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• It's time for a great Alaska compromise - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-06-2017 21:59
  
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  It's time for a great Alaska compromise
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Gov. Bill Walker gives his State of the State address to a joint session of Alaska's House of Representatives and Senate at the State Capitol in Juneau on January 18, 2017. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News). I am honored to serve along all the other ...
  
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• Cuts to budget and dividends will hurt Alaska more than taxes - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-06-2017 21:59
  
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  Cuts to budget and dividends will hurt Alaska more than taxes
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  ... • Broad-based taxes. We don't necessarily need both an income and a sales tax, but at least one of the two is needed. … • Use of some Permanent Fund earnings for general government. • Reduced Permanent Fund dividend. To preserve it we must be less ...and more »
  
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• Small Alaska village works to keep services, infrastructure - SFGate

  10-06-2017 17:52
  
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  Small Alaska village works to keep services, infrastructure
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  KENAI, Alaska (AP) — The residents of the small village of Hope are trying to keep their community well-maintained and safe with what resources they have available. Hope, an unincorporated community of about 180 year-round residents on the ...and more »
  
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• Alaska missile testing for Israel will be town hall subject - Sacramento Bee

  10-06-2017 17:19
  
  Alaska missile testing for Israel will be town hall subject
  Sacramento Bee
  Officials from the spaceport on Kodiak Island will host a town hall meeting Wednesday to answer questions about the Missile Defense Agency's plans to test a U.S.-Israeli anti-ballistic missile system in Alaska. Testing of the Arrow-3 missile system ...and more »
  
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• Coast Guard cutter to be commissioned in Alaska - Washington Times

  10-06-2017 17:00
  Coast Guard cutter to be commissioned in Alaska
  Washington Times
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - The Coast Guard Cutter Bailey Barco is being commissioned in Alaska on June 14. The Juneau Empire reports (http://bit.ly/2pp0D8G ) the 154-foot (47-meter) Fast Response Cutter will be the second of its kind to be commissioned in ...and more »
  
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• Conservation groups girding for battle over National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-06-2017 16:58
  
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  Conservation groups girding for battle over National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska
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  Lakes dominate the landscape in a northern part of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. (Anne Raup / ADN archive 1997). Oil industry boosters and Alaska politicians are joining President Donald Trump's administration to push for more development ...
  
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• 1929 Alaska adventure novel getting a second life - SFGate

  10-06-2017 16:57
  
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  1929 Alaska adventure novel getting a second life
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  SITKA, Alaska (AP) — The 1929 book "Square-Rigged" by Jack Calvin is more than an exciting adventure novel set in Alaska — although it is that. Long out of print, the book has been brought back to life in a new edition that is part of a local project ...and more »
  
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• SWLA educator spends last school year teaching in Alaska - KPLC-TV

  10-06-2017 16:13
  
  SWLA educator spends last school year teaching in Alaska
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  A Cameron parish native who took the last school year to teach in an Alaskan fishing village is home now. When David "Block" Vincent decided to take a teaching job in Kodiak, Alaska, he did his best to study up on the culture of the Yupik people who ...
  
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• Alaska baseball: Friday's scores, Saturday's schedule - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-06-2017 08:51
  
  Alaska baseball: Friday's scores, Saturday's schedule
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  Game between Glacier Pilots and Chinooks was suspended until Monday due to the sprinklers unexpectedly turning on in the ninth inning. — Chugiak pitcher J.J. Julian struck out five Mat-Su batters in 2⅔ innings on Thursday. — The Goldpanners make ...
  
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• Red Flag Alaska begins - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  10-06-2017 08:12
  
  Red Flag Alaska begins
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  FAIRBANKS — The second Red Flag Alaska exercises of the year began Thursday at Eielson Air Force Base and run through June 23. In the Red Flag exercise, pilots and other U.S. military personnel practice realistic training exercises with U.S. allies.
  
