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• Anchorage-area power companies announce agreement to reduce costs

  31-01-2017 21:53
  
  
  Chugach Electric in Anchorage is one of three utilities announcing a preliminary agreement to work together to reduce power costs. (Photo: Elizabeth Harball/Alaska’s Energy Desk)Three electric utilities serving the Anchorage area — Chugach Electric Association, Municipal Light & Power and Matanuska Electric Association  – on Monday (Jan. 30) announced a preliminary agreement to work together to provide lower-cost power.
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• Murkowski votes to advance DeVos, with misgivings

  31-01-2017 19:18
  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski Tuesday morning voted in the Education Committee in favor of sending President Trump’s choice for education secretary to the full Senate for a vote. But Murkowski says she hasn’t yet decided how she’ll ultimately vote on the confirmation of Betsy DeVos.  The senator acknowledged that thousands of Alaskans have urged her to oppose  DeVos and she says Devos has not yet earned her vote for confirmation.
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• Murkowski votes to advance DeVos, angering Alaska school advocates

  31-01-2017 19:18
  
  President Donald Trump’s nominee for Education secretary, Betsy DeVos (Screenshot of U.S. Senate video)U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski had an opportunity Tuesday morning to block President Trump’s pick for Education secretary. Thousands of Alaskans have raised objections to Betsy DeVos, but Murkowski voted in the Education Committee to send the nomination to the full Senate for a vote, and Alaska education activists are angry.
  DeVos is proponent of school vouchers, with no di
  
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• On Alaska’s Coldest Days, a Village Draws Close for Warmth

  31-01-2017 15:29 via nytimes.com
  Just below the Arctic Circle, villagers find ways to survive an Alaskan winter.
  
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• Volcano in Alaska island erupts, aviation warning issued - Washington Times

  31-01-2017 10:06
  Volcano in Alaska island erupts, aviation warning issued
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - An aviation code has been raised to the highest “warning level” following a volcanic eruption in Alaska's Aleutian Islands region. The Alaska Volcano Observatory says the Bogoslof (BOH-gohs-lawf) Volcano sent an ash cloud an ...and more »
  
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• Federal agencies in Alaska on stand-by, with hundreds of open positions - KTUU.com

  31-01-2017 08:37
  
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  Federal agencies in Alaska on stand-by, with hundreds of open positions
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  ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - A week after President Trump ordered a wide-ranging federal hiring freeze, agencies in Alaska are still waiting without a clear directive on how to fill hundreds of open positions. The uncertainty has the Alaska Department of Labor ...
  
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• Blood tests offered after use of unsanitary dental tools in southwest Alaska - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  31-01-2017 07:32
  
  Blood tests offered after use of unsanitary dental tools in southwest Alaska
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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. BETHEL, Alaska (AP) — A health care organization in southwest Alaska is offering a second round of free blood tests to ...and more »
  
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• Renewable energy makes financial sense for Alaska - Alaska ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-01-2017 07:18
  
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  Wind turbines stand in the clouds on Pillar Mountain in Kodiak in 2012. (James Brooks photo). The mitigation of climate change is indeed a powerful argument ...and more »
  
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• Alaska artist reaches across rift of fear and uncertainty - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-01-2017 07:18
  
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  Alaska artist reaches across rift of fear and uncertainty
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  Demonstrators gather outside Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on Saturday in response to President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration. (Photo courtesy Michael Burke). These are days of uncertainty and even fear for me. Why?
  
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• Alaska congressional delegation expresses some support for immigration order but criticizes rollout - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-01-2017 06:37
  
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  Alaska congressional delegation expresses some support for immigration order but criticizes rollout
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  WASHINGTON – Alaska's congressional delegation was critical of the rollout and planning surrounding President Donald Trump's immigration executive order but offered general support for its intent. All three members of the delegation — Republican Sens.
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• Alaskans crowd Murkowski's Anchorage office to protest DeVos education nomination - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-01-2017 05:35
  
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  Alaskans crowd Murkowski's Anchorage office to protest DeVos education nomination
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  Activists gathered outside U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's Anchorage office urging her to oppose the nomination of Betsy DeVos as education secretary Monday. (Bill Roth / Alaska Dispatch News). More than 200 Alaskans gathered outside of U.S. Sen.and more »
  
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• Major southcentral Alaska utility companies sign power pooling agreement - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  31-01-2017 05:26
  
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  Major southcentral Alaska utility companies sign power pooling agreement
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  Three of southcentral Alaska's major electric companies announced on Monday that they've signed a power pooling agreement, which will impact tens of thousands of customers. The agreement is between Chugach Electric Association, Municipal Light and ...
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• Warming ocean waters off Alaska bring widespread ecological changes, with more expected in the future - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-01-2017 05:02
  
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  Warming ocean waters off Alaska bring widespread ecological changes, with more expected in the future
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  As the global climate heats up, so do the ocean waters off Alaska, meaning big changes for marine ecosystems and bad news for some species. Scientists gathered in Anchorage last week for the Alaska Marine Science Symposium at the Hotel Captain Cook ...
  
