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• Feds charge Utah man with wife’s murder aboard cruise ship in Alaska

  27-07-2017 23:11
  Federal authorities are charging a Utah man in the murder of his wife aboard a cruise ship in Southeast Alaska.
  Kenneth Ray Manzanares, 39, of Santa Clara, Utah, is charged in the death of his wife, Kristy Manzanares, in a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
  According to the FBI’s criminal complaint, a witness watched Manzanares drag the woman toward a balcony. The release also said the witness then pulled her back into the couple’s cabin.
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• ConocoPhillips earns $199M in 3 months in Alaska as projects near production - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-07-2017 22:52
  Alaska Dispatch News
  ConocoPhillips earns $199M in 3 months in Alaska as projects near production
  Alaska Dispatch News
  ConocoPhillips earned $199 million in Alaska in the recent quarter and is moving toward new oil production at two fields, which include a project to unlock thick, slow-moving viscous oil, a stubborn, but widespread, resource on the North Slope. Among ...
  
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• When the lights went out – Alaska’s great recession

  27-07-2017 22:09
  Less than ten years after oil started flowing, Alaska’s economy cratered. The recession was quick and deep. Ten banks failed, real estate values plummeted and tens of thousands of people fled the state. It was Alaska’s great recession, 20 years before the rest of the country went through almost the same thing.Eating out wasn’t just a quick bite for Pete Zamarello. It was a sacred time when dreams were sketched in notebooks. He amassed an empire over plates of Italian or Mexican
  
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• Federal Authorities to Announce Charges in Cruise Ship Death - U.S. News & World Report

  27-07-2017 10:06
  U.S. News & World Report
  Federal Authorities to Announce Charges in Cruise Ship Death
  U.S. News & World Report
  Federal authorities planned to announce charges in what was described as a domestic dispute aboard a cruise ship in U.S. waters off Alaska that led to the death of a 39-year-old Utah woman. July 27, 2017, at 4:06 a.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon ...
  Woman killed in domestic dispute on cruise ship off Alaska; FBI investigatingKOMO News
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• Alaska Names Unique, Have Interesting Meanings - Echo NEws (press release) (registration)

  27-07-2017 10:05
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  Alaska Names Unique, Have Interesting Meanings
  Echo NEws (press release) (registration)
  You probably know that at the top of the maps an Alaska land projection is the northernmost point on the North American continent. But did you realize that the 49th State also boasts both the westernmost and easternmost points? Amatignak Island, an ...
  
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• Alaska senator unfazed by Trump tweet - ABC News

  27-07-2017 09:55
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  Alaska senator unfazed by Trump tweet
  ABC News
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, center, is followed by reporters as she arrives to vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Murkowski voted no, and Vice President Mike Pence then broke a 50-50 tie to start debating Republican ...
  Murkowski voted no on her party's health care motion. Here's why.Alaska Dispatch News
  Why it's unwise for Trump to target Alaska's Lisa MurkowskiMSNBC
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• Guns, God, and Recovery. Red State Alaska is Breaking Barriers for People Facing Addiction - HuffPost

  27-07-2017 09:31
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  Guns, God, and Recovery. Red State Alaska is Breaking Barriers for People Facing Addiction
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  Progressive Cutting Edge Treatment Programs and Public Policy for Addiction and Recovery On America's Frontier. Alaska Governor Bill Walker brought the recovery community to the table and got results. On Tuesday, they joined him for the signing of HB ...
  
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• Alaska baseball scores, schedule for July 26 - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-07-2017 07:31
  Alaska baseball scores, schedule for July 26
  Alaska Dispatch News
  ... — Mat-Su swept the Bucs in a battle between the top two teams in the league Wednesday. Quin Cotton hit a two-run homer in Game 1, while Elijah MacNamee hit a three-run bomb in Game 2. — Steven Ledesma struck out 11 Chinooks in a complete-game ...
  
