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• Juvenile justice in Alaska: Issues and challenges

  12-05-2017 23:00
  
  Justice Alaska on Hometown Alaska returns this week to consider the topic of juvenile justice in our state. May 15 marks the anniversary of a key 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision, called The Gault Decision, giving juveniles accused of crimes the same due process rights as adults, such as the right to timely notification of charges, the right to confront witnesses, and the right to counsel.
  The case tells the story of a 15-year-old Arizona youth accused of making an offensive phone call to a fema
  
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• In Reversal, EPA Eases Path for a Mine Near Alaska's Bristol Bay - New York Times

  12-05-2017 22:38
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  In Reversal, EPA Eases Path for a Mine Near Alaska's Bristol Bay
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  Dillingham, Alaska, a fishing community of 2,300, is the largest town in the Bristol Bay region. Credit Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News, via Getty Images. In another reversal of Obama administration policy, the Environmental Protection Agency announced ...
  Reversing Obama, Trump EPA reaches deal with Pebble mine developerAlaska Dispatch News
  In reversal, Environmental Protection Agency clears path
  
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• Kodiak embraces commercial harvest of kelp

  12-05-2017 22:34
  
  Nick Mangini’s crew pictured from above following harvest. Tamsen Peeples far right. (Kayla Desroches/KMXT)Commercial seaweed farming could be the hot new industry in Alaska, and Kodiak is getting in on it.
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  Blue Evolution, a company from the Lower 48 that turns seaweed into pasta products, has partnered up with both Alaska and out-of-state groups to harvest and process the super food in Kodiak.
  According to Blue Evolution, the first harvest of the year in Ketchikan yielded less
  
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• Transportation: What we have and what we want

  12-05-2017 22:30
  
  This week we’re featuring another panel discussion on transportation entitled “What we have and what we would like: Public and non-motorized or active transportation”. This is the second in a series of discussions being held on local transportation issues titled “From Here to the Future: Transforming Anchorage/Mat-Su Transportation”.
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  Cynthia Wentworth – Passenger Rail for Commuters Planning Committee – Cynthia Wentworth’s prese
  
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• Airport welcomes first Alaska Airlines flight - The Hendricks County Flyer

  12-05-2017 22:02
  
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  Airport welcomes first Alaska Airlines flight
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  PHOTOS BY SARA NAHRWOLD | HENDRICKS COUNTY FLYERRIBBON CUTTING: City and airport officials as well as representatives from Alaska Airlines welcome the first Alaska Airlines flight to Indianapolis. Airport welcomes first Alaska Airlines flight.
  
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• Meet Jason Phipps, from California

  12-05-2017 22:00
  
  This week we get to meet Jason Phipps, who is from California.
   
  “New Arrivals” is Alaska Public Media’s profiles of people who recently moved to Anchorage, one of the most diverse cities in the world. Every Tuesday, we meet a New Arrival from another country, another state, or another part of Alaska. The stories air at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesdays during Morning Edition here on KSKA, Alaska Public Media.
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  Independent producer Vikram Patel makes New Arriva
  
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• Teen suicide and the controversy over Netflix’s “​Thirteen Reasons Why”

  12-05-2017 21:00
  
  Photo by Guillaume Paumier, accessed via Wikimedia Commons.The CDC reports that suicide is the third leading cause of death among people ages 10 to 14 and the second leading cause of death for people 15-24. According to the 2016 Alaska Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YBRS), 20% of Alaska teens seriously considered suicide and almost 11% attempted suicide 1 or more times in the past year. As alarming as these numbers are, perhaps even more concerning, is the fact that, after years of decreasing, suic
  
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• New Alaska handbook provides how-to on heated greenhouses - nwitimes.com

  12-05-2017 20:16
  
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  New Alaska handbook provides how-to on heated greenhouses
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  This March 30, 2016, shows some of the produce grown in the local school's wood-heated aquaponics greenhouse in Naukati, Alaska. The state has released a new guidebook that other Alaska schools and community groups how to build greenhouses ...
  Alaska counters lack of fresh veggies with greenhouse guideKTUU.comall 3 news articles »
  
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• Valley Performing Arts presents California Suite

