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• Alaska Air Targets the Dallas Business-Travel Market - Motley Fool

  19-04-2017 22:15
  
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  Alaska Air Targets the Dallas Business-Travel Market
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  Virgin America has had trouble making money with its two gates at Love Field in Dallas. Now, Alaska Air is rethinking its strategy there. Adam Levine-Weinberg. (TMFGemHunter). Apr 19, 2017 at 4:15PM. When Alaska Air (NYSE:ALK) purchased smaller rival ...
  
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• Ex Alaska State Senator Running Large US Horse Association ... - U.S. News & World Report

  19-04-2017 20:45
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  Ex Alaska State Senator Running Large US Horse Association ...
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  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — There's a new president leading the American Quarter Horse Association, and this time, he's from Alaska.and more »
  
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• Alaska veterans take Honor Flight to Washington, DC - KTUU.com

  19-04-2017 19:54
  
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  Alaska veterans take Honor Flight to Washington, DC
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  ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - Alaska Airlines together with the Last Frontier Honor Flight are celebrating the ones who have served our country. Twenty-three veterans boarded Alaska Airlines Honor Flight Tuesday morning. Honor Flight is a way to thank veterans ...
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• First Alaska Fast Response Cutter Enters Service - GCaptain

  19-04-2017 19:28
  
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  First Alaska Fast Response Cutter Enters Service
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  USCG Fast Response Cutter John McCormick The crew of USCG Fast Response Cutter John McCormick stands proud facing the crowd of the commissioning ceremony at Coast Guard Base Ketchikan, Alaska. by Stephanie Young (USCG) Today, the Coast ...and more »
  
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• Photos of a family that's lived in near isolation in the Alaska wilderness for 18 years - Boing Boing

  19-04-2017 19:21
  
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  Photos of a family that's lived in near isolation in the Alaska wilderness for 18 years
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  Photographer Ed Gold went deep into the Alaskan wilderness to meet the Atchley family, who have lived there in near-isolation for 18 years. The family of four buys groceries once a year, and live off the land by hunting black bears, wolves, rabbits ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Needs Much Higher Oil Prices To Reverse Its Oil Fortunes - OilPrice.com

  19-04-2017 18:55
  
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  Alaska Needs Much Higher Oil Prices To Reverse Its Oil Fortunes
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  This year marks Alaska's 40th anniversary of the Trans Alaska Pipeline Systems (TAPS)—an 800-mile-long crude oil route that runs from the North Slope to Valdez, the northernmost ice-free port in North America. However, Alaska's declining oil output in ...
  Large-scale fracking comes to the Arctic in a new Alaska oil boomUPI.comall 21 news articles »
  
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• Woman dead, boyfriend wounded in South Anchorage gunfire ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  19-04-2017 16:47
  
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  Woman dead, boyfriend wounded in South Anchorage gunfire ...
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  Anchorage police responded to a double shooting on the 5600 block of Lake Otis Parkway on Wednesday. One woman was killed, and a wounded man was ...and more »
  
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• University of Houston students conduct research in Alaska - Chron.com

  19-04-2017 16:03
  
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  University of Houston students conduct research in Alaska
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  A group of University of Houston (UH) students spent three weeks in Fairbanks, Alaska last month conducting research by launching multiple weather balloons with different devices that they made into the atmosphere. The trip, called the Undergraduate ...
  
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• Alaska's sixth-graders invited to name that K-9 - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  19-04-2017 08:04
  
  Alaska's sixth-graders invited to name that K-9
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  FAIRBANKS — Alaska's sixth-grade classes can submit names for two new law enforcement dogs — usually referred to as K-9s — whose tasks will include searching for illegal drugs. Use of heroin and other opioids has become a major problem across the ...and more »
  
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• Walker invites sharply divided legislative leaders to talk

  19-04-2017 04:03
  
  Alaska Gov. Bill Walker speaks at a Juneau Chamber Business Roundtable Luncheon in February. Walker invited legislative leaders to his house on Wednesday to discuss a long-term budget plan. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)Gov. Bill Walker wants to bring lawmakers together to resolve differences over a plan to balance the state government’s long-term budget.
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  Walker invited leaders from both chambers to meet at the governor’s house Wednesday. And he said he’ll meet
  
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• They’re holding a town hall, with or without delegation

  19-04-2017 03:59
  
  With the U.S. House and Senate on break, Alaskans alarmed by the Trump White House are pressuring the state’s Congressional delegation for a town hall meeting in the Anchorage area. Their push doesn’t seem to be having the desired effect.
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  Anchorage retiree Donna Marie said she doesn’t usually get involved in politics like this.
  “I think the last time I knocked on doors for a candidate it was Jimmy Carter,” Marie said.
  Donna Marie says the c
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, April 18, 2017

  19-04-2017 03:51
  
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  F-22s intercept Russian bombers outside Alaska for first time since 2015
  Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  Military officials say they launched fighter jets on Monday afternoon to intercept two Russian long-range bombers flying toward Alaska.
  Walker invites sharply divided legislative lead
  
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• Traveling Music 4-23-17

  19-04-2017 03:17
  Traveling Music
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  4-23-17
   
  Concert ahead:  Liz Vice, Saturday, April 29, 7:30 PM at the PAC in Anchorage, Sunday, April 30, 7 PM at the Glenn Massay Theater in Palmer
   
