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• How's how a changing climate will affect Alaska by the end of the century - Alaska Dispatch News

  11-02-2017 23:25
  
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  How's how a changing climate will affect Alaska by the end of the century
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  By the end of this century, Alaskans may be enjoying tropical evening breezes for about a week each year. That's an increase from the almost zero such nights we currently savor. But it could happen, according to a graduate student who has tightened the ...
  
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• US House tees up bill to repeal Alaska fish and wildlife regulation - Alaska Dispatch News

  11-02-2017 22:15
  
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  US House tees up bill to repeal Alaska fish and wildlife regulation
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  WASHINGTON — The U.S. House has plans to start the process next week to repeal an Alaska-specific wildlife regulation issued by the Interior Department that has put federal regulators at odds with state game managers. Alaska Rep. Don Young managed ...
  
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• Could mariculture morph into a billion-dollar industry for Alaska? - Alaska Dispatch News

  11-02-2017 20:48
  
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  Could mariculture morph into a billion-dollar industry for Alaska?
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  Shellfish, sea cucumbers, geoduck clams, seaweeds and biofuels are crops envisioned by a group of Alaskans crafting a framework for a statewide mariculture industry expansion. An 11-member task force created last February by Gov. Bill Walker is working ...and more »
  
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• Environmental group calls for shutdown of leaking gas line in Cook Inlet

  11-02-2017 04:08
  
  
  Local environmental group Cook Inletkeeper is calling a gas leak in the Inlet “serious,” while Hilcorp characterizes the incident as “low risk.” (Photo by Paxson Woebler/Wikimedia Commons)A local environmental group is calling on regulators to shut down a leaking gas line in Cook Inlet until it is repaired. The leak, first reported by the Alaska Dispatch News, is coming from an 8-inch gas pipeline owned by Hilcorp. In the report, Hilcorp characterized the leak as “l
  
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• Bill would bring back income tax, draw Permanent Fund money for state budget

  11-02-2017 04:04
  
  
  Rep. Paul Seaton, co-chair, House Finance Committee, discusses House Bill 115 with Alaska Public Media and KTOO reporter Andrew Kitchenman following the House floor session Friday. The bill creates a state income tax, draws money from the Permanent Fund for the state budget, and introduces a new formula for setting the amount of the Permanent Fund dividend. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)Alaskans would pay a tax on income for the first time since 1980 under a bill introduced in the Legislature on
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 - Alaska Public Radio Network

  11-02-2017 03:57
  
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  Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Feb. 10, 2017
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  Alaskans would pay a tax on income for the first time since 1980 under a bill introduced in the Legislature Friday. The bill also would draw money from the Permanent Fund to pay for the state government's budget. And it would set a new formula for ...
  Alaska House bill pitches income tax, using oil-wealth fundFairbanks Daily News-Miner
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Feb. 10, 2017

  11-02-2017 03:56
  
  
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  The Iditarod is moving to Fairbanks
  Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  Once again, the Iditarod start is moving to Fairbanks.
  Bill would bring back income tax, draw Permanent Fund money for state budget
  Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO – Juneau
  Alaskans would pay a tax on income for the first
  
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• Japanese Day of Remembrance

  11-02-2017 03:00
  
  Baggage, belonging to incarcerees arriving from an assembly center at Puyallup, Washington, is sorted and trucked to barracks at the Minidoka internment camp in 1942.
  PHOTO: FRANCIS STEWART, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORThe internment of Japanese people during World War 2 may be a distant memory for some, but for those who lived it or had family members who did are still carrying the impact. One of those people is Marie Nash, former long-time aide to Senator Ted Stevens. Her Japanese father wa
  
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• Reluctant to comply with REAL ID, Alaska faces possible barrier to flying

  11-02-2017 02:29
  
  
  Alaska rolled out updated driver’s license and ID cards in June 2014. They are not REAL ID-compliant. (Courtesy Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles)Alaska law bars the state government from spending money to comply with the federal REAL ID Act. Starting next January, the federal government will require Alaska residents boarding commercial flights to have ID cards that meet REAL ID standards.
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  Under House Bill 74 and Senate Bill 34, Alaska residents would be able to choose one
  
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• Trump's federal hiring freeze leaves Alaska national parks in limbo - Alaska Public Radio Network

  11-02-2017 01:16
  
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  Trump's federal hiring freeze leaves Alaska national parks in limbo
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  Park ranger Charlotte Henson leads a group of visitors on a walking tour of Skagway in summer of 2016. (Photo: Emily Files). The Trump administration's federal hiring freeze is creating uncertainty for Alaska's national parks. A Jan. 31 announcement ...
  
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• Trump’s federal hiring freeze leaves Alaska national parks in limbo

  11-02-2017 01:11
  
  Park ranger Charlotte Henson leads a group of visitors on a walking tour of Skagway in summer of 2016. (Photo: Emily Files)The Trump administration’s federal hiring freeze is creating uncertainty for Alaska’s national parks. A Jan. 31 announcement that seasonal employees may be exempt from the order eased some of the stress on national parks. But there are still questions about the future, including for Alaska’s most-visited national park.
  On a walking tour near the end of 2016
  
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• AK: Happiness is orange at Hoonah City Schools

  11-02-2017 01:10
  
  Hoonah City Schools Superintendent PJ Ford Slack, right, sits in on the Orange Frog training, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)This story starts with Superintendent of Hoonah City Schools, PJ Ford Slack. Hoonah is a small village on Chichagof Island in Southeast Alaska.
  Slack came to Hoonah as an “emergency replacement” for the district’s last superintendent and when she got to work, she noticed something.
  “The adults were really not happy. Tha
  
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• 49 Voices: Phillip Eben of Anchorage

  11-02-2017 01:05
  
  Phillip Eben and his wife Karen (Photo by Anne Hillman/ Alaska Public Media)This week we’re hearing from Phillip Eben in Anchorage. He was born in Unalakleet.
  EBEN: I spent a lot of time with my mother. I was intrigued as a child ’cause she made mukluks and slippers — she did a lot of hand sewing — so my intrigueness caught her eye, so what I would end up doing is I would chew on he soles of the mukluks to form them for her, ’cause that’s the way they formed t
  
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• The Tour of Anchorage ski event

  11-02-2017 01:00
  
  One of the biggest and best events of the Anchorage winter is a ski race that crosses the whole city, held the same weekend as the Iditarod start. It’s the Tour of Anchorage, and it’s coming up soon, with some of the nation’s best skiers and plenty of regular folks who just want to go the distance. On the next show, we’ll talk with a winner of the race and an race organizer and competitor. We’re going to share some stories and some strategy, talk about how to
  
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• Anchorage Opera’s Glory Denied

  11-02-2017 00:10
  
  Tom Cipullo’s Glory DeniedAnchorage Opera Company is presenting Tom Cipullo’s opera Glory Denied based on the true story of the longest held American captive during the Vietnam War and what happens with his life when he returns. Stage Director Helena Binder and Conductor Douglas Kinney Frost drop by the studio this week to tell us about their unique concept of how they have chosen to present this moving story. Glory Denied performs in the Sydney Laurence Theatre starting February 10t
  
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