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• At Age 83, Alaska's Lone Congressman Files for 24th Term - U.S. News & World Report

  20-04-2017 23:02
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  At Age 83, Alaska's Lone Congressman Files for 24th Term
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  Alaska's lone U.S. House member has made official his plans to seek a 24th term. | April 20, 2017, at 4:56 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. At Age 83, Alaska's Lone Congressman Files for 24th Term. JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska's ...
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• Group sues to reinstate rule protecting Alaska bears, wolves - Santa Cruz Sentinel

  20-04-2017 21:38
  
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  Group sues to reinstate rule protecting Alaska bears, wolves
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A national environmental group is suing the federal government, claiming that a rule created to protect wolves and bears within Alaska wildlife refuges was illegally revoked this year through a seldom-used law. The Center for ...
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• University of Alaska is displaying a painting of a decapitated Trump in its gallery - TheBlaze.com

  20-04-2017 19:39
  
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  University of Alaska is displaying a painting of a decapitated Trump in its gallery
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  University of Alaska is displaying a painting of a decapitated Trump in its gallery An assistant professor's painting at the University of Alaska in Anchorage features the severed head of President Donald Trump. The painting was submitted for a faculty ...
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• Alaska Fire Season Shaping up to Have Later Start - U.S. News & World Report

  20-04-2017 15:13
  Alaska Fire Season Shaping up to Have Later Start
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  Alaska authorities are saying this year's fire season won't be as heavy as last year, but there's still time for conditions to change. | April 20, 2017, at 11:40 a.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Alaska Fire Season Shaping up to ...and more »
  
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• Attorney explains impacts of H-1B visa overhaul on Alaska - KTUU.com

  20-04-2017 07:30
  
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  Attorney explains impacts of H-1B visa overhaul on Alaska
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  Anchorage, (KTUU) On Tuesday President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at protecting U.S. workers from abuse of the H-1B visa program. The temporary visas for professional workers requires a minimum of a bachelor's degree and the job ...and more »
  
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• Russian bombers spotted outside Alaska…again - Alaska Public Radio Network

  20-04-2017 06:58
  
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  Russian bombers spotted outside Alaska…again
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  Lieutenant General Kenneth Wilsbach prepares to depart in an F-22 for a training mission. (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage). For the second time in two days, Russian long-range bombers flew past the coast of Alaska.
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• Museum film curator preserves Alaska's history - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  20-04-2017 06:25
  
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  Museum film curator preserves Alaska's history
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  Leonard Kamerling is an ethnographic filmmaker. He is known for documentaries about Alaska's indigenous cultures, films that dive deeply into the traditional lifestyles that people of the Arctic have practiced for hundreds of years. The list includes ...
  
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• Anchorage dentist charged with Medicaid fraud, 'unlawful dental acts' - Alaska Dispatch News

  20-04-2017 06:21
  
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  Anchorage dentist charged with Medicaid fraud, 'unlawful dental acts'
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  Anchorage dentist Seth Lookhart confers with his attorney, Michael Moberly, at his bail hearing on Wednesday before District Court Judge Jennifer Henderson. (Laurel Andrews / Alaska Dispatch News). An Anchorage dentist faces a slew of charges for ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, April 19, 2017

  20-04-2017 05:08
  
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• Anchorage assembly says goodbyes and hellos to members

  20-04-2017 05:04
  
  Bill Evans gives a farewell handshake to Forrest Dunbar during his final Assembly meeting (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media)During a meeting Tuesday night, the Anchorage Assembly certified the results of this month’s municipal elections. It was also the last time the body’s current members will all share the dais. Though the Assembly deals mostly with the nuts-and-bolts of municipal governance, the occasion was a rare glimpse of personality and sentiment.
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• Anchorage assembly says goodbye to some members

  20-04-2017 05:04
  
  Anchorage Assembly during its April 26th meeting. Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media.During a meeting last night, the Anchorage Assembly certified the results of this month’s municipal elections. And it was also the last time the body’s current members will all share the dais. Though the Assembly deals mostly with the dry nuts and bolts of municipal governance, the occasion was a rare glimpse of personality and sentiment.
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• Fairbanks school name voted out

  20-04-2017 04:59
  
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  CREDIT: BADGER ROAD ELEMENTARY PTAThe Badger Road Elementary school in North Pole will transition to a new name this summer. The Fairbanks North Star School District board voted Tuesday to rename the school Midnight Sun Elementary, but as KUAC’s Robert Hannon reports, the board nearly backed away from changing the Badger name, which links the school to a pedophile.
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• Alaska pretrial services might see change - Alaska Public Radio Network

  20-04-2017 04:54
  
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  Alaska pretrial services might see change
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  Sitka Police Officer Noah Shepard serves coffee to inmates in Sitka's jail, while supervisor Dave Nelson looks on. (KCAW photo/Rachel Waldholz). At any given time over a quarter of the beds in Alaska prisons are occupied by people who haven't been ...
  
