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• Major source of workforce training receives three more years of funding

  06-09-2017 22:28
  Governor Bill Walker signs HB 141 at Bethel’s Yuut Elitnaurviat surrounded by high school students from the Kuskokwim Learning Academy on August 29, 2017. (Dean Swope / KYUK)Alaskans across the state will continue developing technical skills, like welding and dental therapy, with the signing of House Bill 141. On Tuesday in Bethel, local high school students surrounded Governor Bill Walker as he penned the legislation into law at the YK Delta’s workforce development center, Yuut Elit
  
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• Traveling Music 9-10-17

  06-09-2017 22:26
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  9-10-17
   
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  The Devil and Pastor Jack
  Dick Gaughan /Dick Gaughan
  Lucky for Some
  Greentrax
  2:46
   
  Billy O’Shea, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Trip to Herve’s
  John Doyle, John McCusker, Mike McGoldrick / Iain McCarthy, Trad., McGoldrick
  The Wishing Tree
  Under One Sky Records
  4:29
   
  Hjaltadans / Hunter’s Grove (instrumentals)
  Aly Bain, Ale Moller, Bruce Molsky / Traditio
  
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• New Stuyahok teen learns Yup’ik, Inupiaq, Russian and Tagalog fluently by high school graduation

  06-09-2017 22:17
  
  
  Jalen Konukpeok, 18, learned four languages fluently before graduating Mt. Edgecumbe High School in May. (Avery Lill/ KDLG)Most students take classes in a second language during high school, but one Bristol Bay polyglot took it to another level. Jalen Konukpeok, an 18-year-old from New Stuyahok learned four languages fluently before graduating from Mt. Edgecumbe High School in May.
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  Konukpeok is Russian Orthodox, and his faith is a key factor behind his drive to learn languages.
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• Historic Alaska newspapers are being posted online

  06-09-2017 21:06
  This front page from Nov. 11, 1912, of the Alaska Daily Empire, the forerunner to Juneau’s current daily newspaper, shows a mix of national, world and local news. (Photo courtesy of the Alaska State Libraries, Archives and Museums)Some of Alaska’s oldest newspapers are being digitized and posted online as part of a national project to provide free public access to historic periodicals.
  Deep in the main building of the Alaska State Libraries, Archives and Museums, there are
  
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• GVEA board voices concerns, but allows spending up to $20 Million to fix Healy 2

  06-09-2017 20:35
  
  
  Members of GVEA’s board and executive team confer during Monday’s meeting. From left: John Sloan, secretary; Gary Newman; John Burns, board attorney; Susan Redlin, executive administrative assistant; Rick Schikora, board chair; Cory Borgeson, president and CEO; Bill Normark, treasurer; Tom DeLong, vice chair; Chris Bunch; Dave Messier. (Tim Ellis/KUAC)Golden Valley Electric Association’s board of directors approved a multimillion-dollar plan Monday to repair the Healy 2 power p
  
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• State Department of Public Safety reaches out to fishermen in effort to combat opioid abuse

  06-09-2017 20:27
  
  
  The Haines Portage Cove Harbor. Commercial fishermen throughout the state received a letter warning of the dangers of opioids this summer. (Emily Files)Earlier this year, Governor Bill Walker issued a disaster declaration to combat opioid abuse in Alaska. Since then, more time and resources have been dedicated to the issue. This summer, some of those efforts are aimed at getting the attention of the fishing community.
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Sep. 5, 2017

  06-09-2017 03:59
  
  
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  Alaska attorney general joins others arguing that redistricting can be too partisan
  Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO – Juneau
  Alaska Attorney General Jahna Lindemuth joined a legal brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case Tuesday, arguing that redistricting shouldn’t favor one political party.
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• First large wind storm of season moving through Southcentral

  06-09-2017 03:47
  
  
  The season’s first serious fall storm is descending on Southcentral Alaska, bringing rain and strong winds to the Gulf of Alaska all the way up to the Mat-Su Borough.
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  Eddie Zingone is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, and says the storm will “barrel through” the region overnight.
  “Right now it’s looking like winds in the 75-80 mile hour range up in the Turnigan Arm and upper Hillside,” Zingone said. “Maybe in the 50-60 mile an
  
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• How does Alaska stack up in livability? - Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman

  06-09-2017 03:25
  How does Alaska stack up in livability?
  Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman
  WASILLA — Alaskans are well aware of the fact that they live in a beautiful, yet harsh part of the world. Long summer days are traded for dark and cold winter months. The state is currently in the middle of a financial downturn. But how does Alaska ...
  
