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• New Fees Instituted at Interior Alaska Recreation Sites - U.S. News & World Report

  22-04-2017 22:36
  New Fees Instituted at Interior Alaska Recreation Sites
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  The state will start charging fees for the popular Chena River State Recreation Area and other recreational sites in Interior Alaska next month. | April 22, 2017, at 4:27 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. New Fees Instituted at ...and more »
  
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• Huge tundra swans take 2 distinct routes to Alaska for summer ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  22-04-2017 21:50
  
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  Huge tundra swans take 2 distinct routes to Alaska for summer ...
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  Swans that summer north of the Brooks Range are East Coast birds in winter, while swans that breed in the wetlands of western Alaska are West Coast birds.and more »
  
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• With limited-entry permits leaving Alaska, plan emerges to create ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  22-04-2017 21:35
  
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  With limited-entry permits leaving Alaska, plan emerges to create ...
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  A new measure would create fisheries trusts in which communities could buy permits and lease them to fishermen who otherwise could not afford them.and more »
  
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• Alaska fights for environmental funds - CBS This Morning - CBS News - CBS News

  22-04-2017 20:29
  
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  The 47th Earth Day on Saturday was marked by hundreds of rallies around the world to support the sciences and defend climate research that the White House ...and more »
  
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• Alaska should offer path to REAL ID | Community Perspectives ... - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  22-04-2017 06:41
  
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  Alaska should offer path to REAL ID | Community Perspectives ...
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  Alaska, REAL ID compliance is knocking on our door, whether we like it or not. It's important to understand the difference between the REAL ID Act and where ...
  Garrison Keillor: After visit to vast, empty Alaska, it's the people you ...Press Herald
  March for Science: Alaska communities to host events, urge all to ...KTOOall 7 news articles »
  
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• Surrounded by snow, tundra fire burns in northwestern Alaska ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  22-04-2017 05:49
  
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  Surrounded by snow, tundra fire burns in northwestern Alaska ...
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  Despite lingering snow, cool temperatures and the many weeks to go before the start of summer, a 1,900-acre swath of tundra is burning in northwestern Alaska, ...
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• Skiing buddies disagree on income taxes and the route to Alaska's future - Alaska Dispatch News

  22-04-2017 05:38
  
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  Skiing buddies disagree on income taxes and the route to Alaska's future
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  Bob Kaufman and the author, Charles Wohlforth, discussed a proposed state income tax on a ski trip to Skookum Glacier on Thursday. (Charles Wohlforth / Alaska Dispatch News). Flying on skate skis over the glowing, glistening snow in front of Skookum ...
  
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• Cautionary Tales: Embrace failure - Alaska Dispatch News

  22-04-2017 04:04
  
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  Cautionary Tales: Embrace failure
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  Heading into the fog above Upper Reed Lake at Hatcher Pass on July 11, 2015. (Vicky Ho / Alaska Dispatch News). "I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger." This line from the Faces song "Ooh La La" can be applied to everything I've ...
  
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• Traveling Music 4-30-17

  22-04-2017 03:36
  Traveling Music
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  Upcoming Concerts:
  Dougie MacLean:  Saturday May 13, 7:30 PM, Vagabond Blues, Palmer
  Sunday May 14, 7 PM Sydney Lawrence Theater / PAC
   
  Richard Thompson: Sunday, May 21, 7:30 PM Discovery Theater, PAC
   
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  Life Without Susanna
  Rodney Crowell / Rodney Crowell
  Close Ties
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  We Could Fly
  Rhiannon Giddens / Rhiannon Giddens, Dirk Powell
  Freedom Highway
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• Author tackles conservation and climate change in new book

  22-04-2017 03:10
  
  (Amazon stock photo)In a new memoir, Alaskan author Kate Troll tackles the issue of conservation and climate change. The book is called The Great Unconformity: Reflections on Hope in an Imperiled World.
  She says the unusual title comes from a geological point of interest she discovered on a 27 day raft trip in the Grand Canyon.
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  Kate Troll is the author of a new memoir called The Great Unconformity: Reflections on Hope in an Imperiled World. She’s holding a book signing at UAA on
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, April 21, 2017

  22-04-2017 03:08
  
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  Tugboat carrying over 300 lbs of oil sinks in Sitka
  Emily Kwong, KCAW – Sitka
  A tugboat with more than 300 gallons of oil aboard sank Thursday night in Sitka.
  Air pollution violations will cost seafood processing plant $3.2 million
  Zoe Sobel, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Unalaska
  A seafood processin
  
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• 1,900-acre fire spreads across Northwest Alaska

