile in Fairbanks, Alaska. The card game is a Fairbanks-designed product where players score points by assembling the elements for a perfect hunt while avoiding their opponent's attack cards ...and more »
  
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• Murder-suicide suspected in deaths of 4 in Alaska hotel room - Fox News

  26-11-2016 14:48
  
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  Murder-suicide suspected in deaths of 4 in Alaska hotel room
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  Authorities in Alaska say they are investigating the deaths of four people in a hotel room as a murder-suicide. The dead include a 2-month-old girl. Fairbanks police and fire departments were called to a Hampton Inn on Friday afternoon by hotel staff ...
  3 adults, 1 child found shot to death inside Alaska hotel roomNew York Daily News
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• Paws for Purple Hearts is first of its kind in Alaska - The Daily Progress

  26-11-2016 13:52
  
  Paws for Purple Hearts is first of its kind in Alaska
  The Daily Progress
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Veterans working with service dogs through Paws for Purple Hearts all said the same thing at the recent grand opening of the new Fairbanks training facility: "I'm not training the dog. The dog is training me." Paws for Purple ...and more »
  
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• In Your Words: Why can't media portray the rural Alaska I know? - The Arctic Sounder

  26-11-2016 08:55
  
  In Your Words: Why can't media portray the rural Alaska I know?
  The Arctic Sounder
  UNALAKLEET — I had just gotten back from picking cranberries. The air was cold and crisp. My favorite time. No mosquitoes and still warm enough to enjoy an afternoon picking berries in the hills with a lunch of dried fish, Pilot Bread and coffee. Back ...and more »
  
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• Iona advances to title game of Great Alaska Shootout - Washington Times

  26-11-2016 08:11
  Iona advances to title game of Great Alaska Shootout
  Washington Times
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Sam Cassell Jr. scored 18 points, Jon Severe made four 3-pointers and had 16 points, and Iona beat Weber State 76-54 on Friday night to advance to the championship game of the Great Alaska Shootout. Iona , which last made ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Aces get coveted secondary scoring in 5-1 win over Utah - Alaska Dispatch News

  26-11-2016 07:58
  
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  Alaska Aces get coveted secondary scoring in 5-1 win over Utah
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  In the Alaska Aces' glory years — ECHL Kelly Cups in 2014, 2011 and 2006 — their scoring came from everywhere. If the first line didn't torture opponents, the second and third lines, and the defensemen, often contributed to the cause. That ...
  
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• Alaskan Bob Gillam wants to be US Interior secretary - Alaska Dispatch News

  26-11-2016 06:14
  
  Alaskan Bob Gillam wants to be US Interior secretary
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  Alaska millionaire investor Robert B. Gillam is making a serious play for the position of Interior Secretary in president-elect Donald Trump's administration. Gillam, 70, is a lifelong Alaskan who lives primarily in Anchorage in a home on Campbell Lake ...
  
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• Lakota will not give up pipeline battle - Alaska Dispatch News

  26-11-2016 05:44
  
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  Lakota will not give up pipeline battle
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  Protesters block Highway 1806 in Mandan during a protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota on Wednesday. (REUTERS/Stephanie Keith). The Great Plains Indian Wars have ...and more »
  
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• Look familiar? Trump's plan for cutting regulations mirrors Alaska ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  26-11-2016 04:05
  
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  Look familiar? Trump's plan for cutting regulations mirrors Alaska ...
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  WASHINGTON — One of president-elect Donald Trump's newly released plans for his first days in office may sound familiar to Alaskans who pay close attention ...and more »
  
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• Criminal Justice Reform – understanding SB 91

  26-11-2016 03:00
  
  Last year the legislature passed a far-reaching omnibus criminal justice reform bill – SB 91. It was based on recommendations from the Criminal Justice Reform Commission and developed to both save money and reduce recidivism. It’s based on data from similar initiatives around the country. Opponents says it’s soft on crime and lets people off too easily. But political arguments aside – what does this 128-page tomb actually do? What’s already happening and what’
  
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• An ambitious state study aims to reduce Mat-Su moose crashes - Alaska Dispatch News

  26-11-2016 02:52
  
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  An ambitious state study aims to reduce Mat-Su moose crashes
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  KNIK — Only a frozen patina of blood remained on the stretch of Knik-Goose Bay Road where a 30-year-old driver hit a moose two days earlier. The moose had been hauled off to somebody on a salvage list for meat. Nick Jensen, a technician for the Alaska ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Nov. 25, 2016

  26-11-2016 02:33
  
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  All absentee ballots counted and accounted for
  Jay Barrett, KMXT – Kodiak
  Just before heading out for the Thanksgiving holiday, the Alaska Division of Elections made its final count Wednesday of outstanding ballots from the November 8th General Election.
  Rural lawmakers wield power without recent preceden
  
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• Alaska Gov. Walker looks to local leaders for help lobbying lawmakers on budget plan - Alaska Dispatch News

  26-11-2016 01:42
  
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  Alaska Gov. Walker looks to local leaders for help lobbying lawmakers on budget plan
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  Alaska Gov. Bill Walker has a new message for local government leaders forced to cut their budgets because of state spending reductions: Help me help you. Walker in June used his veto power to slash spending on an array of state programs in a bid to ...
  
