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• Parties agree to end lawsuit over Alaska abortion provisions - KTUU.com

  08-08-2017 23:58
  KTUU.com
  Parties agree to end lawsuit over Alaska abortion provisions
  KTUU.com
  Anchorage (KTUU) A lawsuit by abortion rights activists prompted the State Medical board to change policies restricting where abortions beyond the first trimester can be performed. Both Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands ...
  
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• Alaska Wild Salmon Day: Dinner's up - Alaska Dispatch News

  08-08-2017 22:55
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Alaska Wild Salmon Day: Dinner's up
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  Bridge Restaurant executive chef Brie Lauren at Ship Creek in Anchorage prepares Signature King Salmon on Friday, July 14, 2017. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News). Share on Facebook Facebook. Share on Twitter Twitter. Share via Email Email.and more »
  
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• Anchorage Parks and Recreation builds new community garden plots to keep up with demand

  08-08-2017 22:18
  David Parrish weeds his plot at C Street Community Gardens. (Henry Leasia / Alaska Public Media)On a recent cloudy afternoon, David Parrish yanked weeds from a patch of dirt where he’s been growing strawberries. He gardened barefoot, admiring an impressive harvest at a nearby plot run by a couple.
  “They fertilize like crazy,” Parrish said. “They’ve got something brewed up — I don’t know what it is — and it just goes bananas. So yeah you l
  
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• July Was Record Hot for Parts of Alaska and the West - Climate Central

  08-08-2017 21:44
  Climate Central
  July Was Record Hot for Parts of Alaska and the West
  Climate Central
  The northernmost city in the United States just had its hottest July on record, as other spots in Alaska had their hottest month overall. Heat records also fell in a few western cities, as well as the fearsomely hot Death Valley, where July was the ...
  
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• Travel Tuesday: Getting to know Alaska's tourists - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

  08-08-2017 21:08
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Travel Tuesday: Getting to know Alaska's tourists
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  This year, Alaska will have about two-million vacationers. For those outside of the tourism industry, they can feel like strangers. Julie Saupe of Visit Anchorage joined Daybreak to share some fast facts about the tourists who bolster Alaska's economy.
  
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• Alert Level Lowered on Volcano in Alaska's Aleutians Islands - U.S. News & World Report

  08-08-2017 21:03
  The Spokesman-Review
  Alert Level Lowered on Volcano in Alaska's Aleutians Islands
  U.S. News & World Report
  The Alaska Volcano Observatory has lowered the alert level on an Aleutians Islands volcano that spewed ash for three hours Monday. Aug. 8, 2017, at 2:48 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Alert Level Lowered on Volcano in Alaska's ...
  Alaska volcano sends up ash cloud; aircraft warning issuedThe Spokesman-Review
  Alaska's tiny Bogoslof volcano erup
  
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• PIPELINES: How Spiro Agnew helped save the Trans-Alaska project ... - E&E News

  08-08-2017 19:47
  E&E News
  PIPELINES: How Spiro Agnew helped save the Trans-Alaska project ...
  E&E News
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In 1968, ARCO and Humble Oil and Refining Co. announced the discovery of 21 billion barrels of oil in place at Alaska's Prudhoe Bay ...and more »
  
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• How Spiro Agnew helped save the Trans-Alaska project - E&E News

  08-08-2017 19:47
  E&E News
  How Spiro Agnew helped save the Trans-Alaska project
  E&E News
  Reporters from around the world descended on Prudhoe Bay to mark the beginning of oil flow in the Alaska pipeline on June 20, 1977. BP Global. Second in a series. Read the first part here. ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In 1968, ARCO and Humble Oil and ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Tribes Try to Influence Canadian Mining Project Talks - U.S. News & World Report

  08-08-2017 19:37
  CTV News
  Alaska Tribes Try to Influence Canadian Mining Project Talks
  U.S. News & World Report
  A group of 16 southeast Alaska tribes has hired a coordinator to express their concerns about a series of large Canadian mining projects that the tribes fear could hurt salmon habitat. Aug. 8, 2017, at 8:55 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google + ...
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• ​Alaska Air Is Now the Cheapest Airline to Fly with Your Bike—by Half - Bicycling

  08-08-2017 18:10
  Bicycling
  ​Alaska Air Is Now the Cheapest Airline to Fly with Your Bike—by Half
  Bicycling
  You might want to book your flights to cycling destinations with Alaska Air—the airline just announced that the charge for sporting goods, including bikes, is now just $25. "Knowing that adventures are even more fun with the right gear, we're reducing ...
  
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• Nationwide teacher shortage amplifies Alaska schools' woes - New Haven Register

  08-08-2017 15:39
  Nationwide teacher shortage amplifies Alaska schools' woes
  New Haven Register
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A teacher shortage across the nation has added to Alaska's ongoing problem of educators fleeing the state, leaving school districts scrambling for teachers with just a few weeks until classes start, school officials said. Numbers ...and more »
  
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• Nationwide Teacher Shortage Amplifies Alaska Schools' Woes - U.S. News & World Report

  08-08-2017 15:35
  Nationwide Teacher Shortage Amplifies Alaska Schools' Woes
  U.S. News & World Report
  Educators say a nationwide teacher shortage has added to Alaska's ongoing problem of educators fleeing the state and leaving school districts scrambling for teachers with just a few weeks before classes start. Aug. 8, 2017, at 1:44 p.m.. MORE.and more »
  
