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• Blockbuster still exists — but one in Alaska is closing - Business ... - Business Insider

  29-06-2017 16:50
  
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  Blockbuster still exists — but one in Alaska is closing - Business ...
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  Fewer than a dozen Blockbuster Video stores still exist in the US, and one of them is closing.and more »
  
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• Wave of addiction costs is hitting Alaska’s healthcare system

  29-06-2017 07:37
  
  
  Discarded needles at the 4A’s syringe exchange in Anchorage (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)Like much of the country, Alaska is seeing a surge in opioid and heroin addiction. State officials are scrambling to deal with an expanding list of the consequences. One side effect is a massive increase in diseases connected to injecting drugs, particularly Hepatitis C, raising concerns about a potential tidal wave of healthcare costs facing Alaska.
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• The average wage in Alaska fell last year for first time since the mid-1990s - Alaska Dispatch News

  29-06-2017 05:23
  
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  The average wage in Alaska fell last year for first time since the mid-1990s
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  The elimination of thousands of jobs in oil and gas, work that tends to pay well, drove down the average wage in Alaska last year for the first time in two decades, recently released state data shows. The wage drop could mean there is less money from ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, June 28, 2017

  29-06-2017 03:21
  
  
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  Contractor’s blunder causes outage to University of Alaska statewide network
  Casey Grove, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  The University of Alaska’s information technology infrastructure and many of its network systems suffered a prolonged, widespread outage Wednesday on at least two campuses
  
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• Whales, gales and bioluminescence on paddleboarder's epic Race to Alaska - The Seattle Times

  29-06-2017 03:08
  
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  Whales, gales and bioluminescence on paddleboarder's epic Race to Alaska
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  Karl Kruger, his wife, Jessica, and daughter Dagney at the Race to Alaska finish line Sunday in Ketchikan, Alaska. (Zach Carver photo). He's the first SUPer to complete the Race to Alaska, now in its third year pitting non-motorized craft in a 750-mile ...
  
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• Contractor’s blunder causes outage to University of Alaska statewide network

  29-06-2017 02:59
  
  
  The University of Alaska’s information technology infrastructure and many of its network systems suffered a prolonged, widespread outage Wednesday on at least two campuses — Fairbanks and Anchorage.
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  Depending on the location, phones, Internet, external websites and internal sites like the ones staff use for human resources or that students and professors use for classes were down from 9:30 to noon or longer.
  It all started with contractors on the University of Alaska Fairb
  
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• Walker signs law recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day in Alaska - KTOO

  29-06-2017 02:50
  
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  Walker signs law recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day in Alaska
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  Alaska Gov. Bill Walker in Utqiaġvik on June 24, 2017, after signing Indigenous Peoples Day into state law. (Photo courtesy Governor's Office of Alaska).and more »
  
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• University of Alaska receives grant to address Native suicides in villages

  29-06-2017 02:29
  
  
  University of Alaska Fairbanks (Creative Commons photo by Jimmy Emerson)University of Alaska researchers are planning new strategies to address suicide in Alaskan Native Communities. An over $4 million federal grant is funding creation of a clearing house of successful strategies drawn from villages and regions across the state.
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  The Alaska Native Epidemiology Center said between 2003 and 2015, one in seven Alaska Native High School students attempted suicide. And suicide is the leadin
  
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• Produce coming soon from Pilgrim Hot Springs farming project

  29-06-2017 02:21
  
  Mountain view at Pilgrim Hot Springs. (Photo: Maddie Winchester, KNOM)Nome residents could soon be able to buy locally grown vegetables from Pilgrim Hot Springs at a market stand in town.
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  Thanks to the Pilgrim Produce program, which receives some funding from a USDA grant, various crops are currently being grown at Pilgrim Hot Springs on Unaaqtuq land. Unaaqtuq is a consortium of organizations and Native corporations, such as White Mountain and Mary’s Igloo, that has partnered w
  
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• Shareholders re-elect Sealaska board incumbents

  29-06-2017 02:14
  
  Sealaska Plaza, the corporation’s headquarters. (KCAW Photo)The management slate won this year’s Sealaska board election.
  Three incumbents and a newcomer who ran with them beat out eight independent candidates.
  Results were released Saturday via Sealaska’s Facebook page during the Southeast regional Native corporation’s annual meeting, held in Hydaburg, on Prince of Wales Island.
  Another result: A measure to reduce the board’s size failed to attract enough votes to
  
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• Governor Walker signs law recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day in Alaska

  29-06-2017 02:06
  
  Governor Walker in Utqiaġvik on June 24, 2017 after signing Indigenous Peoples Day into state law.
  (Courtesy of the Governor’s Office of Alaska)In Utqiaġvik over the weekend, Governor Bill Walker signed legislation recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day in Alaska. The law establishes Alaska as the second state in the nation to recognize Indigenous Peoples Day on the second Monday of October, replacing Columbus Day.
  On Saturday, Governor Walker said, “This official recognition i
  
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