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• Waning membership spurs Anchorage ski organization to change tack

  21-12-2016 23:27
  Without much snow, the last couple of years have been tough for many winter-sport enthusiasts across Southcentral Alaska, especially cross-country skiers. And conditions have forced an Anchorage organization to rely on artificial methods to keep the ski community alive in the state’s largest city.
  Snow-making machines are a common sight for downhill skiers, but not so much in the cross-country skiing community — until recently.
  “It’s basically saved Nordic skiing for the
  
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• Is It Time to Worry About Alaska Airlines' Debt? - Motley Fool

  21-12-2016 22:15
  
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  Is It Time to Worry About Alaska Airlines' Debt?
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  The Seattle-based airline took on a fair amount of liability to complete its recent merger with Virgin America. Asit Sharma. (TMFfinosus). Dec 21, 2016 at 4:15PM. As Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) celebrated the completion of its acquisition of Virgin ...
  Alaska Airlines alters mileage plans, severs tiesFairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Alaska Airlines, Delta to end partnership in April 2017 amid growing competitionKOMO News
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• Traveling Music 1-8-17

  21-12-2016 21:57
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  1-8-17
   
  Format:
  Song TitleArtist / Composer
  CD Title
  Label
  Duration
   
  Let It Go
  Pentatonix / Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez
  That’s Christmas To Me
  ptxofficial.com
  3:25
   
  Voices of Winter / Red & Green
  Priscilla Herdman, Anne Hills, Cindy Mangsen / Ann Hills, Maddy Prior
  Voices of Winter
  Gadfly Records
  5:43
   
  Johnny’s Christmas Stocking, Ballyvournie Polka, JP’s Polka, Good King Wenceslaus (instrumentals)
  Mary Coogan
  
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• Trump win ignites hope for stalled Alaska copper, gold mine | Reuters - Reuters

  21-12-2016 21:40
  
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  Trump win ignites hope for stalled Alaska copper, gold mine | Reuters
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  A small Canadian miner is confident Donald Trump's U.S. presidential win will let it proceed with an application for a copper and gold mine in Alaska that has ...and more »
  
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• Kenai conference to recognize US purchase of Alaska in 1867 - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  21-12-2016 21:19
  
  Kenai conference to recognize US purchase of Alaska in 1867
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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. KENAI, Alaska (AP) - Organizers on the Kenai Peninsula are putting together a conference marking the 150th anniversary ...and more »
  
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• Alaska predicts rise in oil prices, drop in production - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  21-12-2016 21:19
  
  Alaska predicts rise in oil prices, drop in production
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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. JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - The state Department of Revenue predicts an increase in oil prices next year will provide Alaska ...and more »
  
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• Anchorage, Alaska, Utilities Go High-Tech With Smart Meters - Government Technology

  21-12-2016 21:18
  
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  Anchorage, Alaska, Utilities Go High-Tech With Smart Meters
  Government Technology
  The meters will cut costs, make responses to outages faster, and allow customers to monitor their own power use. by Devin Kelly, Alaska Dispatch News, (Anchorage, Alaska) / December 21, 2016 0. Photo Courtesy of Shutterstock. (TNS) -- Some of Alaska's ...
  
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• Alaska predicts rise in oil prices, drop in production - KTUU.com

  21-12-2016 20:50
  
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  Alaska predicts rise in oil prices, drop in production
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  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - The state Department of Revenue predicts an increase in oil prices next year will provide Alaska with hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenue. Alaska's Energy Desk reports that the department's tax division released ...
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• Two Alaska Airlines flights hit by lightning in Alaska - USA TODAY

  21-12-2016 20:29
  
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  Two Alaska Airlines flights hit by lightning in Alaska
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  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Two Alaska Airlines flights were struck by lightning Monday, causing them to be removed from service so they could be inspected for any damage. The Juneau Empire newspaper reports the first strike occurred as a plane from Juneau ...
  
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• Obama Bans New Oil and Gas Drilling Off Alaska and Part of the Atlantic Coast - Fortune

  21-12-2016 11:42
  
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  Obama Bans New Oil and Gas Drilling Off Alaska and Part of the Atlantic Coast
  Fortune
  U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday banned new oil and gas drilling in federal waters in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, in a push to leave his stamp on the environment before Republican Donald Trump takes office next month. Obama used a 1950s-era ...
  Obama prohibits drilling in most US Arctic watersAlaska Dispatch News
  Obama bans new oil, gas drilling off Alaska, part of Atlantic coastReuters
  
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• President Obama shortens prison term for Alaska man - Alaska Dispatch News

  21-12-2016 06:28
  
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  President Obama shortens prison term for Alaska man
  Alaska Dispatch News
  A single federal inmate from Alaska was granted a commutation Monday in President Barack Obama's latest round of clemency. Benjamin Meneses III had his 20-year prison sentence commuted to expire on Dec. 19, 2018. The grant requires Meneses to ...and more »
  
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• A new ecosystem of young entrepreneurs is working to redefine 'Alaska-made' - Alaska Dispatch News