  22-04-2017 02:36
  
  A wildfire is burning in a remote area of northwest Alaska. The Alaska Fire Service reports that the Zane Hills Fire was discovered this week, and mapped at 1,900 acres. AFS spokeswoman Beth Ipsen said the fire, burning in a snow free area of tundra in the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, was spotted by AFS staff flying to the village of Norvik for training.
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  “They saw smoke, flew over it, kinda sized it up a little bit, which was creeping,” Ipsen said. “It wasn&rsqu
  
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• Four men sentenced over 500 hours community service for 2015 walrus killings

  22-04-2017 02:31
  
  Four Point Hope men have been sentenced for the 2015 illegal killing and waste of walruses on the Arctic Slope.
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  The announcement came yesterday from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
  Adam Sage, Jacob Lane, Guy Tuzroyluk, and Michael Tuzroyluk Jr. were charged with violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
  The men made two trips to Cape Lisburne on the Chukchi Sea coast in September 2015. They illegally shot and killed several walruses at a haul-out.
  They then salvaged only the anima
  
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• Tugboat carrying over 300 gallons of oil sinks in Sitka

  22-04-2017 02:25
  
  The tugboat Powhatan remains underwater, surrounded by booms to contain the oil spill. (Photo courtesy of SEAPRO)A tugboat with more than 300 gallons of oil aboard sank Thursday night in Sitka.
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  The tug – owned by Samson Tug & Barge – sank near its dock in Starrigavan Bay. According to divers from Hanson Maritime Company, the tug Powhatan had drifted offshore and was found around 10:15 p.m. The divers estimate the Powhatan was 60 feet below its resting location. On
  
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• Air pollution violations will cost seafood processing plant $3.2 million

  22-04-2017 02:20
  
  Westward Seafoods is required to install a new electronic monitoring system. (Photo courtesy EPA)A seafood processing plant in Unalaska is on the hook for $3.2 million for breaking air pollution regulations.
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  The settlement reached Thursday with the Environmental Protection Agency comes eight years after employees at Westward Seafoods turned off air pollution controls and falsified records to cover their tracks.
  Westward is required to install a new electronic monitoring system and $1
  
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• Cook Inlet gas leak sparks debate over Hilcorp’s Arctic drilling plans

  22-04-2017 02:13
  
  Hilcorp’s design plans for the gravel island it aims to build in federal waters in the Beaufort Sea, as submitted to federal regulators in 2015. (Image courtesy BOEM)Last week, Hilcorp was finally able to fix a fuel line in Cook Inlet that regulators say started leaking gas in December. But the oil and gas company and its allies are still struggling to contain another issue: environmental groups, which argue that Hilcorp’s problems in Cook Inlet disqualify the company from drilling f
  
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• BP well that spewed oil and gas successfully plugged

  22-04-2017 02:11
  
  Image taken on April 18, 2017, showing Drill Site 2 well house and the adjacent reserve pit with an area of light crude spray. (Photo by Jade Gamble/Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation)The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation today announced yesterday that a leaking oil and gas well on the North Slope was successfully plugged.
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  The well, owned by BP, began spewing oil and gas last Friday.
  The spray of crude oil was halted on Saturday. But it took responders until
  
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• Tug Sinks in Southeast Alaska; Responders Look for Spill - U.S. News & World Report

  22-04-2017 02:06
  Tug Sinks in Southeast Alaska; Responders Look for Spill
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  Emergency responders have placed containment and absorbent booms near a tugboat that sank in southeast Alaska. | April 21, 2017, at 8:00 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Tug Sinks in Southeast Alaska; Responders Look for Spill.and more »
  
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• 49 Voices: Xavior Love of Anchorage

  22-04-2017 01:59
  
  Xavior Love of Anchorage (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)This week we’re hearing from Xavior Love in Anchorage. Love is an aspiring actor from Bartlett High school. He also works part time at a movie theater.
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  LOVE: “Love”. L-O-V-E. And my birthday is on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2000.
  Usually when I wake up at 5ish in the morning to drop my mom off, she works two jobs at both Providence and Regional Hospital, and when I go to s
  
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• AK: How to be an Alaskan Ninja Warrior

  22-04-2017 01:41
  
  Impressive feats aren’t hard to find at the gym, which shares space and management with a local gymnastics and circus program. (Emily Kwong/KCAW photo)What do you get when you mix reality television with an obstacle course? American Ninja Warrior. Now in it’s 9th season, the show is a glitzy display of human strength that one former competitor has decided to take off the road system. Cody Johnston operates a ninja-style training gym in Sitka that he practices at with his family.
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• McNeil River Bears

  22-04-2017 01:00
  
  In a state with so much wildlife and wilderness, there is one place that is legendary for a most extraordinary bear-viewing experience: McNeil River State Game Sanctuary and Refuge. On the Alaska Peninsula, southwest of Anchorage, the State of Alaska set aside land that is known to be the most densely populated with brown bears in the world. At this sanctuary, you can stand right next to bear as they go about their normal behavior, unconcerned about human presence. The sanctuary is celebra
  
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