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• Folk schools and lifelong learning: Following your own curiosity

  25-08-2017 23:00
  Images from an August 21 mushroom class offered through Folkskills. Photo by John Moriarty/FolkskillsIf you were in the know, you could have been on the mushroom walk that yielded these images above. The walk was offered August 21 through Folkskills, a platform that links teachers and learners in Anchorage. The classes are in person, in the community, and taught by local experts and enthusiasts. In this case, Christin Anderson led the mushroom identification walk for Folkskills. She’s also
  
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• Folkskills and lifelong learning: Following your own curiosity

  25-08-2017 22:59
  Images from an August 21 mushroom class offered through Folkskills. Photo by John Moriarty/FolkskillsIf you were in the know, you could have been on the mushroom walk that yielded these images above. The walk was offered August 21 through Folkskills, a platform that links teachers and learners in Anchorage. The classes are in person, in the community, and taught by local experts and enthusiasts. In this case, Christin Anderson led the mushroom identification walk for Folkskills. She’s also
  
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• UAS offers low cost Alaska Native language, arts courses - KTOO

  25-08-2017 22:32
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  UAS offers low cost Alaska Native language, arts courses
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  This fall, the University of Alaska Southeast is opening up some of its Alaska Native language and Northwest Coast arts classes to the community at-large at reduced rates. UAS Chancellor Rick Caulfield said with few fluent speakers left, there's an ...
  
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• Physicians for a National Health Program

  25-08-2017 21:00
  Congress has failed to repeal or replace the Accountable Care Act. In fact polls indicate the Act has become more appealing to Americans. However, is there a better answer to cost, access and quality for health care? Dr. Carol Paris, President of the Board of Directors of Physicians for a National Health Program, will discuss a single payer alternative on this edition of Line One: Your Health Connection.
   
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• Alaska Hunting Guide Charged With Herding Bears to Clients - U.S. News & World Report

  25-08-2017 20:45
  Alaska Hunting Guide Charged With Herding Bears to Clients
  U.S. News & World Report
  Alaska prosecutors have filed misdemeanor charges against a hunting guide suspected of using snowmobiles to herd grizzly bears toward clients. Aug. 25, 2017, at 3:08 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Alaska Hunting Guide ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Court Upholds Cut to Checks From Oil-Wealth Fund - U.S. News & World Report

  25-08-2017 19:42
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  Alaska Court Upholds Cut to Checks From Oil-Wealth Fund
  U.S. News & World Report
  The Alaska Supreme Court says Gov. Bill Walker acted within his authority in reducing the amount set aside for checks to state residents from Alaska's oil-wealth fund last year. Aug. 25, 2017, at 5:26 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel.
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• Alaska court upholds cut to checks from oil-wealth fund - Miami Herald

  25-08-2017 19:41
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  Alaska court upholds cut to checks from oil-wealth fund
  Miami Herald
  The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that Gov. Bill Walker acted within his authority last year in reducing the amount set aside for checks from Alaska's oil-wealth fund to state residents. The decision released Friday sided with the state, as a lower ...
  Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Aug. 25, 2017Alaska Public Radio Network
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• Secretary Chao announces infrastructure changes for Alaska - Alaska Public Radio Network

  25-08-2017 19:12
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  Secretary Chao announces infrastructure changes for Alaska
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  During a visit from the country's head of transportation, Alaskans got news that one of the most trafficked roads in the state is a step closer to improvements that have been 40 years in the making. Listen now. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao ...
  
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• Cecil D. Andrus, 85, Carter’s Preservationist Interior Secretary, Dies

  25-08-2017 19:10 via nytimes.com
  With Mr. Andrus leading the way, the Carter administration set aside more than 100 million acres in Alaska for federal protection.
  
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• Secretary Chao announces infrastructure changes for Alaska

  25-08-2017 19:09
  Transportation Secretary Eilane Chao speaking with Senator Dan Sullivan after a transportation summit in Anchorage (Photo: Zachariah Hughes – Alaska Public Media)During a visit from the country’s head of transportation, Alaskans got news that one of the most trafficked roads in the state is a step closer to improvements that have been 40 years in the making.
  Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao spent two days in Alaska, touring Prudhoe Bay with Senator Lisa Murkowski- and meeting wit
  
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• Cecil D. Andrus, 85, Interior Secretary Under Carter, Is Dead

  25-08-2017 19:08 via nytimes.com
  With Mr. Andrus leading the way, the Carter administration set aside more than 100 million acres in Alaska for federal protection.
  
