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• Students, teachers and extended absences at the Haines School

  16-02-2017 21:48
  
  Haines school (Photo: KHNS)It’s pretty common for residents of rural Alaska to head south for some time in the winter. For a few weeks, a month, or more. In some cases, students become part of that tradition. The question of how to deal with extended school absences came up recently in Haines.
  There are a lot of reasons people leave Haines in the winter – for seasonal jobs, different family situations, and vacations to name a few. When a student is involved, leaving for a long period
  
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• 3 Reasons Why Alaska Air Stock Has Room to Run - Motley Fool

  16-02-2017 14:40
  
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  3 Reasons Why Alaska Air Stock Has Room to Run
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  Alaska Air stock has been on a roll since mid-2016, but several catalysts could propel it even higher in the next few years. Adam Levine-Weinberg. (TMFGemHunter). Feb 16, 2017 at 8:40AM. Shares of Alaska Air (NYSE:ALK) have soared to a new all-time ...
  2016 ends with $911M profit for Alaska AirAlaskajournal.com
  The Kyle B. Levine Sells 1703 Shares of Alaska Air Group, Inc. (ALK) StockDailyQuint
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• Schooled to work: Alaska programs succeed - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-02-2017 06:34
  
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  Schooled to work: Alaska programs succeed
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  Seems like we're all in need of a little good news. Oil prices are up just a bit but the Alaska economy is still a little shaky, and it's uncertain our elected state leaders can get their act together to fix the state's finances. Here's a little better ...
  
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• Accused sex trafficker targeted then terrorized Alaska Native teens, prosecutor says - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-02-2017 06:10
  
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  Accused sex trafficker targeted then terrorized Alaska Native teens, prosecutor says
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  Assistant public advocate Kimberly Tsaousis confers with defendant Troy Williams on Wednesday at the Nesbett Courthouse in Anchorage. (Ash Adams). As he ran his sex trafficking ring over the years, Troy Williams always recruited the same kind of girls, ...
  
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• Alaska governor declares opioid abuse public health disaster - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-02-2017 05:30
  
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  Alaska governor declares opioid abuse public health disaster
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  Gov. Bill Walker issued an order Tuesday officially declaring the state's opioid crisis a public health disaster. The disaster declaration was designed to create a legal basis for the state to issue a medical "standing order" that allows community ...
  Walker declares disaster for Alaska opioid health crisisKTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Gov. Walker Declares A State Disaster To Address Alaska's O
  
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• Bill to bring Uber to Alaska runs into roadblocks in Alaska Senate - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  16-02-2017 05:27
  
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  Bill to bring Uber to Alaska runs into roadblocks in Alaska Senate
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Uber and other ride-sharing networks are showing an interest in Alaska — and people in Juneau, in them. “I think it would be great, I've got to use it before and I think it's really nice,” said Larry Walsh, a traveler at the Juneau International ...
  
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• Alaska the Last Frontier. Discover the Majestic Beauty of our Largest and 49th State. - TAPinto.net

  16-02-2017 05:06
  
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  Alaska the Last Frontier. Discover the Majestic Beauty of our Largest and 49th State.
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  SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - Traveling in Alaska is like traveling in no other place on earth. Alaska has its own time zone. It is four hours earlier than the East Coast of the United States, one hour earlier than the West Coast of the United States. You can ...and more »
  
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• Watchdog group skeptical of tugboats used as oil transport escorts

  16-02-2017 04:20
  
  
  Crowley Marine Services currently holds the contract to provide oil tanker escorts and spill response and prevention in Prince William Sound. (Photo by Eric Keto/Alaska’s Energy Desk)NA watchdog group is raising questions about whether new tugboats planned for Prince William Sound are up to the job of escorting oil tankers through the region.
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  The new tugs are part of a major transition taking place in the system set up to prevent oil spills after the Exxon Valdez.
  Last year, Aly
  
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• Report pinpoints concerns over new oil tanker escorts for Prince William Sound

  16-02-2017 04:20
  
  
  Crowley Marine Services currently holds the contract to provide oil tanker escorts and spill response and prevention in Prince William Sound. (Photo by Eric Keto/Alaska’s Energy Desk)NA watchdog group is raising questions about whether new tugboats planned for Prince William Sound are up to the job of escorting oil tankers through the region.
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  The new tugs are part of a major transition taking place in the system set up to prevent oil spills after the Exxon Valdez.
  Last year, Aly
  
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• Finally, a budget plan that works for Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-02-2017 04:19
  
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  Finally, a budget plan that works for Alaska
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  Kudos to Rep. Paul Seaton, Rep. Neal Foster, the House Finance Committee and the House majority coalition for their proposed solution to Alaska's fiscal crisis. Thank you! Finally we have a solution that looks at the whole problem. [Deficit-cutting ...
  Alaska House fixes last year's mistakes, approves annual revisor's billJuneau Empire (subscription)all 6 news articles »
  