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• Photos: Best of the 2016 GCI Great Alaska Shootout - Alaska Dispatch News

  26-11-2016 01:18
  
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  Photos: Best of the 2016 GCI Great Alaska Shootout
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  The Nevada bench celebrates a second-half three-point shot. Nevada beat Buffalo, 67-62, in the semifinals of the Great Alaska Shootout men's basketball tournament on Friday, November 25, 2016.. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News). Buy Photo.
  Oakland tops Alaska Anchorage 71-65 in Great Alaska ShootoutThe Oakland Press
  Pack rides defense past Buffalo, into Alaska title gameReno Gazette Journal
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• AK: Native fashion designs dazzle catwalks - Alaska Public Radio Network

  26-11-2016 01:17
  
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  AK: Native fashion designs dazzle catwalks
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  November is Native American Heritage Month. To celebrate, we're taking you down the catwalk and into the heart of contemporary Native fashion. From seal skin corsets to gowns fringed like Eagle feathers, today's designers are finding new silhouettes ...
  
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• AK: Native fashion designs dazzle catwalks

  26-11-2016 01:11
  
  November is Native American Heritage Month. To celebrate, we’re taking you down the catwalk and into the heart of contemporary Native fashion. From seal skin corsets to gowns fringed like Eagle feathers, today’s designers are finding new silhouettes for traditional art. And their customers love it. Dodging hairspray and safety pins, KCAW’s Emily Kwong went backstage at Sealaska Heritage Institute’s Native Fashion show to talk with two of the sewers on the cutting edge of
  
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• DOC seeks input on re-purposing Palmer Correctional Center

  26-11-2016 01:09
  The Palmer Correctional Center, now shuttered after a state Department of Corrections decision to close it due to budget cuts, was the topic of a “brainstorming” session earlier this month. The state wants input on how to re-purpose the buildings and the land now occupied by the prison. DOC spokesman Corey Allen-Young says the session was not a public hearing, but an informal gathering of people with ideas to share.
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• 49 Voices: Ma’o Tosi of Anchorage

  26-11-2016 01:05
  
  This week we’re hearing from Ma’o Tosi in Anchorage. Tosi is a property manager at the Northway Mall and a community advocate.
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  Ma’o Tosi of Anchorage (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)TOSI: When we first moved here, we ended up moving into a family’s house in Eagle River and we stayed there for about a month. That was my first experience around just white people. It was very uncomfortable for me and my older brother that at Gruening
  
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• Shooting Champions

  26-11-2016 01:00
  
  Clay Pigeons crtsy: Wisconsin DNRAlaska produces some of the world’s best shooters, and two of them join us on the next show. These are athletes with shotguns who can perform incredible feats of concentration, blasting clay targets out of the sky with consistency that no one else on Earth can match. In the first half of the show we’ll hear from Corey Cogdell-Unrein, who learned to shoot at the Birchwood Recreation and Shooting Park, before heading off the Olympics three times, medali
  
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• Sitkans aim to raise funds, traditional foods for Standing Rock protestors

  26-11-2016 00:37
  
  Protests on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation continue this week. That’s despite rising tensions between protesters and police and dropping temperatures in the Midwest. An event in Sitka this Saturday aims to raise food and funds for the reservation’s residents, who fear that the Dakota Access Pipeline could threaten their drinking water and destroy sacred lands.
  Lakota Harden’s family is from the Lakota Nation in South Dakota. “I’m a Miniconjou and Yankton Lakota
  
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• Sitkans aim to raise funds, traditional foods for Standing Rock protesters

  26-11-2016 00:37
  
  Protests on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation continue this week. That’s despite rising tensions between protesters and police and dropping temperatures in the Midwest. An event in Sitka this Saturday aims to raise food and funds for the reservation’s residents, who fear that the Dakota Access Pipeline could threaten their drinking water and destroy sacred lands.
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  Lakota Harden’s family is from the Lakota Nation in South Dakota. “I’m a Miniconjou and Yan
  
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• All absentee ballots counted and accounted for

  26-11-2016 00:21
  
  Just before heading out for the Thanksgiving holiday, the Alaska Division of Elections made its final count Wednesday of outstanding ballots from the November 8th General Election.
  About 700 more absentee and nearly 200 questioned ballots were added to the House District 32 totals, but they did not change the results – Representative Louise Stutes of Kodiak has been reelected.
  As of a count of outstanding ballots on November 18th, the Republican led unaffiliated challenger Duncan Fields. A
  
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• Trump, Congress and Southeast timber, what are the possibilities?

  26-11-2016 00:11
  
  The Tongass National Forest includes most of Southeast Alaska. (Image courtesy U.S. Forest Service.)Could President-elect Donald Trump and the incoming Republican-led Congress change logging plans in Southeast Alaska? Changes to the Tongass forest plan amendment, a contentious Forest Service regulation, are possible.
  The Tongass Land Management Plan amendment is on its way to being finalized next month. The plan aims to move the Southeast timber industry away from logging old-growth forests over
  
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• Series of storms bringing winter weather to Southcentral, Southwest ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  26-11-2016 00:01
  
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  Series of storms bringing winter weather to Southcentral, Southwest ...
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  Forecasters with the National Weather Service warned Friday that wind and snow from a powerful storm system moving out of the Pacific Ocean could make for ...
  Winter weather advisory issued for parts of Southcentral Alaska ...KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Powerful storm expected to hit Southcentral Alaska over weekendKTUU.comall 4 news articles »
  
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