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• Moderate earthquake rattles Interior Alaska - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  08-12-2016 17:02
  
  Moderate earthquake rattles Interior Alaska
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  Welcome! We hope you enjoy our content and decide to subscribe for full access. Visit newsminer.com/subscribe or call 907-456-6661. FAIRBANKS - An earthquake jolted Interior Alaska residents early Thursday. The 4.6 magnitude quake, reported at 1:18 ...
  
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• 2 remain missing after boat sinks near Dutch Harbor - Alaska ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  08-12-2016 16:33
  
  2 remain missing after boat sinks near Dutch Harbor - Alaska ...
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  The Exito helped with the Selendang Ayu operation, primarily with oiled bird surveys and oiled bird rescue in 2004. (Steve Ebbert). Update 6:15 a.m. Thursday: ...and more »
  
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• Alaska divided over possibility of Pruitt as new head of EPA - KTUU.com

  08-12-2016 08:22
  
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  Alaska divided over possibility of Pruitt as new head of EPA
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  ANCHORAGE (KTUU_ Reports that a climate change skeptic is a front runner to lead President elect Trump's Environmental Protection Agency was met with hope and condemnation in Alaska. NBC News reports, sources close to Trump expect him to ...
  The Climate-Change GangNational Review Online
  Trump Picks Scott Pruitt, Climate Change Denialist, to Lead EPANew York Times
  Trump names Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma attorney gener
  
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• Small plane crash kills 1, separate small plane goes missing in ... - CBS News

  08-12-2016 05:53
  
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  Small plane crash kills 1, separate small plane goes missing in ...
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  Last Updated Dec 8, 2016 2:15 AM EST. ANCHORAGE -- A search is underway for a plane carrying four people that left Port Alsworth Wednesday morning ...and more »
  
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• Troopers shoot man in Nikiski they say drove toward them - Alaska ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  08-12-2016 05:39
  
  Troopers shoot man in Nikiski they say drove toward them - Alaska ...
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  Several Alaska State Troopers opened fire Wednesday at a man in Nikiski who they said was driving at them, troopers said in a dispatch. The man was wounded ...and more »
  
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• Former Alaska lawmaker Mike Kelly dies in plane crash southeast of Fairbanks - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  08-12-2016 05:09
  
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  Former Alaska lawmaker Mike Kelly dies in plane crash southeast of Fairbanks
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  Welcome! We hope you enjoy our content and decide to subscribe for full access. Visit newsminer.com/subscribe or call 907-456-6661. FAIRBANKS — Former Republican state Rep. Mike Kelly, of Fairbanks, died in a plane crash at about 1:30 p.m. ...and more »
  
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• Head of Alaska's Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office to step down - Alaska Dispatch News

  08-12-2016 04:59
  
  Head of Alaska's Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office to step down
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  Cynthia Franklin, executive director of the Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office, testifies during a hearing at the Anchorage LIO on Sept. 14, 2016. Franklin announced her resignation Wednesday. (Erik Hill / Alaska Dispatch News). Cynthia Franklin, the ...
  
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• Accusations of fake news and Islamophobia fill Anchorage Assembly

  08-12-2016 04:50
  
  
  Greg and Maleika Jones spoke to the Anchorage Assembly on Dec. 6 , asking for an apology from member Amy Demboski. The couple eventually received a standing ovation from the crowded chamber. (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media)An online controversy spread to the halls of city government in Anchorage on Tuesday, with accusations flying about fake news, liberal media bias and a militant Islamic training camp in Wasilla that does not exist.
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• Money management at Mental Health Trust raises concerns

  08-12-2016 03:52
  
  William Foster holds some of the ornaments he helped make at Bean’s Cafe as part of a project funded by the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)Congress set up the Alaska Mental Health Trust in 1956 to make sure the state could provide mental health care programs to its residents far into the future. But the Trust has had a tumultuous history, and now, some state leaders fear it could be in danger once more. Legislators are considering a special audit of the
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016

  08-12-2016 03:45
  
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  Trump taps petrol industry ally for top EPA job 
  Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Washington D.C.
  President-elect Donald Trump has selected a friend of the oil and gas industry to be EPA administrator: Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt. Pruitt has fought President Obama’s environmental po
  
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• Alaska Airlines Settles a Lawsuit Over Its Virgin America Merger - Skift

  08-12-2016 03:40
  
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  Alaska Airlines Settles a Lawsuit Over Its Virgin America Merger
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  Alaska Airlines has removed one more impediment to closing its merger with Virgin America. Alaska Airlines. Photo: Alaska Airlines. Share Tweet Post Send. Skift Take. It's not likely Alaska Airlines would have lost in court, but this case was still a ...
  Justice Department approves Alaska Airlines' acquisition of Virgin AmericaLos Angeles Times
  Justice Dept. OKs Alaska Airlines-Virgin America mergerUSA TODAY
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• Two missing after vessel sinks near Dutch Harbor

  08-12-2016 02:59
  
  Priest Rock on a foggy day in July. (Laura Kraegel, KUCB – Unalaska)Updated: 11:33 a.m. 
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  Two people are missing after a commercial fishing vessel sank near Unalaska Tuesday night, forcing crew members to abandon ship.
  Around 10 p.m., the U.S. Coast Guard received reports that the 117-foot Exito was taking on water north of Unalaska Bay.
  Petty Officer Meredith Manning said Air Station Kodiak sent a rescue helicopter crew to respond, while four vessels nearby volunteered to h
  
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• UAF rape victim speaks out following investigation completion

  08-12-2016 02:58
  
  The University of Alaska Fairbanks has completed its investigation of a campus rape case. Citing confidentiality rules, the university will not comment on the September 2016 case, but the victim is again speaking out.
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  Former University of Alaska Fairbanks student Jessie Wattum, who first went public with her story in October, said the university’s investigation backs her claim, that a male student had sex with her in the Bartlett Hall dormitory, while she was incapacitated by al
  
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• How much oil is really in ANWR?

  08-12-2016 02:51
  
  The Porcupine Caribou herd in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain. (Photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)The coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ranks as one of the most controversial chunks of land in Alaska. Since Congress set it aside for more study in 1980, environmental groups, politicians and the oil and gas industry have battled over whether to explore for petroleum there or to protect the wilderness forever.
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• Galena school board president ousted

  08-12-2016 02:50
  
  Galena School Board President Kim Kopp has been recalled.
  102 votes were cast in favor of recalling Kopp during Tuesday’s election, compared to 67 saying no to the recall.
  26 questioned and absentee ballots remain to be counted, but that should not be enough to sway the outcome.
  The results are unofficial until the final votes are tallied and the results are certified later this month.
  Former Galena School Board member Jenny Bryant and other recall sponsors accused Kopp of incompetence and
  
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• Trump taps petroleum industry ally for top EPA job

  08-12-2016 01:41
  
  Donald Trump file photo by Gage Skidmore/CC 2.0President-elect Donald Trump has selected a friend of the oil and gas industry to be EPA administrator: Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt.
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  Pruitt has fought President Obama’s environmental policies, on behalf of his state, and with other attorneys general. He was a leader in a multi-state lawsuit against the EPA over its Clean Power plan, designed to reduce emissions from power plants.
  U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan said the choice sho
  
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