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• Historic Number of Alaska lawmakers vote against drilling in Arctic Refuge coastal plain - The Wilderness Society (press release) (blog)

  15-02-2017 23:23
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  Historic Number of Alaska lawmakers vote against drilling in Arctic Refuge coastal plain
  The Wilderness Society (press release) (blog)
  A record number of Alaska lawmakers voted against a resolution urging Congress to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration. Peter Mather. In a historic move, four Alaska legislators from across the state this ...and more »
  
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• Residents jumped from windows to escape apartment fire that killed 2 - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-02-2017 21:27
  
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  Residents jumped from windows to escape apartment fire that killed 2
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  Sixteen people were injured and dozens were displaced by the fast-moving fire at the Royal Suite Apartments on Minnesota Drive.
  Alaska anglers can now get sport fishing updates sent to their emailKTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Midtown Anchorage apartment fire kills 2, displaces manyAlaska Public Radio Networkall 18 news articles »
  
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• Can home wood pellet boilers go from fringe to mainstream?

  15-02-2017 20:46
  
  Christal Higdon estimates her family goes through a little more than a $6 bag of pellets a day in her wood pellet boiler. (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/Alaska’s Energy Desk)The Ketchikan airport has one. So does the Walter Sobeloff Building in downtown Juneau. Now, a fringe group of homeowners are installing wood pellet boilers to heat their homes. Not to be confused with wood burning stoves, these boilers have been marketed as a cheaper alternative to heating oil, at least in the long
  
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• Bill allowing bets on Washington-to-Alaska race advances - Juneau Empire (subscription)

  15-02-2017 20:05
  
  Bill allowing bets on Washington-to-Alaska race advances
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  KETCHIKAN — A bill allowing bets on the results of a motorless boat race from Washington state to Alaska has been approved by the Alaska House. The bill brought by Independent Rep. Dan Ortiz of Ketchikan cleared the House on Monday. It now heads to ...and more »
  
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• Lawmakers grill Alaska's gasline corporation on its budget | Alaska ... - Alaska Public Radio Network

  15-02-2017 19:59
  
  Lawmakers grill Alaska's gasline corporation on its budget | Alaska ...
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  Sen. Cathy Giessel, R-Anchorage, and Sen. Mike Dunleavy, R-Wasilla, listen to Alaska Gasline Development Corporation President Keith Meyer, aduring a ...and more »
  
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• Lawmakers grill Alaska’s gasline corporation on its budget

  15-02-2017 19:56
  
  
  Sen. Cathy Giessel, R-Anchorage, and Sen. Mike Dunleavy, R-Wasilla, listen to Alaska Gasline Development Corporation President Keith Meyer, aduring a Senate Finance meeting focusing on the corporation’s budget on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC), which is charged with taking the lead on the massive Alaska liquid natural gas project, is again having its finances questioned. &nbs
  
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• Second Alaska Buyback Program for Southeast Seine Permits Not Approved - SeafoodNews (subscription)

  15-02-2017 17:56
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  Second Alaska Buyback Program for Southeast Seine Permits Not Approved
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  The votes fell short for a second round of Southeast Alaska salmon seine permits to be retired, or bought back, by a federal loan. The referendum failed by 26 votes among 315 eligible to participate. In a Federal Register announcement yesterday, the ...
  
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• Alaska oil bust threatens life of dividend checks and few taxes - Wyoming Business Report

  15-02-2017 14:54
  
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  Alaska oil bust threatens life of dividend checks and few taxes
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  The oil-industry rout is spurring Alaska to reconsider perks long enjoyed by its 741,894 residents: No income taxes, plus annual dividend checks drawn from the state's investment earnings. No state relies as heavily on petroleum production as Alaska ...and more »
  
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• Alaska budget director warns against deep cuts | Local News ... - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  15-02-2017 10:09
  
  Alaska budget director warns against deep cuts | Local News ...
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  FAIRBANKS — The state's budget director is warning against deep cuts to the state budget because it would shift the state's fiscal crisis to local communities, ...and more »
  
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• Balanced fiscal plan sustains good life in Alaska - Alaska Dispatch ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-02-2017 04:45
  
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  Balanced fiscal plan sustains good life in Alaska - Alaska Dispatch ...
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  Four elements necessary in our new fiscal reality: Draw on Permanent Fund earnings, broad-based tax, moderate Permanent Fund dividend, restructured oil ...
  Summer nights in Alaska could get a taste of tropic weather | Alaska ...Fairbanks Daily News-Minerall 8 news articles »
  
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• Cook Inlet company fined nearly half a million dollars for safety violations

  15-02-2017 04:10
  
  
  Chunks of ice float in Cook Inlet on Dec. 13, 2016 near Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)A state agency on Tuesday (Feb. 14) announced it is fining an oil and gas company that operates in Cook Inlet for major safety violations.
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  The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (AOGCC) is imposing a $446,000 penalty on Cook Inlet Energy for operating a well with failed safety valve systems. The valves prevent fluid from escaping an oil or gas well and c
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017 - Alaska Public Radio Network

