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• When Russia Owned Part of America

  15-08-2017 18:10 via nytimes.com
  The sea-otter trade brought adventurers across the Bering Strait to Alaska and beyond, and remnants of their footprints remain.
  
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• High levels of wastewater bacteria found at Alaska beaches - KTUU.com

  15-08-2017 17:18
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  High levels of wastewater bacteria found at Alaska beaches
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  KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) - Alaska officials have found high levels of a wastewater and sewage pathogen in the water at Ketchikan beaches. The Ketchikan Daily News reports officials with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation advised ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Towns At Risk from Rising Seas Sound Alarm - Climate Central

  15-08-2017 14:05
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  Alaska Towns At Risk from Rising Seas Sound Alarm
  Climate Central
  The U.S. government's withdrawal from dealing with, or even acknowledging, climate change may have provoked widespread opprobrium, but for Alaskan communities at risk of toppling into the sea, the risks are rather more personal. The Trump ...
  
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• New Alaska Dispatch News publishers reassure staff on future - Alaska Dispatch News

  15-08-2017 06:08
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  New Alaska Dispatch News publishers reassure staff on future
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  Ryan Binkley, one of the new co-publishers of Alaska Dispatch News, talks with newspaper employees Monday, August 14, 2017, at the company's office in Anchorage. (Rugile Kaladyte / Alaska Dispatch News). Buy This Photo. Ryan Binkley, one of the new ...
  Alaska's largest news site (which previously bought Alaska's largest newspaper) is going bankrupt, but also getting ...Nieman Journalism L
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Aug. 14, 2017 - Alaska Public Radio Network

  15-08-2017 04:26
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  Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Aug. 14, 2017
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  Sen. Dan Sullivan issued a strongly worded statement that singled out the alt-right and their allies. On Facebook, some thanked Sullivan. But quite a few defended the White supremacists, or complained he should have allotted equal blame to the left.
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Aug. 14, 2017

  15-08-2017 04:22
  
  
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  Sen. Sullivan calls out neo-Nazis; Critics abound
  Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Washington D.C.
  Sen. Dan Sullivan issued a strongly worded statement that singled out the alt-right and their allies. On Facebook, some thanked Sullivan. But quite a few defended the White supremacists, or complained he sh
  
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• ADN declares bankruptcy and new owners emerge

  15-08-2017 03:25
  
  
  The state’s largest newspaper is filing for bankruptcy protection, and may soon have new owners. The Alaska Dispatch News announced a deal this weekend that could turn the paper over to a publishing group made up of lifelong Alaskans.
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  In an article on its front page Sunday, the Dispatch reported its owner, Alice Rogoff, is stepping down, with new owners taking control immediately. That group is made up of siblings from Fairbanks lead by businessman Ryan Binkley, along
  
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• Federal government stalling construction of new Alaska ferry - KTOO

  15-08-2017 03:15
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  Federal government stalling construction of new Alaska ferry
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  Vigor Alaska crew confer before moving the forward half of the Alaska Class Ferry Tazlina out of the assembly hall at the Ketchikan shipyard in 2016. (Photo by Leila Kheiry/KRBD). The design and funding for a new Alaska ferry are ready to go, but the ...and more »
  
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• Sen. Sullivan calls out neo-Nazis; Critics abound

  15-08-2017 03:13
  
  
  An impromptu memorial for Heather Heyer, Charlottesville. Photo: Bob Mical/CC 2.0After violence broke out in Charlottesville, Va. over the weekend, both of Alaska’s U.S. senators condemned the violent “Unite the Right” demonstrations.
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  Sen. Dan Sullivan issued a strongly worded statement that singled out the alt-right and their allies. 
  Hundreds of Facebook users added their own comments to his post. Some thanked Sullivan for specifically calling out fa
  
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• St. George Island receives apology from USFWS… 75 years after WWII internment

  15-08-2017 02:51
  
  
  Survivor Anthony Merculief of St. George Island (right) speaks with Wes Kuhns and Billy Pepper of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service after the apology ceremony at the St. George community center.
  (Laura Kraegel/KUCB)75 years after supervising the Unangan internment during World War II, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has finally apologized to the people of St. George Island.
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  Federal officials visited the island last month to make amends in person.
  Before a small crowd
  
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• Tularemia reported around Fairbanks, Palmer; vets urge quick diagnosis, treatment for pets

  15-08-2017 02:34
  
  
  In this part of the subarctic, the snowshoe hare is the most common source of tularemia infections for dogs, cats and other predators. (Alaska Department of Fish and Game)The state Department of Fish and Game is warning pet owners in the Interior and Southcentral Alaska about a recent spike in reports of tularemia – sometimes called “rabbit fever.” The disease is treatable, but it’s essential to get an animal to a veterinarian as soon as possible when they’re showin
  
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• Longtime Juneau painter Herb Bonnett dies at 87

  15-08-2017 02:19
  Longtime Juneau resident and painter Herb Bonnett attends the Juneau Pioneer Home’s senior prom on June 22, 2017. He died Monday, Aug. 14, 2017. (Photo by Philip Loseby/Juneau Pioneer Home)Longtime Juneau resident and painter Herb Bonnett died this morning at the age of 87.
  Bonnett’s paintings of boats, planes and iconic local landmarks are all over Juneau, including a very large painting on the back wall of the Juneau Assembly’s chambers at City Hall.
  Daughter Michelle Bonnet
  
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• Recall election spotlights political division in Haines

  15-08-2017 02:15
  A sign supporting the Haines recall campaign. (Credit: Abbey Collins)On Tuesday, Haines voters will decide whether to recall half of their borough assembly. Three assembly members are accused of misconduct in office. But the discontent driving the recall is about much more than the official charges. And the recall leaders have repeatedly refused to defend their views on the record.
  “I’m an obituary writer, and I feel as if there’s been a death in my family,” Ass
  
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• Newtok village holds ribbon cutting at Mertarvik

  15-08-2017 01:26
  A Newtok Village Council Elder gathered with financial and government stakeholders at the Mertarvik site for the ribbon cutting ceremony on August 10, 2017. (Christine Trudeau / KYUK)Over the last month and a half, a decade-long project to move the village of Newtok, in the Yukon Delta, is finally beginning to take shape. Last Thursday a ribbon cutting was held in Mertarvik, which means “a place for water”. The new community is safely above the rising water, which threatens village o
  
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• Commuter flight makes emergency water landing outside Juneau, all occupants unharmed

  15-08-2017 00:52
  An Alaska Seaplanes aircraft makes its way to Juneau in June 2107. (Abbey Collins)Four passengers and a pilot are unharmed after an Alaska Seaplanes aircraft made an emergency landing in the water near Juneau Monday morning.
  The flight originated in Haines around 5:30 a.m. It made a routine stop in Skagway to pick up additional passengers before continuing on to Juneau.
  Just outside Juneau, the pilot declared an emergency following an engine failure. That’s according to a press release fro
  
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• The 'Ironic Nazi' Is Coming to an End - New York Magazine

  15-08-2017 00:51
  New York Magazine
  The 'Ironic Nazi' Is Coming to an End
  New York Magazine
  Over the weekend, the alt-right descended upon Charlottesville, Virginia, in full force: The bearded militiamen, the shield-toting National Vanguard, and of course, the oddly coiffed representatives of the irony wing of the far-right movement. People ...
  
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