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• Biologists ask Alaska residents to count moose - Fox News

  01-03-2017 21:40 via foxnews.com
  
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  Biologists ask Alaska residents to count moose
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  Is there a moose on the loose? Count it. That's what residents of Anchorage, Alaska are being told in an effort to figure out how many of the antlered animals are roaming around the city. On Sunday, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game asked the ...
  
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• Alaska delegation gives Trump speech good reviews

  01-03-2017 20:37
  
  President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on Feb. 28, 2017 (Screenshot of White House video)Alaska’s congressional delegation liked the restrained tone of the address President Trump made to Congress Tuesday night.
  The president named several issues that he wants Republicans and Democrats to agree on, such as paid family leave and “to invest in women’s health, and to promote clean air and clear water, and to rebuild our military and our infrastructu
  
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• Alaska delegation gives good reviews on Trump speech

  01-03-2017 20:37
  
  President Donald Trump makes his address to a Joint Session of Congress on Feb. 28, 2017 (Screenshot of White House video)President Trump gave a restrained speech to Congress Tuesday night.
  He said there were several issues Republicans and Democrats could agree on. Such as paid family leave and “to invest in women’s health, and to promote clean air and clear water, and to rebuild our military and our infrastructure.”
  That brief reference was the only discussion of the envi
  
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• Meet Greg Gallagher, from Washington D.C.

  01-03-2017 19:39
  
  
  This episode, in the spirit of Valentines Day, we meet Greg Gallagher, 31, and his fiance Moira Smith. Greg tells his version of meeting Moira and moving to Alaska for love.
   
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  “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 T
  
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• From Alaska to Faribault: Salmon fishing couple to attend farmers market - Southernminn.com

  01-03-2017 19:03 via southernminn.com
  
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  From Alaska to Faribault: Salmon fishing couple to attend farmers market
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  Adelia Myrick tows Tollef Monson in her skiff across the bay where the couple fishes for salmon each summer. On Thursday, their fresh-caught salmon will be sold at the Faribault Winter Farmers Market pop-up event from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. (Submitted photo).
  
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• 2 Earthquakes Rattle Remote Part of Aleutian Islands. - U.S. News & World Report

  01-03-2017 18:01 via usnews.com
  2 Earthquakes Rattle Remote Part of Aleutian Islands.
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  The Alaska Earthquake Center says two earthquakes shook the remote Andreanof Islands in the Aleutian chain. March 1, 2017, at 11:49 a.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. 2 Earthquakes Rattle Remote Part of Aleutian Islands. MORE.and more »
  
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• Fishery board changes management of sockeye in Kenai River - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  01-03-2017 16:50 via newsminer.com
  
  Fishery board changes management of sockeye in Kenai River
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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. KENAI, Alaska (AP) — The Board of Fisheries has changed its target for how many late-run sockeye salmon need to make ...and more »
  
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• Juneau's $170 Million Natural Gas Project on Hold - U.S. News & World Report

  01-03-2017 15:38 via usnews.com
  Juneau's $170 Million Natural Gas Project on Hold
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  Juneau's privately owned electric utility is holding off on plans to bring natural gas to Alaska's capital city due to lower oil prices. March 1, 2017, at 9:52 a.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Juneau's $170 Million Natural Gas ...and more »
  
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• Avalanches, storm shut down stretch of the Dalton Highway - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-03-2017 06:48 via adn.com
  
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  Avalanches, storm shut down stretch of the Dalton Highway
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  Two of four trucks caught in a Monday avalanche on the Dalton Highway in Atigun Pass. ( John Slater / Alaska Department of Transportation). A stretch of the Dalton Highway in Atigun Pass in northern Alaska remains closed due to extreme avalanche ...
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• Scientists 'cook' oil from Alaska coal, suggesting exploration opportunities - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-03-2017 06:37 via adn.com
  
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  Scientists 'cook' oil from Alaska coal, suggesting exploration opportunities
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  A laboratory experiment that produced crude oil from bits of Alaska coal has geologists hoping coal-rich areas contain undiscovered pools of oil in sedimentary basins. While coal is typically associated with basins that produce natural gas, it is ...
  
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• Committee weighs cutting school debt payments

  01-03-2017 04:29
  
  
  Rep. Paul Seaton, R-Homer, co-chairman of the House Finance Committee, listens to Rep. Steve Thompson, R-Fairbanks, on Monday. Seaton proposed a $48.7 million cut to school construct debt reimbursements. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)Alaskans would pay more in property taxes if the state government cuts the amount it pays to offset the debt to build schools.
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  A House committee included a $48.7 million cut in state aid during a step in writing the state budget Tuesday.
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 - Alaska Public Radio Network

  01-03-2017 04:27 via alaskapublic.org
  
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  President Trump reportedly wants the EPA budget cut 25 percent. There's no word yet on where exactly the budget ax will fall, but Alaska has a lot at stake: The state received $78 million last year from the EPA in grants and contracts. Committee weighs ...
  Alaska underwater gas leak continues, 2nd group to sueHawaii News Now
  Alaska asking US Supreme Court to overturn decision giving Cook Inlet salmon ma
  
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• Mental Health Trust seeks to change laws that limit how they spend money

  01-03-2017 04:26
  
  The Trust Authority Building in Anchorage houses the main offices of the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority is trying to change the laws that govern how it uses its principal funds. Some board members hope the legislation will pass soon enough that the organization does not have to undergo a special legislative audit.
  The Trust was created to fund mental health programming around the state. It came under scrutiny last year
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017

  01-03-2017 04:22
  
  
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  EPA budget cut could slow permits, slash grants
  Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Washington D.C.
  President Trump reportedly wants the EPA budget cut 25 percent. There’s no word yet on where exactly the budget ax will fall, but Alaska has a lot at stake: The state received $78 million last year from
  
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• How good Bush 43 looks now - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-03-2017 04:18 via adn.com
  
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  How good Bush 43 looks now
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  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, the human ruler, as in measuring stick, is at it again, this time grading his performance as president. Appearing on Fox News recently, the president gave himself an A-plus for effort, an A for accomplishment and a C for ...and more »
  
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• Feds begin review of controversial mining road in Arctic Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-03-2017 04:12 via adn.com
  
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  Feds begin review of controversial mining road in Arctic Alaska
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  State money may be in doubt for the Ambler Mining District Industrial Access Project, one of Alaska's "Roads to Resources," but federal agencies are moving ahead with plans for the controversial proposal to punch a 211-mile industry-only road through ...
  