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• Dancing around the topic…

  25-08-2017 18:29
  Momentum Dance Collective “In Pieces”Pulse Dance Company “Rite of Spring”Just what goes into running an adult dance company in Anchorage? How about two? Join Artistic Directors Becky Kendall of Momentum Dance Collective and Stephanie Wonchala of Pulse Dance Company this week on Stage Talk to find out. Momentum Dance Collective is celebrating their tenth anniversary and Pulse Dance Company is celebrating their eighth year of bringing exciting and creative dance concerts an
  
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• Developing Alaska's Pebble Mine could threaten salmon population ... - CBS News

  25-08-2017 18:08
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  Developing Alaska's Pebble Mine could threaten salmon population ...
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  The mine's development stalled under Obama, but the Trump administration has given the controversial project new life.and more »
  
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• Alaska officials draft plan to test shelved sex assault kits - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  25-08-2017 15:47
  Alaska officials draft plan to test shelved sex assault kits
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska authorities are working with an initiative group to draft guidelines for testing the state's sexual assault kits, some of which have been shelved for years due to lack of funding. The Juneau Empire reports (http://bit.ly ...and more »
  
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• Sly Rainbow-Crosswalk Painter Reappears in Alaska's Capital - U.S. News & World Report

  25-08-2017 15:39
  Sly Rainbow-Crosswalk Painter Reappears in Alaska's Capital
  U.S. News & World Report
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A crosswalk in Alaska's capital city has turned into an anonymous painter's canvas. Someone keeps painting each white strip a different color, mimicking a rainbow. Residents who've walked through the downtown crosswalk feel it ...and more »
  
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• Cecil V. Andrus, former Interior secretary who helped conserve Alaska land, dies at 85 - Los Angeles Times

  25-08-2017 14:17
  Los Angeles Times
  Cecil V. Andrus, former Interior secretary who helped conserve Alaska land, dies at 85
  Los Angeles Times
  Former Interior Secretary Cecil V. Andrus, who engineered the conservation of millions of acres of Alaska land during the Carter administration, has died. He was 85. Andrus died late Wednesday of complications from lung cancer, daughter Tracy Andrus said.
  Cecil Andrus, defender of Alaska's wilderness as Carter's interior secretary, dies at 85Washington Post
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• New streamlined environmental review aims to expedite Alaska road construction - KTUU.com

  25-08-2017 08:30
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  New streamlined environmental review aims to expedite Alaska road construction
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  ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - The US Secretary of Transportation is ending her trip to Alaska with a promise to cut regulatory red tape on infrastructure development as well as streamline highway construction. In a press conference with Senator Dan Sullivan and ...
  U.S. transportation secretary announces efforts to speed up project ...Alaska Dispatch Newsall 5 news articles »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017 - Alaska Public Radio Network

  25-08-2017 04:09
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  Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017
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  The fate of the long pursued Interior Energy Project will soon come into better focus. The state funded effort hinges on a natural gas supply from Cook Inlet, and that's expected next month. Fish and Game criticized over “chronic failure” regulating ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017

  25-08-2017 04:05
  
  
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  Six charged in extensive Anchorage mail fraud case
  Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  Six Anchorage residents have been charged in a large mail fraud case.
  Long awaited Interior natural gas contract expected
  Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks
  The fate of the long pursued Interior Energy Project
  
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• Long awaited Interior natural gas contract expected

  25-08-2017 03:11
  The fate of the long pursued Interior Energy Project will soon come into better focus. The state funded effort hinges on a natural gas supply from Cook Inlet, and that’s expected next month.
   
  The North Star Borough voter formed Interior Gas Utility, is a utility without any gas to sell, but IGU general manager Jomo Stewart said a forthcoming contract with a Cook Inlet producer could change that. Stewart said he can’t yet share details, but the contract is central to presentatio
  
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• First day of Alaska State Fair - KTUU.com

  25-08-2017 02:55
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  First day of Alaska State Fair
  KTUU.com
  PALMER, Alaska (KTUU) - The Alaska State Fair started in Palmer, Thursday afternoon. According to the state fair, almost 300,000 people are expected to attend this year. Expect to eat, and then eat some more. Who are we kidding? Go back for thirds!
  