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• Warming ocean waters off Alaska bring widespread ecological changes - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-01-2017 05:02
  
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  Warming ocean waters off Alaska bring widespread ecological changes
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  As the global climate heats up, so do the ocean waters off Alaska, meaning big changes for marine ecosystems and bad news for some species. Scientists gathered in Anchorage last week for the Alaska Marine Science Symposium at the Hotel Captain Cook ...
  
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• Young man charged with murder in small island community in Southcentral - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-01-2017 04:43
  
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  Young man charged with murder in small island community in Southcentral
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  A 20-year-old in the Prince William Sound village of Chenega Bay has been charged with murder in the death of an older man there, according to Alaska State Troopers. Emergency dispatchers in Soldotna got a call late Saturday afternoon about the death ...and more »
  
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• At least 6 people at University of Alaska could be impacted by Trump immigration ban - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-01-2017 04:38
  
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  At least 6 people at University of Alaska could be impacted by Trump immigration ban
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  At least a half-dozen students at the University of Alaska Fairbanks could be affected by President Donald Trump's immigration order barring entry for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries into the United States. UAF spokeswoman Marmian Grimes ...
  University of Alaska warns some students, faculty not to leave U.S.Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Jan. 30, 2017

  31-01-2017 04:28
  
  
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  Alaska congressional delegation avoids criticizing refugee ban
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  Sen. Lisa Murkowski issued a statement on President Trump’s controversial refugee ban that avoids both endorsement and criticism. Meanwhile, Sen. Dan Sullivan supports the president&rsquo
  
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• Meet Erik Fossum, from Washington, D.C.

  31-01-2017 04:21
  
  
  “New Arrivals” is Alaska Public Media’s profiles of people who recently moved to Anchorage, one of the most diverse cities in the world. Every Tuesday, we meet a New Arrival from another country, another state, or another part of Alaska. The stories air at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesdays during Morning Edition here on KSKA, Alaska Public Media.
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  Guest – Erik Fossum
  Age – 33
  Last Location – In this interview Erik w
  
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• Kodiak could soon see new missile testing

  31-01-2017 04:12
  
  
  Kodiak could see a new set of high-tech missile tests before the end of the year.
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  On January 13th, the Missile Defense Agency released a proposed Environmental Impact Study stating there are no negative impacts from launching missile defense test flights from the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Kodiak island.
  If the EIS is approved, equipment and operations for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) as well as the Patriot missile defense systems will be moved to the is
  
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• UPDATE: Plane missing on Kenai flight found, 3 people alive and well

  31-01-2017 03:56
  
  
  UPDATE: 3:24 a.m. by the Associated Press
  Officials say three people were found “alive and well” when a missing aircraft was located.
  The airplane was reported missing Sunday on a flight from Anchorage to the Kenai Peninsula.
  Anchorage television station KTVA reports that the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center confirmed that the plane was found Monday.
  The station says the Coast Guard confirms three people were found with the plane and were “alive and well” and t
  
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• UPDATE: Plane crash passengers found alive on west side of Cook Inlet

  31-01-2017 03:56
  
  
  Three people walk away after their Cessna 180 crashed near a ridgeline landing strip in the vicinity of the Chakachatna River in the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, Jan. 30, 2017. A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60T Jayhawk crew transported the three to Anchorage International Airport. (Photo by U.S. Coast Guard)UPDATE: 3:00 p.m. Jan. 31 by Shady Grove Oliver, KBBI – Homer
  Three people aboard a plane that crashed near the Kenai Peninsula on Sunday have been found.
  A Coast Guard MH-60 Jay
  
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• Search under way for missing plane in Kenai Peninsula

  31-01-2017 03:56
  A search and rescue operation is underway for three people aboard a flight that went missing yesterday in Southcentral.
  The Cessna 180 departed Lake Hood Sunday afternoon en route to the Kenai Peninsula. The flight was reported overdue later that day.
  Shortly thereafter, calls began coming in to the Rescue Coordination Center at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson about an emergency locator signal transmitted from the area.
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• Wrangell business owner held up at LAX due to Trump travel order

  31-01-2017 03:51
  
  Wrangell fisherman and business owner Syliva Ettefagh said she, her husband and friends were returning from a vacation in Costa Rica this weekend when she got held up at Los Angeles International Airport. Ettefagh has been an American citizen since birth. She was born in Iran, to an American mom and an Iranian dad, before that country’s Islamic Revolution.
  Ettefagh didn’t know about Trump’s order when she got to LAX, so when she was stopped at passport control, she didn’t
  
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• Alaska railroad see substantial revenue loss - Alaska Public Radio Network

  31-01-2017 03:47
  
  Alaska railroad see substantial revenue loss
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  The Alaska Railroad is riding out tough times. The state-owned railroad has seen revenue drop substantially. According to railroad President and CEO Bill O'Leary, the decline has largely been driven by losses in its primary freight hauling business.
  
