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• State revokes Skagway police chief’s certification, but he’s still on the job

  10-08-2017 22:10
  The old Skagway Police Department. (Emily Files)Skagway’s longtime police chief is working without state certification. The council that oversees those accreditations revoked Ray Leggett’s certification because, it says, there is substantial doubt that he has ‘good moral character.’ Leggett calls the decision a ‘miscarriage of justice.’
  This multi-year saga is outlined in documents from a 2016 hearing in front of an administrative law judge.
  It started in 2012
  
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• Want the freshest Unalaska fish? You’ll have to go to Europe.

  10-08-2017 20:35
  Unalaska brings in more fish than anywhere in America. All of it is for export. (Sarah Hansen/KUCB)Unalaska is America’s most productive fishing port – hauling in over 780 million pounds of seafood in 2015. That fish gets shipped all over the world and eventually — after processing — some of it comes back to Unalaska.
  But you can’t buy fresh fish in town.
  At one of Unalaska’s grocery stores, the frozen fish section is almost entirely fish from Asia.
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• Mega-Tsunami Could Be Triggered by an Alaska Quake - Scientific ... - Scientific American

  10-08-2017 13:31
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  Mega-Tsunami Could Be Triggered by an Alaska Quake - Scientific ...
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  Researchers have found tectonic features on the ocean floor off the Alaska coast similar to those that drove the 2011 earthquake in Japan.and more »
  
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• Mega-Tsunami Could Be Triggered by an Alaska Quake - Scientific American

  10-08-2017 13:31
  Scientific American
  Mega-Tsunami Could Be Triggered by an Alaska Quake
  Scientific American
  Bécel and her team collected their data on the Marcus G. Langseth, a ship outfitted for seismology research. Credit: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Advertisement. Scientists onboard the R/V Marcus G. Langseth research vessel anticipated a routine ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017

  10-08-2017 03:59
  
  
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  North Slope well leak estimated at over 7,000 gallons
  Elizabeth Harball, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage
  The state reports that over 7,000 gallons of oil leaked from a North Slope well owned by Caelus Energy.
  Juneau Empire, Peninsula Clarion, Homer News sold to GateHouse Media
  Jacob Resneck, KTOO &
  
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• Juneau Empire, Peninsula Clarion, Homer News sold to GateHouse Media

  10-08-2017 03:10
  
  
  The Juneau Empire is located at 3100 Channel Drive. Its building was not included in the sale to GateHouse Media and will be retained by the Morris family. (Photo by Heather Bryant/KTOO)The Juneau Empire, Peninsula Clarion in Kenai and weekly Homer News are among 11 papers being sold by Morris Communications to GateHouse Media for a reported $120 million.
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  Newsrooms learned about the sale of their papers to GateHouse Media early Wednesday morning. The upstate New York-based chain
  
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• Caribou hunting limited in eastern Interior

  10-08-2017 03:04
  (Photo courtesy of Alaska Department of Fish and Game)The state will limit caribou hunting in the eastern Interior, along the Taylor and Top of the World Highways. An Alaska Department of Fish and Game announcement says the no-hunt corridor prohibits harvest of caribou within a hundred feet along both sides of the road during a state hunt for Forty Mile caribou, which opens August 29th.
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  Fish and Game spokeswoman Doreen Parker McNeil said the corridor addresses safety and conservation
  
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• Sign project revives 1967 Fairbanks flood history

  10-08-2017 03:01
  National Weather Service hydrologist Ed Plumb takes a measurement for installation of high water mark sign on an historic cabin near the Morris Thompson Center. (Dan Bross / KUAC)50 years ago this week, the Fairbanks area was being deluged by unprecedented rainfall. The precipitation channeled from surrounding hills into the Chena River resulting in an epic flood that devastated the interior city. Five decades later, signs are going up around Fairbanks to remind people of what happened.
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• NTSB unsure what led to 2015 Lynn Canal plane crash, investigation completed

  10-08-2017 02:30
  Eldred Rock(Wikimedia Commons image by Ryan Harvey, Flickr, Alaska Cruise 2008)In November of 2015, a private plane crashed near Eldred Rock in the Lynn Canal. The crash injured four Haines residents who swam to shore to save themselves. An investigation into the incident is now complete. But it’s still unclear why the plane went down.
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  It’s been more than a year-and-a-half since pilot Mike Mackowiak’s plane crashed into the cold waters of the Lynn Canal injuring him
  
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• North Slope well leak estimated at over 7,000 gallons

  10-08-2017 02:15
  
  
  A “Super Sucker” truck helps with spill cleanup in July. Caelus first reported the spill in June. (photo by Wes Ghormley, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation)The state reports that over 7,000 gallons of oil leaked from a North Slope well owned by Caelus Energy.
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  Tom DeRuyter is overseeing the response to the leak with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). He said DEC thinks most of the spill was contained to a gravel pad, but about three gal
  
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• Traveling Music 8-13-17

  10-08-2017 02:14
  Traveling Music
  8-13-17
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  Format:
  Song TitleArtist / Composer
  CD Title
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  The Dreamer
  Darrell Scott / Darell Scott
  The Invisible Man
  Full Light
  4:32
   
  More Love
  Dixie Chicks / Tim O’Brien, Gary Nicholson
  Home
  Columbia
  5:06
   
  Speak
  Nickel Creek / Sean Watkins
  This Side
  Sugar Hill
  4:01
   
  The Drowsy Sleeper
  Lissa Schneckenburger / Traditional
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  4:23
   
  Captain Torres
  James Keelaghan / James Keelaghan
  The First 25 Y
  
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• Necropsy planned for humpback hit by cruise ship

  10-08-2017 01:47
  A humpback whale is seen lodged on the front of the Grand Princess Wednesday in Ketchikan. (KRBD photo by Leila Kheiry)A Princess Cruise Lines ship traveling through Southeast Alaska’s Inside Passage hit a humpback whale that became lodged on the front bulbous bow.
  The whale was removed after the Grand Princess docked in downtown Ketchikan Wednesday morning, and the dead animal was towed to a nearby beach.
  In a statement released Wednesday, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration&r
  
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