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• Ocean acidification in Southeast, tribal network seeks regional impact

  01-03-2017 03:55
  
  
  Ocean acidification has been big news lately. Experts have spoken about the possible consequences for shellfish and the critters that eat them but, its actual impact in Southeast Alaska is not known. Southeast Alaska Tribal Ocean Research, a network of 15 Southeast tribes, hopes to answer that question.
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  Wrangell and fourteen other tribes have participated in the Southeast Alaska Tribal Ocean Research program, collecting clams and cockles for paralytic shellfish poison testing. The Sit
  
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• Descendants gather to welcome Chirikof ancestors home

  01-03-2017 03:38
  
  
  Father Innocent Dresdow performs service on the remains in the room where they’re being kept, in a lower level of the Alutiiq Museum. (Photo by April Laktonen Counceller / Alutiiq Museum)After years of work, ancestral remains from a 19th century settlement on Chirikof Island have returned home. In the 1960s, archaeologists removed the bones from Chirikof, which is located southwest of Kodiak Island, and since then the majority of the bones have been stored and studied at Indiana University
  
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• New drug bag could help public health officials

  01-03-2017 03:17
  
  
  Alaska has another tool in the fight against opioid abuse.
  Public health officials are distributing thousands of drug-disposal bags that are safe and easy to use.
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  They’re sealable pouches containing active carbon. When drugs and water are added, the carbon neutralizes them. The biodegradable bags can be sealed and thrown out with household trash.
  Michelle Overstreet is executive director of My House, a Wasilla-based organization that helps homeless youth. She told those at a rec
  
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• Lawmakers split on Health and Social Services budget changes

  01-03-2017 02:48
  
  
  Rep. Les Gara addresses the Alaska House of Representatives in 2015. He supported transferring funds on Monday to pay for more social workers in the Office of Children’s Services. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)Differences between lawmakers are emerging on how deeply to cut the state budget.
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  For example, the House Finance Committee discussed the $1.06 billion the state spends on the Department of Health and Social Services, recommending $21 million in cuts from last year’s
  
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• Homer City Council votes down ‘inclusivity’ resolution

  01-03-2017 02:44
  
  
  Dozens of residents turned out to provide public testimony at the Feb. 27 Homer City Council meeting.
  (Photo: Shahla Farzan / KBBI)Homer City Council heard a resolution on Monday that would have officially expressed the town’s commitment to fighting discrimination and maintaining a safe, inclusive city.
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  Over 100 people packed into Cowles Council Chambers and overflowed into the lobby, waiting to testify on a controversial resolution promoting inclusivity.
  The resolution, which w
  
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• EPA budget cut could slow permits, slash grants

  01-03-2017 02:43
  
  
  U.S. Capitol (Photo by Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)President Trump is giving his first formal address to Congress tonight. His first budget proposal is expected in mid-March, and it reportedly includes a 25 percent cut to the Environmental Protection Agency. That’s music to the ears of many Republicans, and many Alaskans, who feel the EPA has overstepped its bounds.
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  There’s no word yet on where exactly the budget ax will fall within the agency, but Alaska has a lot at s
  
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• Chirikof Island villagers' remains returned to Alaska from Outside museums - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-03-2017 02:19 via adn.com
  
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  Chirikof Island villagers' remains returned to Alaska from Outside museums
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  Half a century after they were exposed by storm erosion, plucked out of the ground and sent on a long journey to the U.S. Midwest, the bones of Kodiak-area villagers are back in their home region. Fifty-one boxes of human remains from the abandoned ...and more »
  
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• Juneau’s electric utility says natural gas not in the plans anymore

  01-03-2017 02:06
  
  AEL&P headquarters in Lemon Creek. (Photo by Casey Kelly, KTOO – Juneau.)Juneau’s privately-owned electric utility won’t be bringing natural gas to the capital city anytime soon. Alaska Electric Light & Power is owned by the Washington-based company Avista, which had shown interest in shipping liquefied natural gas from British Columbia to Juneau.
  Tim McLeod, AEL&P’s president, said the company thought heating with natural gas could save customers money.
  
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• State demands Hilcorp monitor environmental impact of Cook Inlet gas leak

  01-03-2017 01:58
  
  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)The state is asking oil and gas company Hilcorp to dramatically step up environmental monitoring near a natural gas leak in Cook Inlet.
  The Department of Environmental Conservation, or DEC, says the company needs to be prepared to “evacuate the line,” which could include shutting down wells, by March 13, depending on monitor
  
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• Alaska marijuana tax revenue dropped in January - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-03-2017 01:29 via adn.com
  
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  Alaska marijuana tax revenue dropped in January
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  Marijuana plants grow at the AK Fuzzy Budz facility in Anchorage, November 2016. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News). Alaska's marijuana tax revenues decreased in January as supply shortages caused many shops to shut down temporarily or reduce ...
  
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