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• “Take Our Land, Take Our Life” | MIDNIGHT OIL: Episode 02

  27-06-2017 19:26
  
  When Alaska became a state, the federal government agreed to hand over more than 100 million acres. There was just one problem. Alaska Native people already claimed that land. Then Alaska struck oil, and the question of who owned what land in the 49th state went all the way to the White House.
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• Alaska Lauds Black Soldiers' Work on Famed WWII Highway - U.S. News & World Report

  27-06-2017 07:00
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  Alaska Lauds Black Soldiers' Work on Famed WWII Highway
  U.S. News & World Report
  Alaska is commemorating 75 years since thousands of segregated black soldiers toiled in harsh weather and terrain to help build a 1,500-mile highway across the state and Canada. June 27, 2017, at 12:53 a.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google + ...and more »
  
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• CBO sees peril in Senate bill for uncrowded regions

  27-06-2017 04:09
  
  
  Photo by Liz RuskinThe Congressional Budget Office has what amounts to a warning for “sparsely populated areas” in its analysis of the Senate’s draft health care reform bill. The CBO said while most insurance markets would remain stable under the Senate bill, the legislation would drive out insurers that serve a “small fraction” of the population, or these areas will see premiums rise very high.
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  The CBO attributes this to the bill’s lower subsidies,
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, June 26, 2017

  27-06-2017 04:04
  
  
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  CBO sees peril in Senate bill for uncrowded regions
  Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Washington D.C.
  The Congressional Budget Office has what amounts to a warning for “sparsely populated areas” in its analysis of the Senate’s draft health care reform bill: The bill could drive out insur
  
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• Donald skunks the Democrats - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-06-2017 03:57
  
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  Donald skunks the Democrats
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  President Donald Trump speaks during campaign-style rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Wednesday. (Stephen Crowley / The New York Times). Share on Facebook Facebook. Share on Twitter Twitter. Share via Email Email. Share on Whatsapp Whatsapp.and more »
  
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• Interior Department OKs survey for Alaska wilderness road - The Seattle Times

  27-06-2017 03:45
  
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  Interior Department OKs survey for Alaska wilderness road
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A proposed road through a national wildlife refuge in Alaska, rejected by President Barack Obama, is getting new life in the Donald Trump administration. Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, an independent, announced Monday that the ...
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• Chilkat weaver receives national folk art honor

  27-06-2017 03:38
  
  
  This undated photo shows Anna Brown Ehlers, right, and her daughter wearing Chilkat blankets she’d woven. (Photo courtesy of Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie/National Endowment for the Arts)A 62-year-old Juneau woman has received one of the nation’s top awards recognizing traditional folk art.
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  Chilkat weaver Anna Brown Ehlers is one of nine fellows named this week by the National Endowment for the Arts.
  The NEA’s director of folk and traditional arts Clifford Murphy said&
  
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• Man becomes first person to Race to Alaska on a stand-up paddle ... - Alaska Public Radio Network

  27-06-2017 03:33
  
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  Man becomes first person to Race to Alaska on a stand-up paddle ...
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  Karl Kruger gestures to the crowd after becoming the first person to finish the race to Alaska using a stand-up paddle board. (Photo: KRBD). The third time was ...
  Orcas Island man paddles his way to win Race to Alaska | KING5.comKING5.comall 4 news articles »
  
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• Man becomes first person to Race to Alaska on a stand-up paddle board

  27-06-2017 03:30
  
  
  Karl Kruger gestures to the crowd after becoming the first person to finish the race to Alaska using a stand-up paddle board. (Photo: KRBD)The third time was indeed the charm for Karl Kruger after attempting the Race to Alaska in 2015 and 2016.
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  Clad in a wet suit and hat, the ponytailed Kruger looked relieved as he stepped off his board and onto the dock. He rang the finishing bell and hugged his wife Jessica, and their daughter.
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• Chitina dip netters can now catch salon in Copper River after spring ban

  27-06-2017 03:24
  
  
  Chitina dip netters are now able to harvest a king salmon. The usual allowance in the popular Copper River personal use fishery is back after being rescinded this spring out of concern about a weak king run. With the commercial and subsistence harvests indicating a better than anticipated return, fishing restrictions have been pulled back. State area management biologist Mark Somerville said that was extended to the personal use dipnet fishery at Chitina as of Monday the 19th.
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• Chitina dip netters can now catch salmon in Copper River after spring ban

