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• Ask a Climatologist: Alaska wins the daylight prize - KTOO

  10-05-2017 23:23
  
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  Ask a Climatologist: Alaska wins the daylight prize
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  U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker, Healy, sits just offshore of Barrow, shortly before setting sail in 2013. (Photo courtesy of NOAA's National Ocean Service). Alaska is once again the land of the midnight sun. If you live in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), the ...and more »
  
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• Murkowski, Sullivan diverge in statements on Comey firing

  10-05-2017 22:47
  
  James Comey in 2014 (Photo courtesy of the Brookings Institute)Alaska’s U.S. senators have responded somewhat differently to President Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey.
  In a written statement, Sen. Lisa Murkowski emphasized the timing. She said the firing came “in the middle of an investigation into Russia’s interference in our election.” She called that “serious cause for concern.”
  Sen. Dan Sullivan’s statement was more deferential to th
  
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• Walker tells Assembly he expects revenues in fiscal plan

  10-05-2017 21:57
  
  Gov. Bill Walker addressing the Anchorage Assembly during remarks about the fiscal situation in the Legislature, May 9th, 2017 (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)Governor Bill Walker made a visit to the Anchorage Assembly during it’s Tuesday meeting. He said he’d stopped by en route to his evening flight back to Juneau, and used the opportunity to update the local body the status of the state’s budget battle in the Legislature.
  “The messa
  
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• Inmate injured in assault at Alaska maximum-security prison - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-05-2017 21:08
  
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  Inmate injured in assault at Alaska maximum-security prison
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  An inmate-on-inmate assault last weekend at a Seward maximum-security prison that sent one to an Anchorage hospital is being investigated by Alaska State Troopers. Word of the incident at Spring Creek Correctional Center reached troopers at about 4:15 ...
  
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• Tlingit and Haida Central Council joins chorus of Rep. Eastman’s critics

  10-05-2017 20:55
  
  The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska on Tuesday formally added itself to the chorus of critics of Alaska lawmaker David Eastman.Leaders within the organization, which represents more than 30,000 Tlingit and Haida people, had piles of unflattering adjectives to characterize Eastman’s comments, including “appalling,” “demeaning,” “egregious,” “inexcusable,” “venomous,” “indefensible” and &
  
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• Alaska Natives Craft Ways to Work With Trump Administration - U.S. News & World Report

  10-05-2017 20:22
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  Alaska Natives Craft Ways to Work With Trump Administration
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  BETHEL, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Federation of Natives is plotting strategy on how to work with President Donald Trump's administration to advance Alaska Native priorities, KYUK reported (http://bit.ly/2pxqf2q ) Tuesday. Julie Kitka, the federation's ...
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• Alaska Senate leader eyes session extension if work remains - KFQD

  10-05-2017 19:12
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  Alaska Senate leader eyes session extension if work remains
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  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Alaska Senate President Pete Kelly says it will be challenging for the Legislature to complete its work within the 121-day regular session limit. Items lawmakers must come to agreement on include the budget, changes to oil tax ...
  
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• Missing 17-Foot-Long, 100-Lb. Python Named Sam Returns to Alaska Home - PEOPLE.com

  10-05-2017 18:31
  
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  Missing 17-Foot-Long, 100-Lb. Python Named Sam Returns to Alaska Home
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  Alright, everybody, you can come out from your hiding places: Sam is on the lam no more! According to the Associated Press, who reported the story, a 17-foot-long, 100-lb. Burmese python, whose disappearance 14 days ago worried a community in Alaska, ...
  Sam the missing python slithers back to Alaska homeNBC4i.com
  Missing 17-foot Alaska python slithers homeUPI.com
  Owner says Sam, the missing 17-foot
  
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• Alaska Group Hides Painted Rocks Around Town of Kenai - U.S. News & World Report

  10-05-2017 17:33
  Alaska Group Hides Painted Rocks Around Town of Kenai
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  A new group that has named itself "Kenai Rocks" is hiding small painted rocks around the small city of Kenai as a way to have fun and spark creativity. | May 10, 2017, at 11:27 a.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Alaska Group Hides ...and more »
  
