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• Stranded, lethargic ringed seal found far south of normal icy habitat - Alaska Dispatch News

  18-04-2017 23:02
  
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  Stranded, lethargic ringed seal found far south of normal icy habitat
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  This yearling ringed seal rescued off Unalaska is the first stranded seal of 2017 admitted to the Alaska SeaLife Center for treatment. (Alaska SeaLife Center). The rescue season for Alaska marine mammals officially got underway with the year's first ...
  
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• Alaska Governor Offers Help in Brokering Fiscal Fix | Alaska News ... - U.S. News & World Report

  18-04-2017 22:57
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  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — With Alaska legislative leaders at an impasse over how to address the state's deficit, Gov. Bill Walker is offering his help in hopes of ...
  Alaska policymakers agree on Permanent Fund restructure, not much elseKTUU.com
  Alaska House and Senate dig in deeper in overtime as governor offers helpAlaska Dispatch Newsall 9 news articles 
  
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• So I was up in Alaska - The Denver Post

  18-04-2017 21:47
  
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  So I was up in Alaska
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  I went up to Alaska last week to visit old friends and relive fragrant memories of previous trips: Landing on a short uphill grass strip near a native village and later taking off on that strip and off the edge of a cliff. Fishing in a fjord near ...and more »
  
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• The Entrepreneur Who Brought Weed To Alaska Is Facing A 54-Year Sentence As Her Reward - Forbes

  18-04-2017 16:20
  
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  The Entrepreneur Who Brought Weed To Alaska Is Facing A 54-Year Sentence As Her Reward
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  Alaska is seemingly incensed over the growing number of legal cannabis businesses starting to flower in the state, as officials are attempting to burn one of its home-grown and most dedicated activists with a rash of criminal charges. These days ...
  
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• You might make a profit farming musk oxen in Alaska - if you can find any for sale - Alaska Dispatch News

  18-04-2017 05:26
  
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  You might make a profit farming musk oxen in Alaska - if you can find any for sale
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  Luna is a fifteen-year-old Musk Ox living at the The Musk Ox Farm in Palmer on Wednesday, April 12, 2017. The non-profit farm will open to the public on Mother's Day, May 14. During the spring, the under-wool called Qiviut is combed from the animals ...
  
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• As first hunt on emperor geese begins, officials ask for conservative hunting

  18-04-2017 04:27
  80 percent of the world’s Emperor Goose population breeds on a 10-mile-wide strip that runs from Kongiganak, up the coast of the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta, to Hooper Bay. This year, for the first time in 30 years, federal managers have opened a subsistence hunt for the birds. The geese haven’t migrated to the Delta yet, and the feds are trying to encourage conservative hunting of the vulnerable species before they get here.
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  Bryan Daniels is a waterfowl biologist with the U.S.
  
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• As session breaks deadline, Senate passes bill to allow cellphone fee

  18-04-2017 04:22
  
  Sen. Mia Costello, R-Anchorage, during a Senate Labor & Commerce Committee meeting in March. She sponsored a bill that would allow regulators to charge a cellphone fee to support services for people who are deaf. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)The Legislature has gone past the deadline set under state law to finish the annual session – and there are few signs that they’ll be finishing their work soon.
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  Monday was the 91st day of the session, which is scheduled to last 90
  
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• In a rare case of river piracy, climate change is the culprit

  18-04-2017 04:16
  
  Scientists say they can pinpoint a day in May of 2016 when the water levels in the Slims River dramatically dropped. (Photo by Dan Shugar/University of Washington Tacoma)Scientists are pointing to climate change as the reason a river that used to feed into the Yukon has nearly disappeared.
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  A report published in Nature Geoscience on Monday said it’s the first documented case of river piracy in modern times — linked to the planet heating up. River piracy is when one river st
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, April 17, 2017

  18-04-2017 04:06
  
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  BP halts oil and gas leaking from North Slope well
  Elizabeth Harball, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage
  BP announced Monday morning that an out-of-control release from a North Slope oil and gas production well has been stopped.
  Troopers: Peaceful end to Seward Highway shots fired incident
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• Here's why Alaska legislators, staffers and lobbyists are listening to Wu-Tang Clan - Alaska Dispatch News

  18-04-2017 03:58
  
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  Here's why Alaska legislators, staffers and lobbyists are listening to Wu-Tang Clan
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  The iPod that plays Gavel Alaska's “at-ease” music sits in the control room at KTOO, Juneau's public broadcasting station, on Monday, April 17, 2017. (Gavel Alaska). JUNEAU — A new playlist with instrumentals from Wu-Tang Clan and Pink Floyd has won a ...
  
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• Driven by oil industry job losses, Alaska unemployment claims ticked up last year - Alaska Dispatch News

  18-04-2017 03:37
  
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  Driven by oil industry job losses, Alaska unemployment claims ticked up last year
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  The number of people in Alaska receiving unemployment insurance benefits rose last year, according to a new state report, though spiking claims from the oil sector and industries closely tied to it "appear to be subsiding." In 2016, the state's first ...
  
