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• Since You Asked: Alaska will temporarily drop direct LA flights - Mail Tribune

  01-07-2017 21:20
  
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  Since You Asked: Alaska will temporarily drop direct LA flights
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  Alaska Airline will temporarily reduce its direct flights between Medford and Los Angeles. [Photo courtesy of Alaska Airlines]. Saturday. Posted Jul 1, 2017 at 2:00 AM Updated at 11:39 AM. Share. I had a nonstop flight booked from Los Angeles to ...and more »
  
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• 11-year-old Alaska boy shoots bear charging fishing party - ABC News

  01-07-2017 20:30
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  11-year-old Alaska boy shoots bear charging fishing party
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  Quick action from an 11-year-old boy saved a fishing party from a charging brown bear, Alaska State Troopers said. Elliot Clark was walking through the woods near Game Creek last week with his three family members and three dogs when the bear came out ...
  Shotgun-toting 11yo boy blasts attacking bear to save family in AlaskaRT
  Boy, 11, shoots charging bear to save fishing party in AlaskaStuff.co.nz
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• Bear breaks through window into Alaska boy's bedroom - ABC15 Arizona

  01-07-2017 19:39
  
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  Bear breaks through window into Alaska boy's bedroom
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A huge crash jolted 11-year-old Zach Landis awake in his Anchorage home, but it soon became clear it wasn't a human intruder or his sisters playing a trick on him. A black bear had broken through the garden-level window of ...
  Bear crashes through window of Alaska boy's bedroomABC News
  Bear crashes through window of Alaska's boy's bedroomWCVB Boston
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• How refugees in Alaska feed families facing famine in Africa - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-07-2017 19:31
  
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  How refugees in Alaska feed families facing famine in Africa
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  William Riek straightens up the shelves at Banadir Halal Market at Boniface Parkway and Northern Lights Boulevard in Anchorage on Friday. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News). Share on Facebook Facebook. Share on Twitter Twitter. Share via Email ...and more »
  
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• University of Alaska Anchorage Brings in Global Entrepreneur - U.S. News & World Report

  01-07-2017 17:13
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  University of Alaska Anchorage Brings in Global Entrepreneur
  U.S. News & World Report
  The University of Alaska Anchorage welcomed its first occupant of the Global Entrepreneur in Residence program who's racked up a string of accomplishments, including inventing a mouse cleaner and founding an international technology start-up. July 1 ...and more »
  
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• Collection Features Water, Alaska Landmark-Inspired Artworks - U.S. News & World Report

  01-07-2017 17:13
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  Collection Features Water, Alaska Landmark-Inspired Artworks
  U.S. News & World Report
  Some rubber cement, a liberal glob of acrylic ink, water and a chunk of plywood go a long way for Jim Guenther in creating the type of texture apparent in his abstract, water-inspired works. July 1, 2017, at 11:00 a.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon ...and more »
  
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• Braswell believes everyone should visit Alaska - Suwannee Democrat

  01-07-2017 15:35
  
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  Braswell believes everyone should visit Alaska
  Suwannee Democrat
  As the Lafayette County Farm Bureau agent, he won the trip from Florida Farm Bureau. On the trip, he and his wife flew to Vancouver, Canada, and boarded a cruise ship. They traveled to Juneau, Skagway and Ketchikan. He described the cruise ship as a ...
  
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• Man 1st to complete 750-mile Race to Alaska on paddle board - Washington Times

  01-07-2017 15:26
  Man 1st to complete 750-mile Race to Alaska on paddle board
  Washington Times
  PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) - After just over two weeks of paddling, Karl Kruger has become the first person to complete the 750-mile (1,207-km) Race to Alaska on a stand-up paddle board. Kruger, 45, of Orcas Island, arrived in Ketchikan, Alaska, just ...and more »
  
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• GALLERY: Today in history July 1; Alaska becomes 49th state - Press of Atlantic City

  01-07-2017 13:02
  
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  GALLERY: Today in history July 1; Alaska becomes 49th state
  Press of Atlantic City
  Anchorage, Alaska celebrates news that the territory has been admitted as the 49th state to the union with a huge bonfire, July 1, 1958. (AP Photo). Alaska Statehood 1958. ASSOCIATED PRESS. Romer Derr of Juneau rings a replica of the Liberty Bell ...
  
