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• Navy to search Alaska ocean floor for WWII-era explosives - NavyTimes.com

  20-05-2017 22:19
  
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  Navy to search Alaska ocean floor for WWII-era explosives
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  KODIAK, Alaska — The U.S. Navy will be searching for World War II-era explosives on the ocean floor near an Alaska island in June. The Navy will be looking for any munitions and explosives that may have been left behind in the water surrounding Kodiak ...
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• Alaska lawmakers reject transgender man for human-rights post - The Seattle Times

  20-05-2017 22:14
  
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  Alaska lawmakers reject transgender man for human-rights post
  The Seattle Times
  One Republican state senator said there's no problem with being an advocate “until you get on that commission and then what you want to do is you want to look at protecting all rights.” Share story. By. BECKY BOHRER. The Associated Press. JUNEAU ...
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• Alaska Man Sentenced to Federal Prison, Probation | Alaska News ... - U.S. News & World Report

  20-05-2017 18:13
  Alaska Man Sentenced to Federal Prison, Probation | Alaska News ...
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  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man was sentenced to 64 months in federal prison for illegal possession of 32 guns.and more »
  
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• Scottish Couple Undergoes Human Powered Alaska Trip - U.S. News & World Report

  20-05-2017 17:06
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  Scottish Couple Undergoes Human Powered Alaska Trip
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  With a brief stay in Ketchikan mid-May, a pair of Scottish expeditioners have begun a lengthy human-powered journey over land and sea from the Dixon Entrance to the nation's northernmost fringe. | May 20, 2017, at 10:55 a.m.. MORE.and more »
  
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• CH2MHill subsidiary to cut 147 jobs after losing North Slope contract - Alaska Dispatch News

  20-05-2017 05:54
  
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  CH2MHill subsidiary to cut 147 jobs after losing North Slope contract
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  Nearly 150 people will lose their jobs after a CH2M Hill subsidiary lost a North Slope contract to a competitor, sparking fears among union and state officials that the primarily Alaska workforce will be replaced by a large number of Outside employees ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, May 19, 2017

  20-05-2017 03:59
  
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  Police Memorial Day in Fairbanks pays tribute to last year’s fallen officer
  Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks
  Today is Police Memorial Day, and a ceremony to remember law enforcement officers in the state who have died in the line of duty, was held in Fairbanks this morning.
  Cook Inlet oil and gas lease s
  
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• Police Memorial Day in Fairbanks pays tribute to last year’s fallen officer

  20-05-2017 03:46
  
  Anchorage citizens watch as a police escort brings Sgt. Allen Brandt’s body to Ted Stevens International Airport in November. (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)Today is Police Memorial Day, and a ceremony to remember law enforcement officers in the state who have died in the line of duty, was held in Fairbanks this morning.
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  The names of 70 Alaska law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty since 1897 were read aloud.
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• Preventing human trafficking of homeless youth by building connections

  20-05-2017 03:42
  
  Covenant House in downtown Anchorage. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)Young people who are homeless in Alaska are at high risk for human trafficking, but there are ways to prevent the problem.
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  Josh Louwerse is the youth engagement coordinator at Covenant House Alaska, Anchorage’s only homeless center for youth. He’s very aware and cautious of assumptions people make about where people are most at risk.
  “I think far too often things get labeled…’Oh well, tha
  
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• AK: New book of poetry explores indigenous thought

  20-05-2017 03:00
  
  Ishmael Hope and his family (Photo from Ishmael Hope)“Khaagwáask’ yéi xhat duwasáakw. My Tlingit name is Khaagwáask’. My Inupiaq name: Uvanga atinga Angaluuk. My name Inupiaq name is Angaluuk. And I am a poet and performer-storyteller, and I’m grateful to be here.”
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  Ishmael Hope sits on the back deck of a valley home on a chilly blue-sky morning. It’s a quiet place in house full of kids. His graying black hair is pulled in
  
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• Fentanyl found in 3 recent overdose deaths in Anchorage - Alaska Dispatch News

  20-05-2017 02:43
  
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  Fentanyl found in 3 recent overdose deaths in Anchorage
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  Three people are confirmed to have died from opioid overdoses in recent weeks in Anchorage, and all tested positive for fentanyl, the state health department said Friday. Eight additional suspected overdose deaths in late April are still awaiting ...and more »
  
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• CEO: Possible Sitka Community Hospital merger raises ‘complexity’ of hospital’s challenges

  20-05-2017 01:08
  
  The decision to close the OB program, and reduce surgery to half-time, has not received final approval from the hospital board, and Allen himself is not overjoyed about it. “Signing birth certificates is one of the things I like most!” he said, after Wednesday’s Chamber meeting. (KCAW photo/Robert Woolsey)Sitka Community Hospital is operating in the black for the first time in several years, but its future is far from certain.
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  CEO Rob Allen told the Sitka Chamber of
  
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• Long distance relays

  20-05-2017 01:00
  
  On the next Outdoor Explorer, we’re talking about a different kind of race, one where you have as much support and camaraderie as you do competition. Long distance road relays have been around for a while, including the Klondike Road Relay that follows the gold rush route of 1898 every fall, with teams of runners who ride along in vans while taking turns on foot. A new one is getting started in Anchorage this summer, from Eagle River to Seward and we’re looking forward to hearing ab
  
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• Report: Melting of Arctic sea ice taking heavy toll on marine species

  20-05-2017 00:59
  
  Screen capture of a video produced by the Arctic Council’s Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna working group shows a polar bear raiding the cliff nests of murres. (Image courtesy CAFF/Arctic Council)The latest research shows that diminishing Arctic sea ice caused by climate change is forcing some species to travel further to find food or look for alternative food sources.
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  “Polar bears are even showing up on murre colonies. Now, these are cliff-nesting birds,” Kath
  
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• Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sales set for June

  20-05-2017 00:48
  
  An oil rig in Cook Inlet, Feb. 22, 2009. (Creative Commons photo by hig314)The federal government this week announced it’s holding an oil and gas lease sale for over a million acres in Cook Inlet this June.
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  The offshore area spans from south of Kalgin Island to north of Seldovia.
  The last three federal lease sales in Cook Inlet were canceled due to lack of industry interest.
  In a letter submitted to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management last year, environmental groups raise
  
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• Juneau’s homeless population prefers Marine Park over Thane campground

  20-05-2017 00:36
  
  Lorraine Paul, 42, wakes up the morning of May 17, 2017, in Marine Park, Juneau. The city wants to begin enforcing the park’s posted hours of midnight to 7 a.m. (Photo by Jacob Resneck, KTOO – Juneau)Juneau’s controversial anti-camping ordinance has been in effect for more than a month. The result has been more people are sleeping in downtown’s Marine Park. Now the city is looking to empty the park of overnight campers.
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• 49 Voices: James Hart of Haines

  20-05-2017 00:27
  
  
  James Hart (right) with Tlingit and Haida Central Council president Richard Peterson (Photo courtesy of James Hart)This week we’re hearing from James Hart in Haines. Hart is a young tribal council member of the Chilkoot Indian Association, and a delegate on the Tlingit and Haida Central Council. He received an “emerging leader” award from the Council last month.
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  HART: What led me to get involved with Tlingit and Haida Central Council as a delegate was probably based
  
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