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• Bogoslof volcano settles down after sending ash over Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak Island - Alaska Dispatch News

  19-01-2017 23:24
  
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  Bogoslof volcano settles down after sending ash over Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak Island
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  A satellite image shows an ash cloud from Bogoslof volcano in the Aleutians shortly after its 1:20 p.m. eruption Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. (Alaska Volcano Observatory). Another eruption of Bogoslof volcano in the Aleutian Islands sent an ash cloud east ...
  Alaska volcano erupts again, sends ash cloud to 31000 feetKTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
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• Asian tapeworm found in Alaskan salmon

  19-01-2017 22:17
  
  (Graphic: Jayde Ferguson)Scientists recently announced they had found an Asian tapeworm species in pink salmon caught off the coast of the Kenai Peninsula.
  Humans can contract the tapeworm by eating raw or under-cooked fish, but researchers say the risk is low.
  For years, researchers have suspected the Japanese broad tapeworm was present on the Pacific Coast of North America. But with improved genetic techniques, they can now be sure.
  In a recent study, a team of scientists identified a Japanese
  
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• State gasline corporation quietly opens office in Tokyo

  19-01-2017 22:07
  
  Chief Oil & Gas Advisor John Hendrix, Alaska Gasline Development Corporation President Keith Meyer, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Andy Mack gave a press conference on Friday Sept. 30, 2016 to discuss their meetings with potential Asian markets for Alaska’s LNG in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo by Rashah McChesney)The state gasline corporation has opened a satellite office in Tokyo.
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• FAA investigates recent “laser attack” reports

  19-01-2017 21:39
  
  Since 2005 about 35,000 laser pointing incidents have been reported to the Federal Aviation Administration. (Photo: FAA)Recent police reports indicate aircraft on the Kenai Peninsula are being targeted by handheld lasers.
  According to Kenai Police Chief David Ross, three laser incidents were reported to the Kenai Police Department in 2016. The incidents occurred in April, November and December.
  Ross said all reports are immediately turned over to the Federal Aviation Administration for further i
  
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• It's so cold in Alaska that even Alaskans are complaining - USA TODAY

  19-01-2017 21:01
  
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  It's so cold in Alaska that even Alaskans are complaining
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  Following the warmest year ever recorded in the USA's northernmost state, a recent bout of hideous cold in Alaska is a bit of a shock to the system. "I want to leave," Cynthia Erickson of Tanana, Alaska, told the Associated Press. "My teeth are frozen ...and more »
  
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• Gov. Walker hits on same budget themes with new Legislature

  19-01-2017 20:04
  
  Gov. Bill Walker delivers his State of the State Address to the Alaska Legislature on Wednesday. Behind him, left to right, are Senate President Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks, and House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, D-Dillingham. (Photo: Skip Gray/360 North)Same concepts, new Legislature.
  In his annual State of the State Address on Wednesday, Gov. Bill Walker pushed a lot of the same ideas and proposals for solving the state’s budget crisis as last year.
  Walker said the state government risks spending a
  
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• Even in Alaska, temperatures as low as -59 are hard to handle - Chicago Tribune

  19-01-2017 15:30
  
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  Even in Alaska, temperatures as low as -59 are hard to handle
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  The bank sign in Fairbanks, Alaska, makes note of the frigid temperatures that have enveloped the interior of the state on Jan. 18, 2017. (Eric Engman / Fairbanks Daily News-Miner). Tribune news servicesContact Reporter. Cynthia Erickson woke up early, ...and more »
  
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• 2017 State of the State Address

  19-01-2017 05:00
  
  360 North and KTOO will provide a LIVE Gavel Alaska broadcast of Gov.Bill Walker’s 2017 State of the State Address on Wednesday, Jan. 18.The multi-camera television and radio coverage from the state capitolbuilding in Juneau will begin at 7:00 p.m.  The broadcast is expected tolast for approximately one hour. The broadcast will be hosted off screen byKTOO and 360 North’s Jeremy Hsieh. 
  
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• Audit finds new $90 million Alaska crime lab hasn't met expectations - Alaska Dispatch News

  19-01-2017 04:57
  
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  Audit finds new $90 million Alaska crime lab hasn't met expectations
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  The new $90 million crime lab the state built in 2012 has fallen far short of promises that it would lead to faster, more effective processing of forensic evidence uncovered in criminal cases in Alaska, a newly released legislative audit of the Alaska ...
  
