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• Native Hunters Kill Whale That Made Its Way to Alaska River - U.S. News & World Report

  01-08-2017 23:57
  U.S. News & World Report
  Native Hunters Kill Whale That Made Its Way to Alaska River
  U.S. News & World Report
  Officials are investigating the killing of a protected gray whale by Native hunters in Alaska after the animal strayed into a river in an area where indigenous residents rely on subsistence fishing and hunting as part of their ancient culture. Aug. 1 ...and more »
  
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• Traveling Muisc 8-5-17

  01-08-2017 23:38
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  8-5-17
   
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  CD Title
  Label
  Duration
   
  Alive
  Skippinnish / Angus MacPhail
  The Seventh Wave
  www.skipinnish.com
  4:11
   
  Shetland Times and Tatties (instrumentals)
  Corran Raa / Robbie Leask, Kath Bruce
  Corran Raa
  www.corranraa.co.uk
  5:27
   
  Maggie
  Lori Watson / James Hogg, Lori Watson
  The Rough Guide to Scottish Folk
  www.worldmusic.net/scottishfolk
  5:12
   
  Gilmartin
  David Ferrard / Kenny Brill
  Beginner’s Guide
  
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• Alaska Revenue Commissioner Resigns to Focus on Ministry - U.S. News & World Report

  01-08-2017 20:16
  U.S. News & World Report
  Alaska Revenue Commissioner Resigns to Focus on Ministry
  U.S. News & World Report
  FILE - In this Monday, March 21, 2016 file photo Alaska Department of Revenue Commissioner Randall Hoffbeck talks to reporters in Juneau, Alaska. Hoffbeck has announced that he is resigning to focus on ministry work. His last day will be Aug. 17, 2017.
  Alaska Revenue Commissioner Hoffbeck resigns; deputy to serve in interimAlaska Dispatch News
  Alaska Revenue Commissioner to resignK
  
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• Scientists Discover Fault Linked To Unusually High Tsunami Risk In Alaska - Forbes

  01-08-2017 15:15
  Forbes
  Scientists Discover Fault Linked To Unusually High Tsunami Risk In Alaska
  Forbes
  A team of scientists found something hidden off the coast of Alaska that suggests a significant risk for future tsunamis in the area. The team made the discovery as they were conducting seismic surveys off the Alaskan coast to better understand the ...
  Alaska at Risk of a Massive Earthquake and Tsunami Similar to Devastating 2011 Japan EventNewsweek
  New geologic mapping along Alaska Peninsula reveals tsunami
  
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• Lesson for Trump: Hardball Against Senators Is a Game He Can Lose

  01-08-2017 12:00 via nytimes.com
  Presidents often try to influence senators’ votes with threats of retaliation. Those efforts have often backfired, and have sometimes prompted senators to switch parties.
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, July 31, 2017

  01-08-2017 04:16
  
  
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  Murkowski in Sitka hours after critical health care vote
  Emily Kwong, KCAW – Sitka
  Less than 24 hours after casting a critical vote on healthcare, Senator Lisa Murkowski was back in her home state of Alaska. She had choice words about voting her conscience, despite pressure from the GOP and President Dona
  
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• Gray whale harvest on the Kuskokwim stirs up controversy

  01-08-2017 03:52
  
  
  The whale killed in the Kuskokwim River on Thursday night is butchered and the meat and blubber distributed to people from up and down the river on Saturday, July 29, 2017. (Katie Basile/ KYUK)On Saturday night, a tired crew of volunteers dragged a large gray whale carcass onto shore near the Napaskiak airport. The whale was gray, bloody and barnacled, and the men who set to work butchering it said that it was at least 37 feet long. Residents are still distributing its blubber and meat, say
  
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• Teenage Gambell whaler under social media fire from noted environmentalist

  01-08-2017 03:45
  
  
  This spring, a controversy erupted when an extreme environmentalist launched an online attack on a teenage whaler from St. Lawrence Island. Anchorage-based writer Julia O’Malley went to the community of Gambell to hear about what happened afterwards, and wrote an article about it for the magazine High Country News. The story is about 16-year-old Chris Apasingok. His bowhead whale strike was celebrated by the community but O’Malley said when the story was reported, it generated unexpe
  
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• Foretold Disaster – the Exxon Valdez oil spill | MIDNIGHT OIL: Episode 07

  01-08-2017 03:38
  The Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 killed hundreds of thousands of seabirds and brought commercial fishing in some of Alaska’s most productive waters to a standstill. It’s often talked about as an unprecedented, unthinkable event, but it was, in fact thinkable, and people tried to prevent it.
  