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• FBI arrests suspect in woman's death on Alaska cruise ship - Minneapolis Star Tribune

  27-07-2017 06:52
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  FBI arrests suspect in woman's death on Alaska cruise ship
  Minneapolis Star Tribune
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A suspect is in custody in the death of a woman during a domestic dispute on a cruise ship in U.S. waters off Alaska, the FBI in Anchorage said late Wednesday. FBI spokeswoman Staci Feger-Pellessier had no other details ahead of ...and more »
  
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• Mailboxes destroyed with fireworks on Chena Hot Springs Road in Fairbanks - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-07-2017 06:31
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  Mailboxes destroyed with fireworks on Chena Hot Springs Road in Fairbanks
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Justin Johnson had just put in a brand new, $90 locking mailbox a few weeks ago for his home on Chena Hot Springs Road in Fairbanks. Now, the mailbox is destroyed, blown up from the inside out with a firework. "It's a pretty robust mailbox, too ...and more »
  
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• Murkowski voted no on her party's health care motion. Here's why. - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-07-2017 05:53
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  Murkowski voted no on her party's health care motion. Here's why.
  Alaska Dispatch News
  WASHINGTON — Alaska's senior Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Tuesday that her decision to vote no on beginning debate on health care legislation was a last-minute decision. In the end, an allegiance to "the process" won out. Alaska Sen.and more »
  
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• Lawmakers agree on capital budget funding for oil and gas tax credits, Kivalina school

  27-07-2017 04:12
  
  
  Kivalina, Alaska, in August 2009. Legislative leaders agreed to a capital budget that adds funding to build a new school for the community. (Creative Commons photo by Lt. Cmdr. Micheal McNeil/U.S. Coast Guard)State lawmakers are scheduled to vote Thursday on a capital budget that will include $20 million in oil and gas tax credits. It would also add $8 million to assist municipalities and $7 million to complete a school in Kivalina.
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, July 26, 2017

  27-07-2017 04:04
  
  
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  Following health care vote, Trump singles out Murkowski with critical tweet
  Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  Following yesterday’s narrow Senate vote to allow debate on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, President Donald Trump tweeted his disapproval toward Senator Lisa Mu
  
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• Transgender Air Force Staff Sergeant reacts to Trump’s declaration against transgender service-members

  27-07-2017 03:36
  This morning the president declared that transgender individuals will no longer be allowed to serve in the U.S. military, but thousands already do. That includes service members based in Alaska. Alaska Public Media’s Lori Townsend spoke with Air Force Staff Sergeant Emma Horner, who came out as transgender to her fellow military members in October, when the Department of Defense released a policy saying it would accept openly transgender people and help them transition. Horner says that co
  
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• Green sponge discovered in Southeast could treat some cancers

  27-07-2017 03:16
  A green sponge found in the waters near Sitka could hold the key to curing pancreatic and ovarian cancer. (Photo courtesy NOAA Fisheries)A green sponge discovered in 2005 in Southeast Alaska waters has unique properties that could be used to treat certain types of cancer.
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hosted a news conference Wednesday morning.
  Bob Stone is a Juneau-based coral and sponge biologist with NOAA Fisheries, but he works all over Alaska’s oceans.
  
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• FBI investigating death of woman aboard Southeast cruise ship

  27-07-2017 03:10
  The Emerald Princess is moored Wednesday, July 27, 2017, at the S. Franklin Street Dock in Juneau. (Photo by Tripp J Crouse/KTOO)The FBI is investigating the death of a 39-year-old Utah woman who died aboard the Emerald Princess cruise ship in Southeast Alaska.
  According to a statement by Princess Cruises, the woman was involved in a domestic dispute that occurred about 9 p.m. Tuesday.
  Today, the ship is moored in Juneau at the South Franklin Street Dock. The woman’s name has not been rele
  
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• Late state budget delays fall-winter-spring ferry schedule

  27-07-2017 03:01
  The ferry Malaspina is shown in drydock and the Columbia is tied up at the Ketchikan Shipyard in February 2012. Damage to the Columbia is delaying its return to service this fall and the Malaspina will help fill in. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)Alaskans have until the end of the month to tell the Marine Highway System what they think of its fall, winter and spring sailing plans.
  The schedule, which is similar to last year’s, came out later than usual and the comment period is s
  
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• ‘Forward-deployed’ Coast Guard helicopter crews help rescue 6 people in two searches

  27-07-2017 02:57
  A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk departs from the Alaska Army National Guard Hangar in Kotzebue to reconnoiter the area. The Coast has assigned two MH-60s from Air Station Kodiak to the hangar, which is serving as the hub of Forward Operating Location Kotzebue. The forward-deployed aircraft and crew are participating in Coast Guard Arctic Shield 2017, a field-training exercise that runs through the summer. (Brian Dykens/U.S. Coast Guard)Coast Guard personnel based out of Kotzebue helped rescue six pe
  
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• G.O.P.’s Lisa Murkowski Showed No Fear in Disappointing Trump

  27-07-2017 02:53 via nytimes.com
  Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has been a contrarian when it comes to the Republican health plan, but she is not as beholden to the party as others are.
  
