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• House backs road in remote Alaska wildlife refuge - The Seattle Times

  20-07-2017 23:51
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  House backs road in remote Alaska wildlife refuge
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  FILE – In this Sept. 23, 2013, file photo, a driver passes the small boat harbor in King Cove, Alaska. The House has approved legislation allowing a proposed road through a remote national wildlife refuge in Alaska that was rejected by the Obama ...
  House clears path for Alaska's long-awaited King Cove roadWashington Times
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• Eruptions can’t stop sealife from calling Bogoslof home

  20-07-2017 22:26
  
  
  Marine mammals are hauled out on Bogoslof island on July 3, the day after an eruption. (Courtesy Paul Wade, NOAA Fisheries)Before Bogoslof volcano started erupting, it was a haven for endangered Steller sea lions, fur seals and sea birds. But scientists did not know when and if animals would return to the eastern Aleutian Island.
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  In the last year, Bogoslof volcano has erupted more than 50 times and is giving no indication of slowing down. This means even though scientists like To
  
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• Alaska Mountain Rugby Grounds impresses teams from around the world - Alaska Dispatch News

  20-07-2017 21:58
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  Alaska Mountain Rugby Grounds impresses teams from around the world
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  Overlooking Anchorage is a rugby field like no other. Carved out of the Hillside, it is unexpected and picturesque. The brainchild of Alaska Demolition owner Justin Green, Alaska Mountain Rugby Grounds has seen a lot of local games, but last weekend it ...
  
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• State, municipalities face higher borrowing costs from falling credit ratings

  20-07-2017 20:52
  
  Standard & Poor’s lowered Alaska’s credit rating this week. (Creative Commons photo by eflon)Alaska’s credit was downgraded by two rating agencies in the past week. The state had the highest possible rating at the beginning of last year. But the Legislature failed to pass a plan to balance future state budgets for two straight years, which has contributed to the downgrades.
  Alaska’s credit rating comes into play when the state issues bonds to pay for infrastructure. F
  
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• Compromise Achieved to Reform Alaska's Unsustainable Oil Tax Credit System - SitNews

  20-07-2017 10:26
  Compromise Achieved to Reform Alaska's Unsustainable Oil Tax Credit System
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  (SitNews) Juneau, Alaska - On the final day of this special session a compromise was met which will save the state $200 million this year and protect oil investment for years to come according to Alaska House Republicans. One of the most significant ...and more »
  
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• Chinooks leave Alaska Not Just Better Ballplayers, but Better Men - Echo NEws (press release) (registration)

  20-07-2017 10:00
  
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  Chinooks leave Alaska Not Just Better Ballplayers, but Better Men
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  Though both the exciting thunderstorm and the Peninsula Oilers took the spotlight at the Oilers/Chinooks game on Thursday night at Lee Jordan Field (with a final score 4-0) spirits still ran high with our local Chugiak Chinooks. And what's not to feel ...
  
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• Video: Oil clues hidden in stone

  20-07-2017 09:33
  
  If you’re looking for oil, it helps to have an idea about the geologic formations below the Earth’s surface. If you’re in Alaska, there’s one giant warehouse that holds this information, collected from all across the state, housed in thousands of boxes.
  
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• Audiogram: Alaska’s great recession

  20-07-2017 09:29
  
  In 1986, the price of oil tanked. Thousands of people left the state. Find out how one man gained and lost a fortune, and if today’s recession in Alaska is anything like the one in the late 80s.
  
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• SES: Rural Alaska Benefits from Enhanced WiFi and Broadband Services via Satellite - Markets Insider

  20-07-2017 08:47
  
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  SES: Rural Alaska Benefits from Enhanced WiFi and Broadband Services via Satellite
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  Alaskan internet service provider (ISP) OptimERA is leveraging SES Networks' new managed infrastructure service and a full 72MHz transponder to significantly improve broadband connectivity speed 10-fold throughout the remote port city of Unalaska, and ...and more »
  
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• Excitement builds as World Eskimo-Indian Olympics opens - Alaska Dispatch News

  20-07-2017 08:28
  
  Excitement builds as World Eskimo-Indian Olympics opens
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  FAIRBANKS — Athletes and fans from around Alaska converged on the Carlson Center on Wednesday as the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics got underway. The annual four-day competition traces its history back to 1961. Now, it includes 21 competitive ...and more »
  
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• STDs on the rise in Alaska - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  20-07-2017 06:56
  
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  STDs on the rise in Alaska
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  New numbers from the state show sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise in Alaska. Alaska already has some of the highest rates in the country. Chlamydia rose half a percent from 2015 to 2016, with about 5,700 new cases reported. Of those cases,
  
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• AFC leaves Sullivan Arena for Alaska Airlines Center - Alaska Dispatch News

  20-07-2017 06:19
  
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  AFC leaves Sullivan Arena for Alaska Airlines Center
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  Sullivan Arena lost another long-term tenant Wednesday when the Alaska Fighting Championships ended a 13-year run at the aging arena in order to move to the Alaska Airlines Center. The change will bring immediate benefits to fans and fighters when the ...
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• Alaska chooses longtime assistant West to replace Ferguson as Nanooks' head coach - USCHO

  20-07-2017 04:50
  
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  Alaska chooses longtime assistant West to replace Ferguson as Nanooks' head coach
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  west Alaska has named longtime Nanooks' assistant coach Lance West the ninth head coach in program history. West replaces Dallas Ferguson, who resigned on July 11 to take the head coaching job with the WHL's Calgary Hitmen. “I am very pleased ...
  College Hockey News: Alaska Promotes Assistant Lance West to Head CoachCollege Hockey News
  Lance West to serve as interim hockey coach at UAFAlaska
  
