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• With local food trending, Alaska farmers markets are springing up in some surprising places - Alaska Dispatch News

  07-06-2017 23:55
  
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  With local food trending, Alaska farmers markets are springing up in some surprising places
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  Colsie Biswell holds 6-week-old Indie Biswell and talks with a customer of the Butcher Block No. 9 stand on May 31. Fire Island is hosting a farmers market in their lot in Airport Heights on Wednesdays from 3 to 7 p.m. this summer. (Marc Lester ...
  
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• NASA selects longtime Alaskan as astronaut candidate - Alaska Dispatch News

  07-06-2017 23:32
  
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  NASA selects longtime Alaskan as astronaut candidate
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  Robb Kulin, born and raised in Anchorage, will join NASA's 2017 class of astronaut candidates, the agency announced Wednesday. He and 11 other astronaut candidates were selected from more than 18,300 applications — a record number, NASA says.
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• Survivor of Southeast Alaska plane crash: pilot intentionally shut off engine - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  07-06-2017 21:42
  
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  Survivor of Southeast Alaska plane crash: pilot intentionally shut off engine
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - According to a National Transportation Safety Board report, the sole survivor of a plane crash in the northern part of the Alaska Panhandle told investigators the pilot intentionally shut off one of the aircraft's engines prior ...
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• Audacious, adventurous or just nutty? Racing to Alaska on stand-up paddleboards

  07-06-2017 21:09
  
  Erdogan Kirac, left, and Luke Burritt of Bellingham are planning to compete in the Race to Alaska on twin boards including this one. (Tom Banse / NW News Network)You probably have seen standup paddleboarders along your local shoreline. But can you imagine paddling one of those boards for 750 miles up the Inside Passage to Alaska?
  Three experienced paddleboarders who are in the field of sail or human-powered vessels signed up to compete in this year’s Race to Alaska. The starting gun for th
  
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• Audacious, adventurous or just nutty? Racing to Alaska on stand-up ... - Alaska Public Radio Network

  07-06-2017 21:09
  
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  Audacious, adventurous or just nutty? Racing to Alaska on stand-up ...
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  Erdogan Kirac, left, and Luke Burritt of Bellingham are planning to compete in the Race to Alaska on twin boards including this one. (Tom Banse / NW News ...
  Stand-Up Paddleboarders Prepare To Set Off On 'Race To Alaska ...Here And Nowall 2 news articles »
  
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• 'Called by Wild Alaska' presentation June 13 at library - Cody Enterprise

  07-06-2017 20:47
  
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  'Called by Wild Alaska' presentation June 13 at library
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  Richard Jones was a backcountry ranger in the Alaskan wilderness for four years. There he met and befriended Dick Proenneke. prev. next. A presentation by Richard Jones featuring explorer Harold McCracken, naturalist Dick Proenneke and poems by ...
  
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• Dinkel awarded for contribution to Alaska horticulture - Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman

  07-06-2017 20:40
  
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  Dinkel awarded for contribution to Alaska horticulture
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  The Alaska Pioneer Fruit Growers Association honored Dr. Don Dinkel with a lifetime membership award recently in recognition of his contributions to horticulture in Alaska. prev. next. PALMER — The Alaska Pioneer Fruit Growers Association honored Dr.
  
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• Alaska Airlines accidentally trolls Tomi Lahren, Twitter has a field day - Fox News

  07-06-2017 18:45
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  Alaska Airlines accidentally trolls Tomi Lahren, Twitter has a field day
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  An employee for Alaska Airlines referred to former Blaze anchor Tomi Lahren as "Tami." (Reuters). There's no doubt that conservative commentator Tomi Lahren is a divisive, controversial figure. So it comes as no surprise that Twitter had a field day ...and more »
  
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• Brothers Tackle Treacherous Race To Alaska In 28-Foot Sailboat - Here And Now

  07-06-2017 17:50
  
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  Brothers Tackle Treacherous Race To Alaska In 28-Foot Sailboat
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  Meet the Burd brothers: 32-year-old Tripp, 30-year-old Chris and 28-year-old Trevor. They'll launch their 28-foot sailboat from Port Townsend, Washington, on Thursday as part of the Race to Alaska. Here & Now's Robin Young talks with Tripp and Chris ...
  
