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• Alaska USA's CEO announces retirement - Homer News

  11-01-2017 23:38
  Alaska USA's CEO announces retirement
  Homer News
  Alaska USA Federal Credit Union has announced that president and CEO Bill Eckhardt will retire in May after a career spanning over 45 years. Geoff Lundfelt, currently executive vice president, has been selected to succeed Eckhardt. Eckhardt has been at ...
  
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• Walrus Islands designated as national historic landmark - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  11-01-2017 23:32
  
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  Walrus Islands designated as national historic landmark
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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. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A site in Alaska and 23 others have been designated as new national historic landmarks.
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• No sign of Fukushima-related radiation found in state waters - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  11-01-2017 23:32
  
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  No sign of Fukushima-related radiation found in state waters
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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. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — State officials have announced that tests of Alaska seafood continue to show no detectable ...
  Fukushima radiation yet, and unlikely, to affect Alaska seafoodKTOO
  Pilot project shows no Fukushima radiation present in Alaska seafoodUndercu
  
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• Fuel spill discovered in northern Alaska village after storm - Alaska Dispatch News

  11-01-2017 22:16
  
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  Fuel spill discovered in northern Alaska village after storm
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  Agencies are responding to a fuel spill in a northeast Alaska village after a ruptured fuel line was discovered following a big storm, state regulators said Tuesday. The fuel line was connected to an above-ground storage tank in the village of Kaktovik ...
  
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• Trump taps Obama official as VA secretary - Alaska Dispatch News

  11-01-2017 20:34
  
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  Trump taps Obama official as VA secretary
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  WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he has tapped David Shulkin, a physician who is currently serving in the Obama administration as VA under secretary, to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. The decision ends ...and more »
  
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• How now, Browns' cow?: 'Alaskan Bush People' invest in livestock - Alaska Dispatch News

  11-01-2017 20:34
  
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  How now, Browns' cow?: 'Alaskan Bush People' invest in livestock
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  It seems like just yesterday that I was sitting on my couch and I received a press release about a brand-new show called "Alaskan Bush People." Somehow, we're now in its sixth season. You know which shows had fewer than six seasons? "Breaking Bad ...and more »
  
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• Fukushima radiation yet, and unlikely, to affect Alaska seafood - KTOO

  11-01-2017 19:36
  
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  Fukushima radiation yet, and unlikely, to affect Alaska seafood
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  Alaskan seafood remains free of detectable Fukushima-related radiation, according to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. The department along with other state, federal and international agencies has been testing Alaskan seafood since ...
  Pilot project shows no Fukushima radiation present in Alaska seafoodUndercurrent Newsall 6 news articles »
  
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• CWU heads to Alaska for roadtrip - The Observer

  11-01-2017 19:28
  
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  CWU heads to Alaska for roadtrip
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  Hang on for a minute...we're trying to find some more stories you might like. Close. Email This Story. Send Email Cancel. 0 Flares 0 Flares ×. Alaska is called the “Last Frontier” for many reasons. The distance away from the lower 48 states, extreme ...
  
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• Fresh cod is hitting Anchorage markets this week - Alaska Dispatch News

  11-01-2017 16:05
  
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  Fresh cod is hitting Anchorage markets this week
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  It's a long time until Alaska's recreational anglers will wet a line. But the commercial folks are out right now. And a quick trip to the store will get fresh seafood on your dinner plate. "Even with these frigid temperatures fishermen have been able ...
  
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• Alaska Airlines adds four routes from its Portland hub - USA TODAY

  11-01-2017 15:17
  
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  Alaska Airlines adds four routes from its Portland hub
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  Alaska Airlines is growing its route map at its hub in Portland, announcing four new routes from the Oregon airport. Alaska Air's nonstop service from Portland International (PDX) to Baltimore/Washington, Milwaukee and Philadelphia will be seasonal ...
  Alaska Airlines adding nonstop Milwaukee to Portland serviceMilwaukee Journal Sentinel
  Alaska Airlines to offer flights to Portland from BWI Airport this summerBaltimore S
  
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• Alaska Air (ALK) Gains as December Traffic, Capacity Rise - Yahoo Finance

  11-01-2017 15:17
  
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  Alaska Air (ALK) Gains as December Traffic, Capacity Rise
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  Alaska Air Group, Inc. ALK witnessed a 5.18% increase in its share price at close of business on Jan 10. The stock price appreciation was driven by the company's impressive traffic results, which were released earlier that day. The company included the ...
  Alaska Air Group passenger traffic on the rise, but on-time flights hit by winter stormsPuget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)
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• Can a joint US-Russian research team protect Alaska's polar bears? - Christian Science Monitor

  11-01-2017 14:10
  
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  Can a joint US-Russian research team protect Alaska's polar bears?
  Christian Science Monitor
  A 2000 treaty committed the two nations to study and conserve their polar bears. Even as political tensions rise, climate change and other pressures make their work more necessary than ever. Monitor's Best: Top 5 ...and more »
  
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• Alaska's Bathe leads at US Cross Country Ski finals - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  11-01-2017 10:39
  
  Alaska's Bathe leads at US Cross Country Ski finals
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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. FAIRBANKS — Although the collective results may not have been what the Alaska men's and women's Nordic ski teams ...
  