  12-05-2017 19:28
  
  L-R Kenai Malay, Courtneylynn CoxPlaywright Neil Simon is a master of comedic writing and so even California Suite, a play that debuted in 1976, is just as funny and relevant to today as it ever was. Valley Performing Arts is currently running this classic play of four different stories all connected by one space: The Beverly Hills Hotel suites 203-204. Director Matt Firmin drops by Stage Talk this week to let us know how he approached the show, how he worked with his actors and how he made
  
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• Alaska residents fix river bank to prepare for salmon season - KTUU.com

  12-05-2017 18:37
  
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  Alaska residents fix river bank to prepare for salmon season
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  SOLDOTNA, Alaska (AP) - About 40 people had gathered this week on the banks of the Kenai River to dig trenches and mount willow boughs for habitat restoration. The Peninsula Clarion reports the Alaska residents got together for a two-day workshop at ...and more »
  
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• Oregon worker found dead outside southwest Alaska cannery - KTUU.com

  12-05-2017 18:32
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  Oregon worker found dead outside southwest Alaska cannery
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  TWIN HILLS, Alaska (AP) - An autopsy is scheduled for a cannery worker found dead in the southwest Alaska community of Twin Hills. Alaska State Troopers say the body of 56-year-old James Schneider of Warrenton, Oregon, was found early Wednesday ...
  Cannery worker found dead on beach near TogiakAlaska Dispatch Newsall 3 news articles »
  
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• EPA settles with Pebble, clears permitting path for mine

  12-05-2017 17:48
  
  Pebble Partnership proposes to build a mine in Southwest Alaska. Opponents say it would threaten salmon streams. Photo by Jason Sear, KDLG – DillinghamThe EPA has announced a new process that could let the Pebble Partnership develop a controversial mine at the headwaters of Bristol Bay.
  The agency said Friday it will freeze an effort begun under the Obama Administration to pre-emptively block the mine. Pebble would have two and a half years to apply for a Clean Water Act permit. In re
  
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• Maggie Rogers On World Cafe - NPR

  12-05-2017 12:02
  
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  You might have seen Maggie Rogers wowing Pharrell Williams in a viral video that captures the time she played him her song "Alaska" during a master class at NYU. In the video, as "Alaska" plays, you can see Pharrell is feeling it — and when the song ...and more »
  
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• Want a fabulous Alaska lawn? Here are 3 things to do now — and a few don'ts - Alaska Dispatch News

  12-05-2017 07:29
  
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  Want a fabulous Alaska lawn? Here are 3 things to do now — and a few don'ts
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  The birch leaves are the size of squirrel ears in most parts of Southcentral Alaska, and when that happens, we aren't supposed to have any more frosts until the end of the growing season. Rules are meant to be broken, particularly when nature is ...
  
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• Alaska's income tax fight is only latest skirmish in decades-long conflict - Alaska Public Radio Network

  12-05-2017 04:28
  
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  Alaska's income tax fight is only latest skirmish in decades-long conflict
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  Ernest Gruening was Alaska's territorial governor from 1939 to 1953. He signed the income tax into law in 1949. (Photo courtesy Alaska State Library Historical ...and more »
  
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• Alaska’s income tax fight is only latest skirmish in decades-long conflict

  12-05-2017 04:24
  
  Ernest Gruening was Alaska’s territorial governor from 1939 to 1953. He signed the income tax into law in 1949. (Photo courtesy Alaska State Library Historical Collections)The Senate plans to vote Friday on a House proposal to bring an income tax to Alaska. Senate majority leaders oppose the tax, and it will likely go down in defeat. But this isn’t the first time Alaska has debated this tax — and it may not be the last.
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  Alaska’s government spending far outpaced
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, May 11, 2017

  12-05-2017 04:06
  
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  Tillerson gets earful on climate change from Arctic governments
  Rachel Waldholz, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage
  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson got an earful from governments around the Arctic today — on the topic of climate change.
  Over a hundred people protest during Arctic Council meetin
  
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• Sitka man indicted on three counts of murder in girlfriend’s death

  12-05-2017 03:55
  
  Ali Clayton, age 28, died on Saturday (05-06-18). A graduate of Sitka High, she spent nearly a decade working at Harris Air. Clayton’s boyfriend of two months, 39-year-old Reuben Yerkes, was charged with murder in the first degree after he told police he shot her. (Photo courtesy of Scott Harris/2012)A Juneau grand jury on Wednesday indicted a Sitka man on three counts of murder, in the shooting death of his girlfriend last weekend.
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  The Juneau grand jury charged 39-year-old Reub
  
