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• Study says creating Alaska health care authority could save hundreds of millions of dollars

  31-08-2017 19:30
  
  
  Alaska’s state and local governments could save roughly $200 million dollars a year if the state launches a health care authority, according to a study. (Creative Commons photo illustration by 401(k) 2012)Alaska’s state and local governments could save roughly $200 million a year if it formed what’s called a health care authority. That’s according to a long-awaited study by three consultants released Wednesday.
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• 4.6 earthquake in Alaska Range felt strongly in Mat-Su, Anchorage - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-08-2017 19:23
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  4.6 earthquake in Alaska Range felt strongly in Mat-Su, Anchorage
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  A 4.6-magnitude earthquake centered north of Talkeetna was felt widely in Southcentral Alaska just before midnight Wednesday. The quake shook a wide swath of Southcentral including Talkeetna, Skwentna, Palmer, Chugiak and Anchorage. According to ...
  
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• Details of kidnapped Anchorage man’s beating emerge as suspects still sought

  31-08-2017 19:17
  Three of four suspects indicted in a brutal beating earlier this month in East Anchorage are still on the loose, and police say their victim, dropped at a local hospital in a dog crate, almost died.
  The men are charged with multiple felonies in the August 13 incident, including attempted murder and kidnapping.
  Of the four indicted in 24-year-old Abshir Mohammed’s beating, only 29-year-old Jeffrey Ahvan has been apprehended. The others are Faamanu “Junior” Vaifanua, 29-year-old
  
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• Alaska fishing guide forfeits boat, ordered to pay fines after repeat violations - KTUU.com

  31-08-2017 19:09
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  Alaska fishing guide forfeits boat, ordered to pay fines after repeat violations
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The owner of a southeast Alaska fishing charter service has been ordered to stay out of boats in Alaska waters for one year after pleading guilty to repeat fishing violations. Alaska State Troopers say 75-year-old Stuart ...and more »
  
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• Football Among the Old Believers, in Alaska

  31-08-2017 16:56 via nytimes.com
  Keeping a high school football team together is tough, between a Russian Orthodox sect leery of the outside world and the chores of life in an isolated village.
  
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• Football Among the Old Believers, in Alaska - New York Times

  31-08-2017 15:57
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  Football Among the Old Believers, in Alaska
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  Orthodox sect leery of the outside world and the chores of life in an isolated village. By JERÉ LONGMAN and MATTHEW KRUCHAK AUG. 31, 2017. VOZNESENKA, Alaska — The football players wore their black and yellow jerseys to class last Friday, a day ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017

  31-08-2017 04:17
  
  
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  Federal Appeals court throws out one convictions of former Fairbanks militia leader Schaeffer Cox.
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  A federal appeals court has thrown out one of the convictions of former Fairbanks militia leader Schaeffer Cox. A 9th Circuit Cour
  
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• Alaska soldiers to deploy for Afghanistan within week

  31-08-2017 03:35
  
  
  Airborne infantrymen from the 4-25 preparing to jump from a C-17 into Australia during a training mission in July of 2015 (Photo: Zachariah Hughes – Alaska Public Media)Download audio
  Military officers in Anchorage said Wednesday that Alaska-based soldiers will start deploying to Afghanistan within the week.
  Over the course of the coming month, the Army is sending about 1,200 members of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division from Anchorage’s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richards
  
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• Trial date in Alaska cruise ship death case could be pushed back - KTUU.com

  31-08-2017 03:11
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  Trial date in Alaska cruise ship death case could be pushed back
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  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - A trial date has been set for a Utah man accused of killing his wife on an Alaska cruise. U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Smith set an October 23rd trial for Kenneth Manzanares, charged with murder in the July death of his wife, Kristy.and more »
  
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• Militia Leader Appeal Draws Split Ruling

  31-08-2017 02:38
  
  
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  A federal appeals court has thrown out one of the convictions of former Fairbanks militia leader Schaeffer Cox. A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision filed Tuesday vacates Cox’s conviction of solicitation to murder federal officials. The six-page ruling upholds a conspiracy to murder conviction and remands the case back to district court for re-sentencing.
  Schaeffer Cox was convicted of both murder conspiracy and solicitation as well as weapons violations in 20
  
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• Investigators drop query into Zinke calls to Alaska senators

  31-08-2017 01:58
  
  
  After a tense phone call, Interior Sec. Zinke posted this photo to show he and Sen. Murkowski on friendly terms. (Twitter photo from Ryan Zinke)The inspector general’s office for the U.S. Interior Department has dropped its inquiry into whether the Interior secretary threatened to retaliate against Sen. Lisa Murkowski for voting against proceeding on a health care reform bill.
  The IG’s office issued a letter saying Alaska’s U.S. senators declined to discuss the matter with inve
  
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• St. Paul Ramps Up Reindeer Program to Improve Food Security

  31-08-2017 01:54
  
  
  Students at St. Paul’s reindeer camp butcher a female from the island’s herd. This summer, the tribal government organized the camp as part of its effort to develop a more robust reindeer management program. (Laura Kraegel/KUCB)Download audio
  For the last century, reindeer have roamed St. Paul Island without much oversight.
  But now, the tribal government is stepping up its management style to boost subsistence options and the local economy.Fleshy red reindeer quarters are spread acro
  
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• The Afterlife of Unalaska’s Bald Eagles

  31-08-2017 01:46
  
  
  A juvenile bald eagle takes off near Unalaska Bay. (Berett Wilber/KUCB)Download audio
  When bald eagles die in Unalaska, it’s the beginning of a long journey. Literally. Many of them travel thousands of miles and find second lives in the Lower 48.
  When Damian Lopez-Plancarte walks into the Wildlife Trooper office and opens the freezer, it looks like Thanksgiving.
  The shelves are jammed full of turkey-shaped items wrapped in plastic. But none of them are turkeys.
  “Here we have one, two
  
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