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• Alaska railroad see substantial revenue loss

  31-01-2017 03:45
  
  The Alaska Railroad is riding out tough times. The state owned railroad has seen revenue drop substantially. According to railroad President and CEO Bill O’Leary, the decline has largely been driven by losses in its primary freight hauling business.
  ”Just on a tonage basis, by about 44% since 2010,” O’Leary said.
  O’Leary said the decline reflects loss of a contract for transport of petroleum products after Flint Hills shuttered its North Pole Refinery in 2014. He sa
  
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• Alaska Legislature already considering changes to controversial crime bill - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-01-2017 03:30
  
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  Alaska Legislature already considering changes to controversial crime bill
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  The Alaska Legislature will consider rolling back parts of the state's sweeping new crime law that are attracting public and law enforcement condemnation. Sen. John Coghill, R-North Pole, told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday that he is ...
  
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• Alaska Botanical Garden offers a winter wonderland - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-01-2017 03:30
  
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  Alaska Botanical Garden offers a winter wonderland
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  A vintage pick-up truck marks the entrance to the Alaska Botanical Garden's Heritage Garden plot, created to celebrate the 2015 Anchorage Centennial. (Erin Kirkland). Rays of winter sunshine slanted through trees as I stood, shivering, near a moose ...
  
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• Several Alaskan conservatives defend Trump’s immigration halt

  31-01-2017 03:22
  
  Donald Trump signing executive order on January 27, 2017 (Screenshot of White House video)Many in Alaska are not opposed to President Trump’s executive order halting immigration.
  During a press conference held in Juneau, Senate President Pete Kelly said the temporary ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries affects a small group of just over a hundred people, but Kelly believes that these aren’t issues the state senate has control over.
  “It’s a pretty limit
  
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• Alaska conservatives defend Trump’s immigration order

  31-01-2017 03:22
  
  
  Donald Trump signing executive order on January 27, 2017 (Screenshot of White House video)Amid widespread opposition to President Donald Trump’s executive order halting immigration, many conservatives in Alaska are expressing support for the measure. But not without some reservations.
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  During a press conference in Juneau Monday morning, Senate President Pete Kelly was asked about the order by a reporter from the Juneau Empire. Kelly responded that the temporary ban on immigration
  
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• Essential Alaska gear: Eddie Bauer Skyliner hunting vest - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-01-2017 03:20
  
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  Essential Alaska gear: Eddie Bauer Skyliner hunting vest
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  Christine Cunningham wears her Eddie Bauer skyliner hunting vest on opening day last year. “I live in this vest all season,” she said. (Steve Meyer). Editor's Note: In an ongoing series, we ask Alaska outdoorsmen and women about their favorite or most ...
  
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• Smyth wins Tustumena 200 sled dog race

  31-01-2017 03:19
  
  Kasilof musher Tim Osmar heads out the starting chute at the beginning of the T200 race on Saturday.
  (Photo: Jenny Neyman/KBBI)After a three-year hiatus, the Kenai Peninsula’s Tustumena 200 sled dog race was finally able to celebrate its 30th anniversary this weekend. Iditarod veteran Cim Smyth of Big Lake took first place, followed closely by Girdwood musher Nicolas Petit.
  The final stretch of the Tustumena 200 sled dog race was nearly too close to call.
  Petit led the pack for much of the
  
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• Alaska resident worried to travel after temporary travel ban - Alaska Public Radio Network

  31-01-2017 03:15
  
  Alaska resident worried to travel after temporary travel ban
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  Pakistan is not on the list of seven countries that are under the temporary travel ban, but long time Alaska resident Shehla Anjum is still nervous about traveling to her home country. Listen now. She arrived in Alaska in 1977, after leaving Pakistan ...
  
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• Alaska resident worried to travel after temporary travel ban

  31-01-2017 03:13
  
  Shehla Anjum (Facebook photo)Pakistan is not on the list of seven countries that are under the temporary travel ban, but long time Alaska resident Shehla Anjum is still nervous about traveling to her home country.
  She arrived in Alaska in 1977, after leaving Pakistan in 1968 to attend college in the U.S. She is a naturalized citizen, and has traveled almost annually to visit her family in the city of Karachi in Pakistan.
  Anjum was at the Anchorage airport this morning waiting to board a pla
  
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• Vermonter takes on Alaska By Nicole Webster - Castleton Spartan

  31-01-2017 02:30
  
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  Vermonter takes on Alaska By Nicole Webster
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  The sun hits the snow and it looks like glitter. There isn't any wind so the trees are perfectly covered with snow and the white mountains reflect beautifully off the blue sky. It's peaceful. Three days after Christmas, I took a 3,223 mile trip without ...
  
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• How a carbon credit deal with an Alaska Native corporation could help resolve Teddy Roosevelt's unfinished business - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-01-2017 02:17
  
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  How a carbon credit deal with an Alaska Native corporation could help resolve Teddy Roosevelt's unfinished business
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  The ghost town of Katalla disappeared decades ago, leaving only a few collapsing buildings and overgrown rail lines. This image is from 2007. (Charles Wohlforth). The ghosts of Katalla, on the lost coast east of Cordova, can finally rest their dreams ...and more »
  
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