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• Ask a Climatologist: The sun is back and so is winter melt

  15-03-2017 23:58
  
  The sun melts snowbanks into icicles in Anchorage on Wednesday, March 15, 2017. (Photo by Annie Feidt/Alaska’s Energy Desk)March has brought sun to much of the state. But not a lot of warm temperatures. That weather combination prompted a listener to email to ask why some ice and snow is disappearing, even though it’s well below freezing outside.
  Climatologist Brian Brettschneider said it’s not the first time he’s fielded this question.
  “It’s all about the sun
  
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• Alaska residents warned to give grumpy moose their space - Topeka Capital Journal

  15-03-2017 23:25
  
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  Alaska residents warned to give grumpy moose their space
  Topeka Capital Journal
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska wildlife officials warned people to keep their distance from grumpy moose after two close calls this past weekend. One of the animals walked up behind a woman tending chickens in the city of Homer on Sunday and started ...and more »
  
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• Warm air, sea-surface temperatures in February limited Arctic sea-ice growth

  15-03-2017 21:15
  
  Arctic sea ice extent for February 2017 averaged 5.51 million square miles (14.28 million square kilometers), the lowest February extent in the 38-year satellite record. February 2017’s sea-ice extent is about 15,400 square miles 40,000 square kilometers) below February 2016’s, which set the previous lowest extent for the month, and 455,600 square miles (1.18 million square kilometers) below the February 1981-2010 long-term average.
  (NSIDC)It’s been a relatively cool and snowy
  
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• Ekwok Natives Limited cuts ties with Nunamta Aulukestai

  15-03-2017 20:31
  
  (Nunamta Aulukestai)Ekwok Natives Limited announced Friday that it is no longer intends to be a member of Nunamta Aulukestai, a non-profit association of 10 Bristol Bay village corporations.
  Ekwok Natives passed the resolution at board of directors meeting by a 4-1 vote. Jimmy Hurley Sr. is the recently elected president of the board. He said the decision to cease affiliation was made to protect shareholders from the potential cost of litigation related to the proposed Pebble Mine.
  “In the
  
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• Mitch Seavey leads Iditarod to Nome – and says he’s not done yet

  15-03-2017 19:26
  
  Mitch Seavey arrives at the Nome finish line, the Burled Arch. (Photo: David Dodman, KNOM)Iditarod musher Mitch Seavey won the 2017 race in record time Tuesday afternoon. The Seward musher’s team ran a blistering pace from Fairbanks along winding rivers, tundra and sea ice to Nome. But the veteran musher is looking forward to achieving new levels of dog team performance in the peak of his career.
  The trucks had barely finished dumping snow on Nome’s Front Street for the final stretch
  
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• Iditapod: Mitch Seavey’s record-breaking run to Nome

  15-03-2017 17:36
  
  In Episode 15, we talk about Mitch Seavey’s record-breaking run, Aliy Zirkle vying for a top-10 finish, and taking a refreshing sauna in Unalakleet.
  If you have a question about the Iditarod, email us at [email protected].
  
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• Alaska's Murkowski is problematic for the GOP-held Senate on ObamaCare repeal - The Hill (blog)

  15-03-2017 16:50
  
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  Alaska's Murkowski is problematic for the GOP-held Senate on ObamaCare repeal
  The Hill (blog)
  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski · Lisa MurkowskiAlaska's Murkowski is problematic for the GOP-held Senate on ObamaCare repeal GOP senator brushes off reporter asking about health plan How the EPA chief could gut the agency's climate change regulations ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Airlines announces big San Diego expansion - USA TODAY

  15-03-2017 14:56
  
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  Alaska Airlines announces big San Diego expansion
  USA TODAY
  Alaska Airlines is pushing ahead with its aggressive expansion along the West Coast. The latest comes in San Diego, where the airline announced six new non-stop destinations on Thursday. The new routes – to Albuquerque; Austin; Kansas City, Mo.; ...
  Alaska Airlines' California growth continues, adding six new nonstop routes from San DiegoYahoo Finance
  Alaska Airlines adds Omaha flight to San DiegoLincoln Journal St
  
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• Assembly Member Challenges Borough's Invocation Policy - U.S. News & World Report

  15-03-2017 14:55
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  Assembly Member Challenges Borough's Invocation Policy
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  A Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly member is challenging a clause in a legal nonprofit's contract in order to defend the borough in an ongoing lawsuit over the assembly's invocation policy. | March 15, 2017, at 9:51 a.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon ...
  Kenai Assembly member sues borough and mayor in battle over invocationsAlaska Dispatch Newsall 2 news articles »
  
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• Alaska's Thaw Reveals—and Threatens—a Culture's Artifacts - National Geographic

  15-03-2017 14:08
  
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  Alaska's Thaw Reveals—and Threatens—a Culture's Artifacts
  National Geographic
  Precious items of the Yupik people, long frozen in time, are emerging as temperatures rise. Now the rush is on to save them. Picture of boats. View Images. Fishermen line up to have their catches weighed during the 2015 commercial salmon season.
  
