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• Marijuana board moves to prohibit common lease arrangement - Alaskajournal.com

  19-07-2017 23:23
  Marijuana board moves to prohibit common lease arrangement
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  The Alaska Marijuana Control Board voted 3-2 to approve a proposal that would prohibit lease arrangements in which a landlord is paid rent with a percentage of sales from the tenant business. A state official estimates as many as 25 percent of business ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Airlines might reduce flights to Bethel this winter - KTOO - KTOO

  19-07-2017 20:57
  
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  Alaska Airlines might reduce flights to Bethel this winter - KTOO
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  Alaska Airlines might cut some of its flights between Bethel and Anchorage, just in time for the holidays. Management confirmed that their flight schedule will ...and more »
  
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• Seattle turf war: Delta expands on more Alaska Air routes - USA TODAY

  19-07-2017 20:37
  
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  Seattle turf war: Delta expands on more Alaska Air routes
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  The pace of the Seattle showdown between Delta and Alaska Airlines appears to have slowed since this winter, but the turf war is not over. Delta on Tuesday announced another expansion of service from Seattle, adding a new route to Medford, Ore., and an ...and more »
  
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• Video: Eyes on the pipeline

  19-07-2017 05:49
  
  Adam Owen is responsible for 100 miles of the largest piece of infrastructure in Alaska. He spends his days flying, floating, and driving the trans-Alaska pipeline.
  
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• Motor fuel tax stalls in a year of few bills

  19-07-2017 04:33
  
  
  Richard Carrillo gases up his suburban in July 2016 in Juneau. Lawmakers decided against passing a bill this year that would triple the motor fuel tax. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/KTOO)In a year when lawmakers could agree on little, a proposal to triple the state’s motor fuel tax stands out.
  Legislators from both parties said the tax might be needed to support construction and maintenance of roads, airports, ferries and ports.
  But the bill didn’t pass, for a few reasons.
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• Judge orders Anchorage to pay ex-cops $2.7M after verdict against city

  19-07-2017 04:23
  
  
  The Anchorage Police Department Building (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)A judge has increased the penalty the Municipality of Anchorage will pay two former Anchorage police officers, who alleged racial discrimination at the Anchorage Police Department and won with a jury verdict this spring.
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  Alvin Kennedy and Eliezer Feliciano are two former drug detectives who had 20 years on the force. A jury found that they had been treated unfairly by the Anchorage P
  
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• Judge orders Anchorage to pay ex-cops $2.7M after city loses racial discrimination case

  19-07-2017 04:23
  
  
  The Anchorage Police Department Building (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)A judge has increased the penalty the Municipality of Anchorage will pay two former Anchorage police officers, who alleged racial discrimination at the Anchorage Police Department and won with a jury verdict this spring.
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  Alvin Kennedy and Eliezer Feliciano are two former drug detectives who had 20 years on the force. A jury found that they had been treated unfairly by the Anchorage P
  
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• With budget, US House inches toward ANWR

  19-07-2017 04:17
  
  
  The U.S. House unveiled a budget that could lead to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Image by USGS)A budget blueprint in the U.S. House is reviving hopes for Alaskans who want to see the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge open to oil drilling.
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  The budget plan does not actually discuss the Arctic refuge, in Alaska’s far Northeast. It calls on the House Natural Resources Committee to find $5 billion in cuts or revenues over a decade.
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• Repeal without replace? Murkowski tweets ‘no’

  19-07-2017 04:12
  
  
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Photo by Liz Ruskin.When the Republican health care reform bill collapsed Monday night, President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell switched to a “repeal and delay” plan. They proposed to vote immediately on repealing the Affordable Care Act and then give themselves two years to craft a replacement. But with a tweet the next morning, Sen. Lisa Murkowski may have doomed the idea.
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  Republican West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito was
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, July 18, 2017

  19-07-2017 04:06
  
  
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  Repeal without replace? Murkowski tweets ‘no’
  Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Washington D.C.
  When the Republican health care reform bill collapsed last night, President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell switched to a “repeal and delay” plan. They proposed to vote
  
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• On-site consumption back on the table for Alaska pot businesses - Alaska Public Radio Network

  19-07-2017 03:18
  
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  On-site consumption back on the table for Alaska pot businesses
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  A battery-powered oil rig, seen here at a 2015 cannabis job fair in Anchorage, heats small amount of concentrated cannabis product to the point of combustion. (Photo: Zachariah Hughes – Alaska Public Media). Alaska is on course to be the first state in ...and more »
  
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• On-site consumption back on the table for Alaska pot businesses

