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• As crab prices soar across Alaska, McDonald's tests new snow crab sandwich - Alaska Dispatch News

  04-03-2017 05:58
  
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  As crab prices soar across Alaska, McDonald's tests new snow crab sandwich
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  Crabbers are hauling back pots from the Alaska Panhandle to the Bering Sea, and reduced catches are resulting in record prices. The year's first red king crab fishery at Norton Sound has yielded 17,000 pounds so far of its nearly 40,000 pound winter ...and more »
  
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• Agency fines Hilcorp Alaska $200,000 for incident it says nearly ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  04-03-2017 05:44
  
  Agency fines Hilcorp Alaska $200,000 for incident it says nearly ...
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  An Alaska state agency on Friday levied a $200,000 fine against Hilcorp Alaska over a 2015 industrial accident at the Milne Point oil field in which, it said, only ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, March 3, 2017

  04-03-2017 04:50
  
  
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  Lawmakers look at making health costs more transparent
  Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO – Juneau
  When Alaskans buy candy bars, they know how much they’re going to pay before they make the purchase. The same isn’t true for healthcare. Lawmakers are looking to change that.
  Proposed legislation to crimina
  
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• 2 survive ditching and sinking of plane off Ketchikan - Alaska ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  04-03-2017 03:11
  
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  2 survive ditching and sinking of plane off Ketchikan - Alaska ...
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  A twin-engine Beech 18's crew reported an engine failure and altitude loss Friday morning after attempting to land in Ketchikan, investigators said.and more »
  
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• State reduces Hilcorp fine for worker safety incident

  04-03-2017 02:51
  
  
  In September 2015, three men nearly died at Hilcorp’s Milne Point Unit on the North Slope, after the trailer they were working in filled with nitrogen. Image courtesy of AOGCC.The state is fining oil and gas company Hilcorp $200,000 for a 2015 incident that nearly killed three workers on the North Slope.
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  The final order amount, which was released today (Mar. 3), is a significant reduction from the $720,000 penalty the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission proposed last year
  
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• AK: Model Arctic Council simulates impending actual Arctic Council meeting

  04-03-2017 01:14
  
  A total of 63 students from 13 countries participated at Model Arctic Council 2016 last spring in Fairbanks. (Photo courtesy University of Alaska Fairbanks)The Arctic Council returns to Alaska with meetings in Juneau next week (March 7-10) and in Fairbanks in May. Representatives from eight Arctic countries and six indigenous groups work on shaping Arctic policy.
  To understand the work of the Arctic Council first-hand, a group of university students met in Fairbanks last spring to form a model c
  
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• Summer camps in Alaska

  04-03-2017 01:00
  
  Source: Flickr, Gareth JamesBeing a kid in Alaska in the summer is an amazing gift we give as parents. But to make it worthwhile–with lifelong memories and skills–we need our children out of the house making new friends and doing things. Thus we have summer camp. On the next Outdoor Explorer, we’ll talk about summer camp choices, and practical considerations for parents in planning your kids’ summer. Summer may not seem close today, but it is definitely time to begin sche
  
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• 49 Voices: Ivan Simonek of Wrangell

  04-03-2017 00:47
  
  
  Ivan Simonek of Wrangell (Photo by Aaron Bolton, KSTK – Wrangell)This week we’re hearing from Ivan Simonek in Wrangell. Simonek emigrated from Czechoslovakia in the 60s.
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  SIMONEK: Well the thing is that I’m probably somehow American, but born in the wrong place, ’cause I always look up to the United States as [a] land of unlimited opportunities where dreams can come true. So I wanted to become American, but in Communist system, there was no way to peacefully emi
  
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• 2 Rescued After Emergency Landing off Alaska Landing - U.S. News & World Report

  04-03-2017 00:32
  2 Rescued After Emergency Landing off Alaska Landing
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  Two people were rescued Friday after their small plane made an emergency landing near an Alaska island. March 3, 2017, at 6:26 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. 2 Rescued After Emergency Landing off Alaska Landing. MORE.and more »
  
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• Proposed legislation to criminalize police sexual contact with sex workers during investigations

  04-03-2017 00:29
  
  The sign outside the Anchorage Legislative Information Office, March 4, 2016. (Photo by Megan Ahleman)Law enforcement officers in Alaska can legally have sexual contact with people they are investigating for crimes. Proposed legislation seeks to change that.
  “(I) brought House Bill 112 forward to close a loophole and eliminate a gray area about sexual contact during police investigations,” said Anchorage Rep. Matt Claman, who sponsored the legislation.
  He said he proposed the bill af
  
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• Alaska High Court Voids Decision in Child Custody Case - U.S. News & World Report

  04-03-2017 00:26
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  Alaska High Court Voids Decision in Child Custody Case
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  The Alaska Supreme Court says a custody petition involving children from Alaska was transferred erroneously to a Texas court. March 3, 2017, at 6:21 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Alaska High Court Voids Decision in Child ...
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• New House minority Republicans vent, claim they’re sidelined in budget process

  04-03-2017 00:16
  
  
  Rep. Lance Pruitt, R-Anchorage, during a discussion about HB 115 in the House Finance Committee on Feb. 13. He opposes a change that would reduce the House minority’s budget influence. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)For years, the minority caucus in the Alaska House has had a say in the state’s budget. But that may not happen this year, as the majority caucus looks to tap Permanent Fund earnings to close the budget gap.
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  House minority members say they’re being cut out
  
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• Ryan Redington will be first musher on 2017 Iditarod Trail

  04-03-2017 00:10
  
  (Photo: Matthew Smith, KNOM)Ryan Redington will be the first musher to hit the trail Monday morning in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The grandson of Iditarod race founder Joe Redington, Sr., the younger Redington pulled bib #2 from a mukluk at the Iditarod Mushers’ Drawing Banquet Thursday night.
  In Saturday’s ceremonial start in Anchorage, Redington will follow the honorary musher, Leo Rasmussen, down Fourth Avenue. Rasmussen has been the checker under the Burled A
  
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