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• Searching for polar bears on Alaska's North Slope - UPI.com

  15-03-2017 13:24
  
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  Searching for polar bears on Alaska's North Slope
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  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game have used scent-trained dogs to locate bear dens on the North Slope of Alaska to help minimize industrial disturbance to bears. Photo by Craig Perham/U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...
  
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• Alaska residents warned to give grumpy moose their space - The Seattle Times

  15-03-2017 08:17
  
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  Alaska residents warned to give grumpy moose their space
  The Seattle Times
  In this Monday, March 6, 2017, photo, a bull moose whose antlers recently dropped walks toward hikers near Connors Bog in Anchorage, Alaska. Confrontations between moose and Alaska residents are leading wildlife officials to... (AP Photo/Dan Joling) ...
  Ski resort staff kill problem moose in AlaskaKKTV 11 News
  Fish and Game: Long winter leaves Alaska moose 'tired and cranky,' don't feed themKTVA.co
  
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• Alaska lawmakers target their own budget for cuts - with some ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-03-2017 06:06
  
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  Alaska lawmakers target their own budget for cuts - with some ...
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  JUNEAU — As Alaska lawmakers debate cuts for programs to benefit residents, they've also been deciding how much to spend on their own budget, which at ...
  Alaska state senators scour budget in hopes of $300M in cuts ...Alaska Public Radio Networkall 6 news articles »
  
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• Citizens needed to help Alaska's children - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-03-2017 03:33
  
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  Citizens needed to help Alaska's children
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  A grand jury investigation of Alaska's Office of Children's Services requested by Rep. Tammie Wilson, R-North Pole, noted that the Alaska Citizen Review Panel is "statutorily required" to address the concerns she raised. The Alaska panel was ...
  
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• Fort Wainwright soldier charged with murder in Fairbanks nightclub shooting - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-03-2017 03:25
  
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  Fort Wainwright soldier charged with murder in Fairbanks nightclub shooting
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  Three people were arrested Monday in connection with a September shooting at a Fairbanks nightclub that left 27-year-old Michael Jeremy Hodges dead and injured two others, according to the Fairbanks Police Department. Fort Wainwright soldier Tevyn ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, March, 2017

  15-03-2017 02:55
  
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  Mitch Seavey wins the 2017 Iditarod in record time
  Wesley Early and Lori Townsend, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage and Ben Matheson, KNOM – Nome
  For the sixth year in a row, a member of the Seavey mushing family has claimed the top spot in the Last Great Race. This year it was Mitch Seavey who finis
  
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• Alaska man dies after being hit by car on Highway 26 - Local News ... - Daily Astorian

  15-03-2017 02:43
  
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  Alaska man dies after being hit by car on Highway 26 - Local News ...
  Daily Astorian
  An Alaska man died Tuesday morning after he was struck by a car on U.S. Highway 26 just east of Seaside. The 44-year-old man from Ketchikan, Alaska, was ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Communications Systems Group's (ALSK) CEO Anand Vadapalli on Q4 2016 Results - Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha

  15-03-2017 02:24
  Alaska Communications Systems Group's (ALSK) CEO Anand Vadapalli on Q4 2016 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
  Seeking Alpha
  Good day and welcome to the Alaska Communications Systems Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2016 Earnings Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Ms. Tiffany Smith, Manager, Investor ...and more »
  
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• Harvard class assignment: solve rural Alaska's fossil fuel woes - Alaska Public Radio Network

  15-03-2017 01:57
  
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  Harvard class assignment: solve rural Alaska's fossil fuel woes
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  Three members of the team of Harvard graduate students looking for practical solutions to reduce the use of fossil fuels in rural Alaska. (Photo: Annie Feidt/Alaska's Energy Desk). Rural Alaska runs on diesel. Although many communities are open to ...and more »
  
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• Harvard class assignment: solve rural Alaska’s fossil fuel woes