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• Alternative visions for Alaska - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  10-06-2017 08:10
  
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  Alternative visions for Alaska
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  My old friend from Steller Alternative High School, Andy Josephson, now a Democratic representative from District 17 in Anchorage, wrote an opinion piece about taxes, a looming government shutdown and differences between the Republican Senate and ...
  Alaska: Richest state to ever go brokeMust Read Alaska (blog)all 2 news articles »
  
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• Wet weather aids firefighters in Southwest Alaska; growing blaze ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-06-2017 06:50
  
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  Wet weather aids firefighters in Southwest Alaska; growing blaze ...
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  The Pitka Fork Fire burning 60 miles east of McGrath puts up smoke on Tuesday. (Matt Snyder/ Alaska Department of Natural Resources / Department of ...
  Wildfire closes Richardson Highway; Fairbanks hits 90 degree mark ...Fairbanks Daily News-Minerall 4 news articles »
  
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• Looking Like Summer Around Alaska - KTUU.com

  10-06-2017 05:17
  
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  Looking Like Summer Around Alaska
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  PACIFIC SATELLITE RADAR: The upper level high is centered over the AlCan border in the Copper River Basin bringing very warm temperatures. An elongated upper level low is stretched from the western. Aleutians to just south of the Alaska Peninsula.
  
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• He may be training for space travel, but Robb Kulin says 'Alaska is my favorite place on Earth' - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-06-2017 04:35
  
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  He may be training for space travel, but Robb Kulin says 'Alaska is my favorite place on Earth'
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  Robb Kulin of Anchorage was selected by NASA to be in the 2017 astronaut candidate class. (NASA). Alaska-grown astronaut-in-training Robb Kulin hopes that, one day, humans will settle other planets. "I've always been trying to support that, in some ...and more »
  
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• When an off-course U-2 spy plane out of Alaska nearly triggered war - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-06-2017 03:46
  
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  When an off-course U-2 spy plane out of Alaska nearly triggered war
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  Capt. Charles W. Maultsby, far left, was a member of the Air Force's top tactical fighter team for supersonic weapons in an October 1958 competition at Nevada's Nellis Air Force Base. (Photo courtesy of National Archives). "I believe that in the future ...
  
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• Record cycling 'scary' Alaska for Parkinson's - Tallahassee.com

  10-06-2017 03:41
  
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  Record cycling 'scary' Alaska for Parkinson's
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  By all accounts, riding a bicycle across the country – some 3,700 miles from Atlantic coastal Virginia to San Francisco's Pacific coast – would be considered crazy. And the self-proclaimed “Crazy coach on a bike” is at it again this summer, getting a ...
  
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• What a state budget-triggered shutdown will mean to fisheries - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-06-2017 03:16
  
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  What a state budget-triggered shutdown will mean to fisheries
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Want a fishing license to crew on a salmon boat this summer? Got friends or family visiting who want to wet a line for a prized Alaska catch? Don't count on it. If the Alaska Legislature continues to defy its constitutional obligation to pass a budget ...and more »
  
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• Major progress eludes Alaska Legislature this week - KTOO - KTOO

  10-06-2017 02:42
  
  Major progress eludes Alaska Legislature this week - KTOO
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  The Alaska Capitol Building in Juneau on Tuesday. There was little progress on reaching budget agreements this week, three weeks ahead of a potential ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly, Friday, June 9

  10-06-2017 02:40
  Alaska News Nightly for Friday, June 9
  Stories are posted on the APRN news page. You can subscribe to APRN’s newsfeeds via email, podcast and RSS. Follow us on Facebook at alaskapublic.org and on Twitter @aprn
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  New study claims Exxon Valdez oil spill not as damaging to fisheries as first thought 
  Casey Grove/AKPM – Anchorage
  A recently published scientific study says the 1989 Exxon-Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound is
  
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• Three now in running for Alaska's lone Congressional seat - Alaska Public Radio Network

  10-06-2017 02:30
  
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  Three now in running for Alaska's lone Congressional seat
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  Greg Fitch, founder of the Juneau-based Mental Health Consumer Action Network, has filed to run for Republican Don Young's seat in Congress. Greg Fitch poses for a portrait in Juneau on Thursday. Fitch filed paperwork to run for Republican Don Young's ...
  
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• Three now in running for Alaska’s lone Congressional seat

  10-06-2017 02:30
  
  Greg Fitch, founder of the Juneau-based Mental Health Consumer Action Network, has filed to run for Republican Don Young’s seat in Congress.
  Greg Fitch poses for a portrait in Juneau on Thursday. Fitch filed paperwork to run for Republican Don Young’s seat in Congress in 2018. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)Fitch, 47, is a Democrat. According to the Alaska Division of Elections, he’s the third person to file for the 2018 election.
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  Longtime incumbent Don Young and politi
  
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• Coast Guard willing to give 2nd look at Aivik as icebreaker

