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• With a few weeks to go, Alaska schools are short 245 teachers and ... - KTOO

  05-08-2017 23:35
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  With a few weeks to go, Alaska schools are short 245 teachers and ...
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  On top of Alaska's regular recruitment challenges, the Lower 48's economy is strong, its supply of teachers short, and educators' salaries are on the upswing.and more »
  
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• With the waning miles of a trans-Alaska trek come changes visible — and invisible - Alaska Dispatch News

  05-08-2017 22:40
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  With the waning miles of a trans-Alaska trek come changes visible — and invisible
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  Ned Rozell at trans-Alaska pipeline Mile 100, meaning that many miles remain to Pump Station One near Prudhoe Bay. (Eric Troyer). Share on Facebook Facebook. Share on Twitter Twitter. Share via Email Email. Share on Tumblr Tumblr. Share on Reddit ...
  
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• Immigration fight cripples Alaska fishing as foreign help vanishes ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  05-08-2017 22:11
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  Immigration fight cripples Alaska fishing as foreign help vanishes ...
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  Not many Americans want to spend the summer processing seafood in Alaska for 16 hours a day, seven days a week, earning $10 an hour straight time and $15 ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Air Guardsmen rescue plane crash survivor - KTUU - KTUU.com

  05-08-2017 19:49
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  Alaska Air Guardsmen rescue plane crash survivor - KTUU
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) A pilot was rescued by the Alaska Air National Guard after his plane crashed 130 miles northwest of Anchorage. On the morning ...and more »
  
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• Alaska city leaders put ride-sharing ban on ballot - KTUU.com

  05-08-2017 19:11
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  Alaska city leaders put ride-sharing ban on ballot
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  KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) Voters in an Alaska city are getting the chance to decide whether or not they want ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft to operate in their city. The Ketchikan City Council voted on Thursday to place a proposed city ban ...and more »
  
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• Oil Company Owed $75M From Alaska Prepares to Pause Drilling - U.S. News & World Report

  05-08-2017 18:22
  Oil Company Owed $75M From Alaska Prepares to Pause Drilling
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  An oil company that the state owes about $75 million in refundable tax credits to is preparing to pause drilling off the shore of Alaska. Aug. 5, 2017, at 4:34 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Oil Company Owed $75M From Alaska ...and more »
  
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• Can a new generation of satellites bring broadband to all Alaska? - Alaska Dispatch News

  05-08-2017 17:11
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  Can a new generation of satellites bring broadband to all Alaska?
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  Greg Wyler, founder and chairman of OneWeb, spoke about his company's plans to make broadband internet accessible worldwide during the Anchorage Rotary Club meeting at the Dena'ina Center. (Bill Roth / Alaska Dispatch News). Share on Facebook ...
  
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• State budget cuts hitting Interior’s main public media company

  05-08-2017 04:04
  
  
  The state’s fiscal situation is taking a toll on one of Alaska’s longest operating and largest public media companies.
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  KUAC, which brings public radio and television programming to Fairbanks, the Interior and communities across rural Alaska, is scaling back its operations.
  “The timeline is: immediately,” General Manager Keith Martin said in a phone interview Friday.
  KUAC is governed by the University of Alaska, and according to Martin, diminished funding from
  
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• State lets Conoco expand North Slope unit, but with conditions

  05-08-2017 03:55
  
  
  A flow line curves above the horizon on the western North Slope. ConocoPhillips wants to expand one of its units in the region. (Elizabeth Harball/Alaska’s Energy Desk)The state is trying to speed up development of oil fields on the North Slope by putting pressure on ConocoPhillips to explore a new area.
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  This week, the Department of Natural Resources announced it’s allowing Conoco to expand one of its North Slope units, but only under certain conditions. In February, the s
  
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• U.S. senators: Same state, same party, not same page

  05-08-2017 03:51
  
  
  CNN interviewed Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins. (Image: CNN.com.)Last week, while Sen. Lisa Murkowski was in the national spotlight for defying her party on health care, Alaska’s other senator, Dan Sullivan, stuck to the party line and attracted little attention. This was hardly the first time they’ve split their votes. The two senators vote opposite each other more than most Republican pairs from the same state.
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  Murkowski is getting all kinds of di
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Aug. 4, 2017

  05-08-2017 03:47
  
  
  Stories are posted on the APRN news page. You can subscribe to APRN’s newsfeeds via email, podcast and RSS. Follow us on Facebook at alaskapublic.org and on Twitter @aprn
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  U.S. senators: Same state, same party, not same page
  Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Washington D.C.
  Last week, while Sen. Lisa Murkowski was in the national spotlight after defying her party on health care., Alaska’s other Republican senator, Dan Sullivan, stuck to the party line and attracted li
  
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• Here's how paychecks compare to rent around Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  05-08-2017 03:10
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  Here's how paychecks compare to rent around Alaska
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  Paying the rent each month in Juneau has become slightly easier since 2000, but in Fairbanks, it's gotten tougher to manage. A new report from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development shows how average monthly incomes compare to ...
  