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• Obama denies Newtok’s request for disaster declaration

  19-01-2017 04:18
  
  
  The village of Newtok, seen from above in the summer of 2016. (Photo courtesy of Romy Cadiente)The village of Newtok, seen from above in the summer of 2016. (Photo: Romy Cadiente)President Barack Obama has turned down a request from the western Alaska village of Newtok for a disaster declaration.
  Newtok applied for relief based on erosion and thawing permafrost that are expected to destroy the village within three years. It was a test of whether the nation’s disaster laws apply to slo
  
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• Federal disaster designation declared for Alaska pink salmon fisheries - Alaska Dispatch News

  19-01-2017 04:16
  
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  Federal disaster designation declared for Alaska pink salmon fisheries
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  After a pitiful return of pink salmon to much of Alaska last summer, a federal disaster declaration was officially announced Wednesday. U.S. Secretary of ...
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• Writer John McPhee was at ease in a canoe, Brad Snow was at ease with him

  19-01-2017 04:06
  
  
  Brad Snow in a canoe looking very relaxed and free, living along the Yukon River in Alaska. (Photo courtesy Brad Snow and Lilly Allen/UAF Project Jukebox)Brad Snow was 26 years old when he left Anchorage to start a life with his girlfriend, Lilly Allen, near the Yukon River. The couple is featured in John McPhee’s book “Coming into the Country,” published 40 years ago.
  Snow and Allen built a log cabin on the Nation River, a tributary to the Yukon. But in 1976, the Bureau of Lan
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017

  19-01-2017 03:52
  
  
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  Newtok’s disaster declaration is denied
  Rachel Waldholz, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage
  President Barack Obama today turned down a request from the western Alaska village of Newtok for a disaster declaration. Newtok applied for relief based on erosion and thawing permafrost that are expected
  
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• 59 below recorded in Interior as cold snap settles on Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  19-01-2017 03:41
  
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  59 below recorded in Interior as cold snap settles on Alaska
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  Fairbanks and Anchorage woke Wednesday to the deep-freeze of an expected cold snap this week, as temperatures plunged to 50 degrees below zero in some areas of the Interior. The lowest temperature recorded by the National Weather Service ...and more »
  
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• Senate majority eyes $750M in budget cuts over three years

  19-01-2017 03:10
  
  
  Sen. Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks, answers a question from a member of the press corps during a Senate Majority press availability on Tuesday Jan. 17, 2016 in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo: Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)The state Senate is generating ideas to make significant cuts to the state budget. They’d like to lock in lower spending levels into the future.
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  The Republican-led Senate majority is more focused on cutting spending to close the state’s budget deficit tha
  
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• Richardson Highway avalanche cleared

  19-01-2017 03:01
  An avalanche that blocked the Richardson Highway north of Isabell Pass this morning, has been cleared. No vehicles were caught and no one was injured in the slide which naturally triggered near milepost 209, conditions remain dangerous.
  State Department of Transportation spokeswoman Meadow Bailey said the slide debris near mile 209 was cleared by crews stationed out of the DOT’s nearby Trim’s Camp maintenance station, where heavy wind blown snow continues to cause problems.
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• Why is it so cold here when everywhere else is so warm?

  19-01-2017 02:50
  
  
  The University of Alaska Fairbanks campus on Jan. 18th, 2017. (Photo: Amanda Frank/KUAC)It was -50 degrees today in Fairbanks. Anchorage hit -15 degrees. Much of the state is enduring the coldest temperatures in nearly five years.
  Brian Brettschneider is a climatologist in Anchorage who closely tracks Alaska climate data and trends. Alaska’s Energy Desk is checking in with him regularly as part of the segment, Ask a Climatologist.
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• Culturally valuable yellow cedar on the decline

  19-01-2017 02:44
  
  
  Wayne Price works on a 12-foot-tall totem pole in his Haines studio. (Photo: Emily Files/KHNS)Yellow cedar trees grow from the top of California, all the way to Alaska, and according to a recent study, the Southeast part of the state could be the hardest hit with yellow cedar’s decline, due to the planet heating up. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been petitioned to put yellow cedar on the endangered species list. The wood is commercially valuable. It’s culturally valuabl
  
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• State sues federal land managers over predator hunting restrictions

  19-01-2017 02:16
  
  
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  (Photo by Kent Miller, Denali National Park)The State of Alaska has sued several federal land management agencies and top officials over a series of new predator hunting restrictions that went into effect over the past two years.
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  The suit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, claims that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service violated provisions of four federal laws when the agencies banned certain hunting practices on refuge and national
  
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• Ballot initiative to change Anchorage’s protections for LGBTQ community deemed illegal

  19-01-2017 02:15
  
  
  The rainbow flag which is a symbol of the LGBTQ community. (Wikimedia image by Benson Kua)The petition to change Anchorage’s non-discrimination ordinance, which protects the civil rights of the LGBTQ community, will not move forward. A group of Anchorage residents submitted an application for the “Protect Our Privacy Initiative” in early January. On Wednesday, municipal attorney Bill Falsey said it was not legal because it addresses too many different subjects.
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• North Pole Rep. continues to press for OCS reform

  19-01-2017 00:53
  
  Rep. Tammie Wilson, R-North Pole, addresses the Alaska House of Representatives, April 8, 2015. She is calling for an investigation into the Office of Children’s Services. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)Update: 01/19 11:30 a.m.
  The state ombudsman and a citizen review panel will address issues at the Office of Children’s Services or O.C.S. Alaska assistant attorney general Robert Henderson says the action announced Thursday, was the recommendation of a confidential grand jury investig
  
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