  27-06-2017 03:24
  
  
  Chitina dip netters are now able to harvest a king salmon. The usual allowance in the popular Copper River personal use fishery is back after being rescinded this spring out of concern about a weak king run. With the commercial and subsistence harvests indicating a better than anticipated return, fishing restrictions have been pulled back. State area management biologist Mark Somerville said that was extended to the personal use dipnet fishery at Chitina as of Monday the 19th.
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• Talkeetna’s inaugural Pride celebration draws a crowd

  27-06-2017 03:17
  
  
  Talkeetna’s first Pride parade makes its way down Main Street. (Photo by Phillip Manning, KTNA – Talkeetna)What began as an idea between two friends turned into a LGBTQ+ Pride event that drew hundreds of people on Sunday.
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  Talkeetna’s first Pride parade brought in a larger crowd than expected this weekend, with an estimated 300 participants. As people gathered in the village park sporting colorful outfits, face paint, and rainbow flags, Daphne Doall LaChores, a drag q
  
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• Alaskans in Cessna 172 make goodwill flight to Russia - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-06-2017 03:03
  
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  Alaskans in Cessna 172 make goodwill flight to Russia
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  Provideniya, Russia, is seen from the air. Marshall Severson and Dan Billman made a journey from Nome to Provideniya and back in a Cessna 172 on June 14. (Marshall Severson). Share on Facebook Facebook. Share on Twitter Twitter. Share via Email ...
  
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• Trump’s Interior secretary takes first baby step on King Cove road

  27-06-2017 02:28
  
  
  There was a bit of a victory Monday for supporters of a proposed road in Southwest Alaska that would connect the village of King Cove to an airport at Cold Bay via the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
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  U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, appointed by President Donald Trump and confirmed in March, announced Monday morning that his department has issued a permit for a study on where to put the road.
  The state of Alaska’s position is that a road through Izembek is necessary for med
  
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• As Uber arrives in Alaska, towns without taxis have new transportation option - KTOO

  27-06-2017 02:09
  
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  As Uber arrives in Alaska, towns without taxis have new transportation option
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  Haines resident Alex Stock has signed up to drive for Uber. He's waiting on a background check and vehicle inspection. (Photo by Emily Files/KHNS). In visits to the Lower 48, Alaskans may have caught a ride in an Uber or Lyft car. Now, people around ...and more »
  
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• Alaska to receive almost $30 million from feds in PILT funding ... - Alaska Public Radio Network

  27-06-2017 01:21
  
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  Alaska to receive almost $30 million from feds in PILT funding ...
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  The Department of the Interior announced today that 29 local Alaska governments would receive $29.7 million in Payment in Lieu of Taxes funds, or PILT.and more »
  
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• Alaska to receive almost $30 million from feds in PILT funding

  27-06-2017 01:17
  Cruise ship approaches Margerie Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park. (NPS)The Department of the Interior announced today that 29 local Alaska governments would receive $29.7 million in Payment in Lieu of Taxes funds, or PILT. PILT funding provides local governments with funding they can’t get from tax-exempt federal lands within their boundaries. It pays for services such as public safety, schools and roads in communities containing national parks, national forests and other public lands.
  
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• Alaska Airlines sets up flight to chase total solar eclipse – with a two-seat giveaway - GeekWire

  27-06-2017 01:11
  
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  Alaska Airlines sets up flight to chase total solar eclipse – with a two-seat giveaway
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  The black disk of a total solar eclipse hangs over the clouds during an Alaska Airlines flight in 2016. Passengers on an August flight should see a similar sight. (Robert Stephens via YouTube). Alaska Airlines has scheduled a flight from Portland to ...
  Alaska Air offers charter flight for solar eclipse viewingThe Spokesman-Review
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• Alaska's dark mirror in the Russian Far East shows our luck, their tragedy - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-06-2017 01:08
  
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  Alaska's dark mirror in the Russian Far East shows our luck, their tragedy
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  Author David Ramseur revisited the Chukotka region of Russia in 2016, 28 years after he first went there on the 1988 Friendship Flight that reconnected Alaskans and Russians across the Bering Strait. (Courtesy of David Ramseur). Share on Facebook ...
  
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• Low tide reveals Alutiiq fishing method in Kodiak

  27-06-2017 00:23
  
  Rocks alignments representing the remains of an intertidal fish trap, Kodiak Island, Alaska. (Photograph courtesy the Alutiiq Museum)A Kodiak archaeologist said there may be the remains of a historic Alutiiq fish trap on the north end of Kodiak Island. He said those types of man-made formations are rare to discover in the region.
  The Alutiiq Museum is in its second year of documenting ancestral sites on Afognak Native Corporation lands. While surveying one area, museum Curator of Archaeology Pat
  
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