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• Alaska pretrial services might see change

  20-04-2017 04:53
  
  Sitka Police Officer Noah Shepard serves coffee to inmates in Sitka’s jail, while supervisor Dave Nelson looks on. (KCAW photo/Rachel Waldholz)At any given time over a quarter of the beds in Alaska prisons are occupied by people who haven’t been convicted of a crime. That’s according to the Alaska Judicial Council. That may change in the coming months as a result of one piece of 2016’s Senate Bill 91 that establishes pretrial services.
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• New assistant district attorney taking the reins at Dillingham office

  20-04-2017 04:41
  
  New Dillingham ADA Dan Doty at the office Monday. Doty is taking over the caseload from Pamela Dale, and he and his wife plan to make the move to town next month.
  CREDIT KDLGDillingham’s new assistant district attorney is in town this week as part of a transition to take over the caseload. His arrival comes after a two year fight to keep the local DA’s office open and staffed with a prosecutor in town.
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• Senate passes survivors’ benefits bill, allowing municipalities to opt out

  20-04-2017 04:38
  
  Sen. John Coghill, R- North Pole, testifies April 5 before the Senate Finance Committee in favor of Senate Bill 48, a bill he sponsored that would give medical insurance premiums for surviving dependents of certain peace officers or firefighters who die in the line of duty. The Senate passed House Bill 23, after amending it to include elements of the Senate bill. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)The survivors of state employed police and firefighters who die in the line of duty would receive health
  
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• Murkowski meets with students, seniors but no town hall

  20-04-2017 04:33
  
  Alaska’s senior U.S. senator spent Wednesday in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough but has no events open to the public scheduled during the Senate’s recess.
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  Sen. Lisa Murkowski chatted with awe-struck teenagers and offered words of advice at Mat-Su Career Technical High School on Wednesday. The school focuses on educating for careers in trade fields, including oil rig operation or dentistry, along with the usual subjects like math and English.
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• Russian bombers spotted outside Alaska…again

  20-04-2017 04:25
  
  Lieutenant General Kenneth Wilsbach prepares to depart in an F-22 for a training mission. (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)For the second time in two days, Russian long-range bombers flew past the coast of Alaska. It’s a surprising development that comes after nearly two years without any similar incidents. But military officials in Alaska say it isn’t cause for alarm.
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• F-22s intercept Russian bombers outside Alaska…again

  20-04-2017 04:25
  
  Lieutenant General Kenneth Wilsbach prepares to depart in an F-22 for a training mission. (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)For the second time in two days, Russian long-range bombers flew past the coast of Alaska. It’s a surprising development that comes after nearly two years without any similar incidents. But military officials in Alaska say it isn’t cause for alarm.
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• All smiles for Rep. Young in Eagle River

  20-04-2017 04:15
  
  Congressman Don Young said Republicans “were unprepared” to move a health care bill. Photo:Vik Patel/APMAround the country, Republican Congress members are dogged by protestors hoping to stir up resistance to President Trump’s agenda. But at Wednesday’s Chugiak-Eagle River Chamber of Commerce luncheon, a friendly crowd greeted Alaska Congressman Don Young.
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• Statewide Trails Conference focuses on sustainable trails

  20-04-2017 03:01
  
  The trail on North Douglas in Southeast Alaska. (Photo by Heather Bryant/KTOO)The Statewide Trails Conference opens Thursday in Anchorage and will focus on issues such as making trails sustainable and active transportation. It brings together land managers, trail users, and trail builders for a three-day event.
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  Steve Cleary with Alaska Trails said part of the conference explores the health benefits of trails and how to connect them so they can be used for daily transportation.
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• Learn signs of the times while cruising to Alaska - WND.com

  20-04-2017 01:42
  
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  Learn signs of the times while cruising to Alaska
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  Israel has returned to the world. The geopolitics of the Holy Land are heating up. And there are even signs in the heavens foretelling great events to come. Among the most extraordinary will be a full solar eclipse which will traverse the entire ...
  
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• Stop playing games with the education of Alaska's children - Alaska Dispatch News

  20-04-2017 01:40
  
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  Stop playing games with the education of Alaska's children
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  Eagle River Republican Sen. Anna MacKinnon, co-chair of the Senate Finance Committee, talks with activists from Great Alaska Schools, an education group, at the Alaska Capitol on Wednesday, April 5, 2017. (Nathaniel Herz / Alaska Dispatch News).and more »
  
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• DOC offers new way to treat opioid addictions | Alaska Public Media - Alaska Public Radio Network

  20-04-2017 01:40
  
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  DOC offers new way to treat opioid addictions | Alaska Public Media
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  Sadie Douglas is an inmate at Hiland Correctional Center and is participating in the new Vivitrol treatment program. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media). The state's ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Senate votes to guarantee health coverage for families of those killed in line of duty - Alaska Dispatch News

  20-04-2017 01:40
  
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  Alaska Senate votes to guarantee health coverage for families of those killed in line of duty
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  JUNEAU — The Alaska Senate on Wednesday approved a House proposal to guarantee health-insurance coverage for surviving family members of police and firefighters killed on the job — but not before setting new time limits on the legislation.
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• DOC offers new way to treat opioid addictions

  20-04-2017 01:35
  
  Sadie Douglas is an inmate at Hiland Correctional Center and is participating in the new Vivitrol treatment program. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)The state’s Department of Corrections is trying a new tactic to stop the opioid epidemic: offering Vivitrol shots. It’s a monthly injection that curbs cravings for heroin and other drugs and stops people from getting high.
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• In about-face, Alaska offers offshore acreage for oil and gas drilling - Splash 247

  20-04-2017 00:40
  
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  In about-face, Alaska offers offshore acreage for oil and gas drilling
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  The state's Department of Natural Resources announced the Cook Inlet and Alaska Peninsula will be included in the bidding. While the majority of areas will be onshore the Alaska Peninsula sale, for example, will include 1.75m offshore up for grabs when ...and more »
  
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• Weather balloon camera footage showcases Alaska at nearly 100000 feet - KTUU.com

  20-04-2017 00:13
  
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  Weather balloon camera footage showcases Alaska at nearly 100000 feet
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  Strapped to a weather balloon, Night Crew Lab (NCL) sends a camera payload upward 93,131 feet, into the Arctic stratosphere ozone layer. That's approximately three times the cruising altitude of typical, commercial jets. The California-based team ...
  
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