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• Hiker dies while descending Alaska's Denali Pass - CBS News

  17-06-2017 23:31
  
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  Hiker dies while descending Alaska's Denali Pass
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The National Park Service in Alaska says a climber has died on Denali, North America's highest mountain. An NPS ranger patrol was called to Denali's West Buttress route at 17,500 feet around 1 a.m. Friday, CBS affiliate KTVA ...and more »
  
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• Liberals in Strange Places

  17-06-2017 21:44 via nytimes.com
  America’s political geography is not just about red states and blue states.
  
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• Alaska Aerospace Company Wants to Launch More Satellites - U.S. News & World Report

  17-06-2017 18:28
  Alaska Aerospace Company Wants to Launch More Satellites
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  An Alaska aerospace company wants to increase its launch frequency to at least two or three launches per year. June 17, 2017, at 12:17 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Alaska Aerospace Company Wants to Launch More Satellites ...and more »
  
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• US apologizes for WWII internment of Alaska's Unangan people - Seattle Times

  17-06-2017 17:32
  
  US apologizes for WWII internment of Alaska's Unangan people
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  ST. PAUL, Alaska (AP) — A U.S. official has apologized for the World War II internment of Alaska's Unangan people. Jim Kurth, acting director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, traveled this week to remote St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea to ...and more »
  
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• Alaska police, homeless find common ground at the lanes - SFGate

  17-06-2017 16:51
  
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  Alaska police, homeless find common ground at the lanes
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  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — As a 30-year-old homeless woman, Rebecca Bells has had her share of interactions with law enforcement. As a 15-year veteran of the Juneau Police Department, Krag Campbell has been on the opposite side of those interactions ...and more »
  
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• In This Alaska Family, Life Lessons Are Passed Down On The Water ... - NPR

  17-06-2017 11:34
  
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  In This Alaska Family, Life Lessons Are Passed Down On The Water ...
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  In southeast Alaska, the commercial king salmon fishing season has been shut down a month early, because the number of wild salmon returning to rivers to ...and more »
  
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• Alaska baseball scores, schedule for June 16 - Alaska Dispatch News

  17-06-2017 08:48
  
  Alaska baseball scores, schedule for June 16
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  ... — Anchorage Buc Jace VanDeBrake singled in extra innings to score the game's only run during game one of a doubleheader against the Peninsula Oilers. — Chugiak's Hayden Mixon provided the go-ahead RBI single in the bottom of the eighth inning to ...
  
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• Missing 8-year-old boy in Eagle River found - Alaska Dispatch News

  17-06-2017 08:11
  
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  Missing 8-year-old boy in Eagle River found
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  An 8-year-old boy previously reported as missing in Eagle River had been found by early Saturday morning, police said. He went missing in the area of Eagle River Road and Stewart Drive, police said. A Friday statement from the Anchorage Police ...and more »
  
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• What's the holdup? The Alaska Legislature's budget standoff, explained - Alaska Dispatch News

  17-06-2017 06:52
  
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  What's the holdup? The Alaska Legislature's budget standoff, explained
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  Anchorage Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux, one of three members of the largely Democratic House majority, talks with Fairbanks Democratic Rep. David Guttenberg as caucus members walk toward the second-floor office of House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, ...
  Alaska Governor Calls New Special Session Focused on BudgetU.S. News & World Report
  Alaska House passes budget Senate leader calls unaccep
  
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• 3 incumbents survive Homer city council recall effort - Alaska Dispatch News

  17-06-2017 05:13
  
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  3 incumbents survive Homer city council recall effort
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  Homer City Council members, from left, Tom Stroozas, David Lewis, Mayor Bryan Zak, Heath Smith, Shelly Erickson, Donna Aderhold and Catriona Reynolds. (City of Homer). Three Homer City Council members survived a recall effort promoted by local ...and more »
  
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• Team of 3 brothers from Massachusetts wins Race to Alaska | KOMO - KOMO News

  17-06-2017 04:37
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  Team of 3 brothers from Massachusetts wins Race to Alaska | KOMO
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  KETCHIKAN, Alaska - With a sailboat trailing just 10 boat lengths behind as they edged closer to the finish, three brothers from Massachusetts sailed into ...and more »
  
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• A killer comes knocking - Alaska Dispatch News

  17-06-2017 04:22
  
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  A killer comes knocking
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  Doug Cleaves the day he got out of the hospital. “He was so happy to be moving into his rental house with his son,” says sister Susan Ludwig. (Photo courtesy of the Cleaves family). On a blustery October night at his Sand Lake duplex, 25-year-old ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, June 16, 2017

  17-06-2017 03:52
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  Walker narrows Legislature’s focus to the budget
  Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO – Juneau
  A breakdown in negotiations between House and Senate legislators Thursday resulted in lawmakers not passing a state operating budget in the first special session that ended Friday. So Gov. Bill Walker immediately calle
  
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• Alaska Picker works to salvage historic Palmer building - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  17-06-2017 03:49
  
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Alaska Picker works to salvage historic Palmer building
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  In the heart of downtown Palmer, some people saw an old abandoned building; but, two local antique enthusiasts saw a chance to salvage history. Alaska Picker co-owners Kelly Turney and Becky Green travels all over the state searching for items to ...
  
