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• Facing global gas glut, ConocoPhillips to mothball Kenai LNG plant

  13-07-2017 22:47
  
  
  The Feb. 2, 2008 file photo shows the ConocoPhillips LNG facility in Nikiski. The company plans to mothball the facility in the fall of 2017. (Photo courtesy of the Peninsula Clarion)Last year, ConocoPhillips announced that it wanted to sell its liquefied natural gas plant on the Kenai Peninsula. The company hasn’t yet found a buyer. Now, a company spokesperson said it’s going to save expenses by mothballing the facility this fall.
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• US approves Alaska offshore drilling from gravel island - News 12 Westchester

  13-07-2017 22:01
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  US approves Alaska offshore drilling from gravel island
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Petroleum exploration has largely ceased in federal waters off Alaska but an Italian multinational oil and gas company has received permission to move ahead with modest drilling plans on leases sold in 2005. The federal Bureau ...
  Trump administration approves Eni plan to drill offshore AlaskaReuters
  Federal agency approves more oil exploration on Alaska's North SlopeThinkProgressal
  
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• Recalled Anchorage teacher relieved to be back in the classroom

  13-07-2017 21:59
  
  Shoshana Keegan (left) and Rosalind Worcester (right), both teachers in Bowman Elementary School’s 1st/2nd grade optional program, dress up for a school spirit day. (Courtesy Rosalind Worcester)Last month, we brought you a story about a pair of teachers whose classroom was left in limbo after one received a layoff notice from the Anchorage School District, while the state grappled with funding cuts.
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• Working around the clock to make sure the Trans Alaska Pipeline holds water

  13-07-2017 21:04
  
  
  A group of 798 pipeliners welds a section of the Trans Alaska Pipeline. (Photo courtesy of Diane Schenker)Robert Grove had spent three years living in a cabin he built in Talkeetna when he decided to return to Fairbanks in 1976 to find work as a laborer on the Trans Alaska Pipeline.
  When Grove went to the labor union hall he found a job performing hydrotests, a process that flushed water through 25-mile stretches of the pipeline at extremely high pressure. It was a coveted job on the pipeline be
  
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• GCI rivals object to company's purchase by conglomerate Liberty - Alaska Dispatch News

  13-07-2017 20:59
  
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  GCI rivals object to company's purchase by conglomerate Liberty
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  Two telecom companies are urging government regulators to block or set conditions on the acquisition of GCI by media conglomerate Liberty Interactive, arguing the deal will harm consumers. Quintillion and ACS compete with GCI, Alaska's largest telecom ...
  
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• The new Senate healthcare bill contains a big sweetener for one particularly important senator - Business Insider

  13-07-2017 19:37
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  The new Senate healthcare bill contains a big sweetener for one particularly important senator
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  The Alaska senator would see a guarantee of funding for her state to combat high premiums, in a clear attempt to win over the senator who has been vocal in opposition to various elements of the bill. The provision has to do with the state stability ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Looks at a Nuclear Threat, and Shrugs It Off

  13-07-2017 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  News about a North Korean ICBM is largely met with fatalism in Alaska, home to many on active duty in the military and military veterans.
  
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• Alaska Looks at a Nuclear Threat, and Shrugs It Off - New York Times

  13-07-2017 11:01
  
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  Alaska Looks at a Nuclear Threat, and Shrugs It Off
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  David Chatterton, an Army veteran and co-owner of 907 Surplus in Anchorage. “If it did happen,” he said of a North Korean nuclear attack, “we would definitely be avenged.” Credit Ruth Fremson/The New York Times. ANCHORAGE — In Washington, the ...
  
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• Parent Power and Childcare Cooperatives can work in Alaska - The Delta Discovery

  13-07-2017 10:10
  
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  Parent Power and Childcare Cooperatives can work in Alaska
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  As government services shrink, along with budgets, we Alaskans find ways to take up the slack. We even discover ways to do things better than the government, taking control into our own hands. One way of doing this can be called “Parent Power.”.
  
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• Medicare and Medicaid Services Centers Approved Alaska's State Innovation Waiver - webcenter11

  13-07-2017 07:16
  
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  Medicare and Medicaid Services Centers Approved Alaska's State Innovation Waiver
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  Governor Bill Walker announced Tuesday that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved Alaska's State Innovation Waiver. The waiver stabilizes Alaska's individual health insurance market, bringing in approximately 332 million dollars to ...
  
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• Bears getting into trash main cause of more cubs at Alaska Zoo - KTUU.com

  13-07-2017 07:02
  
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  Bears getting into trash main cause of more cubs at Alaska Zoo
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  ANCHORAGE (KTUU) They've become quite the attraction at the Alaska Zoo. Two new brown bear cubs are the most recent residents there, and they're not alone. In the past two weeks, five orphaned cubs have been brought in by Fish and Game. All have ...
  
