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• Traveling Music 12-4-16

  30-11-2016 22:35
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  12-4-16
   
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  Song TitleArtist / Composer
  CD Title
  Label
  Duration
   
  The View From Here (mandolin instrumental)
  Matt Flinner
  The View From Here
  Alliance
  4:32
   
  You’re Welcome Here Kind Stranger
  Tommy Sands / Tommy Sands
  To Shorten The Winter
  Green Linnet
  5:08
   
  Wintergrace
  Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / Jean Ritchie
  Winter’s Grace
  Signature Sounds
  5:05
   
  Peace
  Misty River / Dana Abel
  Midwinter Songs of Christmas
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• Frigid air mass building in Alaska, poised to spill into Lower 48 next week - Washington Post

  30-11-2016 22:15
  
  Washington Post
  Frigid air mass building in Alaska, poised to spill into Lower 48 next week
  Washington Post
  Alaska is witnessing its coldest air in almost two years, and some of the biting chill is forecast to plunge into the western United States in about a week's time. In Fairbanks on Tuesday morning, the temperature tanked to minus-31 degrees, ending a ...and more »
  
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• Frigid air mass building in Alaska, poised to spill into Lower 48 next ... - Washington Post

  30-11-2016 22:15
  
  Washington Post
  Frigid air mass building in Alaska, poised to spill into Lower 48 next ...
  Washington Post
  Alaska is witnessing its coldest air in almost two years, and some of the biting chill is forecast to plunge into the western United States in about a week's time.and more »
  
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• Invasive strep outbreak kills 4 Alaska Natives - CBS News

  30-11-2016 19:03
  
  CBS News
  Invasive strep outbreak kills 4 Alaska Natives
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Four Alaskans have died this year in an outbreak of invasive strep bacteria that has mostly affected the homeless and Alaska Natives in the state's two largest cities, the state's epidemiologist said Tuesday. Dr. Joe McLaughlin ...and more »
  
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• Strep bacterial strain new to Alaska causes 4 deaths - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  30-11-2016 05:04
  
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Strep bacterial strain new to Alaska causes 4 deaths
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is keeping a close eye on a new bacterial strain in Alaska that has already killed four people. According to state epidemiologist Dr. Joe McLaughlin, most of the patients have been homeless and most ...and more »
  
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• In Alaska, a cluster of family murder-suicides leads to anguish and mystery - Alaska Dispatch News

  30-11-2016 04:57
  
  Alaska Dispatch News
  In Alaska, a cluster of family murder-suicides leads to anguish and mystery
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Investigators in Fairbanks said Tuesday that autopsies confirm the four people found dead in a hotel room Friday died from gunshot wounds, supporting their earlier contention that the deaths were the result of a murder-suicide. But they have not said ...
  Autopsies completed on four people found dead in Fairbanks hotelFairbanks Daily News-Minerall 6 news articles »
  
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• Southcentral’s only meat packing plant up for grabs

  30-11-2016 04:05
  
  Southcentral Alaska’s only federally-approved meat packing plant, Mt. McKinley Meat and Sausage in Palmer, is up for sale or lease.
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  The Mt. McKinley Meat and Sausage in Palmer (Photo by Ellen Lockyer, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)The state Board of Agriculture and Conservation issued a request for proposals for bids on the plant in late October. The deadline for the bids was Monday of this week. Amanda Swanson, with the state division of agriculture, said two bids were
  
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• Interior Dept. gives Ahtna region more say in moose, caribou hunt

  30-11-2016 04:05
  
  Deputy Interior Secretary Michael L. Connor joins Christopher Gene (center) and Karen Linnell of the Ahtna Intertribal Resource Commission to sign an agreement giving Alaska Native tribes in the Ahtna region more say over subsistence resources. (Photo by Rachel Waldholz, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage)In its final days, the Obama administration is forging ahead with a promise to include Alaska Native tribes in the management of fish and wildlife on federal land.
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016

  30-11-2016 04:00
  
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  Interior Dept. gives Ahtna region more say in moose, caribou hunt
  Rachel Waldholz, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage
  In its final days, the Obama administration is forging ahead with a promise to include Alaska Native tribes in the management of fish and wildlife on federal land.
  Deadline nears for M
  
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• Anchorage NAACP elects new president

  30-11-2016 03:34
  The Anchorage Branch of the NAACP elected a new president last week – Kevin McGee.
  McGee said the NAACP is focused on more than just the rights of African-Americans; it is building relationships with other community organizations to stand up for the rights for all Alaskans.
  “We work better as a team within the entire community helping address each others’ issues to see if they can improve for the benefit of everybody,” he said during a phone interview.
  The election of Don
  
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• Former Attorney General Richards joins Bering Straits Native Corp.