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• Citing pilot shortage, Alaska Airlines to temporarily drop some flights in Yakima, other NW destinations - Yakima Herald-Republic

  01-07-2017 07:17
  
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  Citing pilot shortage, Alaska Airlines to temporarily drop some flights in Yakima, other NW destinations
  Yakima Herald-Republic
  Passengers wait for their luggage after landing at the Yakima Air Terminal on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle on the morning of Oct. 17, 2014. (KAITLYN BERNAUER/Yakima Herald-Republic file). prev. next. × ...and more »
  
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• Alaska lawmakers set new record for time spent in session - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  01-07-2017 06:01
  
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  Alaska lawmakers set new record for time spent in session
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Lawmakers have set a new record in Juneau for the longest time spent consecutively in session, according to the Alaska legislative roster. It's been 165 days since lawmakers first gaveled into session back in January. The only other time the ...
  Alaska Gov. Walker signs budget, leaves dividends at amount set by lawmakersAlaska Dispatch Newsall 10 news articles »
  
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• Alaska Gov. Walker signs budget, leaves dividends at amount set by lawmakers - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-07-2017 05:04
  
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  Alaska Gov. Walker signs budget, leaves dividends at amount set by lawmakers
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  Alaska Gov. Bill Walker speaks at a news conference at his office in the Capitol in June. (Nathaniel Herz / Alaska Dispatch News). Share on Facebook Facebook. Share on Twitter Twitter. Share via Email Email. Share on Whatsapp Whatsapp. Share on Tumblr ...
  Alaska governor signs budget, makes no vetoesSacramento Bee
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• Bear Crashes Through Window of Alaska Boy's Bedroom - U.S. News & World Report

  01-07-2017 05:01
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  Bear Crashes Through Window of Alaska Boy's Bedroom
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  A huge crash jolted 11-year-old Zach Landis awake in his Anchorage home, but it soon became clear it wasn't a human intruder or his sisters playing a trick on him. June 30, 2017, at 10:48 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel.
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• An ode to Alaska odors - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-07-2017 04:39
  
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  An ode to Alaska odors
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  Polar bears couldn't mistake the smell of a bowhead whale carcass that washed up on the beach in Kaktovik in 2012. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News). Share on Facebook Facebook. Share on Twitter Twitter. Share via Email Email. Share on Whatsapp ...
  
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• What's that sound? Ptarmigan? No, it's raucous, lovesick Alaska wood frogs. - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-07-2017 04:17
  
  Alaska Dispatch News
  What's that sound? Ptarmigan? No, it's raucous, lovesick Alaska wood frogs.
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Wood frogs are the only amphibians to inhabit Alaska north of the Southeast Panhandle region. And they survive long, harsh winters by entering a state of suspended animation. In essence, their bodies freeze solid. Twice this year I've witnessed ...
  
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• Washington state, Alaska enact budgets, preventing shutdowns - Reuters

  01-07-2017 03:55
  
  Washington state, Alaska enact budgets, preventing shutdowns
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  SEATTLE The governors of Washington state and Alaska signed into law new operating budgets late on Friday, hours before deadlines that would have triggered a partial shutdown of government agencies. In Washington state, the $43.7 billion two-year ...and more »
  
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• 49 Voices: Adam Foutch of Anchorage

  01-07-2017 03:34
  
  
  Adam Foutch of Anchorage. (Wesley Early / Alaska Public Media)This week we’re hearing from Adam Foutch, who lives in Anchorage.
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  FOUTCH: My family moved up here when I was like 6 months old, and right now I am the only member of my family up here. I am a student. I went and just got out of active duty army a couple years ago, came back to Alaska and been a full-time student for two years — finished my bachelor’s and working on my master’s now. I got my bachelor&
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, June 30, 2017

  01-07-2017 03:31
  
  
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  Disability advocates meet outside Murkowski’s Fairbanks office, protesting Senate Healthcare bill
  Robert Hannon, KUAC – Fairbanks
  As part of a national sit in Wednesday to protest the Senate health care bill, a group Fairbanks residents with disabilities met outside Alaska Senator Lis
  
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• An Interior wildfire sparks back up

  01-07-2017 03:14
  
  
  A wildfire north of Delta Junction has reignited. The more than 8 thousand acre South Fork Salcha Fire was started by lightning earlier this month in a remote area about 70 miles southeast of Fairbanks. It’s been allowed to burn, and had been subdued by rain earlier this month, before jumping back to life in drier conditions this week. Alaska Division of Forestry spokesman Tim Mowry said there are still pockets of unburned trees in the fire area.
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• University of Alaska Southeast tightens belt, gets creative after budget cuts - Alaska Public Radio Network

  01-07-2017 03:07
  
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  University of Alaska Southeast tightens belt, gets creative after budget cuts
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  The University of Alaska Board of Regents met in Anchorage for an executive session in September 2014. (Photo by Josh Edge, APRN). The University of Alaska's Board of Regents unanimously agreed on a budget today, a week after the Legislature decided ...
  