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• Egan calls for criminal justice bill, income tax

  05-08-2017 02:50
  State Sen. Dennis Egan, D-Juneau, speaks to the Juneau Chamber of Commerce on Thursday. He called for another attempt to revise the 2016 criminal justice law. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO)State Sen. Dennis Egan said the Legislature should have passed a bill revising last year’s criminal justice overhaul.
  Senate Bill 54 would have increased jail times for some offenses. The Senate passed the bill by a wide margin.
  “Senate Bill 54 passed the Senate on a vote of 19 to 1,”
  
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• Mandated reporting of prescribed controlled substances begins in Alaska

  05-08-2017 02:20
  Medical professionals prescribing controlled substances in Alaska are now required to provide hard numbers. (Photo by Aaron Bolton/KBBI)The state has been collecting data on prescription opioids and controlled substances since 2012, but until last month, prescribers and pharmacies have been volunteering that data.
  As part of an ongoing legislative effort, medical professionals prescribing controlled substances are now required to provide hard numbers.
  The effort will help the state grasp the siz
  
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• Audiogram: The future of an oil state

  05-08-2017 02:07
  Today, the trans-Alaska pipeline carries a quarter of what it did in its heyday. And so Alaska is facing the question its been ducking for forty years: Will we always be an oil state?
  
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• Study: Suicide Is Top Reason for Alaska Gun Deaths - U.S. News & World Report

  05-08-2017 01:58
  Study: Suicide Is Top Reason for Alaska Gun Deaths
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  The study was published on Wednesday by the Alaska Section of Epidemiology, the Juneau Empire reported (http://bit.ly/2vzd2wL). It examined three statewide databases and found almost 1,500 people were injured or killed by firearms from the start of ...and more »
  
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• Legislative compromise

  05-08-2017 01:52
  The Alaska State Legislature sign at the Legislative Information Office in Downtown Anchorage. (Staff photo)State lawmakers called themselves into a third special session to pass a scaled back capital budget. It was a long time in the making, but does the compromise signal that lawmakers can come together on a longer term budget plan for the state? What sticking points remain?
  HOST: Lori Townsend
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  Democrat Representative Chris Tuck
  Republican Senator Peter Micciche
  Republican Senator
  
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• No charges filed in Mount Polley mine disaster

  05-08-2017 01:27
  Muddy water from the breached Mount Polley Mine tailings pond dam floods a downstream creek and road Aug. 4, 2014. Fishing and environmental groups say the same could happen at new B.C. mines near the Southeast border. (Photo by Cariboo Regional District Emergency Operations Centre)The British Columbia government has decided to not file charges in the Mount Polley Mine disaster.
  Critics in Southeast Alaska say the lack of enforcement action increases their concerns about similar m
  
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• Revisiting getting your own piece of Alaska

  05-08-2017 01:00
  The dream of getting your own piece of Alaska is as old as the North, the idea of staking land, proving up, and ending up with a big homestead that is your own estate. The state of Alaska still has programs for residents to get inexpensive land, including the opportunity to pick your own site and stake the corners. We’ll talk about how you can buy a remote piece of Alaska, too, and hear the story of a real Alaskan pioneer who lived alone in the wilderness years ago. We’re revisi
  
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• 49 Voices: Phil Runkle of Nicolai

  05-08-2017 00:42
  
  
  Phil Runkle of Nicolai (Photo by Anne Hillman, Alaska Public Media)This week we’re hearing from Phil Runkle in Nicolai. Runkle grew up in Nicolai and raises dogs with his family.
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  RUNKLE: Well I spent 37 days out in the Farewell Burn living out of an Arctic Oven on a fairly good sized lake with a nice island. We got trapping out there every winter. We usually have a trap line heading that way. And we got the dogs here — we’ve got 22 dogs at the moment. So I just thoug
  
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• AK: Southeast researchers are keeping up with the humpbacks

  05-08-2017 00:24
  
  
  Volunteer researchers from the Alaska Whale Foundation survey humpbacks in Frederick Sound for a region wide population study. Back: Christine Walder and Leonie Mahlke. Front: Madison Kosma. (Photo – Nora Saks)When animals are removed from the Endangered Species List, who keeps tabs on them? Often, the work of monitoring populations falls on volunteers.
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  This is true of one of Southeast Alaska’s most iconic seasonal visitors – the humpback whale. Researchers have band
  
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