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• Newly found disease could threaten Southeast Alaska spruce

  14-07-2017 22:41
  
  Forest Service Forest Pathologist Robin Mulvey points out infected spruce branches on July 11, 2017. at Juneau’s Shrine of St. Therese to shrine volunteer Brian Flory. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)A fungus that’s damaged trees in Southcentral and Interior Alaska has been discovered for the first time in Southeast.
  But there’s a chance its spread could be stopped.
  Forest Pathologist Robin Mulvey walks down the causeway to the Shrine of St. Therese, a forested is
  
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• Displaced by Climate Change

  14-07-2017 22:30
  
  Unalaska. Photo: Cindy ChristianThis week we’re hearing about the effects that climate change can have on fragile and native populations. Guest speakers Salote Soqo and Patricia Cochran will address their experiences on the front lines of climate action in the South Pacific and Alaska.
   
  Patricia’s slideshow presentation
  Salote’s slideshow presentation
  SPEAKERS:
  Salote Soqo- Senior Program Leader of Environmental Justice & Climate Action with the Unitarian Universalist
  
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• Bullying- Impacts and Prevention

  14-07-2017 21:00
  
  Photo: Flickr, Working WordThe latest research shows that more than half of all children are, at least on occasion, directly involved in bullying as a perpetrator, victim, or both. No child is immune. Children of every race, gender, grade and socio-economic sector are impacted. Victims of bullying have an increased risk of depression, suicide, sleep problems, poor academic performance, and substance abuse. Victims of bullying also suffer from social challenges and have higher rates of health pro
  
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• 4 members of Alaska borough assembly could face recall vote - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  14-07-2017 19:52
  
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  4 members of Alaska borough assembly could face recall vote
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  PETERSBURG, Alaska (AP) – Four of the six members of an Alaska borough assembly could be facing a recall election. KFSK.org reported Thursday a group of residents from the Petersburg borough has submitted applications seeking a recall petition for ...and more »
  
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• Special session nears end without public progress on oil taxes

  14-07-2017 19:49
  
  
  Rep. Geran Tarr, D-Anchorage, speaks during a House Floor session in April. Tarr and the House majority haven’t agreed on an oil and gas tax bill with the Senate majority. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)As of late afternoon Thursday, the Alaska Senate and House hadn’t made any public progress on oil and gas tax legislation. They met Wednesday, but they still can’t agree on how to replace the state system allowing companies to receive tax credits. Lawmakers only have two mor
  
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• Alaska Fine Arts Academy 2017-2018 Season

  14-07-2017 19:12
  
  Lailani CookEagle River’s Alaska Fine Arts Academy is celebrating ten years of theatre and have announced their upcoming season. Executive Director Lailani Cook, celebrating the start of her second year as ED, comes on Stage Talk this week to give us an overview of what is coming up.
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  Alaska Fine Arts Academy 2017-2018 season
  Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon. September 8, 9, 15, 16
  The Enchantress of Ipswich by Beverly Sturgill. October 6, 7, 13, 14
  Sherlock Holmes: Baker Street Irregula
  
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• Chinese spy ship near Alaska for THAAD missile test - Fox News

  14-07-2017 16:23
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  Chinese spy ship near Alaska for THAAD missile test
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  A Chinese spy ship sailed 100 miles from Alaska to witness the recent test of a THAAD anti-ballistic missile system earlier this week, a U.S. official told Fox News. It is the first time the North American Aerospace Defense Command had seen this class ...
  Chinese Ship Spotted Off Coast of Alaska Amid US THAAD Missile TestOne America News Network (press release)
  Chinese Spy Ship Identified Off Alaska Coast During THAAD Missile
  
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• Health care bill has ‘caribou kickback’ for Alaska

  14-07-2017 07:15
  
  Sen. Bob Corker, R-TN, at the center of one media scrum outside the Senate chamber. Photo by Liz Ruskin.The latest version of the health care bill in the U.S. Senate has a special carve-out to help Alaska’s individual insurance market. The bill, revealed Thursday, would send more than a hundred million dollars a year to any state with extra-high premiums. As it’s defined now, that’s only Alaska.
  The provision is a sweetener that seems designed to win the support of Alaska&
  
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• 19th-century commission had long reach to 20th-century Native Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  14-07-2017 04:37
  
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  19th-century commission had long reach to 20th-century Native Alaska
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  Not many have heard of the Indian Peace Commission, established in the same year (1867) as the U.S. purchase of Alaska. But in one of those interesting historical relationships with wholly unimagined consequences, the commission had a good deal to do ...
  