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• JD Power: Alaska Air, Southwest are the USA's best airlines for 2017 - USA TODAY

  10-05-2017 12:04
  
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  JD Power: Alaska Air, Southwest are the USA's best airlines for 2017
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  Alaska Airlines maintained its decade-long stranglehold atop the annual J.D. Power customer service satisfaction survey of "traditional" North American carriers while Southwest unseated long-time champ JetBlue among low-cost airlines. Alaska Airlines ...
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• Alaska looks to Norway for ideas on criminal justice, reducing recidivism - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  10-05-2017 10:53
  
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  Alaska looks to Norway for ideas on criminal justice, reducing recidivism
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  FAIRBANKS — As Alaska rethinks how it handles criminal justice and corrections, its leaders will get a firsthand look at how it's done in an Arctic nation with one of the lowest recidivism rates. This fall, Alaska officials will travel to Norway to ...
  
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• F-35s fly first training missions in Alaska skies - Alaska Public Radio Network

  10-05-2017 03:58
  
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  F-35s fly first training missions in Alaska skies
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  For the first time, F-35 fighter jets are flying in Alaska as part of massive military training exercise. The small squadron is a preview of what's in store for the Air Force in Alaska during the next few years. Listen now. More than a dozen reporters ...
  
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• F-35s fly first training missions in Alaska skies

  10-05-2017 03:51
  
  A USMC F-35B at Joint Base Elmondorf-Richardson as part of Northern Edge this May (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)For the first time, F-35 fighter jets are flying in Alaska as part of massive military training exercise. The small squadron is a preview of what’s in store for the Air Force in Alaska during the next few years.
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  More than a dozen reporters and military photographers gathered on the tarmac at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Tuesday m
  
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• Alaska sees the most dramatic increases in life expectancy in the nation, new study says - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-05-2017 03:51
  
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  Alaska sees the most dramatic increases in life expectancy in the nation, new study says
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  Over the past 35 years, life expectancy increased more in some remote regions of Alaska than almost anywhere else in the United States, according to detailed new research published this week in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. The numbers are ...
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• Alaska's wood bison herd thriving as calving season gets underway - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-05-2017 03:22
  
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  Alaska's wood bison herd thriving as calving season gets underway
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  A newborn wood bison nurses atop a beaver hut in Southwest Alaska, April 13, 2017. (Alaska Department of Fish and Game photo). It's baby animal season and Alaska's wild wood bison herd has delivered in a big way. So far this spring, 19 calves have been ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, May 9, 2017

  10-05-2017 03:21
  
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  Alaska Senate leader eyes session extension if work remains
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  Alaska Senate President Pete Kelly says it will be challenging for the Legislature to complete its work within the 121-day regular session limit.
  Alaska Federation of Natives keeping close eye on White House
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• Anchorage Petroleum Wives Club welcomes new era with new name

  10-05-2017 03:03
  
  Members of the Anchorage Petroleum Wives Club — soon to be the Anchorage Petroleum Women’s Association — pose by the Easter goodie bags they assembled for a youth homeless shelter. (Photo courtesy Holly Lee)At a luncheon at the Lakefront hotel in Anchorage this April, Petroleum Wives Club president Linnea Ward greeted members from behind a small, cardboard ballot box.
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  The Anchorage Petroleum Wives Club has been around longer than Alaska has been a state. It
  
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• Budget cuts shake up Alaska earthquake monitoring capabilities - KTUU.com

  10-05-2017 02:48
  
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  Budget cuts shake up Alaska earthquake monitoring capabilities
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  ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - For those who monitor seismic activity in the Last Frontier, a cluster of earthquakes is far less concerning than looming budget cuts. As for the recent slew of quakes - including two relatively large ones that happened nearly ...
  Alaska experiencing more earthquakes than normalKTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaskaall 4 news articles »
  
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• Ask a Climatologist: Tracking “green up” in Fairbanks