  30-11-2016 03:19
  
  Alaska’s former attorney general has a new job.
  Former Attorney General Craig Richards addressed the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. board on Sept. 2, 2016. (Photo by Rachel Waldholz, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage)Craig Richards will be the vice president and general counsel for the Bering Straits Native Corporation.
  Richards said he looks forward to serving the Nome region.
  “Really, what convinced me that it was the right place for me was just meeting everyone and se
  
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• Armstrong Oil and Gas has high hopes for another North Slope find this winter

  30-11-2016 03:19
  
  Armstrong has high hopes for a development in its Pikka Unit on the North Slope. (Photo courtesy Armstrong Oil and Gas)As the amount of oil flowing through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System declines, big new finds on the North Slope are kindling a lot of excitement in Alaska. Speaking at a recent conference in Anchorage, Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Andy Mack called out one find in particular.
  “We think that Pikka is going to be critical to bring production not only in balan
  
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• North Slope caribou hunters face new restrictions

  30-11-2016 03:06
  
  With herd numbers down, hunting seasons and bag limits for caribou on the North Slope may face tighter restrictions.
  The animals in question belong to the Central Arctic Caribou Herd of hunting Unit 26. The herd’s population peaked between 2008 and 2010 at approximately 70,000 caribou. Due to high female mortality rates, current numbers indicate the herd is 22,000 strong.
  When herd numbers dip this low, Department of Fish and Game Wildlife Biologist Beth Lenart said that the department wil
  
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• Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center welcomes two new wolves

  30-11-2016 02:54
  The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Portage is welcoming a two new wolves. Robin Randich is the Center’s marketing manager. She says the Center’s two resident wolves, Brie and Deshka, are both females, so to build a pack, males were needed.
  “Kind of a family dynamic of a wolf pack is to bring males in,” Randich said. “It is very healthy for everybody, it evens out the power dynamics, it evens out kind of the Alpha and Beta dynamics, so we needed male wolves i
  
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• Central Arctic caribou population drops by half over three years

  30-11-2016 02:41
  Reports from state biologists indicate that the population of the Central Arctic caribou herd has dropped by about half during the past three years. The herd, which hit it’s peak of about 70,000 animals in 2010, dropped to about 50,000 in 2013.
  Now, state Fish and Game biologists estimated the herd’s numbers at around 22,000, although there is no reason apparent reason for the drop.
  Beth Lenart is a a state biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Fairbanks offic
  
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• Earthquake swarm in Port Heiden continues

  30-11-2016 02:38
  
  Aniakchak Monument and Preserve near Port Heiden. (Photo courtesy of Williams, M. /National Park Service)Earthquakes have rattled through Port Heiden more often than usual this year. Michael West is the State Seismologist with the Alaska Earthquake Center. He took a look to compare this year’s quake numbers with other years’.
  “If we look back over the past 15 years or so at earthquake activity in the area of Port Heiden that’s shallow in the earth what we can say is that
  
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• Deadline nears for Murkowski energy bill

  30-11-2016 02:18
  
  Photo by Liz RuskinTime is running out on one of Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s top priorities: a far-reaching energy bill. Murkowski had hoped the legislation would serve as her crowning achievement after two years as chairman of the Senate Energy Committee.
  But Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday listed a substantial number of priorities for the remaining weeks of the lame duck session. The Kentucky senator sounded both hopeful and doubtful about negotiations w
  
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• Sockeye fire trial postponed again

  30-11-2016 02:10
  
  
  Updated: 4:00 p.m. Nov. 29, 2016
  The Sockeye fire trial, which was scheduled to begin Tuesday, has been re-scheduled. At pre-trial hearing on Monday, Kevin Fitzgerald — attorney for defendant Greg Imig — asked the court to delay the trial until mid-January, due to an Imig family emergency.
  Assistant Alaska district attorney Eric Senta opposed the motion, saying that numerous Willow area mushers had planned to attend the trial this week, and that a January date would interfere with th
  
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• Community in Unity: Race & Identity

  30-11-2016 02:00
  
  
  The audience prepares for Community in Unity: Race & Identity on Nov. 17, 2016. (Townsend/Alaska Public Media)How much does race matter? Does it define who you are? How people react to you? This is Community in Unity: Race & Identity, a public conversation about race, how it helps us define ourselves, and how it influences our interactions with others.
  Community in Unity: Race & Identity was recorded on Nov. 17, 2016 at the Alaska Public Media Studios in Anchorage. It was a
  
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• What’s school like in Tenakee Springs without a school?

  30-11-2016 01:02
  
  1 of 5 Yakobi Nash and his mother Iris at the Tenakee Springs Independent Learning Center. (Photo by Quinton Chandler, KTOO - Juneau)Yakobi Nash and his mother Iris at the Tenakee Springs Independent Learning Center. (Photo by Quinton Chandler, KTOO - Juneau)Megan Bush leads kids to the playground for their afternoon recess at the Tenakee Springs Independent Learning Center. Bush is the's center’s facilitator. (Photo by Quinton Chandler, KTOO - Juneau)Megan Bush leads kids to the playgroun
  
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