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• Alaska's next big crop will be ... rhodiola? These farmers and researchers hope so. - Alaska Dispatch News

  07-01-2017 21:37
  
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  Alaska's next big crop will be ... rhodiola? These farmers and researchers hope so.
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  Some Alaska farmers and researchers have high hopes for a plant you may never have even heard of. With green-blue succulent leaves and bright yellow flowers, rhodiola rosea is right at home in cold climates, and since about 2009, more Alaska farmers ...
  
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• Family documents Alaska life in video blogs - Washington Times

  07-01-2017 17:06
  
  Washington Times
  Family documents Alaska life in video blogs
  Washington Times
  ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND JAN. 7-8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this Dec. 31, 2016 photo, The Cassell family, from left, Decorey, 7, Desmond, Jericho, 2, and Kiara, with dog Kacey, poses next to a screen shot of their family's video ... more >.and more »
  
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• No bounce-back for Alaska Aces, just a 4-1 loss in Idaho - Alaska Dispatch News

  07-01-2017 06:56
  
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  No bounce-back for Alaska Aces, just a 4-1 loss in Idaho
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  Three times earlier this hockey season, the Alaska Aces lost a game by four goals and each time they responded with a victory at the next opportunity. Friday night in Boise, Idaho, there was no such bounce-back from them, just a 4-1 loss to the Idaho ...
  Idaho Steelheads cruise past Alaska Aces, going for sweep SaturdayIdaho Statesmanall 2 news articles »
  
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• High and dry: Holiday demand for weed empties Alaska's shelves - RT

  07-01-2017 06:10
  
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  High and dry: Holiday demand for weed empties Alaska's shelves
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  Nearly all cannabis shops in Alaska are temporarily shuttered after the holiday rush depleted their weed stocks. The shortage has strained the state's entire supply, leaving dispensaries scrambling to find an alternative. Marijuana has been legal in ...
  
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• A blocking high hovers over Alaska - KTUU.com

  07-01-2017 05:30
  
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  A blocking high hovers over Alaska
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  RADAR & SATELLITE - AN OMEGA BLOCK PATTERN IS TAKING SHAPE ACROSS MUCH OF ALASKA.. AN IMPRESSIVE RIDGE CONTINUES TO BUILD OVER THE BERING WITH POTENT UPPER LEVEL JET SUPPORT. TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENTS ...
  
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• Alaska suicide prevention - Alaska Public Radio Network

  07-01-2017 03:53
  
  Alaska suicide prevention
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  Yes, suicide rates appear to have gone up in 2015, but there are solutions. We'll talk to researchers who have been working with communities in the YK Delta for 20 years developing prevention programs based on Yup'ik values instead of Western systems ...
  
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• Alaska suicide prevention

  07-01-2017 03:52
  
  Yes, suicide rates appear to have gone up in 2015, but there are solutions. We’ll talk to researchers who have been working with communities in the YK Delta for 20 years developing prevention programs based on Yup’ik values instead of Western systems and about the effectiveness of some Western systems. We’ll also delve into both historical trauma and historical resiliency – what makes our communities and people stronger.
  HOST: Anne Hillman
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• Newtok asks: Can the U.S. deal with slow-motion climate disasters?

  07-01-2017 03:47
  
  
  Newtok is asking for ongoing erosion and thawing permafrost to be qualified for federal disaster relief from FEMA. Village relocation coordinator Romy Cadiente spoke with reporters about the effort to relocate the village, Aug. 15, 2016. (Photo by Eric Keto/Alaska’s Energy Desk)The village of Newtok has requested a federal disaster declaration from President Barack Obama to address ongoing erosion and thawing permafrost. It’s one of the first tests of whether the nation’s
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday Jan. 6, 2017

  07-01-2017 03:39
  
  
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  Anchorage man in custody for Ft. Lauderdale airport shooting
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  The FBI said an Anchorage man opened fire at the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida airport this morning. The Broward County Sheriff’s office said 26-year-old Esteban Santiago killed five people and wounded eight other
  
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• Wind gusts forecast up to 80 mph into the Juneau weekend

