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• Agency identifies 4 Alaska State Troopers involved in Nikiski shooting - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-12-2016 23:33
  
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  Agency identifies 4 Alaska State Troopers involved in Nikiski shooting
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  Alaska State Troopers have identified the four troopers who shot at a man wanted on multiple felony warrants in Nikiski on Wednesday. In a release issued Saturday, the troopers involved were identified as Lt. Dane Gilmore, Sgt. Jeremy Grieme, Sgt ...and more »
  
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• Port Graham man found hiding in camp after days of searching - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-12-2016 22:42
  
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  Port Graham man found hiding in camp after days of searching
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  A Port Graham man was found alive after several days of searching by the U.S. Coast Guard and Alaska State Troopers. But he may not have wanted to be found. On Nov. 30, the troopers and the Coast Guard received a report that 34-year-old Ryan ...
  
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• Alaska Airlines Settles Lawsuit and 6 Other Aviation Trends This ... - Skift

  10-12-2016 21:13
  
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  Alaska Airlines Settles Lawsuit and 6 Other Aviation Trends This ...
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  Throughout the week we post dozens of original stories, connecting the dots across the travel industry, and every weekend we sum it all up. This weekend ro.and more »
  
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• Why Shares of Alaska Air, JetBlue, and Hawaiian Holdings Flew Higher in November - Motley Fool

  10-12-2016 15:40
  
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  Why Shares of Alaska Air, JetBlue, and Hawaiian Holdings Flew Higher in November
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  Midsize airlines are posting some of the best results in the airline industry. Last month, they got rewarded for their strong performance with double-digit gains. Adam Levine-Weinberg. (TMFGemHunter). Dec 10, 2016 at 9:40AM. U.S. airline stocks soared ...and more »
  
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• SF child porn suspect caught in Alaska after 4 years on the lam - SFGate

  10-12-2016 06:18
  
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  SF child porn suspect caught in Alaska after 4 years on the lam
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  An alleged San Francisco child predator listed as a wanted fugitive by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations unit was caught in Alaska this week after four years on the run, officials said Friday. Kevin Trask, 40, was charged with possession and ...
  Alleged Bay Area child predator and fugitive arrested in AlaskaKRNV My News 4
  Child porn suspect on 'most wanted' list arrested in AlaskaReutersall 26 news articles 
  
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• Washington congresswoman will likely lead Trump’s Interior Department

  10-12-2016 03:24
  
  
  Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers during a markup in the Energy & Commerce Committee this year. (Photo courtesy office of Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers)Multiple national news outlets are reporting President-elect Donald Trump is set to pick Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Republican congresswoman from Washington state to lead the Department of Interior.
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  She’s seen as friendly to industry, drawing criticism from some environmentalists. But others think she’s a relatively mod
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Dec. 9, 2016

  10-12-2016 03:13
  
  
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  Obama draws fury and joy with Bering Sea protection
  Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Washington D.C.
  President Obama today issued an executive order creating the “Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area.” Alaska’s congressional delegation says Obama is acting with unilateral authori
  
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• AK: Hundreds of Douglas kids band together in music class

  10-12-2016 01:54
  
  Gastineau Elementary School student Sophia Lundeman sings and plays guitar during a music class led by Patrick Murphy (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska News)When you think about an elementary school music class, a choir might come to mind. The students sing choral standards with their teacher standing in front, or backing them up on piano.But these days, some of those classes are different. In Juneau, one music teacher has hundreds of kids playing guitars, mandolins, ukuleles and banjos &ndas
  
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• Exito sinking victim search called off

  10-12-2016 01:47
  
  The U.S. Coast Guard has called off the search for two people who went missing Tuesday after their ship sank north of Unalaska.
  Coast Guard officials made the announcement Thursday after a cutter, a helicopter crew, and several volunteer vessels spent more than 40 hours looking for the crew members of the sunken boat Exito.
  The ship went down late Tuesday night with five people on-board. Within an hour, three were rescued by a Good Samaritan vessel. But there’s been no sign of th
  
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• Mt. Edgecumbe High School wrestlers learn about healthy relationships

  10-12-2016 01:31
  
  The Mt. Edgecumbe High School wrestling team. Emory Johnson helps hold up the poster. (Photo by Emily Russell, KCAW – Sitka)This fall, student wrestlers at Mt. Edgecumbe High School took part in a program called, ‘Coaching Boys into Men.’ The idea is to teach young players how to have healthy relationships even if, in the case of Mt. Edgecumbe, half of the wrestlers will grow up to be women.
  The entire student body of Mt. Edgecumbe, more than 400 students from over 100 villages
  
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• Ask a Climatologist: With snow and cold, ‘it’s Alaska again’

  10-12-2016 01:28
  
  A pedestrian walks through a snowstorm on Dec. 7, 2016 in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)It’s winter again in Alaska. There’s snow on the ground across most of the state. Some places, notably Juneau, have a lot of fresh snow. It’s cold too, and those below normal temperatures are expected to stick around for the rest of the month.
  Brian Brettschneider is a climatologist in Anchorage who closely tracks Alaska climate data and trends. Alaska
  
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• 49 Voices: Ives Viray in Anchorage

  10-12-2016 01:28
  
  This week we’re hearing from Ives Viray from Anchorage. Viray is a professional break-dancer and is looking to open Express Dance Studio early next year.
  Ives Viray in Anchorage (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)VIRAY: I just saw slightly older kids doing it. It was at a local Spenard recreational center actually. I was always athletic and I saw these kids doing acrobatic things and I was like, ‘Woah. That’s new to me.’ I feel like I can take m
  
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• Cuba: The Embargo Within the Embargo

  10-12-2016 01:20
  At the World Affairs Council he has organized and led five trips to Cuba, including with Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed. Shapiro’s op-eds have been published most recently the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the Latin America Advisor, the Huffington Post, the Miami Herald, the San Diego Union Tribune and the Los Angeles Times.
  President Bush awarded Shapiro a presidential Meritorious Service Award in 2004, the Chilean Foreign Ministry made him a knight commander in the Orden al Mérito de Chil
  
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• Revisiting Small Game Hunting

  10-12-2016 01:00
  
  Photo of a willow ptarmigan in transitional plumage. Photo by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.Small game can be an entry for young people into hunting, but it’s also is a tradition for sportsmen going back centuries and shows up in classic literature from all over the world. On the next Outdoor Explorer, we’re revisiting hunting upland game birds and small mammals. It can be low-key fun that you do with friends near town, or it can be an all-consuming hobby involving exte
  
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• Obama draws fury and joy with Bering Sea protection

  10-12-2016 00:59
  
  (Photo courtesy of Bering Sea Elders Group)President Obama today issued an executive order creating the “Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area.” The area covers more than 100 thousand square miles off Alaska’s western coast, from the mouth of the Kuskokwim to just north of the Bering Strait. The president’s order withdraws about 40 percent of the area from offshore oil and gas leasing. It also reaffirms an existing ban in the area on bottom-trawl fish
  
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• Missing Plane Likely Crashed Into Alaska Lake, Officials Say - ABC News

  10-12-2016 00:53
  
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  Missing Plane Likely Crashed Into Alaska Lake, Officials Say
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  File - In this July 5, 2013, file photo is a glacier in Lake Clark Pass near Port Alsworth, Alaska. Authorities were searching Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, for a small plane with four people on board missing in the narrow, mountainous valley believed to be ...
  Former College Station family on missing plane in Alaska presumed deadKBTX
  College Station family possibly connected in missing Alaska planeKAGS News
  Debris found;
  
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