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• Environmental group to sue Hilcorp over Cook Inlet gas leak

  16-02-2017 04:10
  
  
  Footage taken from a helicopter provides a look at a gas leak first reported last week in Cook Inlet. The video, emailed to reporters by environmental group Cook Inletkeeper, shows gas steadily burbling to the water’s surface as chunks of ice float nearby.
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  Hilcorp, the biggest oil and gas producer in the Inlet, owns the pipeline. It carries natural gas from shore to fuel two platforms built in 1964 and 1967.
  The leaking gas pipeline in Cook Inlet is drawing concern from env
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017

  16-02-2017 04:06
  
  
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  Fire destroys Anchorage apartment building, kills 2
  Anne Hillman, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  A midtown Anchorage apartment building caught fire early Wednesday morning, killing two people and injuring 16 others. A portion of the three-story Royal Suite Lodge has collapsed from the blaze, and the caus
  
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• Midtown Anchorage apartment fire kills 2, displaces many

  16-02-2017 03:46
  
  
  Firefighters put out the smoldering blaze at Royal Suites Lodge in midtown Anchorage on Feb. 15, 2017. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)A midtown Anchorage apartment building caught fire early Wednesday (Feb. 15) morning, killing two people and injuring 16 others. A portion of the three-story Royal Suite Lodge on Minnesota Drive in midtown has collapsed from the blaze, and the cause is currently unknown.
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  Late Wednesday (Feb. 15) morning, firefighters were still using chainsaws to cut away
  
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• New bill from House lawmaker would hike minimum tax on oil industry

  16-02-2017 03:42
  
  
  Rep. Les Gara, D-Anchorage, , during discussions about the state operating budget shortly before it was passed out of the House Finance Committee, March 9, 2016. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)A state House lawmaker has released another bill proposing changes to the state’s oil and gas tax credit regime. Anchorage Democrat Les Gara debuted his bill, called the “Fair Share for Alaska’s Oil Act,” on Wednesday (Feb. 15).
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  Among the changes proposed in the bill is an
  
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• Traveling Music 2-19-17

  16-02-2017 03:27
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  2-19-17
   
  Format:
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  CD Title
  Label
  Duration
   
  Every Time A Train Goes By
  Sylvia / John Mock, Thom Schuyler, Sylvia Hutton
  It’s All in the Family
  Red Pony Records
  3:12
   
  Jumpin’ In The Leaves
  David Levine / Mark Rust
  The Catskill Collection (compiled by Jay Ungar and Molly Mason)
  Fiddle and Dance Records
  3:34
   
  How Long is this Train?
  Dan Tyminski / Timothy Stafford
  Wheels
  Rounder
  2:57
   
  That Dawn The Day
  
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• Reserves, dividends would be gone in 10 years without action, lawmakers told

  16-02-2017 03:14
  
  
  David Teal, fiscal analyst for the Alaska Legislature, runs through various budget models related to House Bill 115 for the House Finance Committee on Wednesday. HB 115 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)Alaska’s budget reserves could be gone in 10 years if the state government doesn’t take action to balance its budget, th
  
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• Governor Walker issues disaster declaration on opioid epidemic

  16-02-2017 03:06
  
  
  Governor Bill Walker pictured in April 2016. (Photo by Skip Gray, 360 North)Governor Bill Walker has declared Alaska’s opioid epidemic a state disaster and ordered state and federal money for overdose medication.
  In the declaration, the Governor said the opioid epidemic goes quote “beyond the timely and effective response and recovery capability of local resources.”
  The declaration will cost $4,058,316 from regular appropriations for the Department of Health and Social Services
  
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• Alaska migratory bird co-management council proposes an emperor goose subsistence hunt - Alaska Public Radio Network

  16-02-2017 02:20
  
  Alaska migratory bird co-management council proposes an emperor goose subsistence hunt
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  After decades of conservation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has submitted a proposal to open a subsistence hunt and a general hunt for the Emperor Goose in Alaska. An egg hunt for Cackling Canada geese could follow. Listen now. It's been a ...
  
