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• Multiple winter storms will bring snow and wind to Alaska this week - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  27-12-2016 21:45
  
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Multiple winter storms will bring snow and wind to Alaska this week
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  A front moving in from the west will bring light snow showers to southcentral Alaska late Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Snowfall of 1 to 3 inches is likely for Anchorage, the Mat-Su, Turnagain Arm and Portage Valley. Dry and sunny weather is ...
  
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• Alaska man accused of trying to crash car, kill wife - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  27-12-2016 21:20
  
  Alaska man accused of trying to crash car, kill wife
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Welcome! We hope you enjoy our content and decide to subscribe for full access. Visit newsminer.com/subscribe or call 907-456-6661. LYONS, Colo. (AP) — An Alaska man is suspected of trying to kill his wife by trying to force their car off the road and ...and more »
  
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• Alaska lawmaker who has long shunned spotlight is becoming speaker - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  27-12-2016 19:11
  
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Alaska lawmaker who has long shunned spotlight is becoming speaker
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2016, file photo, Rep. Bryce Edgmon, D-Dillingham, speaks to reporters at a news conference in Anchorage, Alaska. Edgmon, the incoming speaker of the Alaska House, known as a level-headed moderate willing to work across party ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Legislature expected to address alcohol law revision - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  27-12-2016 03:16
  
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Alaska Legislature expected to address alcohol law revision
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  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) — Alaska lawmakers could take another run at revising statutes governing alcohol when the ...
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Dec. 26, 2016

  27-12-2016 02:33
  
  
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  Freezing temps mean it’s time to clean the legacy wells on the North Slope
  Elizabeth Harball, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage
  As the cold winter months hit the North Slope, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is heading back out to plug four old wells in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
  
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• Bogoslof spews lava in fourth eruption

  27-12-2016 02:26
  
  
  A plume from Bogoslof volcano’s second eruption was visible in Unalaska. (Photo courtesy Lynda Lybeck-Robinson)Listen Now
  A volcano in the eastern Aleutians is erupting again.
  For the fourth time in less than a week, Bogoslof volcano has erupted prompting the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) to issue its highest alert for air travel.
  The observatory said the eruption on Dec. 26 threw ash 30,000 feet above the uninhabited island.
  Experts cannot predict how long the eruption might last becau
  
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• Prince of Wales deer season extended, wolf season ended

  27-12-2016 01:35
  
  A proposed delay in the start of “doe season” is meant to protect fawns — but may not make sense biologically. (Creative Commons photo by Kenneth Cole Schneider)Subsistence hunters seeking deer on Southeast Alaska’s Prince of Wales Island will have an extra month to hunt. But the island’s wolf season has been shortened.
  The Federal Subsistence Board extended the deer season through January in what’s called Game Management Unit 2. The season usually runs throug
  
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• Anchorage police respond to Christmas Eve double homicide

  27-12-2016 01:18
  
  Two people were killed in a Christmas Eve double homicide in Anchorage.
  Anchorage police responded to reports of a shooting with multiple victims around 4 p.m. Saturday. When officers arrived, they discovered two victims — 32-year-old Danielle Brooks and 38-year-old Christopher Brooks.
  Danielle Brooks was pronounced dead at the scene. Christopher Brooks was able to exit the residence, but collapsed outside. He was transported to a local hospital where he later died.
  According to APD, a 6-y
  
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• Melting permafrost changes Yukon River

  27-12-2016 01:06
  
  Ice fog on the Yukon River (Creative commons photo by Anthony DeLorenzo)A new study shows melting permafrost is changing the chemistry of the Yukon River, just one of many climate-related changes affecting the Yukon and beyond.
  Hydrologist Ryan Toohy with the USGS Alaska Climate Science Center said researchers tested water samples collected from the Yukon and Tanana rivers over a period of thirty years. The results show that as upper layers of the permafrost freeze later and melt earlier in the
  
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• Green Lake dam awaits replacement part to get back up and running

  27-12-2016 00:57
  
  The failed hydraulic ram, at the bottom of a 160 ft shaft at the Green Lake power plant. The ram – which is essentially a water-powered pump – failed while the Green Lake Tunnel was being drained for a planned inspection. (File photo courtesy of Utility Director Bryan Bertacchi)A breakdown in the Green Lake hydroelectric plant has forced Sitka to temporarily switch fuel sources this winter.  The city – which normally runs on hydropower – has been using diesel since O
  
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• Interviews about Alaska Native education recorded

  27-12-2016 00:20
  
  The Quinto family is among the participants in the StoryCorps project at the Juneau Public Library. (Photo courtesy Juneau Public Library)The Juneau Public Library recently celebrated the addition of 30 audio interviews to their collection. The recordings were done in Juneau, Haines and Klukwan. Many focus on Alaska Native education.
  The initial inspiration for the project stems from StoryCorps, a national oral history organization that’s received support from many local entities.
  Among th
  
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• Ground squirrel: Invasive species or native to island?

  27-12-2016 00:13
  
  Ground squirrel parka made by Susan Malutin and Grace Harrod, 1999. (Photo courtesy the Alutiiq Museum)An archaeologist is studying the ancient ground squirrel on Chirikof Island and trying to figure out when the squirrel would have been introduced to the area and how.
  Catherine West is a research assistant professor at Boston University and has been coming to do archaeology in the Kodiak area since the early 2000’s. She said this project is the first one she’s directed, and she rece
  
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