  07-01-2017 03:16
  
  
  Cold weather and high winds cause white caps and water to mist into the air Friday along Gastineau Channel as seen from the U.S. Coast Guard Juneau station. (Photo by Tripp J Crouse/KTOO)The ferry system has canceled the Aurora’s sailings on Sunday, as well.
  Original story | 1:35 p.m.
  The National Weather Service has Juneau under a high wind warning, with gusts expected up to 80 mph through Sunday afternoon.
  The peak winds are expected Friday night and Saturday.
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• Orthodox Christmas in Sitka - Alaska Public Radio Network

  07-01-2017 03:16
  Orthodox Christmas in Sitka
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  January 6, 2017 is Christmas Eve in Orthodox Christian parishes across Alaska. Orthodox faithful will go from house to house on foot, in cars or on snow machines, singing carols and sharing food behind a shiny, spinning pinwheel which represents the ...and more »
  
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• Miners dislike BLM’s ‘balanced’ plan for Eastern Interior

  07-01-2017 03:13
  
  
  Image: BLMYou could consider it a zoning decision of landscape proportions: The U.S. Bureau of Land Management completed a planning document for Alaska’s Eastern Interior. The plan governs land use on 6.7 million acres managed by the BLM. They are spread across 30 million acres, from the Canadian border to Livengood, and just skirts the city of Fairbanks. The most contentious part of the plan is the Fortymile Mining District, which includes the towns of Eagle and Chicken.
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• Orthodox Christmas in Sitka

  07-01-2017 03:11
  
  
  January 6, 2017 is Christmas Eve in Orthodox Christian parishes across Alaska. Orthodox faithful will go from house to house on foot, in cars or on snow machines, singing carols and sharing food behind a shiny, spinning pinwheel which represents the Star of Bethlehem.
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  Although most Orthodox Christmas traditions were brought intentionally to Alaska by the Russians during the colonial era, the spinning star was not one of them.
  The Reverend Michael Oleksa is the parish priest in Si
  
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• AK: Garrison Keillor’s Sitka pen pal

  07-01-2017 03:08
  
  
  The first time Keillor and Woods met was in 2013, after his show in Boone, North Carolina. Woods, whose red hair is somewhere between copper and strawberry blonde, stuck straight up. “He thought this was hilarious,” Woods said, “and took a picture peeking through my hair.” When they re-met in Palmer in 2015, Woods included the picture with a note. From then on, the two became regular pens pals. (Photo courtesy of Jasa Woods)With a new year often comes the resolution to be
  
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• WikiLeaks proposes tracking verified Twitter users' homes, families and finances - Alaska Dispatch News

  07-01-2017 02:51
  
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  WikiLeaks proposes tracking verified Twitter users' homes, families and finances
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  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appears on screen via video link during his participation as a guest panelist in an International Seminar on the 60th anniversary of the college of Journalists of Chile in Santiago, Chile, July 12. (Rodrigo Garrido ...and more »
  
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• 49 Voices: Jack Bennett of Homer

  07-01-2017 02:50
  
  
  Jack Bennett of Homer (Photo courtesy of Jack Bennett)This week we’re hearing from Jack Bennett from Homer. Bennett is an industrial hemp advocate looking to establish more hemp homes throughout rural Alaska.
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  BENNETT: As an advocate of organic foods and using herbs for natural healing, I easily understood the benefits of building all-natural. A house requires at least ten different technologies: fiber glass, insulation, house wrap, OSB plywood, sheet rock… And hemp replac
  
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• Fort Lauderdale airport shooting suspect had visited FBI office in Alaska last year - Washington Post

  07-01-2017 02:31
  
  Washington Post
  Fort Lauderdale airport shooting suspect had visited FBI office in Alaska last year
  Washington Post
  An Iraq War veteran who had complained that the government was forcing him to watch Islamic State videos pulled a gun from his checked bag and opened fire Friday afternoon at Fort Lauderdale's international airport, killing five people and injuring ...
  Fort Lauderdale shooter served in Alaska Army National GuardKTUU.com
  Anchorage man in custody for Ft. Lauderdale airport shootingA
  
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• Anchorage weighs sales tax option