  10-06-2017 02:14
  
  The Aivik underway near Kodiak in 2012. Photo: U.S. Coast Guard.The Coast Guard has apparently reconsidered its refusal to rent the Aivik, a ship belonging to Edison Chouest Offshore, to use as an icebreaker.
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  Coast Guard Vice Adm. Charles Ray told a U.S. House subcommittee this week the ship’s owners submitted a plan to put the vessel through an ice trial.
  “We’ve been in communication with them as recently as last week and told them we’d be interested
  
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• With time ticking, little public progress on state budget

  10-06-2017 02:12
  
  Despite a looming deadline, lawmakers made no public progress this week on reaching agreement on a state budget and a plan to balance the budget in future years.
  State Capitol building (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO and Alaska Public Media)Listen now
  Alaska Public Media’s Lori Townsend talked to AKPM and KTOO reporter Andrew Kitchenman about the stalemate.
  Lori Townsend: “What will it take to reach a compromise in Juneau?”
  Andrew Kitchenman: “If there was a clear a
  
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• Judge sets January trial for Alaska man charged with Florida airport ... - KTUU.com

  10-06-2017 02:11
  
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  Judge sets January trial for Alaska man charged with Florida airport ...
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  Trial has been delayed until January for an Alaska man charged with killing five people and wounding six in a mass shooting at a Florida airport. A federal judge ...and more »
  
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• An Alaska roadhouse holds a century of history — but faces an uncertain future - Alaska Dispatch News

  10-06-2017 01:22
  
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  An Alaska roadhouse holds a century of history — but faces an uncertain future
  Alaska Dispatch News
  RIKA'S ROADHOUSE — Sitting in the shade of a poplar, I watch the Tanana River flow by. It's flat and tan, dimpled by eddies and darted over by swallows that sound like they are chewing rubber bands. I slept last night with my wife, daughter and dog in ...
  
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• New study says melting ice keeps polar bears in perpetual motion ... - Alaska Public Radio Network

  10-06-2017 01:13
  
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  New study says melting ice keeps polar bears in perpetual motion ...
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  A new U.S. study of polar bears off Alaska's coasts says faster-moving sea ice brought on by rapid global warming is adding to the animals' physiological stress.and more »
  
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• New study says melting ice keeps polar bears in perpetual motion

  10-06-2017 01:05
  
  Photo via Flickr Creative Commons courtesy of Christopher Michel.A new U.S. study of polar bears off Alaska’s coasts says faster-moving sea ice brought on by rapid global warming is adding to the animals’ physiological stress.
  Research ecologist George Durner said that adds to problems for polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea.
  “Polar bears in those regions largely stay within those subpopulation areas throughout their lives,” Durner said. “But to do that they ca
  
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• 49 Voices: Zach Sarti of Anchorage

  10-06-2017 01:02
  This week we’re hearing from Zach Sarti of Anchorage. Zach is a salesman who moved to Alaska from Illinois.
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  I’m a salesman, and I work for a national cellphone carrier. I’ve been here most of the time the company’s been here. I got here in December of 2014, so almost 3 years. I thought it was a great opportunity to start fresh and see a part of the world I’ve never seen before. I was from Illinois. I was living in the southern part of the state there and
  
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• Invasive plants

  10-06-2017 01:00
  
  Mayday, or birdcherry, tree. Photo: Andrew ButkoAlaska’s lakes, streams and forests are, in many cases, much as they were before the industrial age, with the same species of trees, plants, fish and animals that would have been found here centuries ago. That’s all in danger of changing. Invasive plants on land and water can spread rapidly. It has already happened elsewhere in the US, often with devastating impacts on natural ecosystems. Here, there is more of a chance to snip the prob
  
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• AK: Juneau city manager: ‘People genuinely don’t have somewhere to go’

  10-06-2017 00:59
  
  AK:  Juneau struggles to find answers for tent city
  A tent city sprang up in Alaska’s capital city this spring. Juneau is struggling with a ballooning homeless population and so far efforts to crack down have just moved the problem around. KTOO’s Jacob Resneck reports.
  Campers gather near a small group of tents about noon Thursday near the 300 block of Egan Drive in Juneau. (Photo by Tripp J Crouse/KTOO)Listen now
  In an encampment on the edge of town there’s steak grilling
  
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• Surviving the harsh cold of remote Alaska - Great Falls Tribune

  10-06-2017 00:04
  Great Falls Tribune
  Surviving the harsh cold of remote Alaska
  Great Falls Tribune
  Think of trying to spot a button tossed at random on a football field. This is what search teams were sometimes told by their commanders trying to emphasize the need to stay sharp during a search. Then multiply it many times over with fields in every ...
  
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