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• Russian extremists want Alaska back - Alaska Dispatch News

  18-05-2017 22:59
  
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Russian extremists want Alaska back
  Alaska Dispatch News
  This stone and brick memorial was erected in the Crimean resort town of Evpatoria in 2014. The sign reads, “To Future Generations: We Returned Crimea, You Are to Return Alaska.” (Photo courtesy Prof. Andrei Znamensky, University of Memphis). Russia did ...
  
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• Traveling Music 5-21-17

  18-05-2017 22:58
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  5-21-17
   
  Format:
  Song TitleArtist / Composer
  CD Title
  Label
  Duration
   
  Child of This Place
  Dougie Maclean / Dougie Maclean
  Caledonia Cantata
  Dunkeld Records
  7:40
   
  Thinking Ever Thinking
  Nancy Conescu / Traditional
  Wild Blossoms
  www.nancyconescu.com
  4:34
   
  Lady Margret
  Cassie Franklin / Traditional
  Cold Mountain
  Sony
  3:02
   
  Blooming Caroline from Edinburgh Town
  Battlefield Band / Traditional
  Beg & Borrow
  www.battlefieldband.co.uk
  5:23
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• Alaska may see warmer than normal temperatures this summer - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  18-05-2017 20:53
  
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Alaska may see warmer than normal temperatures this summer
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  The Climate Prediction Center has released it's latest summer outlook, and a warm summer may be ahead for Alaska. According to the outlook, the months of June, July, and August have a 40 percent chance of seeing warmer than normal temperatures for the ...and more »
  
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• Special session to begin Thursday after lawmakers fail to compromise

  18-05-2017 20:38
  
  Gov. Bill Walker signs a proclamation for a special session focused on the budget and long-term spending plan, after lawmakers failed to compromise on Wednesday. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO and Alaska Public Media)Gov. Bill Walker called the Alaska Legislature into a special session starting Thursday.
  The session will focus on the state budget and the long-term gap between how much the state government spends and how much it raises. The Legislature failed to reach agreements on a budge
  
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• Alaska documentary on native culture restored after 40 years - KTUU.com

  18-05-2017 17:45
  
  KTUU.com
  Alaska documentary on native culture restored after 40 years
  KTUU.com
  BETHEL, Alaska (AP) - A 40-year-old film about Alaska natives has been digitally restored to brighten its picture. KYUK-AM reported this week that the restored version of "The Drums of Winter," highlighting Yup'ik culture, is being shown around the ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Governor Calls for Special Session to Resolve Deficit - U.S. News & World Report

  18-05-2017 07:48
  U.S. News & World Report
  Alaska Governor Calls for Special Session to Resolve Deficit
  U.S. News & World Report
  Wednesday marked a constitutional deadline for Alaska lawmakers to end their regular session. But with a budget and plan for addressing Alaska's multibillion-dollar deficit unresolved, more time was needed. | May 18, 2017, at 1:52 a.m.. MORE.
  Gov. Walker calls Alaska Legislature into special sessionKTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaskaall 38 news articles »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, May 17, 2017

  18-05-2017 04:22
  
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  No budget plan unveiled as legislative session ends
  Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO – Juneau
  The Legislature is ending its session today with no state budget and no agreement on a plan to balance the budget in the future.
  Legislature approves all but one of Walker’s cabinet picks
  Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO &nd
  
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• Repair season under way on ‘just about every road in Alaska’

  18-05-2017 03:51
  
  Workers and equipment will be busy on roadways throughout the state over the next few months, to get as much done as possible during Alaska’s short construction season.
  (KTOO photo)The Alaska Department of Transportation’s summer road-construction season has begun, with major projects in Fairbanks and on both the Richardson and Parks highways. Crews are hustling to get as much work done as possible during the short construction season.
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• New trooper boss talks priorities on first day