  Format:
  Song TitleArtist / Composer
  CD Title
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  Duration
   
  Truly TodayLiz Vice / Josh White
  There’s A Light
  Ramseur Records
  4:16
   
  The Angels Laid Him Away
  Rhiannon Giddens / Missisippi John Hurt
  Freedom HIghway
  Nonesuch
  2:45
   
  What Are Those Things (With Big Black Wings)
  Session
  
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• Unnecessary sedation at center of dentist’s fraud charges

  19-04-2017 03:02
  
  An Anchorage dentist and his office manager are facing charges of fraud over unnecessarily sedating patients and then charging Medicaid.
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  The state’s Medicaid fraud unit on Monday filed a 17-count criminal complaint against Dr. Seth Lookhart and his office manager, Shauna Cranford, who operate Clear Creek Dental.
  Lookhart and Cranford allegedly put dental patients under unnecessary intravenous sedation. Prosecutors say Lookhart billed Medicaid for the procedure more than any othe
  
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• Shooting at junk in the Alaska woods: Who'll clean up this mess? - Alaska Dispatch News

  19-04-2017 02:49
  
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  Shooting at junk in the Alaska woods: Who'll clean up this mess?
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  A winter's worth of shot-up trash on public land near Kenai in April 2017. (Photo by Steve Meyer). I backed into the short road that jutted out into a small clearing surrounded by spruce and birch trees. Most of the springtime snow had melted, leaving ...
  
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• F-22s intercept Russian bombers outside Alaska for first time since 2015

  19-04-2017 02:22
  
  F-22 fighter jets taking off from JBER in June of 2015 morning as part of the Northern Edge exercise. (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media)Military officials say they launched fighter jets on Monday afternoon to intercept two Russian long-range bombers flying toward Alaska.
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  “What happened is exactly what’s supposed to happen,” Lieutenant General Ken Wilsbach said. He’s the state’s ranking officer overseeing all the military forces inside Alaska,
  
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• Slow Fairbanks snowmelt slows Canada Geese migration

  19-04-2017 02:13
  
  Canada Goose on the Colville River Delta. (Photo by Ryan Askren, USGS.)Sunshine is abundant this time of year, but cooler temperatures this week have slowed the melting of a well above normal snowpack in Fairbanks. That’s affecting migratory bird’s arrival at a local refuge.
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  The first few Canada Geese were spotted at Creamers Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge in Fairbanks back on April 4th. That’s among the earlier first arrival dates on record, but longtime Alaska De
  
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• Fairbanks police bring in suspects for burglary, robbery, kidnapping and assault

  19-04-2017 01:59
  
  Suspects involved in a Fairbanks burglary, robbery, kidnapping and assault are in custody. According to a city press release, the incident began early Monday morning when a business in the railroad industrial area was burglarized, and a caretaker assaulted and bound.  The release said the suspects proceeded to burglarize several buildings, before fleeing with stolen property, including a vehicle and guns.
  Police say they were alerted by business employees, who arrived and called 911 around
  
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• Villages conduct massive scrap metal and hazardous waste removal

  19-04-2017 01:48
  
  Baled cubes in Ouzinkie. (Courtesy of KANA)Living on an island can prove a major barrier to getting rid of large, unwanted objects like cars or fridges, especially for small communities like those in the Kodiak Archipelago.
  In 2015, local partners in Kodiak began the removal of scrap metal and hazardous materials from the six island communities.
  According to a Kodiak Area Native Association press release, KANA, the Kodiak Island Housing Authority and the Kodiak Island Borough partnered together
  
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• Juneau Soccer Club defrauded in online scam

  19-04-2017 01:06
  
  Juneau Soccer Club hosts a number of community soccer events including the coed camp, pictured here on June 26, 2015, which promotes the global sport. (File photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/KTOO)An online fraud scheme has bilked the Juneau Soccer Club out of more than $13,700.
  It began in February when a series of innocuous looking emails appeared.
  “It’s a form of email scam called ‘spoofing’ where they make it appear that the email is coming from someone in your organization,&
  
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• Preseason Yukon king salmon projections slightly up from last year

  19-04-2017 00:54
  
  “Chinook salmon, Yukon Delta NWR.” Photo: Craig Springer, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Via Flickr Creative Commons.Last year, Yukon River subsistence fishermen got their first chance to target king salmon since 2012. More of the same might occur this year, as preseason projections for the 2017 Yukon king run suggest a slight improvement over last year.
  A project that studies young salmon as they are heading out to sea is helping managers get a clearer picture of future salmon ru
  
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• Unalaskans suspect Coast Guard crew of tagging WWII bunker

  19-04-2017 00:52
  
  Dmitri Dane of Unalaska photographed the graffitied bunker in March. U.S. Coast Guard officials say they can’t confirm whether crew members of the cutter Morgenthau are responsible. (Photo courtesy Dmitri Dane/Aleutian Islands Photography)#722LIFE. MORGENTHUGS.
  That statement has been splashed across the side of a World War II bunker in Unalaska, leaving some residents outraged on social media.
  On a rare sunny day in March, Dmitri Dane hiked up the back side of Mount Ballyhoo, where milita
  
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