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• University of Alaska Southeast tightens belt, gets creative after budget cuts

  01-07-2017 03:05
  
  
  The University of Alaska Board of Regents met in Anchorage for an executive session in September 2014. (Photo by Josh Edge, APRN)The University of Alaska’s Board of Regents unanimously agreed on a budget today, a week after the Legislature decided to cut university funding by about $8 million. That cut comes with a $3 million increase in the university’s costs.
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  To absorb its share, the University of Alaska Southeast is selling property and sweet-talking potential
  
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• State predicts major cuts to Medicaid under proposed Senate bill - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-07-2017 02:50
  
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  State predicts major cuts to Medicaid under proposed Senate bill
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  WASHINGTON — The Senate health care bill would ultimately cut nearly a third of Alaska's Medicaid funding, limit services and drop coverage for 34,000 adults, according to a research report prepared for the state government. One quarter of Alaskans ...
  Report: Senate health reform cuts $3.1B from Alaska's MedicaidKTOOall 326 news articles »
  
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• No joke: A bear walks into a Lemon Creek liquor store

  01-07-2017 02:44
  
  
  A bear likely was just following its nose when it walked into a Lemon Creek business on Friday.
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  Bob Dilley is a community service officer supervisor with Juneau Police Department. He said a bear walking into a business doesn’t happen very often.
  “It’s fairly rare that they actually walk into a front door like that,” Dilley said. “It’s a matter of luck that they come by and the door’s open.”
  About 8:30 a.m., a Liquor Barrel store clerk p
  
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• Katmai bear cam is back for its sixth year

  01-07-2017 02:39
  
  
  Bears nicknamed Grazer and Beadnose face off near Brooks Falls on June 26, 2017.
  (Credit explore.org)The Katmai bear cam went live last week. This is the sixth year that live footage from popular bear hangouts in Katmai National Park and Preserve is being streamed on explore.org.
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  People around the world are getting online to watch the bears. In the last week, the bear cams have been averaging 15,000 viewers at any given time. This summer is already off to an exciting start. Viewe
  
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• Longliners say killer whales stealing fish more persistent than ever

  01-07-2017 02:35
  
  
  Killer whales (Creative Commons photo by Chis Michel)The battle between killer whales and longline fishermen has been going on for decades in the Bering Sea. Pods of whales will follow boats and pick fish off their lines as they pull them in. Some commercial fishermen say the whales have become so persistent, they have changed fishing grounds to avoid them, but regulators may have a solution.
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  When Todd Hoppe, a Homer-based commercial fisherman, targets halibut in the Bering Sea, he ne
  
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• AK: Ketchikan Arts Council hosts summertime story slams

  01-07-2017 02:30
  
  
  Spice was judged the winner of a recent Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council Story Slam at the Arctic Bar. She won temporary custody of a rubber chicken. (KRBD photo by Leila Kheiry)On a recent evening in Ketchikan, locals and seasonal residents gathered at the Arctic Bar to carry on perhaps the oldest tradition known to humankind – storytelling. It was a chance for residents to tell their deepest secrets and reveal their sillier sides.
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  Kelly Burke, a teacher at the Tongas
  
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• Wrangell contract talks resume, strikers return to work

  01-07-2017 02:23
  
  
  International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers representative Julius Matthew walked the picket line with Wrangell municipal workers Lorne Cook, Dwight Yancey and Andrew Scambler before the strike ended. (Photo courtesy IBEW)The strike is over, at least for now.
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  The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Wrangell Borough officials are returning to the bargaining table.
  IBEW leader Dave Reaves said the union emailed Wrangell’s borough manager, finance director and as
  
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• Mat-Su hospital wants to add 'desperately needed' mental health beds - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-07-2017 01:54
  
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  Mat-Su hospital wants to add 'desperately needed' mental health beds
  Alaska Dispatch News
  A man walks into the emergency department at Mat-Su Regional Medical Center on Friday, June 30, 2017. The hospital has applied for state permission to open a new 36-bed unit aimed at behavioral health treatment. (Zaz Hollander / Alaska Dispatch News).
  
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• Motocross

  01-07-2017 01:00
  
  Imagine sending your 8-year-old over an 80-foot jump on a motorcycle, seeing him crash, and then doing it again? On the next Outdoor Explorer, we’ll talk to a dad from Sutton who has done that, and is heading to a national motocross championship with his brave son, who we’ll also have in the studio. We’ll also learn about motocross here in Anchorage, where youth and adult races go on through the summer.
   
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  Jason Nunn, President of
  
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• Alaska elections director says Trump commission will get some voter data — but not if it's private - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-07-2017 00:59
  
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  Alaska elections director says Trump commission will get some voter data — but not if it's private
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Alaska elections officials say they will release the state's voter rolls to President Donald Trump's election integrity and voter fraud commission, but that list will be scrubbed of private voter information. Trump's Presidential Advisory Commission on ...
  Alaska plans partial response to election panel requestFairbanks Daily News-Miner
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• Coast Guard suspends search for 2 missing boaters near Kodiak - Alaska Dispatch News

  01-07-2017 00:51
  
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  Coast Guard suspends search for 2 missing boaters near Kodiak
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  A pararescueman from the Alaska Air National Guard 212th Rescue Squadron deploys to the Coast Guard Cutter Sherman from an HH-60 Pavehawk helicopter from the 210 Rescue Squadron on Thursday, June 29, 2017, during a search for two missing ...and more »
  
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