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• Stranded seal gets first-class rescue in Unalaska

  09-03-2017 23:30
  
  Andy Dietrick checks in on the ringed seal before her flight to Anchorage. (Laura Kraegel/KUCB)Late on a Friday afternoon Melissa Good sits on her front step filling out labels for a dog carrier. The crate is not for her dog. It holds a yearling ringed seal.
  “He looks like he’d be nice and light and fluffy like a fluff ball, but not the case,” Good said. “He’s heavier than he looks. He’s really dense! About two feet long about 30 pounds.”
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - Alaska Public Radio Network

  09-03-2017 22:47
  
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  Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan brought their case for developing Alaska's resources to the Oval Office. Murkowski said they met with President Trump Wednesday for nearly an hour. Senators make budget plea for Coast Guard. Liz Ruskin, Alaska ...
  Alaska senators meet with president, appeal for lands accessKenai Peninsula Online
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• Alaska's Big Problem With Warmer Winters - Bloomberg

  09-03-2017 22:30
  
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  Alaska's Big Problem With Warmer Winters
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  The wind that comes off the mountains across Cook Inlet in southern Alaska still feels plenty cold in February. But lately it's not quite cold enough. From 1932 to 2017, the daily minimum temperature in Homer, a city on the eastern shore of the inlet ...
  
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• Wade Marrs leads Iditarod 2017 into Ruby

  09-03-2017 20:15
  
  Wade Marrs was the first musher to reach the Ruby checkpoint, coming off the Yukon River into town at sunset. (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media.)Wade Marrs led two past champions into the Ruby checkpoint last night in the 2017 Iditarod. 350 miles into the trail, the racing is underway as teams plot their next moves along hundreds of winding miles on the Yukon River.
  Willow musher Wade Marrs arrived first into the checkpoint a little before 7 p.m.
  “There’s a lot of people
  
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• Iditapod: Wade Marrs is the first musher into Ruby

  09-03-2017 19:58
  
  In Episode 9, we talk about Wade Marrs leading the way to Ruby, run/rest strategies, two-way communications,and a story from Iditarod past.
  And, if you’re looking for more Iditarod content, check out “I-Kid-A-Pod,” produced by a fourth grade class in Wisconsin.
  
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• Could be time for Alaska to make the leap - Alaska Dispatch News

  09-03-2017 07:04
  
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  Two wind turbines jut from the clouds atop Kodiak's Pillar Mountain in October 2012. (James Brooks photo). I just returned from a writer's conference in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, which included keynote speakers ranging from Judy Collins, to ...
  
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• Hearing set for lawsuit challenging new name of Alaska town - Hawaii News Now

  09-03-2017 06:38
  
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  Hearing set for lawsuit challenging new name of Alaska town
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  (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File). FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2014, file photo, snow falls around a sign in Barrow, Alaska. A court hearing is set for Thursday, March 9, 2017, in Alaska for the two sides in a lawsuit challenging the new Inupiat Eskimo name of.
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• What does it take to prove a big oil discovery?

  09-03-2017 03:57
  
  
  An Armstrong rig on the North Slope. Multiple discovery wells, outside analysts and a good flow test mean Armstrong’s recent oil discovery is a good bet. (Photo courtesy Armstrong Oil & Gas)There’s a lot of excitement building about three big oil discoveries on Alaska’s North Slope. Caelus Energy, Armstrong Oil and Gas and ConocoPhillips all recently announced they’ve found huge new oil fields.
  But what does it take to prove an oil discovery?
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, March 8, 2017

  09-03-2017 03:45
  
  
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  Trump takes in ‘all things Alaska’
  Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Washington D.C.
  Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan brought their case for developing Alaska’s resources to the Oval Office. Murkowski said they  met with President Trump Wednesday for nearly an hour.
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• Traveling Music 3-12-17

  09-03-2017 03:37
  Traveling Music
  3-12-17
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  Song TitleArtist / Composer
  CD Title
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  Boulder To Birmingham
  Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler / Emmylou Harris, Bill Danoff
  Real Live Roadrunning
  Warner
  3:39
   
  Coal Tattoo
  Kathy Mattea  / Billy Edd Wheeler
  Coal
  Captain Potato Records
  3:17
   
