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• Fill this stage with Alaska musicians - Alaska Public Radio Network

  30-12-2016 23:11
  
  Fill this stage with Alaska musicians
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  emtpy stage Alaska musicians travel Outside to make a living. Many would like to thrive here at home, and are making plans to validate music's draw to the 49th state. Creative Commons Flickr image by Matt McGee. Take Michael Howard, for example.
  
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• Fill this stage with Alaska musicians

  30-12-2016 23:00
  
  Alaska musicians travel Outside to make a living. Many would like to thrive here at home, and are making plans to validate music’s draw to the 49th state. Creative Commons Flickr image by Matt McGee.Take Michael Howard, for example. He grew up playing music in Alaska punk rock bands. Today, he’s a songwriter and acoustic troubadour, in 2016 playing well over 100 gigs around Alaska and the United States.
  Howard has a wish: Let me make a living as a musician in Alaska. The Lower 48 tri
  
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• Alaska Native Corporations in the World Economy

  30-12-2016 22:30
  
  Map of Alaska Native Corporations.On the next Addressing Alaskans we’ll hear from a panel discussion on Alaskan Native Corporations and their affect on the word Economy. This panel featured the CEOs of several companies speaking about what their companies are doing for the economies of Alaska, the United States and the world.
  GUESTS: 
  Jason Metrokin, President & CEO of Bristol Bay Native Corporation
  Gail Anagick Schubert, President & CEO of Bering Straits Native Corporation
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• Ask Alaska: How do you feel about the '90s trends comeback? - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  30-12-2016 20:57
  
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Ask Alaska: How do you feel about the '90s trends comeback?
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  With a new year approaching, it's time to say good-bye to some of the fashion trends of 2016. But before you start that end-of-year closet purge, Kari Skinner with Anchorage 5th Avenue Mall says there is one sure style set you'll see again in 2017.
  
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• Anchorage misses worst of snowfall from storm passing over Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  30-12-2016 18:59
  
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  Anchorage misses worst of snowfall from storm passing over Alaska
  Alaska Dispatch News
  The Anchorage area received less snowfall than expected — but a drizzle of freezing rain — from a storm passing through Alaska that left Fairbanks residents making their way to work through as much as a foot of snow early Friday. The 161-mile Steese ...
  Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016 | Alaska Public MediaAlaska Public Radio Networkall 6 news articles &r
  
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• 'Super intelligent:' Multiple-murder suspect James Dale Ritchie's life outside Alaska - KTUU.com

  30-12-2016 05:05
  
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  'Super intelligent:' Multiple-murder suspect James Dale Ritchie's life outside Alaska
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  BROADWAY, Virginia (KTUU) Far from the city where James Dale Ritchie lived and died, neighbors knew the 40-year-old as a smart, studious man. James Dale Ritchie is accused of killing one person and shooting a police officer with a gun linked to four ...
  
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• 34 homicides and no clear solution in Anchorage

  30-12-2016 04:26
  
  
  Police Chief Chris Tolley speaking to reporters during a press conference in September APD Headquarters. (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)It’s been a deadly year in Alaska’s largest city, with 34 homicide victims so far — more than in any previous year on record. It comes on the heels of 2015, which also saw an exceptionally high number of violent deaths. But without any single factor responsible for the surge in homicides, there&rs
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016

  30-12-2016 04:04
  
  
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  Anchorage to close year with 34 homicides and no clear solution 
  Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  It’s been a deadly year in Anchorage. As of Dec. 29, there have been 34 homicides, more than in any previous year on record. 2015 also saw an exceptionally high number of viol
  
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• Alaska faces a pilot shortage. Could the state become a proving ground for pilotless aircraft? - Alaska Dispatch News

  30-12-2016 03:53
  
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  Alaska faces a pilot shortage. Could the state become a proving ground for pilotless aircraft?
  Alaska Dispatch News
  A pilot for Warbelows Air leaves Beaver en route to Fairbanks on Dec. 5. A wave of baby boomer retirements and the growth of aviation in Asia has led to a pilot shortage that is rippling across Alaska with gale force. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times).
  
