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• Uber, Lyft cleared to launch in Alaska

  15-06-2017 23:26
  
  A screenshot of the Uber app on an iPhone taken in 2014.Thursday, Gov. Bill Walker signed House Bill 132 into law, opening up business in Alaska for Transportation Network Companies, including popular services like Uber and Lyft. The companies already laid the groundwork to start operations before ink from the governor’s pen was even dry.
  For its part, Lyft has spent the last month recruiting new drivers in Alaska.
  “Specifically in Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks,” Scott Coriel
  
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• Fiber, Satellites Provide Options for Rural Broadband in Alaska - Government Technology

  15-06-2017 23:07
  
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  Fiber, Satellites Provide Options for Rural Broadband in Alaska
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  Thirty three miles north of Haines, Alaska, is this rural landscape and roadhouse. Flickr/ JLS Photography - Alaska. (TNS) -- Competition and collaboration between telecom companies promises to bring the costs down for Alaska in the coming two years as ...
  
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• Brown bear fatally shot by Alaska homeowner after it attacks his dog - KTUU.com

  15-06-2017 22:26
  
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  Brown bear fatally shot by Alaska homeowner after it attacks his dog
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  The bear shot and killed is hauled out of the woods near Bahovec Court. Photo courtesy of Daily Sitka Sentinel, James Poulson. By Associated Press |. Posted: Thu 12:23 PM, Jun 15, 2017 |. Updated: Thu 12:28 PM, Jun 15, 2017. SITKA, Alaska (AP) - An ...
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• Sober day at Capitol; Alaska delegation not directly affected by shooting

  15-06-2017 22:12
  
  Photo of U.S. Capitol by Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public MediaAs you’ve probably heard by now, five people were shot Tuesday morning in Virginia, where the Republican team was practicing for the annual congressional baseball game. Alaska Public Media News Director Lori Townsend spoke to Washington correspondent Liz Ruskin about the mood at the Capitol.
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  Townsend: So what was it like? What happened today?
  Ruskin: It was kind of a sad afternoon. At noon there was a House session and every
  
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• Southeast tribal organization says it will support the Paris Climate Accord

  15-06-2017 21:35
  
  Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska President Richard Peterson. (Photo courtesy CCTHITA)The largest tribe in Alaska is sticking by the Paris Climate Change Accord.
  Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska said it will continue to support the agreement, which aims to reduce the world’s carbon emissions and slow climate change.
  Earlier this month, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would be pulling out of the accord, joining countr
  
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• Treasurer for Alaska movie industry union charged in theft of nearly $200K - KTOO

  15-06-2017 19:08
  
  Treasurer for Alaska movie industry union charged in theft of nearly $200K
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  The former treasurer of an entertainment industry union that raked in money during Alaska's film-making boom is charged with stealing nearly $200,000 from the union. Audio Player. http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170614-05.mp3. Anchorage resident Ann ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly, Wed., June 14

  15-06-2017 04:11
  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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  State House votes to reinstate bigger PFD checks
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  The Alaska House voted to restore Permanent Fund dividends to the full amount of roughly twenty-two hundred dollars this fall.
  Fate of Assembly members hangs in balance of uncounted votes
  
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• Congress: baseball game will go on after shooting at GOP practice

  15-06-2017 04:03
  As you’ve probably heard by now, 5 people were shot this morning at a baseball diamond in Virginia, where the Republican team was practicing for the annual congressional baseball game. We asked our Washington correspondent, Liz Ruskin to tell us what the day was like at the Capitol.
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  Lori Townsend:”Hi Liz So, how was it today?”
  Liz Ruskin: “Subdued, a little sad. Most if not all of the House members came to the chamber at noon. Speaker Ryan gave emotionally stir
  
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• Dispute looms over Anchorage parking meter policy

  15-06-2017 03:51
  
  A parking lot in downtown Anchorage between 6th and 7th avenues on H Street. (Staff photo)There’s a battle brewing in Anchorage over parking. It centers on a new plan to start charging at parking meters during weekends, and whether the changes will steer business in or out of the area.
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  In Anchorage and elsewhere, most drivers share a common sentiment.
  “Nobody likes paying for parking,” explained Brian Borguno, Parking Director for the Anchorage Community Develop
  
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• ‘Woman with small shovel’ finds a clue to Sitka’s paleo past

  15-06-2017 03:22
  
  A sewer replacement project in Sitka has turned up more evidence that one of Alaska’s oldest cities has been inhabited for a long, long time.
  Nancy Yaw Davis grew up on this corner while her father, W. Leslie Yaw, served as superintendent of the Sheldon Jackson School, and later, as the president of the junior college. After a career in anthropology, she’s still curious about ‘the depth of time’ and the people who have inhabited her old neighborhood for millenia. (KCAW ph
  
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• Homer’s recall remains in limbo until vote certification

  15-06-2017 03:12
  
  The votes are all in for Homer’s recall election of three liberal city council members. But the results are not yet clear. The politically divided town will remain in limbo until absentee votes are counted Friday.The votes are all in for Homer’s recall election of three liberal city council members. But the results are not yet clear. The politically divided town will remain in limbo until absentee votes are counted Friday.Listen now
  As the ballots came in Tuesday evening, it quickly
  
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• Charges: Treasurer for Alaska movie industry union stole nearly $200K

  15-06-2017 03:07
  The former treasurer of an entertainment industry union that raked in money during Alaska’s film-making boom is charged with stealing nearly $200,000 from the union.
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  Anchorage resident Ann Reddig, 62, is charged in federal court with embezzlement and forgery.
  Reddig has a court date set for later this month but she is not in custody. Prosecutors refuse to comment on whether they know where to find Reddig.
  It was during the heyday of Alaska’s brief film tax credit program t
  
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• State House votes to restore full dividend check

  15-06-2017 02:49
  
  The Alaska House voted to restore Permanent Fund dividends to the full projected amount of roughly $2,200 dollars this fall.
  The Alaska state capitol building in Juneau. (Public Domain photo)Listen now
  Anchorage Republican Representative Gabrielle LeDoux said during a floor session that she doesn’t support cutting PFDs without requiring oil companies to pay more in taxes.
  “Without this amendment, we are headed to a budget which reduces the people’s PFD,” Ledoux said.
  
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• Fiber Broadband Coming to Nome by Year’s End, Quintillion Says

  15-06-2017 01:05
  
  In order to stay on schedule, Kristina Woolston, Quintillion’s Vice President of External Relations, says they will have three vessels in Alaskan waters this summer to install 40 more miles of fiber, which wasn’t completed last year.
  Quintillion fiber optic cable ship (photo: KNOM)“(It’s) because we needed more time to get the desired burial depth that we needed off of Prudhoe Bay and Oliktok Point,” Woolston said. “So, that one critical piece is what we have
  
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