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• Audiogram: Foretold disaster

  01-08-2017 03:16
  The Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 killed hundreds of thousands of seabirds and brought commercial fishing in some of Alaska’s most productive waters to a standstill. It’s often talked about as an unprecedented, unthinkable event, but it was, in fact thinkable, and people tried to prevent it.
  
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• Beluga whale harvested near Dillingham Sunday evening

  01-08-2017 02:39
  (Avery Lill/KDLG)A beluga whale was harvested Sunday evening near Dillingham. It was the whole hunting party’s first time to take a beluga.
  The community showed up in force. Lines of cars brought people with their totes and trash bags. The successful hunters shared meat with everyone who came. It took about two hours to process the animal.
  It was the whole hunting party’s first time to take a beluga. The three were commercial fishing for silver salmon when they saw a pod of belugas.
  
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• State fire service battles blazes north of Ft. Yukon

  01-08-2017 02:35
  Wildfire season is holding on in Alaska as warm dry weather persists later than normal. The Alaska Fire Service reports that water scooping planes and smoke jumpers corralled a new blaze north of Ft. Yukon over the weekend.
  The Shovun Lake fire was detected Saturday afternoon, burning within a mile and a half of Native land allotments. The AFS said four water scoopers made drops on the fire, which was mopped up Sunday by smoke-jumpers at under four acres.
  Another new blaze southeast of Ft.
  
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• Numerous blazes battled near Ft. Yukon

  01-08-2017 02:35
  
  
  Wildfire season is holding on in Alaska as warm dry weather persists later than normal. The Alaska Fire Service reports that water scooping planes and smoke jumpers corralled a new blaze north of Ft. Yukon over the weekend.
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  The Shovun Lake fire was detected Saturday afternoon, burning within a mile and a half of Native land allotments. The AFS said four water scoopers made drops on the fire, which was mopped up Sunday by smoke-jumpers at under four acres.
  Another new blaze southe
  
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• Man killed with hatchet in Fairbanks bar

  01-08-2017 02:28
  A Fairbanks man is dead following a hatchet attack at a local bar. Fairbanks Police report that 54-year-old Mark Allen Mitchell died Monday morning following the attack last night at Club Manchu. Police spokeswoman Yumi McCullough said its unclear what motivated the suspect, 49-year-old Brett Matthew Gilbert.
  ”The initial investigation video surveillance show that without any warning or provocation inside the Club Manchu, the suspect struck the victim in the side of the neck and he fell to
  
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• State looks to update Bicycle and Pedestrian plan

  01-08-2017 02:22
  The Alaska Department of Transportation is working to update the state Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan. The Bike and Ped plan is a policy document that guides road design and education surrounding non-motorized transportation. The plan was last updated in 1995.
  As part of their process, the DOT is seeking input from Alaskans about what they want to see in terms of bike and pedestrian access.
  Marcheta Moulton is a statewide Bike and Ped Plan coordinator. She said DOT wants input from communities of a
  
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• Sand Point loses entire police force

  01-08-2017 02:10
  A police car sits unused in Sand Point. (Zoe Sobel/KUCB)Sand Point faces a problem with its police force: It doesn’t have one any more.
  In just three weeks, all its officers resigned.
  City Administrator Andrew Varner said the first officer wanted to be closer to a spouse who is in the military. A week later, two more officers, a married couple, left because of a “family decision.”
  Varner said that left Police Chief Roger Bacon — who was scheduled to vacation in Scotland &
  
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• Test missile launches from Kodiak

  01-08-2017 00:38
  A terminal high altitude area defense, or THAAD, interceptor is launched from the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, during Flight Experiment THAAD (FET)-01 on July 30, 2017. (Photo by Leah Garton/Missile Defense Agency)The Alaska Aerospace Corporation just completed its second missile test of the summer as part of its partnership with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.
  People in the area at the time report having seen the launch overnight between Saturday and Sunday.
  According to
  
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