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• Clamming halted on East Cook Inlet beaches due to low razor clam numbers

  30-12-2016 03:17
  
  Cook Inlet Razor Clams (Photo courtesy of Alaska Department of Fish and Game)A decline in the number of mature razor clams the past several years has prompted the state Fish and Game department to curtail clamming on East Cook Inlet beaches for the foreseeable future.
  In an emergency order released Dec. 28, state biologists closed beaches from the tip of the Homer spit to the mouth of the Kenai River to razor clam harvests throughout the entire year of 2017.
  Both sport and personal use clamming
  
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• State monitoring spill at Tesoro pipeline facility near Cook Inlet

  30-12-2016 03:04
  
  The spill location and photo of the leak on Dec. 18, 2016 in Nikiski, Alaska. (Graphic courtesy Tesoro)Workers at a Tesoro facility on the Kenai Peninsula are cleaning up contaminated soil and snow after more than 120 gallons of oily water spilled out of a pipeline near Cook Inlet. The company notified the state of the spill at its Kenai Pipeline Facility on Dec. 18.
  Jade Gamble, who works in spill response with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, has been doing site visits ever
  
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• Continued unrest at Bogoslof volcano

  30-12-2016 02:58
  
  Although Bogoslof Island is uninhabited, it is an important breeding ground for sea birds, seals and sea lions. (Photo by T. Keith, U.S. Geological Survey)Seismic unrest continues at Bogoslof volcano. Scientists are watching the eruption around the clock — even though monitoring stations are far from the site.
  Chris Waythomas, of the U.S. Geological Survey, is observing a particular indication of increased seismic activity: volcanic tremors.
  “You can think of it as the sort of signal
  
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• Nome-based non-profit hopes to revitalize Inupiaq with ‘language nest’

  30-12-2016 02:54
  
  Marjorie Tahbone, the new vice chair of Inuusiq, Inc., teaching an Inupiaq class at the Nome high school in 2014. Inuusiq, a new non-profit, is creating a language nest in Shishmaref to revitalize Inupiaq culture and language. (File photo by KNOM)Coming to the region at the start of the new year is a “nest” project focused on Inupiaq language revitalization. A Nome-based non-profit organization called Inuusiq Inc., which started up this year, is spearheading the project.
  “So, I
  
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• Galena to receive more than 1,000 acres of land from National Defense Authorization Act

  30-12-2016 02:31
  
  Representative Don Young speaking in Washington, DC. (Photo: Don Young congressional webpage)Once President Barack Obama signs the national defense authorization act into law, the City of Galena will acquire a hefty plot of public land. 1,290 acres of land where the Campion Air Force Radar Station used to be located will be conveyed to Galena for the purpose of preventing future flood damage to the City.
  Congressman Don Young added the provision for the Galena land transfer to this year’s
  
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• No missing people or property damage reported after avalanche scare over downtown Juneau

  30-12-2016 02:25
  
  This video posted to Facebook today shows an avalanche coming down Mount Juneau at about 1 p.m. Wednesday.While downtown homes are visible in the foreground, the path of the avalanche is toward the uninhabited Silverbow Basin.
  Juneau’s Emergency Programs Director Tom Mattice said there have been no reports of missing people, injuries or property damage.
  “Yeah we saw an impressive powder cloud, but no, that was not a catastrophic-sized avalanche,” Mattice said.
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• In wake of impending snowstorm Golden Valley Electric preps for outages

  30-12-2016 02:25
  
  With heavy snow and wind in the forecast, Golden Valley Electric Association in Fairbanks is bracing for power outages. GVEA vice president for member services Brian Youngberg said there were already small outages on December 28 due to snow and trees weighing on power lines, and crews have been in the field working to minimize problems.
  ”Trying to knock snow off of some of the lines and stuff like that to try to help alleviate some of the outages,” Youngberg said.
  Youngberg caut
  
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• Winter fire pops up in Delta Junction

  30-12-2016 02:14
  
  State wildfire officials report a rare winter incident in Delta Junction. An Alaska Division of Forestry post says a 20 by 50 ft. fire was called in by passerby December 20th, who spotted the burn on trails behind the Delta High School.
  Delta area state fire management officer Mike Goyette said 20 to 30 trees burned, noting that the fire also burned down to mineral soil, evident of this season’s very dry conditions.
  Goyette suspects the fire resulted from an abandoned campfire and cautions
  
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• Strong winter storm spreading over much of mainland Alaska | Arctic ... - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  30-12-2016 02:00
  
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Strong winter storm spreading over much of mainland Alaska | Arctic ...
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Updated 8:18 p.m.: FAIRBANKS -- As a major winter storm moves into Interior Alaska, scattered power outages and accidents are being reported:
  Winter storm hits Western Alaska and Fairbanks on its way to SouthcentralAlaska Dispatch News
  Winter Storm Action Across Alaska - KTUU.comKTUU.com
  Storm bringing heavy snow, high winds to much of AlaskaKTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  
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• Anchorage schools taking proactive approach to security, safety

  30-12-2016 01:43
  
  Image from the Anchorage School DistrictIncidences of gun violence at schools in the U.S. are increasingly dominating the national spotlight, raising questions about school security and what can be done to ensure the safety of students.
  Anchorage schools are taking a proactive approach.
  Tom Roth, chief operating officer of the Anchorage School District, supervises everything from buses, to student lunches, to safety. He said the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December 2012 was a waters
  
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