  19-07-2017 03:16
  
  
  A battery-powered oil rig, seen here at a 2015 cannabis job fair in Anchorage, heats small amount of concentrated cannabis product to the point of combustion. (Photo: Zachariah Hughes – Alaska Public Media)Alaska is on course to be the first state in the country to allow customers to use cannabis inside regulated businesses. But the issue is far from settled.
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  During a meeting in Fairbanks last week, the state’s Marijuana Control Board approved a proposal from member Brando
  
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• Despite uncertainty, Sitka Hospital maps out a future

  19-07-2017 03:12
  
  
  In order to survive, Sitka Community Hospital needs to overhaul how it does business. That was the message of an outside consultant to the Sitka Assembly Thursday night (7-13-17). (Emily Kwong/KCAW )Sitka Community Hospital is in the early stages of a make-over. Building upon the recommendations of an outside consultant, Stroudwater Associates, hospital leadership is directing changes to make Sitka Community a standalone operation. Those include discontinuing the labor and deliver program, reduc
  
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• NTSB plans rare Alaska hearing as part of Togiak plane crash probe - Alaska Dispatch News

  19-07-2017 03:10
  
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  NTSB plans rare Alaska hearing as part of Togiak plane crash probe
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  The investigative hearing will be the first held by the board in Alaska since the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill and the first held outside Washington, D.C., in nearly 20 years. The board is expected to address broader issues behind the crash that killed ...and more »
  
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• What’s working in your community?

  19-07-2017 02:57
  
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• Middle school students prepare for lift off at UAA’s Summer Rocketry Academy

  19-07-2017 02:43
  
  Two rocketry academy students chase down their rocket as it descends. (Henry Leasia / Alaska Public Media)Fourth of July celebrations may be over, but that doesn’t mean people have stopped firing rockets. Last week middle school students from across Alaska learned how to design and launch their own rockets at one of the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Summer Engineering Academies.
  Wayne Robinson, a mechanical engineer, played a big role in developing the curriculum for this yea
  
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• Pink salmon season forecast looks positive

  19-07-2017 02:32
  
  
  Pink salmon splashes through shallows. (K. Sowl / Alaska Region U.S. Fish and Wildlife)It looks like numbers at this early point in the pink salmon season are settling back into a normal pattern for the Kodiak region.
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  The pink season in the Gulf of Alaska was so bad in 2016 that the federal government issued a disaster declaration for the fishery.
  The second week opener closed on a strong note.
  Alaska Department of Fish and Game Area Management Biologist, James Jackson, says at the sa
  
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• Yukon kings arriving in early blast; Kuskokwim kings arriving in late trickle

  19-07-2017 02:13
  
  King salmon, red salmon, and chum salmon. (Photo: Shane Iverson / KYUK)The Kuskokwim and Yukon Rivers are having opposite experiences with king salmon this season.
  The Kuskokwim kings arrived late, in a small trickle, and state biologists now say that the run may meet escapement goals. Less than 60,000 kings are estimated to have passed the Bethel sonar station. To meet the lowest end of drainage-wide escapement, 65,000 kings would need to reach their spawning grounds.
  Meanwhile, the Y
  
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• Big harvest and a buck a pound, Bristol Bay’s 2017 should be huge

  19-07-2017 02:07
  
  Harvey Nick, 19, and Cuk-Ayak Olick, 20, two Bristol Bay set-netters from Kwethluk, were enjoying another big harvest day near Dillingham late last week. (Photo courtesy of Mike Davis)The Bristol Bay run is not over yet, with word Monday that the Kvichak River seemed to finally “pop”, but this year’s fishery is shaping up to be one of the largest ever and certainly one of the most valuable in a long time. The total run was predicted to be 41.5 million, allowing for a harvest of
  
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• Why wildlife cops spent over a year investigating a hunting spree across Southeast

  19-07-2017 01:40
  
  Alaska Wildlife Trooper Jake Abbott stands in front of the Alaska State Trooper post in Juneau on Saturday. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)It’s hard to get ahold of Trooper Jake Abbott during the summer. He’s just back from a two-week boat patrol between Juneau and Ketchikan. When he did pick up the phone, he said his investigation report on the seven-man hunting spree was nearly 20 pages.
  Abbott said they’re generally closer to two.
  “This is definitely one of the m
  
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• Oprah is in Alaska and having the time of her life - Alaska Dispatch News

  19-07-2017 00:57
  
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  Oprah is in Alaska and having the time of her life
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  Oprah Winfrey is having a year of adventure, and so, obviously, she is in Alaska. The world-famous media mogul flew to Juneau this week to spend several days aboard a Holland America Eurodam cruise ship that is traveling through Southeast. The trip is ...
  
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