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• Tillerson gets earful on climate change from Arctic governments

  12-05-2017 03:50
  
  United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson chaired the 10th Ministerial Meeting of the Arctic Council in Fairbanks on May 11, 2017. (Photo by Arctic Council Secretariat Linnea Nordström)Secretary of State Rex Tillerson got an earful from governments around the Arctic today — on the topic of climate change.
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  Tillerson was in Fairbanks to chair a meeting of the Arctic Council, which brings together nations and indigenous groups from around the region. The U.S. was formally
  
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• Tillerson, in Alaska, Gives No Hint on Paris Climate Accord - New York Times

  12-05-2017 02:17
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  Tillerson, in Alaska, Gives No Hint on Paris Climate Accord
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  Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, center, met on Thursday with foreign ministers from other nations with Arctic territory. Credit Nicholas Kamm/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said on ...
  Fiber-Optic Broadband to Go Live in Northern Alaska This YearGovernment Technology
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• After 40 years, Air Station Sitka maintains original mission

  12-05-2017 02:12
  
  Every couple hundred hours a team of Air Station technicians conduct a complete maintenance check on the Jayhawk helicopters. (Emily Russell/KCAW)It’s been 40 years since the hangar doors opened at Air Station Sitka. Since 1977 Coast Guard helicopters have been flying all over Southeast Alaska for rescue missions and medevacs.
  Air Station Sitka is just across the bridge from downtown. After you pass the airport on your left there’s a chain link gate and a little booth.
  Lt. Ray Jamros
  
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• Lawyer arrested, charged with smuggling drugs to jailed client

  12-05-2017 02:07
  
  An Anchorage attorney and her client are charged with smuggling drugs into jail.
  Lawyer Kit Karjala was behind bars Thursday, accused of concealing heroin inside court papers she gave to her client, Christopher Brandon Miller, a.k.a. “Mellow,” while visiting him at Anchorage Correctional Complex, according to the charges.
  Federal prosecutors allege that the two pretended to discuss Miller’s case while Miller slipped the drugs inside himself and, eventually, into jail.
  
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• Could Norway be an Alaskan model for prison reform?

  12-05-2017 01:28
  
  Alaska is looking to Norway as a model for prison reform.
  The state is one of several that the California based non-profit Prison Law Office, is working with to improve conditions for prisoners.
  During a Tuesday press conference outside Fairbanks Correctional Center, Prison Law office Executive Director Donald Specter described Norway’s approach.
  ”In Norway, people who are incarcerated are seen as members of the community, so they’re not forgotten about when they come into a fa
  
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• Alaska Marine Highway drops price for Taku ferry

  12-05-2017 01:21
  
  The Alaska Marine Highway System ferry Taku was tied up in 2015. It’s been for sale, but so far no one has submitted a bid. (Creative Commons photo by Ted McGrath)No one wants to buy the state ferry Taku.
  So, officials are lowering its price.
  The Alaska Marine Highway System took the 54-year-old ship out of service almost two years ago.
  Officials put it up for sale in March, with a minimum price of $1.5 million.
  But no one responded by the May 9 deadline.
  Spokeswoman Meadow Bailey said the
  
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• Alaska Senate diverts gas pipeline money to schools, prosecutors, snowplows - Alaska Dispatch News

  12-05-2017 01:16
  
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  Alaska Senate diverts gas pipeline money to schools, prosecutors, snowplows
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  Wasilla Republican Sen. Mike Dunleavy, pictured here in April, sponsored a budget amendment Thursday to divert cash from the state's natural gas pipeline project to troopers, prosecutors and snowplowing. (Nathaniel Herz / ADN archive 2017). JUNEAU ...and more »
  
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• Stream temperature monitoring could provide insight into important fish populations

  12-05-2017 01:14
  
  Attendees practiced stream monitoring (Photo courtesy of Jessica Kayser Forster)The Chilkat River and its nearby waters are a major source of food for subsistence fishermen in Haines and Klukwan. That’s one reason decreased salmon runs are alarming in the Chilkat and other rivers in Southeast. Tribal leaders around the region are trying to get a handle on one factor that may contribute to declining returns.
  The Chilkat River runs past the village of Klukwan, about 20 miles up the Haines Hi
  
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