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• Fishermen on Yukon lose economic opportunity when buyer becomes overloaded, cancels opening

  20-07-2017 04:24
  
  
  Subsistence fishers check their nets near Koyukuk on the Yukon River. (Alaska Department of Fish and Game)Fishermen are selling more salmon than the Yukon River’s only buyer can handle. On Monday, record-breaking sales closed a commercial opening for fishermen upriver. Those fishermen spent Tuesday watching tens of thousands of dollars swim by during the river’s first opportunity to sell king salmon this decade.
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  District One in the lower Yukon River saw its first commercia
  
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• Alaska’s U.S. senators diverge on repeal, replace

  20-07-2017 04:11
  
  
  GOP senators had a working lunch at the White House Wednesday. Photo: WhiteHouse.govPresident Trump summoned Republican senators to the White House for lunch Wednesday, where he pressured them to pass a health care reform bill. Just yesterday Sen. Lisa Murkowski was one of three Republicans who crushed his Plan C, to just repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it later. Now the president is back to Plan B, repeal and replace, and he’s impatient.
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 - Alaska Public Radio Network

  20-07-2017 04:10
  
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  Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, July 19, 2017
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  Murkowski wants open hearings on health care, with Democrats. Sullivan says Republicans should keep working as they have because they are nearing a solution that's “very positive for Alaska and the country.” Senator David Wilson files for lieutenant ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, July 19, 2017

  20-07-2017 04:05
  
  
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  Alaska’s U.S. senators diverge on repeal, replace
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  Murkowski wants open hearings on health care, with Democrats. Sullivan says Republicans should keep working as they have because they are nearing a solution that’s “very positive for Alask
  
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• Here's what happens in Alaska with a straight repeal of the Affordable Care Act - Alaska Dispatch News

  20-07-2017 04:00
  
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  Here's what happens in Alaska with a straight repeal of the Affordable Care Act
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  Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan after they and other senators returned from a meeting with President Donald Trump regarding health care legislation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 19, 2017. (Doug Mills/The New York Times). Share on Facebook ...
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  Repeal or replace fails, but state to see
  
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• Trump names Alaskan to Interior Department post - Alaska Dispatch News

  20-07-2017 03:46
  
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  Trump names Alaskan to Interior Department post
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  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has nominated Joseph Balash, Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan's chief of staff, to head the interior, land and mineral management office at the Department of the Interior. Balash is an Alaskan who previously served as ...
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• Stephen Wallace appointed as Bethel District Attorney

  20-07-2017 03:20
  
  Bethel District Attorney Stephen Wallace. (Teresa Cotsirilos/KYUK)Stephen Wallace is Bethel’s new District Attorney, the town’s third DA in less than three years. The court has been operating without one for several months, since former DA J. Michael “Mike” Gray retired.
  Wallace started work in Bethel on July 10 and said that he’s familiar with the court’s fast pace and high caseload. He has, after all, worked here before.
  As a young attorney in the 1990s, Ste
  
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• North Pole Council urges water-system expansion to help Moose Creek deal with tainted groundwater

  20-07-2017 03:14
  
  Groundwater contamination around Moose Creek is likely to have mainly been caused by chemical compounds from a type of firefighting foam used in years past on Eielson Air Force Base. The Air Force now uses a different type of foam, shown here in a training exercise at an installation in New Jersey. (DVIDS/Air National Guard file photo)Officials with the Air Force and other agencies are asking members of the public to weigh in on several proposals to provide drinking water to Moose Creek resident
  
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• Alaska Airlines might reduce flights to Bethel this winter

  20-07-2017 03:00
  
  Passengers traveling in and out of Bethel can expect changes to the daily Anchorage flight schedule this year. The airlines plans to announce the new schedules soon. (Katie Basile / KYUK)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 change a few weeks before Thanksgiving and remain in effect until a few days after New Year’s, but it’s still unclear what those changes will
  
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• Senator David Wilson files for lieutenant governor race

  20-07-2017 02:52
  
  A second Mat-Su Valley Republican senator has filed for statewide office on Wednesday.
  Senator David Wilson of Wasilla has filed a letter of intent to run for Lieutenant Governor in the 2018 election. Wilson, a freshman senator, files just two days after fellow Wasilla Republican Senator Mike Dunleavy filed to run for governor.
  Both Wilson and Dunleavy have made headlines in the most recent session. Dunleavy left the Republican-controlled senate majority caucus over disagreements on the state&rs
  
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• Safeway to pay feds $3M after Wasilla pharmacy lost thousands of pain pills

  20-07-2017 02:48
  
  The supermarket chain Safeway Inc. has agreed to pay $3 million dollars in a settlement that involves missing pain medication from a pharmacy in Wasilla.
  A settlement agreement signed Tuesday between Safeway and the Department of Justice said the Wasilla Carrs pharmacy was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration for failing to follow DEA protocols on reporting controlled substances like opioids when they go missing.
  “We received a loss notification from Safeway in Wasilla regar
  
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• Alaska likely to stick with all Boeing fleet | KING5.com - KING5.com

  20-07-2017 02:33
  
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  Virgin America planes will begin to be repainted with Alaska colors in January, before Alaska Airlines replaces the Airbus planes with Boeing 737s.
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