  Up My Sleeve
  Jim Lauderdale / Robert Hunter, Jim Lauderdale
  Patchwork River
  Thirty Tigers
  5:17
   
  Fireflies
  Nicky Mehta / Nicky Mehta
  Weather Vane
  Plough Records
  4:03
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• After public testimony, House committee rejects proposal to cut school bond reimbursements

  09-03-2017 03:03
  
  The Haines Borough has taken out more than $18 million in bonds to pay for a new school and renovations. (Emily Files)On Tuesday, the House Finance Committee changed course on a proposal to cut school bond debt reimbursements. The proposal would have left municipalities from Fairbanks to Wrangell with significant funding deficits.
  Haines is one of the municipalities that would have been affected by the proposal.
  In 2005, Haines built a new school. The borough took out more than $17 million in bo
  
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• Southeast tribes to receive $240,000 FEMA grant

  09-03-2017 02:56
  
  Tribes in Southeast Alaska will soon have more say in their emergency preparedness plans.
  The Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska announced this week it’s the recipient of a $240,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA.
  The money from FEMA will be paid in salary reimbursements, with $80,000 available through July of this year and another $160,000 through July 2018.
  Village public safety officer Cory Padron has served as a VPSO in Saxman thro
  
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• Trump takes in ‘all things Alaska’

  09-03-2017 02:42
  
  The White House (Creative Commons photo by Jim Grey)Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan brought their case for developing Alaska’s resources to the Oval Office Wednesday (March 8). Murkowski said they and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke met with President Trump for nearly an hour.
  “It was a great opportunity to just kind of make the case for all things Alaska,” Murkowski said afterward. “The president was clearly interested and engaged. I had lots of maps.&rdquo
  
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• Commercial longline seasons to open on time

  09-03-2017 02:41
  
  Commercial longliners in Alaska can go fishing on March 11 after all. The National Marine Fisheries Service announced Friday (March 3) that March 11th will be the start date for halibut and black cod fishing.
  March 11th is the halibut fishing start date approved by the International Pacific Halibut Commission back in January. The National Marine Fisheries Service typically opens long-line fishing for black cod on the same day.
  President Trump issued an executive order in January requiring that f
  
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• Senators make budget plea for Coast Guard

  09-03-2017 02:40
  
  Cutter Waesche. (File photo by USCG)Both of Alaska’s U.S. senators wrote the White House budget director Wednesday asking him to spare the Coast Guard from the budget ax.
  According to the Washington Post and other news outlets, President Trump plans to reduce funding for the Coast Guard by nearly 12 percent in his budget request to Congress.
  Nearly two dozen U.S. senators signed a letter asking Office of Management and Budget Director John Mulvaney to reconsider. They said s
  
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• Correctional center orchestra plays for the pros

  09-03-2017 01:44
  
  
  Winona Fletcher plays with the Hiland Orchestra on March 7, 2017. (Photo by Corey Allen-Young, courtesy of Dept. of Corrections.)The Portland Cello Project plays in venues across the nation, from concert halls to loading docks. The ten-piece ensemble introduces audiences to everything from cello-only arrangements of classical music to adaptations of Kanye West. One of their most recent stops was in the orchestra room at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center, a women’s prison located in Eagle
  
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• Rep. Wilson seeks deeper budget cuts, to no avail

  09-03-2017 00:57
  
  Rep. Tammie Wilson, R- North Pole, reads through a series of amendments to the state’s budget during the House Finance Committee meeting on Tuesday in Juneau. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)Conflicts over the state budget are rising as the spending plan advances through the House Finance Committee.
  Committee member Tammie Wilson introduced more than 200 of 330 amendments to the budget, including a group of separate 38 cuts to overtime and other types of work that pay
  
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• Lawmakers look to the north as Juneau prepares for Arctic Council meeting

  09-03-2017 00:50
  
  The flags of the eight Arctic Council member states and six indigenous permanent participant organizations. (Photo by Linnea Nordström/Arctic Council Secretariat)On a cold, sunny day in Juneau, about 40 people gathered in the Capitol to eat lunch and learn about the Arctic. Juneau will host an Arctic Council meeting later this week, and state lawmakers got a visit from national and international scientists, policymakers and researchers on Tuesday.
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