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• Alaskans claim medals in Special Olympics World Winter Games

  06-04-2017 23:42
  
  Jennifer Troutman, 23, competes in the 2017 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Austria. (Photo from Special Olympics Alaska)Two Alaskans traveled to Austria in March to compete in the Special Olympics World Winter Games – and both came back with some hardware.
  Jennifer Troutman is an alpine skier, and at this year’s world games, she competed in two events, medaling in the Super G. The 23-year-old from Anchorage also received a participation ribbon in the Giant Slalom.
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• Ask a Climatologist: Should we be worried about methane hydrates on the sea floor?

  06-04-2017 22:43
  
  A Methane hydrate sample under a rock encrusted with deep-sea mussels on the seafloor in the Gulf of Mexico. (Photo courtesy of NOAA)What are methane hydrates and what role could they play in global warming? That’s the question a listener posed this week for the segment Ask a Climatologist.
  Brian Brettscheider said methane hydrates are clumps of gas entrapped in water lattice – a kind of ice-like structure — on the continental shelf floor. Some scientists think of these hydrate
  
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• Most, but not all, scientists agree that starvation killed hundreds of puffins last year

  06-04-2017 22:36
  
  St. Paul residents have seen 300 puffin carcasses wash ashore since mid-October. Scientists say seabirds are good indicators of overall ecosystem health, which means the die-off could be a sign of trouble for all sorts of species. (Photo by COASST Island Sentinels)What caused more than 300 puffins to wash up dead in the Pribilof Islands last fall? Starvation. At least, that’s the consensus among most scientists.
  But one ecologist thinks there may be another culprit: Paralytic Shellfish Poi
  
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• Climate change hits Alaska's rural water and sewer systems - Alaska Public Radio Network

  06-04-2017 22:22
  
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  Climate change hits Alaska's rural water and sewer systems
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  Open water, seen from the beach in Unalakleet in November 2015. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/Alaska Public Media). For decades, Alaska has struggled to get running water and sewer systems to its rural communities. An estimated 3,000 households — or ...and more »
  
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• Climate change hits Alaska’s rural water and sewer systems

  06-04-2017 22:22
  
  Open water, seen from the beach in Unalakleet in November 2015. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/Alaska Public Media)For decades, Alaska has struggled to get running water and sewer systems to its rural communities. An estimated 3,000 households — or about 10,000 people — still lack both. Now, that job may be getting harder, as climate change exacerbates old problems and creates new ones.
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  For years, the village of Unalakleet has piped in drinking water from a creek several
  
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• Alaska sexual abuse suspect fights extradition from Arkansas - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  06-04-2017 20:52
  
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  Alaska sexual abuse suspect fights extradition from Arkansas
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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. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 51-year-old man suspected of sexual abuse over multiple years in a southwest Alaska ...
  Man facing 76 counts of child sex abuse in Alaska arrested in ArkansasAlaska Dispatch News
  Alaska man arrested in Searcy, facing 76
  
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• Alaska scientist blames toxins for 2016 puffin die-off - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  06-04-2017 17:22
  
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  Alaska scientist blames toxins for 2016 puffin die-off
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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) — An Anchorage-based scientist says paralytic shellfish poisoning is to blame for the deaths of ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Scientist Blames Toxins for 2016 Puffin Die-Off - U.S. News & World Report

  06-04-2017 06:31
  Alaska Scientist Blames Toxins for 2016 Puffin Die-Off
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  An Anchorage-based scientist says paralytic shellfish poisoning is to blame for the deaths of more than 300 puffins that washed up in the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea last fall. | April 6, 2017, at 8:30 a.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google ...and more »
  
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• Young pulls punches for this road foe

  06-04-2017 04:06
  
  Witnesses wait to testify at a hearing in the U.S. House on the King Cove Road. Photos by Liz Ruskin/APMAt the U.S. Capitol, Alaska Congressman Don Young is known to berate Democrats and environmentalists who oppose his efforts to get a road for King Cove. Young accuses them of being indifferent to the lives of his constituents, the Alaska Natives who reside in a remote, isolated community. But at hearing Wednesday, the witness who spoke against the road was also an Alaska Native from a remote,
  
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• Senate Finance budget cut falls short of $300 million goal

  06-04-2017 04:00
  
  Sen. Mike Dunleavy, R-Wasilla, proposed a series of budget amendments during a Senate Finance Committee meeting on Monday. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)The Senate will debate a state government budget for the coming year that is $262 million less than the current budget.
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  The Senate Finance Committee’s proposed cut is much deeper than the $32 million cut the House passed.
  But it falls short of the $300 million that the Senate majority caucus announced as a reduction goal th
  
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• Traveling Music 4-16-17

  06-04-2017 03:54
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  4-16-17
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  Featuring Libby Roderick, Alaskan singer / songwriter / activist
   
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  Got To Love
  Libby Roderick / Libby Roderick
  Winter Wheat
  Turtle Island Records
  3:35
   
  What Do You Do When the Lifeboats are Burning?
  Libby Roderick / Libby Roderick
  Winter Wheat
  Turtle Island Records
  3:37
   
  Is That What You Really Want?
  Libby Roderick / Libby Roderick
  Thinking Like A Mountain
  Tu
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, April 5, 2017