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• More crews stay in Alaska as fire conditions linger - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  08-08-2017 10:51
  More crews stay in Alaska as fire conditions linger
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  FAIRBANKS — Facing a lingering fire season in Alaska, the Alaska Division of Forestry placed a hold Sunday on “critical” firefighting resources leaving Alaska for assignments in the Lower 48. The hold applies to jobs that respond to initial attack ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Aug. 7, 2017

  08-08-2017 04:00
  
  
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  Trump administration signals it could open more of the Arctic to drilling
  Elizabeth Harball, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage
  The Bureau of Land Management announced Monday that it will consider allowing oil development in parts of the National Petroleum Reserve on Alaska’s North Slope that ar
  
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• The future of an oil state: What’s next for Alaska? | MIDNIGHT OIL: Episode 08

  08-08-2017 03:52
  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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• Alaska should declare a sexual assault state of disaster - Alaska Dispatch News

  08-08-2017 03:48
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Alaska should declare a sexual assault state of disaster
  Alaska Dispatch News
  By now, most Alaskans are woefully aware of the alarming reality. Alaska's sexual crime rates are three times higher than the national average, and child sexual assault rates are six times the national average. A 2016 state report confirms that, ...
  
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• Alaska should declare a sexual assault state of disaster - Alaska ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  08-08-2017 03:48
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Alaska should declare a sexual assault state of disaster - Alaska ...
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  Declaration would open way to federal funds -- and could hasten needed cultural change to prevent crimes of sexual violence.and more »
  
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• Drue Pearce appointed to US pipeline safety agency

  08-08-2017 02:50
  
  
  PHMSA Deputy Director Drue Pearce. (2016 photo by Lawrence Ostrovsky for Alaska Public Media)Former Alaska legislator Drue Pearce has a new job in the Trump administration. She is now the deputy administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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  PHMSA, created in 2004, oversees the nation’s network of pipelines, some 2.3 million miles, and the transportation of hazardous materials in general, by road,
  
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• Firefighters work to extinguish Chistochina Fire

  08-08-2017 02:28
  
  
  State and federal firefighters are mopping up a wildfire in the Copper River Valley.
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  The Chistochina Fire started Friday along long the Tok Cutoff, and the Alaska Fire Service reports that water drops, smokejumpers, and ground crews stopped the blaze at 98 acres, just short of reaching 4 homes. Work continued over the weekend to secure the fires perimeter. The cause of the blaze is under investigation.
  
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• Trump administration signals it could open more of the Arctic to drilling

  08-08-2017 02:14
  BLM’s map of NPR-A acreage available for leasing. The Trump administration is gauging industry interest in portions of the region not currently available for drilling. (Image courtesy BLM)The Trump administration is taking a first step towards potentially opening up new parts of Alaska to oil drilling.
  The Bureau of Land Management announced Monday that it will consider allowing oil development in parts of the National Petroleum Reserve on Alaska’s North Slope that are curr
  
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• PenAir in bankruptcy court for Chapter 11 reorganization, but it says Alaska operations will continue - Alaska Dispatch News

  08-08-2017 02:07
  Alaska Dispatch News
  PenAir in bankruptcy court for Chapter 11 reorganization, but it says Alaska operations will continue
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Danny Seybert is CEO of PenAir, which is seeking to reorganize. (Erik Hill / Alaska Dispatch News). Share on Facebook Facebook. Share on Twitter Twitter. Share via Email Email. Share on Tumblr Tumblr. Share on Reddit Reddit. Share on LinkedIn LinkedIn.
  PenAir files for bankruptcy protection as CEO promises to refocus on Alaska routesAlaska Public Radio
  
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• Witness hearings start Monday in F/V Destination investigation

  08-08-2017 01:11
  Six F/V Destination crew members died when their boat disappeared in February near St. George Island, marking the deadliest accident in more than a decade for the Bering Sea crab fleet. The Coast Guard is holding public hearings as part of its investigation into the Destination’s sinking. (Photo courtesy F/V Destination Memorial Fund)Starting Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard is holding two weeks of public hearings as part of its investigation into the sinking of the F/V Destination.
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• With a few weeks to go, Alaska schools are short 245 educators

  08-08-2017 01:04
  (Photo illustration by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)Imagine you’re fresh out of school, broke and hunting for your first teaching job. Then a school district offers you a job paying $70,000 a year. Afterward, you meet Joshua Gill from the Lower Kuskokwim School District in rural Alaska and he offers you a job paying $52,000 a year.
  “For a kid coming out of school, that’s an $18,000 difference,” Gill said.
  $70,000 dollars a year for a new teache
  
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• More than $100,000 raised for injured Anchorage firefighter

  08-08-2017 00:40
  Anchorage Fire Department Fire Engine (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)An Anchorage firefighter badly hurt during training is making progress in a Colorado hospital amid an outpouring of support from Alaska.
  29-year-old firefighter Ben Schultz fell from a ladder in June and was in critical condition for a time.
  Fire Captain Jason Dolph. said Schultz had been in an unconscious or semi-unconscious state ever since.
  That is… until a week ago.
  “He said a few
  
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• PenAir files for bankruptcy protection as CEO promises to refocus on Alaska routes

  08-08-2017 00:29
  (Courtesy of Pen Air)The largest air carrier in southwest Alaska has filed for bankruptcy protection.
  “PenAir filed for reorganization under Chapter 11,” CEO Danny Seybert said on Monday. “There’s a number of reasons for this. I won’t go into all the reasons, but we’re going to reorganize the company.”
  Seybert said the filing will not affect scheduled flights in Alaska, where the company serves eight communities: Unalaska, Cold Bay, King Salmon, Sand Poi
  
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