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• Alaska Editorial: Legislators must confront what Alaska can, can't afford - Juneau Empire (subscription)

  11-01-2017 10:07
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  Alaska Editorial: Legislators must confront what Alaska can, can't afford
  Juneau Empire (subscription)
  As Alaska's legislators prepare to return to Juneau for this year's session, a question hangs in the air: What can Alaska afford? It's a question lawmakers once didn't have to consider so closely. In most of the years since the development of the oil ...
  Dunleavy unveils no-new-taxes, no-PFD-raid Alaska budget proposalMat-Su Valley Frontiersmanall 2 news articles&nbs
  
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• Red Cross of Alaska visits Savoonga, assesses damage - youralaskalink

  11-01-2017 07:37
  
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  Red Cross of Alaska visits Savoonga, assesses damage
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  The Red Cross of Alaska has returned from a visit to Western Alaska, where their Disaster Program Manager and Casework Specialist analyzed the impacts of a recent severe winter storm, and provided aid to residents in need. Battered by a series of ...
  State, Red Cross visit Savoonga to assess storm damageAlaska Dispatch Newsall 29 news articles »
  
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• Murder defendant dies after being found unresponsive in prison cell - Alaska Dispatch News

  11-01-2017 05:12
  
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  Murder defendant dies after being found unresponsive in prison cell
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  A 22-year-old woman accused of killing her infant daughter is the first in-custody death for the Alaska Department of Corrections for 2017. Nina Amigale Alexie was found unresponsive in her cell at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center at 3:29 p.m. on ...
  Alaska inmate dies days after suicide attemptFairbanks Daily News-Miner
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• Fort Lauderdale airport shooting reveals deficiency in Alaska law on crisis intervention - Alaska Dispatch News

  11-01-2017 05:12
  
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  Fort Lauderdale airport shooting reveals deficiency in Alaska law on crisis intervention
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  Had Esteban Santiago been in Connecticut, Indiana or California two months ago when he spoke incoherently to FBI agents about a U.S. intelligence agency controlling his mind, local police might not have been so quick to give him back his gun. Police ...
  Alaska neighbors say shooting suspect mostly amicableUSA TODAY
  FBI agents search garbage at Alaska motel where...L
  
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• Anvik tribal courts given more jurisdiction in lower level cases - Alaska Public Radio Network

  11-01-2017 04:47
  
  Anvik tribal courts given more jurisdiction in lower level cases
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  The state of Alaska and the Anvik Tribe have signed an historic justice agreement. The government to government pact provides a template for tribal courts to administer restorative sentences in certain lower level cases, as an alternative to the state ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017 | Alaska Public Media - Alaska Public Radio Network

  11-01-2017 04:47
  
  Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017 | Alaska Public Media
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  The state of Alaska and the Anvik Tribe have signed an historic justice agreement. The government to government pact provides a template for tribal courts to ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017

  11-01-2017 04:46
  
  
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  Anvik tribal courts given more jurisdiction in lower level cases
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  The state of Alaska and the Anvik Tribe have signed an historic justice agreement.  The government to government pact provides a template for tribal courts to administer restorative sentences in certain lower
  
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• DATA VIZ: Drug Overdose Death Rates in Alaska (2009 - 2015) - KTUU.com

  11-01-2017 03:41
  
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  DATA VIZ: Drug Overdose Death Rates in Alaska (2009 - 2015)
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  An unexpected error occurred. If you continue to receive this error please contact your Tableau Server Administrator. (App users, to view the interactive data visualization, follow this link). In 2015, Alaska's statewide drug overdose death rate, of 16 ...and more »
  
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• For Alaska Aces, Orlando checks in as third straight tough home-ice opponent - Alaska Dispatch News

  11-01-2017 03:37
  
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  For Alaska Aces, Orlando checks in as third straight tough home-ice opponent
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Next up are the Orlando Solar Bears, who arrive with an 18-12-6 record and mark the third straight visitor to touch down in Anchorage with a strong record. The Aces' two previous home series were against the Colorado Eagles (currently 21-10-4) and the ...and more »
  
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• School districts cope with flat state funding as costs continue to rise

  11-01-2017 03:35
  
  Image from the Anchorage School DistrictEducation funding in Gov. Bill Walker’s proposed budget remains relatively flat for the upcoming fiscal year.
  And even though big cuts to education are not yet proposed, districts are finding ways to cope with funding that doesn’t necessarily keep up with the natural year-to-year rises in costs.
  “We feel fortunate moving into this year that it isn’t any worse,” Dr. Deena Paramo, superintendent of the Anchorage School Dist
  