  06-04-2017 03:51
  
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  The House and Senate split over introducing income taxAndrew Kitchenman, KTOO – Juneau
  To some House members, reintroducing an income tax in Alaska is the best way to close a long-term gap between how much the state government spends and what it raises. But senators are opposed to the plan, leaving a poli
  
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• Alaska Marijuana Regulators Delay Onsite Use Debate - U.S. News & World Report

  06-04-2017 03:21
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  Alaska Marijuana Regulators Delay Onsite Use Debate
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  Alaska Marijuana Control Board Chairman Peter Mlynarik listens to testimony from attorney Jana Weltzin during the board's meeting Wednesday, April 5, 2017, in Anchorage, Alaska. The board ran out of time before it could consider rules for allowing ...
  Regulators to look at loosening pot-business restrictions in small Alaska townsAlaska Dispatch Newsall 7 news articles »
  
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• Alaska Marijuana Regulators Delay Onsite Use Debate | Alaska ... - U.S. News & World Report

  06-04-2017 03:21
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  Alaska Marijuana Regulators Delay Onsite Use Debate | Alaska ...
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  Alaska Marijuana Control Board Chairman Peter Mlynarik listens to testimony from attorney Jana Weltzin during the board's meeting Wednesday, April 5, 2017, ...
  Regulators to look at loosening pot-business restrictions in small ...Alaska Dispatch Newsall 7 news articles »
  
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• Commercial silver fishing could return to the Lower Kuskokwim this summer

  06-04-2017 03:03
  
  Silver salmon fills the bottom of a boat during a subsistence opening in August 2016 near Bethel. A new fish processor in Bethel may allow for commercial openings during the 2017 silver salmon run. (Photo: Katie Basile / KYUK)Commercial fishing could be returning to the Lower Kuskokwim this summer. Washington state fish buyer Pacific Harvest Seafood is working to anchor a fish processing vessel along the Bethel seawall from late July through August to buy silver salmon from Quinhagak to Bethel.
  
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• Troopers: Anchorage snowmachiner dead in wreck near Willow

  06-04-2017 01:53
  
  An Anchorage man is dead after an apparent snowmachine wreck near Willow this week, according to Alaska State Troopers.
  Danny Maroney, 66, was hauling supplies from Deshka Landing to his cabin near Skwentna on Monday with plans to return home the same day. A family member called Tuesday to report Maroney missing, troopers said.
  Another pair of snowmachiners reported finding Maroney’s body near the confluence of the Yentna and Susitna rivers just before Troopers arrived in a helic
  
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• Legislature passes bill recognizing Black Americans’ efforts in AK Highway construction

  06-04-2017 00:31
  
  Pvt. Refines Simms Jr., a bulldozer operator with the Army’s 97th Engineer Battalion, exchanges a handshake with Pvt. Alfred Jalufka, an operator with the 18th Engineer Brigade, when soldiers working from the north and south met Oct. 25, 1942 at Contact Creek, Yukon Territory – some eight months after work on the highway began. (Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/Alaska Highway Project)The Alaska legislature today passed a bill formally recognizing the contributions of Black America
  
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• Air Force destroys World War II shell discovered in Unalaska

  06-04-2017 00:15
  
  Explosive specialists with the U.S. Air Force return to their plane Tuesday after destroying World War II-era ordnance found in Unalaska. (Photo by Laura Kraegel/KUCB)The U.S. Air Force made a special visit to Unalaska Tuesday (April 4) after a hiker found unexploded ordnance from World War II. A bomb squad destroyed the artillery shell in a controlled explosion.
  During the war, hundreds of soldiers were stationed atop Mount Ballyhoo, one of the tallest peaks in Unalaska.
  Last week, a local hike
  
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• Ketchikan’s first pot shop set to open Saturday

  06-04-2017 00:00
  
  Stoney Moose owners Mark Woodward and Eric Reimer stand in what will be the new pot shop’s retail sale area. (KRBD photo by Leila Kheiry)Ketchikan’s first marijuana retail store could open as early as this coming Saturday, if a Thursday inspection goes well.
  Mark Woodward is one of the owners of Stoney Moose on Stedman Street.
  “Watch your step because it’s still an active construction site, but if you come back you’ll see how close we’re getting,” Woodwa
  
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• Ketchikan’s first pot shop set to open Friday — or maybe Saturday

  06-04-2017 00:00
  
  Stoney Moose owners Mark Woodward and Eric Reimer stand in what will be the new pot shop’s retail sale area. (KRBD photo by Leila Kheiry)Ketchikan’s first marijuana retail store could open as early as this coming Friday, if a Thursday inspection goes well.
  Mark Woodward is one of the owners of Stoney Moose on Stedman Street.
  “Watch your step because it’s still an active construction site, but if you come back you’ll see how close we’re getting,” Woodward
  
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• Fairbanks police identify suspected weekend homicide victim

  06-04-2017 00:00
  
  Fairbanks Police have identified the victim of suspected homicide. They say 44-year-old Jose Alfonso Sifuentes Morales was found dead in the road in the area of 3rd Avenue and Hall Street at 12:24 AM yesterday (Tues). Police spokeswoman Yumi McCullough said officers responded to the area after receiving a report of a disturbance, and a man down.
  “We’re not really seeing any manner of which he was killed, but it was not a hit and run and we are considering it a homicide,” McCull
  
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