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• We had a good run; now we need to pony up - Alaska Dispatch News

  13-07-2017 04:39
  
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  We had a good run; now we need to pony up
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  We had a good run. This phrase was recently recited in conversation and sort of sums things up for many Alaskans. Oil started flowing in the trans-Alaska pipeline June 20, 1977, and ever since, Alaska has been on a good run. We got rid of our state ...and more »
  
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• Low-frequency earthquakes detected in Alaska - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  13-07-2017 04:39
  
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  Low-frequency earthquakes detected in Alaska
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  Hundreds of earthquakes are detected in Alaska every week, but new research reveals some earthquakes are happening continuously and could encourage larger quakes. Seismologists at the University of California Riverside looked at data from one area ...and more »
  
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• Senators seethe at IHS blunders

  13-07-2017 04:07
  
  Michael Weahkee, a Public Health Service offers, is the acting head of the IHS. He was on the hot seat at a Senate hearing Wednesday. (Image from hearing video on Senate.gov)President Trump proposes to cut the Indian Health Service budget by $300 million, and the head of the IHS had trouble defending that 6 percent cut at a Senate hearing Wednesday. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who chaired the hearing, said the IHS is already failing Native communities in the Lower 48. She wasn’t the only sen
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, July 12, 2017

  13-07-2017 04:00
  
  
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  President Trump proposes to cut the Indian Health Service budget by $300 million, and the head of the IHS had trouble justifying that 6 percent cut at a Senate hearing today. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who chaired the hearing, say
  
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• US Army welcomes new commander to Alaska - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  13-07-2017 03:42
  
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  US Army welcomes new commander to Alaska
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  U.S. Army Alaska has a new commander. Major General Mark O'Neil assumed command in a ceremony on JBER Wednesday morning. O'Neil replaces Maj. General Bryan Owens who is retiring after serving as U.S. Army Alaska Commander for the past two ...
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• Far apart politically and geographically, lawmakers talk oil and gas taxes

  13-07-2017 03:22
  
  
  Rep. David Talerico, R-Anchorage, Sen. Cathy Giessel, R-Anchorage, and Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, listen to Democratic lawmakers in Anchorage. The two sides don’t agree on reducing the ability of oil companies to use losses to lower their taxes. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO)The first substantial day of legislative meetings in 20 days occurred Wednesday, but the two majorities in the Legislature were far apart — and not just politically.
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• ADN reports large salaries, small workload for state fisheries commission

  13-07-2017 03:17
  
  
  Lamprey harvested around Grayling in 2015. (Photo by Kwikpak Fisheries)Two state commissioners are making big money even though they don’t have much work left to do. That’s the story recently reported by Nathaniel Herz with the Alaska Dispatch News. He investigated the state’s Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission.
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  “There are some inefficiencies and what some would call dysfunction at this agency that have been very clearly and specifically documented in the pa
  
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• Anchorage officials look into connections between drug addiction and property crime

  13-07-2017 02:56
  
  
  Prescribing of oxycodone and other opioid pain pills rose sharply after 2000.
  (Photo by John Moore, Getty Images)Officials in Anchorage want to know if drug addiction is driving a rise in property crime.
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  At a meeting of the Assembly’s public safety committee, the heads of the police and fire departments shared data on crime and drug trends across the municipality. Members of the Assembly say they’re hearing more complaints from constituents about shop-lifting, break-ins an
  
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• Lawsuit against ADN owner goes before judge

  13-07-2017 02:41
  
  
  A copy of the napkin signed by Rogoff, courtesy of Tony Hopfinger.A Superior Court judge heard arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit against the owner of Alaska’s largest newspaper.
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  Alaska Dispatch co-founder Tony Hopfinger is suing the newspaper’s current owner, Alice Rogoff, over an agreement he said entitled him a little more than a million dollars over 10 years for his stake in the newspaper.
  Rogoff, a wealthy former executive at U.S. News and World Report, and Hopfinger, a f
  
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• In Alaska, some are more worried about bears than bombs - CNN

  13-07-2017 01:03
  
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  In Alaska, some are more worried about bears than bombs
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  Kevin Gullufsen is a lifelong Alaskan and reporter for the Juneau Empire in Juneau, Alaska, where he covers natural resources and outdoors. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. (CNN) Alaska has been the subject of recent scary ...
  Plan Aimed at Stabilizing Alaska Insurance Market Approved ...U.S. News & World Report
  Alaska More Afraid of Moose Than North Korea's Intercontinental MissilesChristian Postall
  
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• Bethel native works to program a “Yup’ik Siri”

  13-07-2017 00:48
  
  (Photo courtesy of Christopher Liu)YK Delta communities are keeping Yup’ik alive through immersion schools, bilingual media, teacher training programs, and speaking the language at home. And now, Bethel native Christopher Liu is doing his part to bring his language into the 21st century.
  Liu is a grad student at Stanford who is studying electrical engineering and specializes in speech processing and optimization. He’s interning at NASA this summer, working to determine the best
  
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• Cleanup under way at sites along old pipeline that fueled Interior bases

  13-07-2017 00:34
  
  The cleanup contractor at the Timber Pump Station, about 10 miles north of Delta Junction, has begun excavating contaminated soil at the north end of the site where the old burn pit was located. (Tim Ellis/KUAC)Cleanup work began this month at a mothballed pump station near Delta Junction that was part of the old Haines to Fairbanks Pipeline. Crews will remove contaminated materials from the Timber Pump Station and two other sites that were part of an old Army-operated pipeline built in the 1950
  
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