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• Drivers can expect night closures along Denali Highway

  06-09-2017 03:16
  
  
  Hunters and others with plans to travel the Denali Highway this coming weekend are being advised about overnight closures due to road work.
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  A release from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game says the road will be closed near mile 131, about four miles from Cantwell, from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. September 9th, 10th and 11th.
  Fish and Game notes more than 14,000 permits have been issued for various Nelchina caribou hunts, accessed from the Denali Highway. The State Department of Transportat
  
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• 18 animals left to waste during Forty Mile caribou hunt

  06-09-2017 03:13
  
  
  Some animals were left to waste in last week’s Forty Mile caribou hunt along the Steese Highway. An Alaska State Trooper Dispatch said 18 animals: 15 cows and three bulls were shot and left, with more reports coming in.
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  The dispatch said several hunters helped wildlife troopers salvage meat, for donation to charity.
  Troopers note that the harvest was rapid during the two-day hunt, adding that while most hunters obeyed regulations, over 50 citations were issued for a range of off
  
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• Russian River flooding is affecting Kodiak residents

  06-09-2017 03:10
  
  
  Russian River flooded last week in Kodiak leaving some residents scrambling to address the damage.
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  Larry Evans woke up in the middle of the night and thought he should throw another log into his wood stove. But when he walked down stairs he found a surprise.
  “Flipped on the light and got to the landing and everything was floating,” Evans said. “I just got tears in my eyes. I didn’t know what, I just…memories, everything just everything…floating.&r
  
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• New exhibit tells little-known story of a plan to settle Jewish refugees in Alaska during WWII

  06-09-2017 03:07
  
  
  Pamphlets outlining the plan to bring European Jewish refugees to Alaska to develop industry. (Henry Leasia / Alaska Public Media)As millions of people around the world are displaced from their homes, some are looking to the past for insight on the refugee crisis. A new museum exhibit in Anchorage tells the story of a plan to relocate European Jewish refugees to Alaska during World War II.
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  Although the 49th state isn’t exactly a hub of Jewish culture, Rabbi Joseph Greenberg, pre
  
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• Groups conserve habitat on Afognak Island

  06-09-2017 02:59
  
  
  Thorsheim drainage on Afognak Island. (Courtesy of Great Land Trust)An initiative to conserve one coastal habitat in the Kodiak Archipelago is now complete. The Thorsheim drainage on Afognak Island includes almost 2,000 acres of natural habitat.
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  It’s now safe from development and tree harvest.
  The executive director of the organization that mediated the agreement, Ellen Kazary, with the Great Land Trust, said the parcel includes nearly the entire watershed.
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• Alaska attorney general joins others arguing that redistricting can be too partisan

  06-09-2017 02:46
  
  
  Attorney General Jahna Lindemuth appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing in April. She joined a legal brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case, arguing that Wisconsin’s redistricting process was too partisan. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)Alaska Attorney General Jahna Lindemuth joined a legal brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case Tuesday, arguing that redistricting shouldn’t favor one political party.
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  Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum fil
  
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• Trump’s decision to end DACA prompts Anchorage protest

  06-09-2017 02:20
  
  
  Anchorage citizens protest President Trump’s decision to end the DACA program. (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)Today, the Trump administration announced it would be end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). The Obama-era program protects undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, shielding them from deportation and allowing them to obtain work permits.
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  About a hundred protesters gathered in downtown Anchorage
  
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• No injuries in Sitka Labor Day landslide

  06-09-2017 01:37
  
  
  A tour bus with passengers from the Seven Seas Mariner encounters the slide, which originated 200 feet up the hillside. The passengers were later shuttled to their ship via boat. (Cassie Mendoza photo)A landslide in Sitka early Monday afternoon stranded people on either end of the road system for about eight hours, but otherwise there no reports of damage or injuries.
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  The slide happened at around noon on Labor Day, along Halibut Point Road, Sitka’s only northbound highway connec
  
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• Skagway rocked by second landslide in under 2 weeks

  06-09-2017 01:33
  
  
  This photo shows the rockslide area neighboring a Skagway cruise ship dock. (Courtesy Andrew Cremata)Early Tuesday morning, a rockslide crashed into Skagway’s largest cruise ship dock. It was the second slide event in less than two weeks and caused a pair of cruise ships to divert to other ports. Some Skagway residents are calling on the city and the private company that owns the dock to take action.
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  Retired fisherman Craig McCormick was sleeping in his charter boat in
  
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• Midnight Sun Theatre expands their season

  06-09-2017 01:11
  Dave Block, the founder and Artistic Director of Midnight Sun Theatre, has some exciting news. He has decided to expand what has up to now been only a summer theatre to a full-year production company and he’s on Stage Talk this week to give us all the details. Midnight Sun’s upcoming season promises to be full of surprises.
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  Midnight Sun’s 2017-2018 season
  Serial Bowl II. September 8, October 6, November 3, December 1
  White Rabbit/Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour. Octo
  
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