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• Surprise. Trump administration gives Obamacare a boost in Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  14-07-2017 04:18
  
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  Surprise. Trump administration gives Obamacare a boost in Alaska
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  No company will ever make a profit selling health insurance to Alaskans stricken with lung cancer, brain cancer, sickle cell anemia, hemophilia, multiple sclerosis, end-stage renal disease, cystic fibrosis, Lou Gehrig's disease, AIDS, leukemia ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, July 13, 2017

  14-07-2017 04:03
  
  
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  New health care bill has ‘caribou kickback’ for Alaska
  Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Washington D.C.
  The latest version of the health care bill in the U.S. Senate has a special carve out to help Alaska’s individual insurance market. The bill, revealed today, would send several hundre
  
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• Chinese spy ship lurks off coast of Alaska during missile defense test - CNN

  14-07-2017 03:50
  
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  Chinese spy ship lurks off coast of Alaska during missile defense test
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  (CNN) A Chinese spy ship has been sailing in international waters off the coast of Alaska for several days, having first arrived in the area shortly before the test of a US missile defense system, multiple US officials have told CNN. US Navy Capt ...
  Chinese spy ship reportedly lurking off coast of Alaska, watching anti-missile testCNBCall 3 news articles »
  
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• Washington man admits he scammed millions out of Dillingham victims

  14-07-2017 02:59
  
  
  On Wednesday, Floyd Jay Mann, 55, from Puyallup, WA, pleaded guilty to all counts against him in the case of a massive scam of money out of more than a dozen people, mostly from Dillingham.
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  Mann is likely to remain free on bail till his sentencing in December despite several requests by the federal prosecutor that he be remanded to custody.
  “On Friday his wife was sentenced on Social Security fraud in Seattle, and today (Wednesday) Floyd Jay Mann plead guilty to 19 counts of wir
  
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• Legislature’s capital budget impasse could delay Haines Highway project

  14-07-2017 02:32
  
  Haines residents look at a map of the Haines Highway at a project information meeting in 2015. (Jillian Rogers)A major Haines infrastructure project that is years in the making may have to wait a little longer.
  Construction on the Haines Highway improvement project was expected to begin this fall. But the Alaska Legislature’s failure to agree on a capital budget could delay this and more than 20 other transportation projects.
  Without a state budget, the Alaska Department of Transporta
  
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• Fast times and fat wallets – how Alaska got its pipeline

  14-07-2017 01:54
  
  The trans-Alaska pipeline was the largest privately-funded construction project in the world, built across the biggest U.S. state and faced with unprecedented natural obstacles. It came with an $8 billion price tag, but true costs and benefits of the pipeline are still being calculated.
  In the spring of 1974, an airplane dropped Dave Haugen at a camp five miles north of the Yukon River, smack dab in the middle of Alaska. His job was to oversee construction of the road that would run along the tr
  
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• Want a job? The Division of Alaska State Troopers is hiring again, and again - KTUU.com

  14-07-2017 01:29
  
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  Want a job? The Division of Alaska State Troopers is hiring again, and again
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  ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - The Division of Alaska State Troopers is having a hard time finding new recruits. Out of 296 authorized trooper positions, 28 are vacant. And while wildlife troopers can have 90 positions, seven of those are vacant. Troopers say it's ...
  
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• Klukwan’s Hotch will attend National Medal awards ceremony in Washington, D.C.

  14-07-2017 00:51
  
  Lani Hotch with her Berners Bay weaving in the Jilkaat Kwaan Cultural Heritage Center in Klukwan. (Emily Files)The Alaska State Museums are set to receive the National Medal for Museum and Library Service in Washington, D.C. next week. It’s the highest recognition of its kind. The director of a new cultural heritage center in Klukwan is part of the group receiving the award in the nation’s capital.
  The Jilkaat Kwaan Cultural Heritage Center opened in the Chilkat Indian Village of Klu
  
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