  18-05-2017 03:43
  
  The Alaska State Troopers have a new boss: Longtime trooper Hans Brinke is now Col. Brinke, the head of an organization he joined 26 years ago as a recruit.
  Brinke said Tuesday, his first day on the new job, that he was receiving a lot of information.
  “Drinking from a fire hose, swallowing what I can, and trying to hope for the best,” Brinke said.
  Brinke has worked as a K9 cop and drug investigator, moved up the ranks to captain, and, most recently, was a detachment commander in Palm
  
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• Sinkhole pops up at Ft. Wainwright

  18-05-2017 02:58
  
  A sinkhole has opened up on Ft. Wainwright in Fairbanks.
  Public affairs officer Mel Slater said the 3-foot diameter void discovered Monday near a housing unit, is suspected to be the result of thawing permafrost.
  ”When they inspected the sinkhole, what they found was some wood debris, some metal debris and a partially crushed metal drum,” Slater said.
  Slater said the sink hole has been cordoned off, and post officials are cautioning people to stay away from it until the revealed mate
  
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• From gangs to a grad: A former inmate celebrates finishing college

  18-05-2017 02:52
  
  Marcos Galindo and his son, Lucian, after a University of Alaska Southeast graduation ceremony May 7, 2017. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)This month, 30-year-old Marcos Galindo graduated with a bachelor’s degree in social science with a concentration in political science. Now, he’s working on a master’s of public administration and wants a Ph.D. in Chicano studies – a choice weighted by his early life on the streets and in the prisons of California.
  “Especially in
  
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• Mayor’s veto cuts Mat-Su education budget

  18-05-2017 02:45
  
  A bit of last-minute school funding did not survive the veto pen of Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Vern Halter.
  During its work tailoring the 2018 budget, the Borough Assembly had earlier voted to take about $1.6 million from a school selection fund and add it to the school district operating budget.
  The money would have been about 3 percent of the school district’s overall budget. One Assembly member likened using the reserve fund to raiding one of the borough’s last cookie jars.
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• Young OK with special counsel, rues ‘media hype’

  18-05-2017 02:37
  
  Alaska Rep. Don Young. Photo: Liz Ruskin.Alaska Congress Don Young said it’s fine with him that the Justice Department has appointed a special counsel to oversee its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
  The Justice Department “can do what they want to,” Young said. “In fact, it might be better if they go through with this process and find out the results. I don’t think there’s been anything wrong done. I’ve said that all along. This
  
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• Kodiak prepares for infectious disease with ebola simulation

  18-05-2017 02:11
  (Left to right) Nurse Steve, Nurse Lydia, and patient / actor Felicia Roberts during a simulated examination. (Kayla Desroches/KMXT)Every year on Kodiak Island, the common cold – known locally as the “Kodiak crud” – spreads among city residents. But imagine if a more serious illness or disease entered the population.
  Like ebola, which spreads through bodily fluids.
  The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services is running a simulation this week to see how a rural com
  
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• At Bartlett High, a student meteorologist delivers the forecast

  18-05-2017 00:59
  
  Jack Pellerin prepares his morning weather broadcast script (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)For most high-schoolers, the first thing they hear at school every day is the Pledge of Allegiance and announcements. But students at Anchorage’s Bartlett High School get something more:
  “And good morning Bartlett Bears. Welcome to Wednesday, May 17 — graduation day. I’m meteorologist Jack Pellerin.”
  14-year-old Pellerin is one of the first voice
  
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• Alaska Airlines will start passenger flights from Everett's Paine Field ... - The Seattle Times

  18-05-2017 00:59
  
  The Seattle Times
  Alaska Airlines will start passenger flights from Everett's Paine Field ...
  The Seattle Times
  Alaska Airlines announced Wednesday that it will begin daily passenger flights out of Paine Field in Everett starting by fall of 2018.
  Alaska Air expands to Everett, Wash., where it would be the only ...USA TODAY
  Alaska Airlines will start daily flights from Everett's Paine FieldKOMO News
  Alaska Airlines to offer 8 flights from Everett's Paine Field | KIRO-TVKIRO Seattle
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