  21-12-2016 04:16
  
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  A new ecosystem of young entrepreneurs is working to redefine 'Alaska-made'
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Cut & Caliber handcrafted grooming and lifestyle products, including beard oil and pomade, are displayed at The Mercantile in downtown Anchorage. (Erik Hill / Alaska Dispatch News). Anchorage-based clothier 49th Supply Co. isn't just a company that ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016

  21-12-2016 03:59
  
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  Obama ‘indefinitely’ bars drilling in Arctic waters
  Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Washington D.C.
  President Obama has issued an order blocking future oil and gas development in the entire Chukchi Sea and nearly all of the Beaufort.
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• Revenue department forecasts jump in oil prices, drop in production

  21-12-2016 03:45
  
  A crowd walks across a map of Alaska at the Alaska State Library, Archives & Museum on Dec. 19, 2016, in Juneau. The state released its revenue sources book, which will help lawmakers and Gov. Bill Walker work out a budget for the upcoming year. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)When it comes to the state’s bottom line, the tax division’s revenue sources book predicts a patchwork of good and bad news for the state.
  The good news is oil prices are forecast to g
  
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• Man sentenced for drunken Iditarod snowmachine incident

  21-12-2016 03:44
  
  Jeff King and Aliy Zirkle thank the community of Nulato at the Iditarod Banquet Sunday night. The checkpoint village raised money for the mushers after a drunk snowmachiner struck their teams on the trail. (Photo by Laura Kraegel, KNOM – Nome)A drunk driver who ran his snowmachine into the dog teams of two front-running Iditarod mushers during the last year’s race was sentenced in state court in Fairbanks Dec. 19. Under a plea agreement, 27-year-old Arnold Demoski of Nulato was sente
  
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• Kodiak kids make sandwiches for the needy

  21-12-2016 03:44
  
  The holidays tend to inspire people to be all-the-more charitable, and a couple of classes at Peterson Elementary School have made the spirit of giving a monthly tradition. Since September, a group of second grade students have been among those to put a little time aside to make sandwiches for those in need.
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  Second graders Daniel and Holly put together sandwiches for the Brother Francis Shelter in their classroom at Peterson Elementary. (Photo by Kayla Desroches/KMXT)Daniel stuffs a h
  
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• Despite fire, the World Ice Art Championships will still go on

  21-12-2016 03:44
  
  Preparations for the 2017 World Ice Art Championships are continuing in Fairbanks, despite a fire that destroyed the annual ice sculpture event’s main building Friday.
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  ”Saturday, we harvested 120 blocks of ice,” Ice Alaska Board chairman Hank Bartos said. “We’re gonna have the events going on as normal because ice does not burn.”
  Bartos said the board is meeting this week to talk about what its going to take, besides ice, to pull off the event,
  
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• The feds are finally paying to move a village, but it’s not in Alaska

  21-12-2016 03:24
  
  The village of Newtok in western Alaska, in August 2016. (Photo by Eric Keto/Alaska’s Energy Desk)Alaska villages facing rapid erosion have been trying to move for decades. But they’ve always run up against one major problem: money.
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  Then this year, for the first time, the federal government made available tens of millions of dollars to relocate a small Native village threatened by climate change.
  The problem is that village is in Louisiana, not Alaska.
  One day this pa
  
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• Alaska Pacific University to become tribal college

  21-12-2016 03:24
  
  The Alaska Pacific University board of trustees voted Dec. 19 to partner with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium to transform the small Anchorage-based university into a tribal college.  
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  The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is part of a statewide network of tribal health organizations. It trains mid-level dental health aides, community health aides and water and sewer plant operators, among others.Alaska Pacific University Trustee John Wanamaker said that
  
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• Gov. Walker proposes stable Fish and Game budget

  21-12-2016 03:23
  
  Fishing skiff in Marshall, Alaska. (Photo courtesy of Danielle Ringer / Alaska Department of Fish and Game)Gov. Bill Walker proposed cutting about 45 positions and $3.5 million from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s 2018 budget last week, significantly smaller than the $11.5 million in cuts over the past two years. But, Walker’s proposal calls for no additional changes to the agency’s Southeast operations.
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  Fish and Game has taken about a 36 percent cut to its
  
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• Alaska Airlines now nation’s fifth largest airline

  21-12-2016 03:23
  
  An Alaska Airlines jet takes off at the Nome airport. (Photo courtesy of David Dodman.)Alaska Airlines is now the fifth largest airline in the nation after acquiring Virgin America Airlines last week.
  In a release Wednesday, December 14th, CEO of Alaska Air Group Brad Tilden said that the two airlines may appear to be different, but they share a similar focus on quality of customer service and care for employees.
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  The merger agreement between the two airlines was signed in April a
  
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• Easier reporting could reduce violence against sex workers

  21-12-2016 03:14
  
  Names of victims adorned the walls at a commemoration of the Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers on Dec. 17, 2016 in Anchorage. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)To honor the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers last weekend, a group of advocates gathered in Anchorage. They said one way to reduce violence is to make information sharing safer, especially with law enforcement.
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  December 17 marked the 15th anniversary of the capture of the Green River Killer, a serial murd
  
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