  15-03-2017 01:53
  
  Three members of the team of Harvard graduate students looking for practical solutions to reduce the use of fossil fuels in rural Alaska. (Photo: Annie Feidt/Alaska’s Energy Desk)Rural Alaska runs on diesel. Although many communities are open to alternative energy ideas, they don’t have the funding to even explore them. But help could come in the form of graduate students from Harvard University, who have been tasked with the assignment of solving some of Alaska’s fossil fuel e
  
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• Alaska state senators scour budget in hopes of $300M in cuts

  15-03-2017 01:45
  
  State Sen. Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, shown here at a Senate Majority press availability on Feb. 24, says cuts to the Department of Health and Social Services were difficult. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)The state Senate is looking to make up to $300 million in cuts to the state budget. But the Senate subcommittees looking to trim state agencies’ budgets are finding much smaller cuts.
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  The subcommittees planned to finish their work Tuesday.
  The biggest recommended cuts were to
  
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• GOP health bill won’t cure what ails Alaska market, say 2 industry pros

  15-03-2017 01:37
  
  Photo illustration by 401kcalculator.org via Flickr.The bill to replace the Affordable Care Act is on shaky ground in Congress, drawing criticism from left, right and center in the U.S. House. Guests on “Talk of Alaska” Tuesday said the bill would do more harm than good.
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  “One of the criticisms of the original Affordable Care act is that it addressed coverage but it didn’t address cost,” Becky Hultberg said. She’s the CEO of the Alaska State Hos
  
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• ‘We’re just out’: Bergmann tenants turn to Salvation Army

  15-03-2017 01:35
  
  Police, aid workers, journalists and tenants of the Bergmann Hotel gather in the lobby as the building is cleared and boarded up on Friday, March 10, 2017, in Juneau. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)Closing the Bergmann Hotel in Juneau left some of its tenants homeless and now they’re wondering what they’ll do next.
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  The Glory Hole soup kitchen is the only short-term shelter open to men, women and children in Juneau. It’s the perfect place for Ch
  
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• Harassed online but determined to enlist in the Marines - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-03-2017 01:07
  
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  Harassed online but determined to enlist in the Marines
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Savannah Cunningham, who will begin Marine Corps basic training in April, at EOS Fitness in Tempe, Ariz., March 12. (Caitlin O'Hara/The New York Times). The trouble started months ago for Savannah Cunningham, who had long dreamed of becoming a ...and more »
  
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• Mitch Seavey wins the 2017 Iditarod in record time

  15-03-2017 00:47
  
  For the sixth year in a row, a member of the Seavey mushing family has claimed the top spot in the Last Great Race. This year it was Mitch Seavey who finished the Iditarod at 3:40 p.m. on Tuesday, March 14.
  According to the Associated Press, Seavey is the oldest musher to win the race at the age of 57. The new record for the Iditarod is eight days three hours 40 minutes and 13 seconds.
  Following behind Mitch at the time of his win are his son Dallas Seavey and Nicolas Petit roughly two mile
  
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• Immigration enforcement changes hit home in Alaska | Alaska Public ... - Alaska Public Radio Network

  15-03-2017 00:43
  
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  Immigration enforcement changes hit home in Alaska | Alaska Public ...
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  Late last month the Trump administration released new instructions on how Homeland Security is supposed to implement immigration policies. Under the ...and more »
  
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• Immigration enforcement changes hit home in Alaska

  15-03-2017 00:43
  
  (Creative Commons photo courtesy of Icars)  .Late last month the Trump administration released new instructions on how Homeland Security is supposed to implement immigration policies. Under the Obama administration, immigration officers focused on deporting people who committed serious crimes. Now, everyone who has violated immigration laws could be arrested, detained, and deported. These changes put some Alaskans in limbo.
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• Climate bill faces tough sledding in Alaska legislature | Alaska ... - Alaska Public Radio Network

  15-03-2017 00:12
  
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  Climate bill faces tough sledding in Alaska legislature | Alaska ...
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  Rep. Geran Tarr and Rep. Andy Josephson, Anchorage Democrats and co-chairs of the House Resources committee hear testimony from oil and gas industry ...and more »
  
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• Climate bill faces tough sledding in Alaska legislature

  15-03-2017 00:02
  
  Rep. Geran Tarr and Rep. Andy Josephson, Anchorage Democrats and co-chairs of the House Resources committee hear testimony from oil and gas industry representatives on Wednesday Feb. 1, 2017 in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)Two Anchorage Democrats have introduced a bill to create a statewide commission on climate change. But even its authors doubt the bill has much of a chance, at least this session. Still, they argue it’s a step in the rig
  
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