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• Alaska Supreme Court denies medical license revocation - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  12-08-2017 23:49
  Alaska Supreme Court denies medical license revocation
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  FAIRBANKS — Alaska's high court has struck down the State Medical Board's medical license revocation for a Fairbanks doctor who specializes in anti-aging and weight loss treatment. In what had been the state's first medical license revocation since ...
  
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• Federal Officials Tag Drug Package in Alaska, Make Arrests - U.S. News & World Report

  12-08-2017 19:09
  Federal Officials Tag Drug Package in Alaska, Make Arrests
  U.S. News & World Report
  Two people in Alaska who handled a drug package after it was spotted in the mailing process and then tagged by federal officials have been arrested. Aug. 12, 2017, at 6:23 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Federal Officials Tag ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Aug. 11, 2017

  12-08-2017 03:55
  
  
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  Lawsuit to evict ADN over unpaid bills threatens paper’s future
  Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  The state’s largest newspaper is in serious financial trouble, according to a lawsuit brought by GCI over $1.4 million in unpaid bills, and more in additional claims. It’s on
  
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• Lawsuit to evict ADN over unpaid bills threatens paper’s future

  12-08-2017 03:16
  
  
  A recent edition of the ADN, along with two lawsuits brought against the paper (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media)The state’s largest newspaper is in serious financial trouble.
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  According to a lawsuit filed Friday, the Alaska Dispatch News is being brought to court by telecommunications company GCI for $2.9 million, much of it over unpaid bills. And it’s asking the court to evict the newspaper from the warehouse space that houses the printing press, at a tim
  
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• UAF's 'GeoFORCE Alaska' program receives $200000 federal grant - webcenter11

  12-08-2017 02:17
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  UAF's 'GeoFORCE Alaska' program receives $200000 federal grant
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  A University of Alaska Fairbanks program that exposes rural high school students to geologic field work has received a significant federal grant. The program, GeoFORCE Alaska, received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant ...and more »
  
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• Walker signs SB 88, Mental Health Trust land exchange

  12-08-2017 02:05
  Gov. Bill Walker hold up a signed Senate Bill 88, the Alaska Mental Health Trust land exchange. (Photo by Leila Kheiry/KRBD)Alaska Gov. Bill Walker was joined in Ketchikan on Thursday by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, state Sen. Bert Stedman and state Rep. Dan Ortiz to sign a bill accepting a land trade between the U.S. Forest Service and Alaska Mental Health Trust.
  The trade puts parcels of Trust land close to communities in Ketchikan and Petersburg into Forest Service ownership, in exchange for fed
  
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• 49 Voices: Sierra Anderson of Nome

  12-08-2017 01:03
  
  
  Sierra Anderson of Nome (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)This week we’re hearing from Sierra Anderson from Nome. Anderson is a junior in high school who hopes to study architecture after graduating.
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  ANDERSON: It looks like a lot of fun to like design your own house that no one’s ever thought of before — just like build your own stuff.
  I thin it started when we built our own cabin out at at Nome. I’d kinda just sit there looking
  
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• Ski jumping in Anchorage

  12-08-2017 01:00
  One of the young members of the Nordic Ski Association of Anchorage flies off of one of the new summer ski jumps. The Hilltop ski jump facility is the first of its kind to allow for ski jumping in the summer in Alaska. (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)It’s late summer in Alaska, so of course the topic of Outdoor Explorer is ski jumping! It seems that a group of local parents raised money to put running water on the ski jumps off Abbott Road so they could see th
  
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• Permanent Fund Corp. headquarters to undergo $4 million renovation

  12-08-2017 00:58
  Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. CEO Angela Rodell stands in the corporation headquarters on Wednesday. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO)The Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. will be renovating its headquarters in Juneau. Its goal is to modernize its offices and help its workers communicate more easily. It’s budgeted to cost $4 million. Supporters say it may be a small price for the state to pay if it makes a difference in growing the $60.7 billion fund.
  The Permanent Fund Corp. office look
  
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• AK: Metlakatla residents celebrate their community’s 130th birthday

  12-08-2017 00:38
  
  
  William Duncan’s Residence, 1907 (Photo courtesy Ketchikan museum)A small crowd gathered outside a two-steepled white church. It’s early in the day, but the sun is already beating down, glinting off of the lone headstone that stands beside the church. There lies Christian missionary William Duncan, a controversial and key figure in the story of this Southeast community’s history.
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  “No matter what anyone may think of him, William Duncan did what he thought was be
  
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• Publisher of Alaska's largest newspaper sued for unpaid rent - Columbia Missourian

  12-08-2017 00:32
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Publisher of Alaska's largest newspaper sued for unpaid rent
  Columbia Missourian
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The publisher of Alaska's largest newspaper is being sued over nearly $1.4 million in unpaid rent and other fees on the paper's former headquarters, which still houses the printing press. The civil suit filed Friday in ...
  Alaska Journal | GCI moves to evict Alaska Dispatch NewsAlaskajournal.com
  Alaska Dispatch News sued by GCI after presses outstay lease
  
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• Publisher of Alaska's largest newspaper sued for unpaid rent - Minneapolis Star Tribune

  12-08-2017 00:00
  KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
  Publisher of Alaska's largest newspaper sued for unpaid rent
  Minneapolis Star Tribune
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The publisher of Alaska's largest newspaper is being sued over nearly $1.4 million in unpaid rent and other fees on the paper's former headquarters, which still houses the printing press. The civil suit filed Friday in Anchorage by ...
  GCI moves to evict Alaska Dispatch NewsAlaskajournal.com
  Alaska Dispatch News sued by GCI after presses outstay lease
  
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