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• Accused airport shooter Esteban Santiago said he chatted online with jihadis - Alaska Dispatch News

  17-01-2017 22:11
  
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  Accused airport shooter Esteban Santiago said he chatted online with jihadis
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  Esteban Santiago is transported from the Broward County main jail to the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Jan. 9. (Amy Beth Bennett / South Florida Sun Sentinel via Reuters). FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The gunman who opened fire on Fort ...
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• 2 hurt in Southwest Alaska crash of small plane that iced up, officials ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  17-01-2017 21:11
  
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  2 hurt in Southwest Alaska crash of small plane that iced up, officials ...
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  Two people were injured Monday night when a small plane flying between two Alaska Peninsula villages iced up and crashed, according to Alaska State ...
  2 survive plane crash between villages in southwest AlaskaJuneau Empire (subscription)
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  Pilot, passenger on downed aircraft near Pilot Point evaced Monday nightAlas
  
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• Alaska's population climbing despite net migration losses - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  17-01-2017 16:57
  
  Alaska's population climbing despite net migration losses
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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) — Alaska's population is climbing despite the fact that more people are moving away from the state ...and more »
  
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• Video of hulking Florida alligator draws worldwide gasps - Alaska Dispatch News

  17-01-2017 16:37
  
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  Video of hulking Florida alligator draws worldwide gasps
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  A video clip of a mammoth alligator sauntering across a grassy trail at Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland, just a few yards from a group of photographers, is bouncing its way through the Internet. The 30-second clip shot by Kim Joiner of Lakeland ...and more »
  
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• Senator targets Alaska launch site in wasteful spending report - SpaceNews

  17-01-2017 12:44
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  Senator targets Alaska launch site in wasteful spending report
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  An aerial view of Alaska's Kodiak Launch Complex. Credit: Alaska Aerospace Corp. An aerial view of Alaska's Kodiak Launch Complex, now known as Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska. Credit: Alaska Aerospace Corp. WASHINGTON — The company that ...
  
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• Economic forecast sees more job loss in Anchorage, but at a slower pace

  17-01-2017 02:46
  
  
  With the state in a recession, many are searching for economic signs of what’s in store for 2017. Last Friday, inside a packed ballroom at a hotel in downtown Anchorage, members of the business and real-estate industries gathered to hear the forecast for Alaska’s largest city.
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  The event was hosted by Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA). And the theme from just about every speaker was that for Anchorage, the economic news is not as bad as many expected.
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• David Cornberg has the last word in “Coming into the Country”

  17-01-2017 02:43
  
  
  David Cornberg went by the name “River Wind” in the late 70s when he was looking for a place to live along the Yukon River. (Photo: Lynn Cornberg)The last person John McPhee talks to in his book Coming into the Country is a man who calls himself River Wind. At the time, River Wind was 32 years old, about to head down the Yukon in a 15 foot aluminum canoe to find a place to live. Forty years later, he goes by his given name, David Cornberg and spends most of the year in Fairbanks.
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• Alaska News Nightly: Jan. 16, 2017

  17-01-2017 02:39
  
  
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  New snow slows CB 300 mushers
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  A winner in the Copper Basin 300 sled dog race is expected to cross the finish line in Glenn Allen some time this evening. In the lead is Ryne Olson, with just over 20 miles to go. Just a few miles behind her, clustered closely together, are vet
  
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• Mushing, a tradition on the fritz in Bristol Bay

  17-01-2017 01:27
  
  
  John Hanson Jr. is one of four mushers in New Stuyahok. (Photo: Avery Lill/ KDLG)Dozens of canines howl in John Hanson Jr.’s dog yard, excited by the sound of a snow machine pulling up to the kennel.
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  Hanson is one of a handful of dog mushers in New Stuyahok, probably the most active mushing community in a region that has watched participation in the tradition dwindle.
  “These other mushers are elderly mushers, and they were in it for 40, 50, 60 years or more,” Hanson
  
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• National and Alaska tribal health leader Sally Smith dies

  17-01-2017 01:18
  
  
  Sally Smith of Dillingham, Alaska, died January 10, 2017. (Photo: Alaska Native Health Consortium Board of Directors)A Yup’ik woman from the Bristol Bay region known as one of the people who created the Alaska tribal health system and a savvy national advocate died Jan. 10. For nearly 50 years, Sally Smith played a key role in transforming an under-funded, under-staffed and ill-equipped health system for Natives into one that is a model for tribal self-governance.
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• The Museum of the Aleutians new executive director takes over

  17-01-2017 00:38
  
  Dr. Virginia Hatfield working in the field on Carlisle Island. (Photo: Dr. Virginia Hatfield)The Museum of the Aleutians has a new executive director, Dr. Virginia Hatfield.  She took the reins at the beginning of January.
  Hatfield is an archaeologist by training. She said she fell in love with the field during an undergrad class called ‘Prehistory of Texas.’
  “What really sunk it for me was we went out at spring break to the desert and recorded rock art in a rock shelter,&
  
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