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• Syringe Exchange Program Aims To Slow Hepatitis C Infections In Alaska - NPR

  29-08-2017 20:53
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  Syringe Exchange Program Aims To Slow Hepatitis C Infections In Alaska
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  Like many states, Alaska is struggling under the burden of opioid abuse. Prescription painkillers and heroin accounted for 74 percent of Alaska's drug overdose deaths last year. Transmission of blood-born viruses like hepatitis C, which can cause liver ...and more »
  
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• Hepatitis C Epidemic Threatens Alaska's Opioid Addicts : Shots - NPR - NPR

  29-08-2017 20:53
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  Hepatitis C Epidemic Threatens Alaska's Opioid Addicts : Shots - NPR
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  As the nation's opioid abuse problem soars, so do health problems associated with drug use like hepatitis C, which is placing a major burden on Alaska's ...and more »
  
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• Alaska youth environmental group asks state to start regulating greenhouse gas emissions - Alaska Dispatch News

  29-08-2017 05:01
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  Alaska youth environmental group asks state to start regulating greenhouse gas emissions
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  A group of youth activists, impatient with the state's response to global warming, formally petitioned Alaska Gov. Bill Walker's administration Monday to adopt new limits on greenhouse gas emissions, saying that unchecked pollution is threatening their ...
  
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• Fish Wheel: Design from the Past may be a Solution for the Future

  29-08-2017 04:07
  
  
  Maggie Bobby and Barb Carlson (left to right) have run a fish wheel near Sleetmute since 2015. (MacArthur/KYUK)With gillnet fishing limited to only a few days on the Kuskokwim for most of June and July, some people on the river turned to alternative ways of filling their smokehouses.
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  In Sleetmute, Barb Carlson and Maggie Bobby ran a fish wheel to get their season’s catch of red salmon. Even after the two women had enough salmon for themselves, they wanted others to get a chance.
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Aug. 28, 2017

  29-08-2017 04:06
  
  
  Violent crime spree leaves one dead, another wounded; two inmates that escaped Bethel’s jail have been recaptured; The state of Alaska is considering whether it should sue the manufacturers of powerful painkillers; Hurricane, now tropical storm Harvey won’t affect Alaska oil prices; One in seven Alaskans are food insecure, the SNAP program helps them; traveling to Sleetmute where two women run a fishwheel; Climate change is affecting Kodiak bears relationship with an important f
  
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• Hurricane Harvey won't impact Alaska oil and gas - Alaska Public Radio Network

  29-08-2017 03:42
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  Hurricane Harvey won't impact Alaska oil and gas
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  A Texas National Guardsman carries a resident from her flooded home following Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Aug. 27, 2017. (Army National Guard photo by Lt. Zachary West). Hurricane Harvey has caused nearly 100 oil and gas production platforms in the ...and more »
  
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• Hurricane Harvey won’t impact Alaska oil and gas

  29-08-2017 03:39
  
  
  A Texas National Guardsman carries a resident from her flooded home following Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Aug. 27, 2017. (Army National Guard photo by Lt. Zachary West)Hurricane Harvey has caused nearly 100 oil and gas production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico to temporarily shut down.
  Since the storm came ashore last Friday, oil production in the region has dropped by more than 300,000 barrels per day according to data from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.
  But that drop in
  
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• For now, Hurricane Harvey not expected to impact Alaska’s oil and gas

  29-08-2017 03:39
  
  
  A Texas National Guardsman carries a resident from her flooded home following Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Aug. 27, 2017. (Army National Guard photo by Lt. Zachary West)Hurricane Harvey has caused nearly 100 oil and gas production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico to temporarily shut down.
  Since the storm came ashore last Friday, oil production in the region has dropped by more than 300,000 barrels per day according to data from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.
  But that drop in
  
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• Alaska officials looking into lawsuit against opioid drugmakers - Alaska Public Radio Network

  29-08-2017 03:31
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  Alaska officials looking into lawsuit against opioid drugmakers
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  The State of Alaska is looking into whether it should sue the manufacturers of opioid painkillers for their contributions to the opioid epidemic and has hired a law firm that is representing two other states in related legal action. Listen now. Those ...
  
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• Alaska officials looking into lawsuit against opioid drugmakers

  29-08-2017 03:27
  Prescribing of oxycodone and other opioid pain pills rose sharply after 2000.
  (Photo by John Moore, Getty Images)The State of Alaska is looking into whether it should sue the manufacturers of opioid painkillers for their contributions to the opioid epidemic and has hired a law firm that is representing two other states in related legal action.
  Those lawsuits, brought by South Carolina and New Hampshire, target Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. The plaintiff states allege the company co
  
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• Two escapees from Bethel prison recaptured

  29-08-2017 03:18
  Wilson Beaver escaped from YKCC in Bethel on Aug. 26, 2017. (Photo courtesy of DOC.)Carl Konig escaped from YKCC in Bethel on Aug. 26, 2017. (Photo courtesy of DOC.) 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  Two inmates escaped from the Yukon Kuskokwim Correctional Center in Bethel Saturday, but not for long. The two got out by wriggling their way through a storm grate. They were found at a homeless camp and taken back to custody on Sunday after a manhunt that involved six different
  
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• One dead, one wounded in Aniak crime spree

  29-08-2017 03:11
  Aniak. (Google Maps screenshot)In Aniak, one person is dead and another wounded in what appears to have been a violent crime spree.
  At about 2 a.m. on Sunday, residents of a quiet, residential neighborhood in the small western Alaska village awoke to a flurry of rifle shots. Joseph Yaska, 29, is accused of shooting a family member twice in a domestic violence incident then walking through Aniak with an AK-47, shooting at other people and buildings he saw nearby.
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• Heads and Tails: Millett running for something - Must Read Alaska (blog)

  29-08-2017 01:43
  Heads and Tails: Millett running for something
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  WE HAVE A RACE: Rep. Charisse Millett spent several days fishing on the Kenai Peninsula and then finished it off by filing a letter of intent with the Alaska Public Offices Commission. She's running for something — either her House seat in District 25 ...
  
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• How the opioid crisis could affect your workplace - Alaska Dispatch News

  29-08-2017 01:26
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  How the opioid crisis could affect your workplace
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  The effects of opioid abuse can spill over into the workplace. Are you prepared to handle them? (Getty). The effects of opioid abuse can spill over into the workplace. Are you prepared to handle them? (Getty). Share on Facebook Facebook. Share on ...
  
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• Alaska to present at Senate health care hearings - Cordova Times

  29-08-2017 00:23
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  Alaska to present at Senate health care hearings
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  One of the signs carried by a demonstrator outside of the Union Hall on Main Street on June 10 read, “If you care, protect healthcare.” Photo by Cinthia Gibbens-Stimson/The Cordova Times. FAIRBANKS — Director of the Alaska Division of Insurance Lori ...and more »
  
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