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• Responders have mitigated pollution threat of F/V Akutan, Coast Guard says

  25-08-2017 02:54
  The F/V Akutan is still moored in Unalaska’s Captains Bay. (Berett Wilber/KUCB)Six days after forming an emergency response team, officials have suspended their efforts aboard a disabled fishing vessel in Unalaska.
  Coast Guard Petty Officer John-Paul Rios said responders have removed almost 16,000 gallons of oil and sludge from the F/V Akutan, which is moored in Captains Bay.
  “The main thing we were trying to do was insure there was no major pollution incident,” Rios said.
  
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• Great Alaska Shootout will end after 2017 - ESPN

  25-08-2017 02:47
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  Great Alaska Shootout will end after 2017
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The University of Alaska Anchorage says the 40th Great Alaska Shootout will be the last edition of the long-running college basketball tournament. Chancellor Sam Gingerich said Thursday that the university can no longer sustain ...
  Great Alaska Shootout ends after 40 years - KTUUKTUU.com
  For 40 years, Shootout showed Alaska what big-time college basketball looks likeAlaska Dispatch Newsall 11 news articles »
  
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• Assembly approves expansion to Sitka Hospital’s clinic

  25-08-2017 02:45
  The space designated for a $400,000 modular unit that attaches to the clinic, which the Sitka Assembly approved at their meeting Tuesday night (08-22-17). (Emily Kwong/KCAW photo)Sitka Community Hospital is getting the office extension it asked for, but not without some big picture questions from the Sitka Assembly Tuesday night on how it will stay financially solvent into the future. The modular unit will expand the physical size of the clinic, allowing for more providers to see patients.
  
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• What happens when Alaska's permafrost isn't permanent - Alaska Dispatch News

  25-08-2017 02:37
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  What happens when Alaska's permafrost isn't permanent
  Alaska Dispatch News
  In an undated handout photo, scientists study the permafrost in the vast Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. Starting just a few feet below the surface and extending tens or even hundreds of feet down, Alaska's permafrost has safely sequestered vast ...and more »
  
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• Fish and Game criticized over “chronic failure” regulating Mat-Su waters

  25-08-2017 02:28
  Leadership at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game got an earful Tuesday night in Palmer.
  That’s where the Matanuska-Susitna Borough’s fish commission told Fish and Game Commissioner Sam Cotten and other top officials about what the borough described as a “chronic failure” to let fish pass through Cook Inlet to the Mat-Su’s rivers and creeks.
  For years, Mat-Su anglers and sport fishing guides have been at odds with commercial fishing interests farther south in Coo
  
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• Former senator, longtime Native leader Albert Kookesh fighting cancer

  25-08-2017 02:19
  Albert Kookesh discusses regional issues in his legislative office in 2012, when he was a state senator. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska)A longtime Alaska political and business leader is fighting prostate cancer.
  Former state Sen. Albert Kookesh, an Angoon Democrat, spent 16 years in the Alaska Legislature. As a senator, he represented the state’s largest electoral district, which ran from southern Southeast through the Interior and most of the way to the Bering Sea.
  Kookesh also
  
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• Six charged in extensive Anchorage mail fraud case

  25-08-2017 02:10
  Six Anchorage residents have been charged in a large mail fraud case.
  Assistant U.S Attorney Aunnie Steward said the suspects used altered checks from stolen mail and stolen vehicles in order to defraud various banks and stores throughout Anchorage — all the while using stolen identities.
  “The allegations show that this was one of the more successful mail fraud rings that we have charged in this district, specifically in Anchorage,” Steward said.
  Steward said between stolen che
  
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• Scientists find new clue in Steller sea lion decline

  25-08-2017 01:14
  
  
  Sea lion pups rest on an Aleutian Beach. (Photo courtesy NOAA)Scientists have finished another research season without solving the 40-year-old mystery of the Steller sea lion decline in the Aleutian Islands.
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  But this summer, a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration may have found a new clue.
  NOAA biologist Katie Sweeney is trying to solve the mystery of two sea lion stocks.
  In the 1970s, the number of Aleutian Stellers crashed. 15 years ago, those on the ea
  
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• Someone’s painting rainbow colors over a Juneau crosswalk; the city wants it to stop

  25-08-2017 01:07
  An unidentified couple pose for the recently painted rainbow crosswalk at the intersection of 7th and Gold streets in August 2016. (Photo courtesy of Sue Warner)A crosswalk in a downtown Juneau neighborhood is constantly being painted over in rainbow colors.
  Depending on who you ask, it’s either an expression of creativity or simple vandalism.
  The corner of 7th and Gold Streets isn’t particularly busy. But one of its crosswalks has been getting a fair amount of attention since someon
  
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