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• Four mariners rescued from Gulf of Alaska

  11-01-2017 03:27
  
  Four mariners were rescued from their stricken fishing vessel in the Gulf of Alaska on Friday, Jan. 6 — in a mission coordinated by Air Station Kodiak, and executed by Air Station Sitka.
  The trawler Lady Gudny reported fuel problems about 230 miles southeast of Kodiak on Thursday. By Friday, the boat was adrift in high winds and heavy seas.
  Cmdr. Mo Murphy, operations officer at Air Station Sitka, said his unit decided to be proactive about a possible rescue of the Lady Gudny’s
  
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• Anvik tribal courts given more jurisdiction in lower level cases

  11-01-2017 03:21
  
  Gavel stock image courtesy of Getty ImagesThe state of Alaska and the Anvik Tribe have signed an historic justice agreement.  The government to government pact provides a template for tribal courts to administer restorative sentences in certain lower level cases, as an alternative to the state criminal justice system.
  The western interior Anvik tribe is the first of several across the state expected to sign on to the justice agreement with the state.  It allows willing offenders, both
  
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• Two actors adapt the Narnia world to the Kodiak stage

  11-01-2017 03:07
  
  Matt Freeman and Stephanie Ann Foster. (Photo by Devin Cooper)The world of Narnia has come to the Kodiak stage.
  San-Francisco based actor Stephanie Ann Foster adapted one of the novels in C.S. Lewis’ famous series. And two actors portray all the characters.
  Foster’s co-actor, local teacher Matt Freeman, said “The Magician’s Nephew” was published after “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, and it’s a prequel.
  “This one’s not as w
  
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• DOC inmate dies by suicide

  11-01-2017 02:59
  An inmate at Highland Correctional Center died by suicide Tuesday. Twenty-two-year-old Nina Amigale Alexie was found unresponsive in her cell during a routine check last Friday. She was taken to Alaska Regional Hospital and passed away four days later. Department of Corrections spokesperson Corey Allen-Young said there’s no indication she was on suicide watch.
  Alexie was awaiting trial for murder II and manslaughter for the death of her infant daughter last summer.Her death will be investi
  
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• Experts say 2016 smashed previous records for Alaska's hottest year on record - Alaska Public Radio Network

  11-01-2017 02:54
  
  Experts say 2016 smashed previous records for Alaska's hottest year on record
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  2016 was the warmest year on record statewide and in several communities, including Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow) and Kotzebue. The warmth contributed to several other records around the state, including the earliest breakup of the Yukon and Kuskokwim ...and more »
  
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• Experts say 2016 smashed previous records for Alaska’s hottest year on record

  11-01-2017 02:54
  
  2016 was the warmest year on record statewide and in several communities, including Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow) and Kotzebue. The warmth contributed to several other records around the state, including the earliest breakup of the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers in Circle and Bethel, respectively, and the earliest greenup, in Fairbanks.
  (Image courtesy of NOAA)2016 was the warmest year in Alaska since the National Weather Service began keeping records in the state more than a century ago. Two weather-
  
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• Fukushima radiation yet, and unlikely, to affect Alaska seafood

  11-01-2017 02:41
  
  Boats leave Dillingham to fish the Nushagak District in June 2016. (Photo by Cate Gomez, KDLG – Dillingham)Alaskan seafood remains free of detectable Fukushima-related radiation. That’s according to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. The department along with other state, federal, and international agencies has been testing Alaskan seafood since 2013.
  After the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, food safety authorities, including the FDA, reported it would be
  
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• After New Year’s storm, Savoonga asks state for disaster relief

  11-01-2017 02:02
  
  
  Mayor Myron Kingeekuk and a Red Cross employee survey storm-damaged homes in the community. (Photo by Davis Hovey, KNOM)In the final days of 2016, a Bering sea storm battered St. Lawrence Island, causing wind and water damage to many buildings in Savoonga. The community declared a local disaster and asked for assistance from the State in order to restore their livelihoods.
  As of Friday, Jan. 6th, 30 residents are claiming storm damage to their homes or shelters, along with the community&rsq
  
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• Alaskan Village, Citing Climate Change, Seeks Disaster Relief In Order To Relocate - NPR

  11-01-2017 00:09
  
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  Alaskan Village, Citing Climate Change, Seeks Disaster Relief In Order To Relocate
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  The tiny village of Newtok near Alaska's western coast has been sliding into the Ninglick River for years. As temperatures increase — faster there than in the rest of the U.S. — the frozen permafrost underneath Newtok is thawing. About 70 feet of ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Climate Change: Village Makes Historic Request To Be ... - NPR

  11-01-2017 00:09
  
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  Alaska Climate Change: Village Makes Historic Request To Be ...
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  The tiny village of Newtok near Alaska's western coast has been sliding into the Ninglick River for years. As temperatures increase — faster there than in the rest ...and more »
  
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