  07-01-2017 02:23
  
  
  Officials in Anchorage are weighing a potential sales tax to deal with state’s on-going fiscal challenges. The two percent tax is forecast to bring $90-$150 million in new revenues to the city and is intended to, in part, offset property taxes.
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  This latest proposal is coming from the mayor’s office — a new development since the tax was first introduced through the Assembly in December. Myer Hutchinson is a spokesperson for the administration, and said the measure is
  
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• Driver dead, 2 hurt in Parks Highway pickup truck rollover - Alaska Dispatch News

  07-01-2017 02:05
  
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  Driver dead, 2 hurt in Parks Highway pickup truck rollover
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  An Eagle River woman died and two other people were injured on Thursday afternoon, Alaska State Troopers say, when their pickup truck wrecked on the Parks Highway near Trapper Creek. Troopers named driver Karen Benjamin, 31, as the deceased in a ...
  Eagle River woman killed in Parks Highway rolloverAlaskastar
  Crash of trucks on Palmer-Wasilla Highway injures driverFairbanks Daily News-Minerall 8 news
  
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• Congressional Republicans seek legal strategy to restore Alaska ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  07-01-2017 01:58
  
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  Congressional Republicans seek legal strategy to restore Alaska ...
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  WASHINGTON — Alaska's congressional delegation is aiming to find whatever options are available to roll back President Barack Obama's restrictions on Arctic ...
  Alaska's congressional leaders renew push to allow ANWR drilling ...Alaska Public Radio Networkall 4 news articles »
  
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• Anchorage man in custody for Ft. Lauderdale airport shooting

  07-01-2017 01:55
  
  
  A victim is taken into Broward Health Trauma Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Friday following a shooting at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. (Photo courtesy of Getty Images)The FBI said an Anchorage man opened fire at the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida airport this morning. The Broward County Sheriff’s office said 26-year-old Esteban Santiago killed five people and wounded eight others.
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  Santiago was taken into custody at the airport, allegedly after he ran out o
  
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• Have you always wanted to cruise Alaska? - WND.com

  07-01-2017 01:27
  
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  Have you always wanted to cruise Alaska?
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  WASHINGTON – It might seem like an odd time to be promoting a cruise to Alaska. After all, it's cold outside. Who wants to go to Alaska? But here's the thing: The cruise isn't next week or even next month. It's in September, when the weather in Alaska ...
  
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• Mental Health Trust investments in legal “ambiguity”

  07-01-2017 01:22
  
  The Trust Authority Building in Anchorage houses their main offices. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority board met on Thursday to discuss the legality of its investment policy. The board’s decisions to independently invest $39 million of the Trust’s principal funds in real estate have recently been called into question, and the Trust will undergo a special legislative audit.
  State statue reads the Trust’s principal is to be invested by the Perm
  
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• Sailing the Northwest Passage

  07-01-2017 01:00
  
  The Schwoerer family is sailing around the world educating people about climate change for ToptoTop. Photo Credit: http://toptotop.org/On Outdoor Explorer, we’re fortunate to meet some of the world’s most amazing people, and that was especially true when Dario Schwoerer was in town to talk about his 100,000-mile sailboat voyage. It’s been a 16-year journey that included climbing the seven continents’ highest peaks from tidewater, sailing through the northwest passage, and
  
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• Remote Alaska volcano erupts again in brief explosion - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  07-01-2017 00:50
  
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Remote Alaska volcano erupts again in brief explosion
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  This photo taken Dec. 21, 2016 and provided by Lynda Lybeck Robinson shows the Bogoslof Volcano erupting in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. The active Alaska volcano, which has erupted 10 times since mid-December and is located about 850 miles ...and more »
  
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• Ft. Lauderdale shooter lived in Anchorage

  07-01-2017 00:04
  
  A victim is taken into Broward Health Trauma Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Friday following a shooting at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. (Photo courtesy of Getty Images)Update: 2:11 p.m.
  Anchorage FBI spokesperson Staci Feger-Pellessier confirmed that Esteban Santiago is currently an Anchorage resident. However Feger-Pellessier did not answer questions about reports that in November 2016, Santiago walked into the Anchorage FBI field office and told agents that th
  
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