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• New Seldovia business will make, distribute salmon pet treats - Alaska Dispatch News

  25-02-2017 23:51 via adn.com
  
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  New Seldovia business will make, distribute salmon pet treats
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  Puppy Love will soon be putting more people to work in Seldovia, a town of fewer than 300 people at the tip of the Kenai Peninsula. The love comes in the form of salmon pet treats, formerly made in Anchorage and now ready to come home, helped by ...
  
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• Davis and Simons win Iron Dog after leaders disqualified - Alaska Dispatch News

  25-02-2017 21:25 via adn.com
  
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  Davis and Simons win Iron Dog after leaders disqualified
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  Ryan Simons, left, and Cory Davis after winning the Iron Dog snowmachine race in Fairbanks on Saturday. (Dermot Cole / Alaska Dispatch News). FAIRBANKS — Cory Davis and Ryan Simon won this year's Iron Dog, crossing the finish line in Fairbanks at ...
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• Alaska Senate leaders propose spending limit, fund draws - KTUU.com

  25-02-2017 20:25 via ktuu.com
  
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  Alaska Senate leaders propose spending limit, fund draws
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  JUNEAU, Alaska Alaska Senate leaders have proposed what they see as key pieces for addressing the state's multibillion-dollar deficit. The bill, from the Senate Finance Committee, would draw from the earnings of Alaska's oil-wealth fund based on a ...
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  Alaska Senate rolls out bill to address state's $3B budget defi
  
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• Senate majority unveils spending limit, Permanent Fund draw

  25-02-2017 04:24
  
  
  Sen. Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel, at a Senate Majority press availability on Feb. 24, 2017. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)The Senate majority unveiled its plan to limit state spending and draw money from Permanent Fund earnings to pay for the state budget Friday.
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  Senate President Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks, said the plan in Senate Bill 70 will prevent spending from getting out of control.
  “We’re going to initiate a spending limit, so that once we get the budget down, then it
  
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• Industry pushes back against proposed changes to state’s oil tax system

  25-02-2017 04:21
  
  
  SAE Exploration Chairman and CEO Jeff Hastings answers questions Wednesday after his testimony before the House Resources Committee in Juneau. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)As lawmakers in Juneau consider changes to the state’s oil tax credit system, they’re facing stiff opposition from oil companies.
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  Several industry representatives testified before lawmakers this week. They are calling the changes proposed in House Bill 111 a tax in
  
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• Ice in Cook Inlet likely to delay fix to Hilcorp gas leak for weeks

  25-02-2017 04:16
  
  
  Still from footage taken by a helicopter of a gas leak in Cook Inlet, obtained by the environmental group Cook Inletkeeper. (Image courtesy Cook Inletkeeper)Hilcorp recently informed state regulators that the company is unlikely to begin repairs on a gas leak in Cook Inlet until mid- to late March.
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  That’s according to a letter the Houston-based oil-and-gas company sent Feb. 20 to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation.
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• Murkowski says Trump policies on Arctic, climate still unclear

  25-02-2017 04:14
  
  
  Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, left, and Norwegian member of parliament Eirik Sivertsen took questions from reporters during a meeting of the Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region in Anchorage on Friday. (Photo by Rachel Waldholz/Alaska’s Energy Desk)Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said it’s still unclear what the Trump administration’s Arctic or climate policies will look like.
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  Murkowski met in Anchorage Friday, Feb. 24, with elected officials from a
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Feb. 24, 2017

  25-02-2017 04:11
  
  
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  Ice in Cook Inlet likely to delay fix to Hilcorp gas leak for weeks
  Elizabeth Harball, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage
  Hilcorp recently informed state regulators that the company is unlikely to begin repairs on a gas leak in Cook Inlet until mid- to late March
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• Alaska game board shoots down bid for Denali wolf buffer - Alaska Dispatch News

  25-02-2017 04:04 via adn.com
  
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  Alaska game board shoots down bid for Denali wolf buffer
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  The Alaska Board of Game has summarily rejected a no-kill zone for wolves on state lands north and east of Denali National Park and Preserve during its first consideration of the contentious wolf buffer since 2010. The unanimous and fairly quick vote ...and more »
  
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• Alaska game board shoots down bid for Denali wolf buffer - Alaska ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  25-02-2017 04:04 via adn.com
  
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  Alaska game board shoots down bid for Denali wolf buffer - Alaska ...
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  The Alaska Board of Game has summarily rejected a no-kill zone for wolves on state lands north and east of Denali National Park and Preserve during its first ...and more »
  
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• Light on Trump, Sullivan aims for optimism

  25-02-2017 03:47
  
  
  U.S Sen. Dan Sullivan delivers his annual address to the Alaska Legislature. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, in his annual address to the Alaska Legislature, did not say much about President Trump, and he did not bring up the issues that drove demonstrators to the steps of the state Capitol today: Trump’s policies on immigration and refugees, and what Congress intends to do about the Affordable Care Act.  Sullivan did, though, directly quote a different president
  
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• Alaska's Sullivan defends accessibility amid protests - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  25-02-2017 03:11 via newsminer.com
  
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  Alaska's Sullivan defends accessibility amid protests
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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. JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan said Friday that he tries to be as accessible as possible to his Alaska ...
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• Fish and Game experiments with new moose counting method

  25-02-2017 01:49
  
  (Photo via U.S. Fish and Wildlife)Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game is trying out a new way to count moose within Anchorage city limits.
  Dave Saalfeld is a research biologist, and will be coordinating teams across Anchorage this Sunday and Monday as citizens tell them where they’re seeing moose.
  “We’re testing this technique out,” Saalfeld said. “This is what we call a pilot study, so we’re working all the kinks this year.”
  In most of the state,
  
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• AK: The history of the water fluoride debate in Juneau

  25-02-2017 01:10
  
  
  (Creative Commons photo by Allan Foster)Earlier this year the Anchorage Assembly nixed a ballot initiative to cease fluoridating its water supply.
  Despite setbacks, activists there vow to keep the effort alive.
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  Juneau grappled with the question over fluoridation a decade ago and people’s views remain the same today as they were 10 years ago.
  “We’re now in the United States at over 70 years of community water fluoridation with levels of fluoride in the water,” B
  
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• 49 Voices: Kokayi Nosakhere of Anchorage

  25-02-2017 01:05
  
  
  Kokayi Nosakhere of Anchorage (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media)This week we’re hearing from Kokayi Nosakhere in Anchorage. Nosakhere is community coordinator for Anchorage’s branch of the NAACP.
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  NOSAKHERE: When it comes down to diversity, I think there are a lot of misconceptions because of the PR we put out. Mountain View was the most diverse neighborhood in the country. So we’ve been celebrating that for the last three to four years.
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• The mountain climbing community

  25-02-2017 01:00
  
  Icing Peak Ridge, courtesy: Evan PhillipsAlaska’s mountains speak to different people in different ways. To some people, they say climb. Certainly, enough people have heard that voice to develop a large and active climbing community in Anchorage, a community that spans generations. That’s the topic of today’s show, with a guest who pioneered climbing here and a younger climber who is pulling together this community in a knew way. The conversation is about why and how climbers c
  
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• Alaska nonprofit using online tool to share Yupik history - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  25-02-2017 00:39 via newsminer.com
  
  Alaska nonprofit using online tool to share Yupik history
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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) — An Alaska nonprofit organization is encouraging residents of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta to ...and more »
  
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