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• Alaska lawmakers approve designating Indigenous Peoples Day - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  18-04-2017 03:02
  
  Alaska lawmakers approve designating Indigenous Peoples Day
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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) — Columbus Day would be known as Indigenous Peoples Day in Alaska under a measure passed ...and more »
  
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• The Latest: Suspected Alaska gunman taken into custody - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  18-04-2017 02:59
  
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  The Latest: Suspected Alaska gunman taken into custody
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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) — The Latest on man firing a gun, prompting brief closure of an Alaska highway (all times local):.
  Suspect in custody after report of gunfire closes Seward Highway ...Alaska Dispatch News
  Troopers: Peaceful end to Seward Highway shots
  
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• Trammell, Gress top Alaskans at Boston Marathon; Alaska men merit masters title - Alaska Dispatch News

  18-04-2017 02:48
  
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  Trammell, Gress top Alaskans at Boston Marathon; Alaska men merit masters title
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  Runners make their way to the finish line 121st Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., April 17, 2017. REUTERS/Gretchen Ertl. Given Chad Trammell's unorthodox build-up to Monday's 121st Boston Marathon – just three weeks earlier, he spent ...
  
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• University of Alaska moves forward with Title IX changes - KTOO

  18-04-2017 02:45
  
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  University of Alaska moves forward with Title IX changes
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  The University of Alaska is moving forward on Title IX initiatives stipulated under an agreement with Federal Office of Civil Rights to correct past mishandling of sexual assault and other offenses. Recently hired University of Alaska Fairbanks Office ...and more »
  
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• House sends income tax bill to Senate

  18-04-2017 02:44
  
  House Speaker Bryce Edgmon (D-Dillingham) speaks in favor of a tax on income to fund education. The House passed the bill, 22-17. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO/Alaska Public Media)The House passed a bill Saturday that would bring a state income tax to Alaska for the first time in 37 years. The vote sends it to the Senate, where leaders oppose the tax.
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  Dillingham Democratic House Speaker Bryce Edgmon said the Education Funding Act, House Bill 115, is needed to prevent rural com
  
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• Tenured teachers address Ketchikan School Board

  18-04-2017 02:42
  
  Ketchikan High School (Photo from KRBD)While it wasn’t on the agenda, the Ketchikan School Board got a lesson last night about tenure, taught by five of the school district’s tenured teachers.
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  During their March 22 School Board meeting, members talked about the state’s statutes regarding tenure. School Board President Trevor Shaw said he’d vote against renewing contracts for the district’s tenured teachers because he doesn’t like the state law.
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• SEC alleges inside trading in GCI sale - Alaska Public Radio Network

  18-04-2017 02:12
  
  SEC alleges inside trading in GCI sale
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  The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint last Thursday alleging insider trading in the purchase of GCI by a Colorado-based company. The 13-page complaint laid out a timeline of rapid purchases of high-risk GCI stock options two weeks ...and more »
  
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• SEC alleges inside trading in GCI sale

  18-04-2017 02:01
  
  The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint last Thursday alleging insider trading in the purchase of GCI by a Colorado-based company. The 13-page complaint laid out a timeline of rapid purchases of high-risk GCI stock options two weeks before it was announced the company would be acquired by Liberty Interactive Corporation.
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  In a filing with the U.S. District Court in southern New York, the SEC said the defendants are one or more un-named stock traders believed to be base
  
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• Vice President meets with Walker over the weekend on his way to Asia

  18-04-2017 01:45
  
  Governor Walker and Vice President Pence (Photo courtesy of the Office of Governor Bill Walker)Vice President Mike Pence stopped in Anchorage on Saturday and met with Governor Bill Walker.
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  Walker said they talked about Alaska’s trade relations in Asia. Walker spoke about developing the state’s natural resources for foreign and domestic use. Walker and Pence also discussed the state’s strategic location for military operations. And Walker raised the importance of the
  
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• Annual Yup’ik spelling bee connects identity and culture in young spellers

  18-04-2017 01:37
  
  For the second year in a row, Daniel Ayaginag Hunter from Nunam Iqua won the 2017 Yup’ik Spelling Bee in Anchorage on April 15, 2017. (Photo by Johanna Eurich/KYUK)Competition was tough and quick during the Yup’ik Spelling Bee this weekend in Anchorage.
  Even with four schools from two school districts, competition quickly became a battle between the former champ Daniel Ayaginag Hunter from Nunam Iqua and contenders in Kotlik.
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  Ayaginag was in the room when his coach, Savana
  
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• University of Alaska moves forward with Title IX changes

  18-04-2017 01:27
  
  University of Alaska Fairbanks (Creative Commons photo by Jimmy Emerson)The University of Alaska is moving forward on Title IX initiatives stipulated under an agreement with Federal Office of Civil Rights to correct past mishandling of sexual assault and other offenses.
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  Recently hired University of Alaska Fairbanks Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity director Margo Griffith said the office is writing up and disseminating information to help victims that she described as&nbs
  
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• BP halts oil and gas leaking from North Slope well

  18-04-2017 01:25
  
  Image from the incident location, taken during an overflight on April 14, 2017. Well 2 and the extent of crude misting is visible on the snow within the red-lined area. (Photo courtesy Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation/BP Exploration (Alaska))BP announced Monday that a leak from one of its North Slope production wells was stopped at 3:35 am.
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  State regulators don’t yet have an estimate for how much oil and gas was released from the well. The cause of the incide
  
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• Small aircraft crashes near Mile 90 of Parks Highway

  18-04-2017 00:24
  
  The Cessna 182E that crashed near Mile 90 of the Parks Highway on Saturday afternoon. (Photo courtesy of Katie Dietrich)Saturday afternoon, a Cessna 182 crashed near Mile 90 of the Parks Highway.
  Emergency crews responded around 4:00 p.m. to a crashed aircraft, including Alaska State Troopers and personnel from multiple EMS divisions in the Upper Valley.
  The crashed aircraft is registered to Robert Hill of Naknek, Alaska, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, but there is no con
  
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