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• Alaska State Troopers assaulted on the job dramatically increases - KTUU.com

  09-05-2017 23:43
  
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  Alaska State Troopers assaulted on the job dramatically increases
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  ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - Colonel James Cockrell, director of the Alaska State Troopers, retires this week, after almost a 30 year career with the department and an even longer history with the force. Channel 2 spoke with him today about increasing assaults ...
  
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• Alaska Steps Up to Create Better Testing Methods to Make Shellfish Safer - Food & Wine

  09-05-2017 22:23
  
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  Alaska Steps Up to Create Better Testing Methods to Make Shellfish Safer
  Food & Wine
  Two groups in Alaska are pushing for more efficient ways to regulate the shellfish harvest, in an effort to make sure they arrive on our plates free of toxins. brightcove-video:5315801596001. Play Video. Play. Mute. Current Time 0:00. /. Duration Time ...
  
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• Fiber-Optic Broadband to Go Live in Northern Alaska This Year - Government Technology

  09-05-2017 21:44
  
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  Fiber-Optic Broadband to Go Live in Northern Alaska This Year
  Government Technology
  In Alaska, the high cost of building backhaul networks (also known as the "middle mile") is part of why Internet is so expensive both on and off the road system. by Jeannette Lee Falsey, Alaska Dispatch News, Anchorage / May 9, 2017. North Slope, Alaska.
  Arctic nations to meet amid unsettled US stance on climate changeAlaska Dispatch News
  Geographer gives his take on Alaska's place in the A
  
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• Alaska Senate proposes $288 million for oil company subsidies, plus cash for King Cove road - Alaska Dispatch News

  09-05-2017 21:41
  
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  Alaska Senate proposes $288 million for oil company subsidies, plus cash for King Cove road
  Alaska Dispatch News
  JUNEAU — Oil companies would get $288 million in cash subsidy payments under a new capital and supplemental budget bill released Monday by the Alaska Senate's Republican-led majority. The subsidy payments were contained in the supplemental part ...and more »
  
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• New report shows Alaska home prices haven't quite bounced back from the global recession - Alaska Dispatch News

  09-05-2017 21:12
  
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  New report shows Alaska home prices haven't quite bounced back from the global recession
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Alaska housing prices last year remained just short of recovering from the global Great Recession that started a decade ago, according to a new report from the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development. By 2016, Alaska's average single-family ...
  
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• Correction: Alaska-Abortion Story - U.S. News & World Report

  09-05-2017 19:03
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  Correction: Alaska-Abortion Story
  U.S. News & World Report
  Alaska state Rep. David Eastman, standing, speaks on the floor of the Alaska House on Friday, May 5, 2017, in Juneau, Alaska. Eastman, a Republican from Wasilla, has come under pressure from fellow House members to apologize for comments he ...
  Rep. Eastman stands by controversial abortion statements, attacks mediaAlaska Public Radio Network
  Alaska state congressman defends his claim that women get
  
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• United-Alaska Air turf war? United expands 18 San Francisco routes - USA TODAY

  09-05-2017 16:31
  
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  United-Alaska Air turf war? United expands 18 San Francisco routes
  USA TODAY
  A battle appears to be brewing in San Francisco between United and Alaska airlines. United is ramping up capacity on 18 North American routes out of its San ...and more »
  
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• New respite program helps homeless people heal

  09-05-2017 16:30
  
  Brother Francis Shelter Respite program manager Robin Dempsey sits in the new respite area. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)A new community partnership is freeing up hospital resources by proving people without homes a place to heal. Brother Francis Shelter in Anchorage is working with the area’s three main hospitals to provide respite care for sick or injured people who are homeless.
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  During her 26 years as a home health care provider, nurse Deb Seidl has treated people living in
  
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• Alaska has more orphaned otters than the world's zoos have room for - Alaska Dispatch News

  09-05-2017 15:56
  
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  Alaska has more orphaned otters than the world's zoos have room for
  Alaska Dispatch News
  A young male sea otter is cared for at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward on May 4, 2017. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News). SEWARD — After a two-year die-off of Alaska sea otters, the world's aquariums have no more room for orphaned pups.
  
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• Alaska Marine Highway System Manager Resigns - U.S. News & World Report

  09-05-2017 14:52
  Alaska Marine Highway System Manager Resigns
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  Capt. Mike Neussl says he is leaving his post as the Alaska Marine Highway System manager to care for an ill family member. | May 9, 2017, at 11:29 a.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Alaska Marine Highway System Manager Resigns ...and more »
  
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• City moves to make emergency shelter space permanent

  09-05-2017 04:37
  
  Anchorage officials are hoping to keep some emergency homeless shelters open longer, past the winter months and into the summer.
  The change affects about a hundred beds that are currently part of the city’s cold-weather shelter plan, and would normally disappear during the warmer months. Half the beds are in the Downtown Soup Kitchen, the other half in Bean’s Cafe.
  In a memorandum introduced this week to the Anchorage Assembly from city Homeless Services Coordinator Nancy Burke, the
  
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• Personal income in Alaska drops after decade of solid growth - Alaska Dispatch News

  09-05-2017 04:33
  
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  Personal income in Alaska drops after decade of solid growth
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Income in Alaska dipped in 2016 after a decade of growth, a drop driven by the one-two punch of job losses and Gov. Bill Walker's veto that slashed the Permanent Fund dividend to fight the state's giant deficits. Alaska remains among the top states for ...
  