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• Walker narrows Legislature’s focus to the budget

  17-06-2017 03:42
  
  Gov. Bill Walker, an independent, speaks at a press availability Friday shortly after calling the Alaska Legislature into the second special session of the year. Walker limited the session to one topic, the operating budget. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO and Alaska Public Media)A breakdown in negotiations between House and Senate legislators Thursday resulted in lawmakers not passing a state operating budget in the first special session that ended Friday. So Gov. Bill Walker immediately
  
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• An Anchorage program has people role-playing in a refugee camp

  17-06-2017 03:19
  
  Participants in the refugee camp simulation try to build a shelter with tarps and PVC pipes at Chugach Optional School in Anchorage on June 14, 2017. (Photo by Anne Hillman, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)Each of the world’s 21 million refugees has a unique story, but sometimes it’s hard to see past the numbers. On Wednesday, Catholic Social Services in Anchorage set up a simulation where people role played what it would be like to arrive at a refugee camp. It was to help peop
  
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• Alaska Highway Project: Memorializing civil rights legacy of black soldiers in state history - Alaska Public Radio Network

  17-06-2017 03:11
  
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  Alaska Highway Project: Memorializing civil rights legacy of black soldiers in state history
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  Retired Alaska educator Jean Pollard says the Alaska history classes she took didn't include any information about the hard work African-American soldiers did and hardships they endured while helping build the Alaska Highway 75 years ago.and more »
  
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• Alaska Highway Project: Memorializing civil rights legacy of black soldiers in state history

  17-06-2017 03:10
  
  Retired Alaska educator Jean Pollard says the Alaska history classes she took didn’t include any information about the hard work African-American soldiers did and hardships they endured while helping build the Alaska Highway 75 years ago.
  (Tim Ellis/KUAC)Anchorage high school students will get a chance this year to learn about the work African-American soldiers did 75 years ago to help build the Alaska Highway. The retired educator who led the effort to get the district to teach that lesso
  
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• Fairbanks Borough air quality letters yield single citation

  17-06-2017 02:53
  
  Wood stove pipe on a Fairbanks home.
  (Credit Dan Bross / KUAC)The Fairbanks North Star Borough toughened its air regulations in advance of this spring’s EPA re-designation of much of the borough as a serious non-attainment area for fine-particulate pollution. The borough issued more than 170 air quality violation warning letters, but only one citation followed.
   
  In March the borough passed tougher air quality measures that reduced the number of burn stages and increased fines. The bo
  
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• Former Fairbanks DA dies in motorcycle accident

  17-06-2017 02:21
  
  Former Fairbanks District Attorney Mike Gray was killed in a motorcycle accident in the Yukon Territory. A Yukon Coroner’s Office report said that the 64-year-old Gray was headed toward Teslin on the Alaska Highway on Sunday, when he lost control of his motorcycle on the gravel edge of the raid while traveling through a construction zone.
  The Coroner’s office said Gray had left Fairbanks the previous day, headed south to a family gathering in Montana.
  Gray, who began his law career i
  
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• As swing vote on ACA repeal, Murkowski draws attention

  17-06-2017 02:14
  
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Photo by Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public MediaSen. Lisa Murkowski is the target of a new TV ad urging her to vote against Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
  “Sen. Murkowski, you have a deciding vote,” the ad concludes. “Alaskans need you to vote ‘no’ on health care repeal.”
  It’s sponsored by Save My Care, a national health care advocacy group trying stop Congress from repealing President Obama’s signature health car
  
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• The beginning of Prudhoe bay development

  17-06-2017 02:08
  
  Conventional oil is what’s traditionally flowed through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. (Photo courtesy the Center for Land Use Interpretation)40 years ago, the first barrel of oil started flowing down the trans-Alaska pipeline. Completing the pipeline was an epic, three-year saga that required tens of thousands of workers, great feats of engineering and perilous work on mountain passes. On the next Talk of Alaska, we’ll explore that pipeline history as part of the series Midnight Oil, fr
  
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• Behind the scenes, years of flat funding erode Pioneer Homes - Alaska Dispatch News

  17-06-2017 02:04
  
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  Behind the scenes, years of flat funding erode Pioneer Homes
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  Joshua Shaver, the Alaska Veterans and Pioneers Home administrator, helps Larry Stadem with a puzzle on June 8, 2017, at the Alaska Veterans and Pioneers Home in Palmer. (Rugile Kaladyte / Alaska Dispatch News). PALMER — Lawmakers facing angry ...
  
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• 49 Voices: Albert Scott of Anchorage

  17-06-2017 01:14
  
  Albert Scott of Anchorage (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)This week we’re hearing from Albert Scott in Anchorage. Scott is a registered nurse with the Air Force who moved to Alaska from Georgia two years ago.
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  SCOTT: Hard to adjust, because I arrived here in December and I was actually traveling from Tampa, FL. Temperature difference was probably about 70 degrees from just a few hours on the flight. And it was dark and I think at that time, it was ar
  
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• Traveling to the SSWC 2016

  17-06-2017 01:00
  
  The logo from the Single Speed World Championships, Down Under.The next episode of Outdoor Explorer covers two topics to achieve the same goal. It’s one part travel show, discussing what it takes to travel overseas with a bicycle and all the other things one needs to visit another country. The second part is about what it’s like to attend, and race in, the Single Speed World Championships (SSWC). The SSWC is a race that is held every year, but moves to a new host country every time.
  
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• AK: World’s only urban king fishery has lines casting in downtown Anchorage

  17-06-2017 00:01
  
  Jared Fletcher and Bobbie D wait for bites at the Slam’n Salm’n Derby. (Henry Leasia / Alaska Public Media)Anchorage’s annual Slam’n Salm’n Derby is in full swing this week. Since last Friday, fishermen at Ship Creek have been competing to see who can hook the biggest king salmon.
  Down by the Ulu factory in Anchorage, men and women slip on rubber boots, unpack their fishing tackle and begin to fill the marshy banks of Ship Creek. Everybody is trying to land a big on
  
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