  10-05-2017 02:46
  
  (Graphic from Brian Brettschneider)Trees and shrubs are starting to turn green in much of Alaska. But Fairbanks is the only community in the state with an historical record tracking the green up date.
  Jim Anderson, a University of Alaska Fairbanks professor, started collecting the data in the 1970s. He also came up with a lovely definition: “Birch and aspen leaves open just enough to produce a faint but distinct green flush through the forest canopy.”
  These days the National Weather
  
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• Outdoors group pans Board of Game appointment - Must Read Alaska (blog)

  10-05-2017 02:25
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  Outdoors group pans Board of Game appointment
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  LINNELL IS ON RECORD FOR SHARED MANAGEMENT OF GAME: The Alaska Outdoor Council is opposing Gov. Bill Walker's appointment to the Board of Game. She showed her hand, and she was playing the Native preference card. Karen Linnell, a ...
  
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• Alaska Federation of Natives keeping close eye on White House ... - Alaska Public Radio Network

  10-05-2017 02:16
  
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  The Alaska Federation of Natives is keeping a close eye on the new administration of President Donald Trump. The Native organization's board is developing ...
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• Alaska Federation of Natives keeping close eye on White House

  10-05-2017 02:07
  
  Alaska Federation of Natives President Julie Kitka (Alaska Federation of Natives)The Alaska Federation of Natives is keeping a close eye on the new administration of President Donald Trump. The Native organization’s board is developing ways to negotiate with the current government in Washington, participate in decision making, and advance Alaska Native priorities.
  Following President Trump’s first 100 days, AFN President Julie Kitka is hopeful Alaska can create a seat at the federal
  
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• Alutiiq community seeks city-owned property for Memorial Park

  10-05-2017 02:01
  The Alutiiq Museum is scoping out a site to bury ancestral remains that returned to the island in February. The internment would be the end of the ancestors’ long journey.
  Archaeologists in the 1960s removed the remains from a gravesite on Chirikof Island and took them out of state. The majority of the remains ended up at Indiana University Bloomington.
  That’s where they stayed until the Alutiiq Museum was finally able to reclaim them.
  The repatriation process is now complete. Last w
  
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• Snakewatch ends peacefully: 100-pound python, Sam, back at home in Meadow Lakes

  10-05-2017 01:58
  
  Sam, a 17-foot 100-pound albino Burmese python is back home and happy Monday, May 8, 2017 in his tub after going missing for two weeks. (Casey Grove/Alaska Public Media)A 17-foot albino Burmese python is back at home in Meadow Lakes after going missing for two weeks. The snake, named Sam, escaped while his owner was doing some spring cleaning.The 100-pound python’s disappearance prompted the Matanuska-Susitna Borough to issue a safety advisory warning pet owners and parents to keep an eye
  
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• $10 million allocated to North Pole flood control project

  10-05-2017 01:46
  
  Nearly $10 million allocated to the Army Corps of Engineers will pay for work to insure the integrity of the Chan Flood Control Project in North Pole.
  Project Manager Tim Faevel said additional relief wells will be installed along the seven-mile long earthen dam to protect it from ground water seepage during high water events.
  ”Those are the black pipes that you see on the downstream side of the dam,” Faevel said. “There’s about 160 of them in place right now, and what th
  
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• Man sues Alaska Airlines, says he was barred from PDX flight, then handcuffed - OregonLive.com

  10-05-2017 00:38
  
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  Man sues Alaska Airlines, says he was barred from PDX flight, then handcuffed
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  Is it a case of an irate customer who was exceptionally rude to Alaska Airlines agents and deserved to be barred from a flight out of Portland International Airport? Or is it a case of an airline that gave away a customer's seat without explanation ...
  
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• New legislation aims to enshrine PFDs in constitution

  10-05-2017 00:29
  
  Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation sign at headquarters in March 2016. House majority members want to enshrine Permanent Fund dividends in the state constitution. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)Members of the House majority have introduced legislation to enshrine Permanent Fund dividends into the Alaska Constitution. Dividends would be at least $1,250 each year.
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  The Alaska Permanent Fund became a part of the constitution in 1976. Permanent Fund dividends were started through state
  
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