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• Alaska migratory bird co-management council proposes an emperor goose subsistence hunt

  16-02-2017 02:18
  
  Emperor Goose (USGS)After decades of conservation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has submitted a proposal to open a subsistence hunt and a general hunt for the Emperor Goose in Alaska. An egg hunt for Cackling Canada geese could follow.
  It’s been a generation since Alaskans legally tasted Emperor Goose. In the early 1980s, populations of a number of different geese were in trouble. Emperor Goose numbers plunged by more than half to less than 45,000 birds. In 1987, hunting for the gees
  
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• Ask a Climatologist: This winter's alarming record low Arctic sea ice - Alaska Public Radio Network

  16-02-2017 02:13
  
  Ask a Climatologist: This winter's alarming record low Arctic sea ice
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  This winter, Arctic sea ice extent is at record lows. (Graphic: Zack Labe/UC Irvine). During a normal winter sea ice grows quickly in the Arctic Ocean, filling up nearly the entire ocean basin. This year though, unusually warm weather and storms are ...and more »
  
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• Ask a Climatologist: This winter’s alarming record low Arctic sea ice

  16-02-2017 02:11
  
  This winter, Arctic sea ice extent is at record lows. (Graphic: Zack Labe/UC Irvine)During a normal winter sea ice grows quickly in the Arctic Ocean, filling up nearly the entire ocean basin. This year though, unusually warm weather and storms are keeping the sea ice extent at record lows.
  Climatologist Brian Brettschneider said Arctic sea ice is in pretty sad shape.
  “Most of the last 200 days, the sea ice has achieved a daily record low,” Brettschneider said. “So even though i
  
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• The Alaska Plan: A win for Alaskans - Juneau Empire (subscription)

  16-02-2017 02:04
  
  The Alaska Plan: A win for Alaskans
  Juneau Empire (subscription)
  This past August, the Federal Communication Commission adopted The Alaska Plan to protect the funds that have been used for more than two decades to help bring telecommunication services to communities across Alaska. Without these funds, Alaska ...
  
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• Most Alaska high school grads unprepared for UA math and english - Alaska Public Radio Network

  16-02-2017 01:50
  
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  Most Alaska high school grads unprepared for UA math and english
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  A new University of Alaska report finds that the majority of Alaska high school graduates attending UA schools are not prepared for entry-level courses in math and English. Research done by UAA's Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP) ...
  
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• Most Alaska high school grads unprepared for UA math and english

  16-02-2017 01:44
  A new University of Alaska report finds that the majority of Alaska high school graduates attending UA schools are not prepared for entry-level courses in math and English.
  Research done by UAA’s Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP) shows that from 2006 through 2015 just under 61 percent of college freshmen coming from Alaska’s 37 largest high schools required some amount of remedial course work once they got into the UA system.
  The study also pulls out a sub-group o
  
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• After die-off, sea stars face uncertain future

  16-02-2017 01:25
  
  A researcher examines an ochre star with whitened arms — a symptom of sea star wasting syndrome. So far, about 20 different species along the Pacific Coast appear to be vulnerable to the disease. (Photo: Greg Davis)Sea star wasting syndrome was first documented in Kachemak Bay in 2014, but it wasn’t until last summer that the mysterious infection began killing sea stars in large numbers.
  Nearly six months later, the long-term effects of the die-off remain unclear.
  Katie Gavenus is a
  
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• Former US senator urges investment despite Alaska's fiscal challenges - Alaskastar

  16-02-2017 01:13
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  Former US senator urges investment despite Alaska's fiscal challenges
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  Former U.S. Sen. Mark Begich speaks to the Chugiak-Eagle River Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. Begich — who now works for Northern Compass Group consulting — said he thinks Alaska needs to invest in the future desptie the state's ...
  
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• Alaska's gender wage gap among largest in US - Alaska Public Radio Network

  16-02-2017 01:05
  
  Alaska's gender wage gap among largest in US
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  Alaska has one of the largest wage gaps between men and women in the country, according to a new report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released Tuesday. Women in Alaska who worked full-time in 2015 earned a median weekly pay of $787, ...and more »
  
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• Alaska’s gender wage gap among largest in U.S.

  16-02-2017 01:02
  
  (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)Alaska has one of the largest wage gaps between men and women in the country, according to a new report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released Tuesday.
  Women in Alaska who worked full-time in 2015 earned a median weekly pay of $787, while men earned $1,034 per week.
  That means female workers in Alaska took home about 76 percent of what their male counterparts earned.
  David Kong is a statistician with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. He said the mix
  
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• Kenai Borough Assembly to consider eliminating religious invocation

  16-02-2017 00:37
  
  The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly voted to introduce an ordinance on Feb. 14 that would put an end to the invocation that begins each meeting.
  South Peninsula representative Willy Dunne introduced the ordinance, which would modify Kenai Peninsula Borough code.
  The ordinance cites the “emotional divisions in our community” the invocation controversy has caused.
  It also points to the significant cost to taxpayers that may result if the current policy is maintained. The Kenai Peninsu
  
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• More tropical nights in Alaska's future? - Anchorage Press

  16-02-2017 00:28
  
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  More tropical nights in Alaska's future?
  Anchorage Press
  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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