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• Lisa Murkowski, a Swing Vote on Health Care, Isn’t Swayed

  27-07-2017 02:47 via nytimes.com
  The president has chosen to pick on someone who is unlikely to be rattled by his attacks, or by accusations that she has deserted her fellow Republicans.
  
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• G.O.P.’s Lisa Murkowski Shows No Fear in Disappointing Trump

  27-07-2017 02:47 via nytimes.com
  Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has been a contrarian when it comes to the Republican health plan, but she is not as beholden to the party as others are.
  
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• Entomologist tracks the year in Alaska bugs - Alaska Public Radio Network

  27-07-2017 02:47
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  Entomologist tracks the year in Alaska bugs
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  Bugs of various shapes and sizes are part of life in Alaska, and it can be easy for them to escape notice. Anecdotally, this year seems light on one of Alaska's most prolific insects, the mosquito. Despite the fact that Alaska is home to nearly forty ...
  
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• Entomologist tracks the year in Alaska bugs

  27-07-2017 02:46
  “Bumblebee @ wisteria lane” (Creative commons photo by Miroslav Fikar)Bugs of various shapes and sizes are part of life in Alaska, and it can be easy for them to escape notice.
  Anecdotally, this year seems light on one of Alaska’s most prolific insects, the mosquito. Despite the fact that Alaska is home to nearly forty species of the insect, there just don’t seem to be as many around as in some years. Derek Sikes is an Associate Professor of Entomology at t
  
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• Alaska Airlines profits despite pilot shortage, operational challenges - KTOO

  27-07-2017 01:49
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  Alaska Airlines profits despite pilot shortage, operational challenges
  KTOO
  Alaska Airlines passengers wait for their bags at Gustavus Airport on June 29, 2017. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO). Audio Player. https://cpa.ds.npr.org/northwestnews/audio/2017/07/072617ES_AirlineOps_web.mp3. Alaska Airlines is still ironing out ...
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• Alaska Air profit rises, with little impact from Horizon's troubles - The Seattle Times

  27-07-2017 01:11
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  Alaska Air profit rises, with little impact from Horizon's troubles
  The Seattle Times
  Alaska Air Group booked a second-quarter profit of $296 million. Management said it's accelerating the integration of Virgin America and that its solution for the pilot shortage at Horizon Air will minimize cancellations.
  Alaska Airlines profits despite pilot shortage, operational challengesKTOO
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• Alaska Air profit rises, with little impact from Horizon's troubles - Seattle Times

  27-07-2017 01:11
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  Alaska Air profit rises, with little impact from Horizon's troubles
  Seattle Times
  Alaska Air Group booked a second-quarter profit of $296 million. Management said it's accelerating the integration of Virgin America and that its solution for the pilot shortage at Horizon Air will minimize cancellations.
  Alaska Airlines profits despite pilot shortage, operational challengesKTOO
  Alaska Air Group (ALK) Q2 2017 Results - Earnings Call TranscriptSeeking Alpha
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• DR. FERMENTO: An Alaskan's taste of Alaska - Anchorage Press

  27-07-2017 00:08
  Anchorage Press
  DR. FERMENTO: An Alaskan's taste of Alaska
  Anchorage Press
  In a never-ending quest to excite my palate, Alaskan Brewing Company is releasing a series of beers that feature Alaskan's brewer's choice selections. Most breweries do something like this here and there, but unique is Alaska's formal program that ...
  
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• Could green sponge found near Alaska hold key to curing pancreatic cancer? - Detroit Free Press

  27-07-2017 00:03
  Detroit Free Press
  Could green sponge found near Alaska hold key to curing pancreatic cancer?
  Detroit Free Press
  Scientists say a green sponge discovered more than a decade ago in deep waters off the coast of Alaska is showing promise as a potential treatment for pancreatic cancer. A molecule from the sponge selectively killed both pancreatic and ovarian cancer ...and more »
  
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• Could green sponge found near Alaska hold key to cancer cure? - Detroit Free Press

  27-07-2017 00:03
  Detroit Free Press
  Could green sponge found near Alaska hold key to cancer cure?
  Detroit Free Press
  Scientists say a green sponge discovered in deep waters off the coast of Alaska is showing promise as a potential treatment for pancreatic cancer.and more »
  
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