  15-02-2017 04:04
  
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  Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017
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  The Yukon Quest has a winner! Matt Hall, a Two River musher, had to overcome adversity and have a little luck along the way. Cook Inlet company fined nearly half a million dollars for safety violations. Elizabeth Harball, Alaska's Energy Desk – Anchorage.
  Alaska man wins 1000-mile international sled dog raceQuad-Cities Online
  Musher Matt Hall claims come-from-behind Yukon Quest victory ...A
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017

  15-02-2017 04:02
  
  
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  Matt Hall wins Yukon Quest race, just in time for lunch
  Molly Rettig, KUAC – Fairbanks
  The Yukon Quest has a winner! Matt Hall, a Two River musher, had to overcome adversity and have a little luck along the way.
  Cook Inlet company fined nearly half a million dollars for safety violations
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• New fee would sharply hike state fees for studded tires

  15-02-2017 03:18
  
  
  Sen. Cathy Giessel, R-Anchorage, speaks at a Senate Majority press availability, February 13, 2017. She has proposed a bill to sharply increase state fees for studded tires. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)A proposed bill would increase the fee Alaskans pay to the state when they buy studded tires by 1,500 percent.
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  The rutted lanes on the Glenn Highway in Anchorage’s Eagle River section have helped prompt the new legislation.
  Anchorage Republican Senator Cathy Giessel drives
  
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• Predator reg debate veers from ‘puppy killing’ to ‘bull poop’

  15-02-2017 02:51
  
  
  Denali wolf (Photo courtesy of the National Park Service)Republicans in the U.S. House are trying to roll back some of the environmental rules of the Obama Administration, and today they turned their attention to a regulation that applies only in Alaska. The rule prohibits several methods of hunting predators in National Wildlife Refuges in the state. Amid talk of “puppy killing,” Alaska Congressman Don Young argued it’s up to the state to manage wildlife populations.
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• Murkowski backs bill to strengthen volcano monitoring

  15-02-2017 02:50
  
  
  Takawangha Volcano is on uninhabited Tanaga Island in the western Aleutians. (Photo: AVO / U.S. Geological Survey)Senator Lisa Murkowski wants to bolster the nation’s volcano monitoring system.
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  The bill, introduced Monday (Feb. 13) would modernize existing monitoring networks and create a 24-7 volcano watch office to keep an eye on active volcanoes across the country.
  Plus, it would create a connected system — the National Volcano Early Warning System — where in
  
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• DATA VIZ: The real ratio of men to women in Alaska - KTUU.com

  15-02-2017 02:43
  
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  DATA VIZ: The real ratio of men to women in Alaska
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  Data is sourced from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development (AKDOLWD) and the United States Census Bureau's State Data Center (SDC) Program. The Sex Ratio (per 100 women) is calculated by dividing the total number of men by ...
  
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• Matt Hall wins Yukon Quest race, just in time for lunch

  15-02-2017 02:15
  
  Matt Hall pulls into the Yukon Quest finish line in Fairbanks (Photo: Molly Rettig, KUAC)The Yukon Quest has a winner! Matt Hall, a Two River musher, had to overcome adversity and have a little luck along the way.
  Hall mushed into a crowded finish chute and under a golden banner in downtown Fairbanks Tuesday (Feb. 14), just in time for lunch. For the first time in ten days, he didn’t look tired. Neither did his ten dogs. To get there, they had traveled nearly 1,000 miles together, through
  
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• Esteban Santiago lied on Alaska security guard license, was fired over mental health issues, records show - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-02-2017 02:08
  
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  Esteban Santiago lied on Alaska security guard license, was fired over mental health issues, records show
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  Esteban Santiago exits the Fort Lauderdale jail accompanied by two federal marshals Monday morning, January 30, 2017, as he is taken to federal court. (C.M. Guerrero / Miami Herald). Esteban Santiago, the man accused of killing five people last month ...and more »
  
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• Alaska gas line group leader pledges openness with lawmakers - Beloit Daily News

  15-02-2017 01:55
  
  Alaska gas line group leader pledges openness with lawmakers
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  Keith Meyer, left, president of the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., and Frank Richards, a senior vice president with the corporation, appear before the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, in Juneau, Alaska. The state-sponsored ...and more »
  
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• Alaska couple credits the radio for 35 years of marriage

  15-02-2017 00:59
  
  Scott Disteth and Vickie Wilson met after Vickie heard Scott on KDLG radio (Photo from Vickie Wilson)You’ve heard of love at first sight. But what about love at first listen? This is a story about one woman who found exactly that with the flip of a the dial.
  Vickie Wilson lives in Fairbanks. But in 1980, she was working in a state fish hatchery in Bristol Bay. Perched on the edge of a lake that would flash freeze in the winter, she was pretty far removed. No movies. No cell phones. Th
  
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• UPDATE: Coast Guard calls off search for missing crabbing vessel passengers

  15-02-2017 00:15
  
  
  (U.S. Coast Guard District 17)UPDATE: 2:14 p.m. Feb. 14, 2017
  After nearly three days, the U.S. Coast Guard has called off the search for six fishermen missing since Saturday, when their crabbing vessel disappeared in the Bering Sea.
  Coast Guard officials made the announcement Monday (Feb. 13) night, after search parties found no sign of the F/V Destination — apart from a floating tangle of debris that included the boat’s emergency beacon, several buoys and a life ring.
  The 98-foot v
  
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