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• Ruckus opens Race to Alaska - Port Townsend Leader

  07-06-2017 12:30
  
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  Ruckus opens Race to Alaska
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  Race to Alaska competitors (from left) Michelle Boroski, Stephanie Maheu and Stephanie York prepare their Corsair F-27 trimaran at the Point Hudson Marina on Tuesday, June 6. The women, along with Johanna Gabbard, are with the Ventura, ...
  
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• Rescuers chip fallen climber from ice on Alaska mountain - ABC News

  07-06-2017 10:10
  
  Rescuers chip fallen climber from ice on Alaska mountain
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  The Kahiltna Glacier near Denali, shows peaks in the Alaska Range, as seen through the open cargo bay doors of a Chinook helicopter, April 24, 2016. Rangers rescued two climbers in unrelated incidents from Kahiltna Glacier in Denali National Park on ...and more »
  
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• Here's what the governor-endorsed 'head tax' would mean for Alaska - KTUU.com

  07-06-2017 06:07
  
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  Here's what the governor-endorsed 'head tax' would mean for Alaska
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  Is Alaska ready to bring back a version of the education head tax that was in effect until 1980?and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tues., June 6, 2017 - Alaska Public Radio Network

  07-06-2017 03:58
  Alaska News Nightly: Tues., June 6, 2017
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  Governor asks lawmakers to come up with their own compromise to state budget woes, if they don't like his plan. Governor Bill Walker told lawmakers opposed to his compromise proposal to resolve the state's budget crisis that they should produce their ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tues., June 6, 2017

  07-06-2017 03:55
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  Governor asks lawmakers to come up with their own compromise to state budget woes, if they don’t like his plan.
  Governor Bill Walker told lawmakers opposed to his compromise proposal to resolve the state’s budget crisis that they should produce their
  
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• Alaska should lead the way to single-payer health care - Alaska Dispatch News

  07-06-2017 03:33
  
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  Alaska should lead the way to single-payer health care
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  The Affordable Care Act extended health care coverage to 20 million previously uninsured people but has not controlled escalating health care costs. Americans, and Alaskans in particular, have the most expensive health care in the world. Also, our ...and more »
  
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• Why general aviation isn’t cheering Trump’s air traffic control plan

  07-06-2017 03:20
  
  President Trump at the White House Monday. (Image from Whitehouse.gov video)President Trump announced this week he wants to privatize the FAA’s air traffic control operations, in part to speed up modernization.
  “After billions and billions of tax dollars spent and the many years of delays,” he said, “we are still stuck with an ancient, broken, antiquated, horrible system that doesn’t work.”
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  Trump is endorsing a decades-old idea, spearheaded these da
  
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• Governor Walker says he is waiting for lawmakers to compromise on budget

  07-06-2017 03:18
  
  Governor Bill Walker told lawmakers opposed to his compromise proposal to resolve the state’s budget crisis that they should produce their own compromise ideas.
  Governor Bill Walker (R-Ak) photo: Skip Gray/360 North“It may not be a perfect compromise,” Gov. Walker said. “It’s the only compromise that’s on the table. I would welcome other compromises coming forth. I submitted a compromise because I didn’t see one.”
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• Pilot shut off one engine before fatal plane crash near Haines

  07-06-2017 02:52
  The surviving passenger of a fatal plane crash near Haines told investigators that the pilot purposely stopped one engine to demonstrate how to re-start it in flight. That is one detail in a preliminary report released by the National Transportation Safety Board this week. The crash killed two people and injured another.
  Listen nowDavid Kunat and Chan Valentine of Juneau and Stanley Quoc Nguyen of California were flying from Juneau to Haines on Saturday, May 27. NTSB Alaska chief Clint Johnson s
  
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• Survey investigates Alaskans’ attitudes towards wildlife

  07-06-2017 02:51
  
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  (image from United States Fish and Wildlife Survey)Colorado State University is conducting a survey of Alaska residents to measure their attitudes towards wildlife. It is part of a nationwide study that began in 2005.
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  Mark Burch is a Wildlife Biologist for Alaska Department of Fish and Game. He said Alaska residents’ views differ from those in other states.
  “In Alaska as you might expect people do tend to be a little more utilitarian,” Burch said. &
  
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• Alaska governor urges budget compromise to avoid state shutdown - Reuters

  07-06-2017 02:10
  
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  Alaska governor urges budget compromise to avoid state shutdown
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  FILE PHOTO: Alaska Governor-elect Bill Walker after a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama and other Governor-elects from seven U.S. states at the White House in Washington, U.S., on December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Larry Downing/File Photo.
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