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• Only 3 gallons spilled from Hilcorp platform in April…and it wasn’t crude

  09-05-2017 04:33
  
  Hilcorp’s Anna Platform in Upper Cook Inlet, where workers felt an impact before observing several oil sheens on Saturday. (Photo courtesy Cook Inletkeeper)The state has concluded that just three gallons of liquid escaped from one of Hilcorp’s platforms into Cook Inlet in early April.
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  The spill was reported on April 1, when workers on one of Hilcorp’s oil platforms felt an impact and then spotted a sheen on the water. At first, the state thought it was a crude oil le
  
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• Runaway melt: Alaska permafrost is thawing even in winter

  09-05-2017 04:22
  
  Much of the North Slope of Alaska is characterized by low, sweeping tundra hills, and a complete absence of trees. (Creative Commons photo by Paxson Woelber)When you think of carbon emissions, you probably think of the exhaust that comes from your car. But it comes from the ground, too. As the temperature continues to rise in the Arctic, Alaska’s melting permafrost is releasing carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere. A new report published Monday said CO2 is escaping in the winte
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, May 8, 2017

  09-05-2017 04:11
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  Rep. Eastman stands by controversial abortion statements, attacks media
  Phillip Manning, KTNA – Talkeetna
  Last week, Representative David Eastman made national news by claiming that there are women in Alaska villages who are “glad” to become pregnant in order to travel to Seattle or Anchorage
  
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• Decades of trawl surveys help Bering Sea climate change research

  09-05-2017 03:35
  
  Maps show changes in where Bering Sea Pollock are from year-to-year. (Graphic courtesy NOAA/Alaska Fisheries Science Center)There’s a new tool to help scientists and others interested in monitoring how Bering Sea fisheries respond to a changing climate.
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  Biologist Steve Barbeaux of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center has created hundreds of graphics mapping where 22 species of fish spend their time during different life stages.
  The data comes from annual trawl surveys dating back
  
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• Week of the Arctic: ‘Very important’ event showcases concerns, interests in region

  09-05-2017 03:33
  
  Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, shown here at a recent meeting in Moscow, both are scheduled to attend Thursday’s Arctic Council ministerial meeting in Fairbanks. (PBS photo)The Week of the Arctic gets under way today here on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. Dozens of Arctic science- and policy-related events will be held throughout the week, culminating in Thursday’s Arctic Council ministerial meetings, when U.S. Sec
  
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• Strong earthquake shakes near Adak, registering magnitude 6.4

  09-05-2017 03:06
  
  (U.S. Geological Survey / Alaska Earthquake Cente)A series of earthquakes shook the Aleutian Islands Monday morning, including a strong magnitude-6.4 quake near Adak.
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  According to the Alaska Earthquake Center, the big event struck at 9 a.m. about 80 miles west of the community, where about 350 people live.
  “I would suspect that it was close enough to Adak that they should have felt it, but it’s probably not big enough to cause damage,” seismologist Natalia Ruppe
  
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• Rep. Eastman stands by controversial abortion statements, attacks media

  09-05-2017 03:00
  
  Rep. David Eastman, R-Wasilla, during a House floor session, March 1, 2017. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)Last week, Representative David Eastman made national news by claiming that there are women in Alaska villages who are “glad” to become pregnant in order to travel to Seattle or Anchorage for an abortion – paid for by Medicaid. Eastman is now blaming the press for the furor over the comments.
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  After Mat-Su Valley Republican David Eastman made comments alleging the
  
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• Artist gives visual voice to domestic violence

  09-05-2017 02:53
  
  Artist Carmel Anderson’s stands before a central piece from her show “Unheard Voices, Unheard Wisdom.” As she’s traveled, she’s collected narratives of domestic violence and sexual assault from around the state and is gathering more. She calls it the Hope Quilt.
  (Carmel Anderson website)Putting a topic like domestic violence into words is difficult, so artist Carmel Anderson has another approach. Her traveling exhibit, “Unheard Voices, Unheard Wisdom,” c
  
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• After years of vacancy, Nome has an Animal Control Officer

  09-05-2017 02:16
  
  Nome’s new Animal Control Officer holding a freshly bathed puppy at the City’s animal shelter. (Photo by Davis Hovey, KNOM)For the first time in almost five years, the City of Nome has an active Animal Control Officer (ACO).
  Dawn Ubelaker had her first day as ACO on May 1st, which she said turned out to be quite eventful.
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  “This orange pup in here, he was also a surrender here in town. He was taken to the airport, he was given to Everts or NAC, and then he escaped fro
  
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