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• Alaska City Tries New Tack on Shoplifting Woes: Counseling - U.S. News & World Report

  07-09-2017 22:31
  U.S. News & World Report
  Alaska City Tries New Tack on Shoplifting Woes: Counseling
  U.S. News & World Report
  Alaska's capital city is trying a new approach to addressing shoplifting following legislative changes that restricted the use of jail time as a punishment. Sept. 7, 2017, at 4:21 p.m.. Alaska City Tries New Tack on Shoplifting Woes: Counseling ...
  
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• As Trump slashes health care outreach 90 percent, Walker asks Congress to shore up system

  07-09-2017 20:12
  
  
  Alaska Gov. Bill Walker discusses a compromise budget in June. He joined a bipartisan group of governors last week in asking Congress to make changes to federal health care laws. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)The fact that individual health insurance costs in Alaska will drop more than a fifth next year has drawn national attention. But it’s not yet clear how many Alaskans will actually sign up for the insurance. Gov. Bill Walker has joined a bipartisan group of governors in asking
  
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• Alaska's remote villages have a trashy problem - The Economist

  07-09-2017 16:51
  The Economist
  Alaska's remote villages have a trashy problem
  The Economist
  MANAGING rubbish in Alaska's bush villages—small communities accessible only by boat or aircraft and often hundreds of miles from the nearest highway—is hard. Waste—including freezers, computers and vehicles—piles up with no easy way to remove it.
  
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• Senators aim for ACA fixes, Murkowski-style

  07-09-2017 04:13
  
  
  Sen. Murkowski greeted health care advocates after the hearing. (Liz Ruskin)A U.S. Senate committee met Wednesday to figure out what to do about health care. The hearing was open and bipartisan, just the process Sen. Lisa Murkowski was calling for when she cast a key vote against the repeal-and-replace plan Republican leaders drafted behind closed doors. But time is short.
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  The Senate has only a few days to stabilize the individual market across the country before insurance c
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Sep. 6, 2017

  07-09-2017 04:09
  
  
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  Senators aim for ACA fixes, Murkowski-style
  Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Washington D.C.
  This was the kind of health care hearing Sen. Murkowski has been calling for: Public and bipartisan. But time is short, even to fix flaws in the Affordable Care Act, let alone replace it.
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• Alaska's members of Congress sympathetic to 'Dreamers' - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  07-09-2017 03:59
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Alaska's members of Congress sympathetic to 'Dreamers'
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  In this Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017 photo, supporters of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), demonstrate on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump is expected to announce that he will end ...
  
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• Repairs on stretch of Dalton Highway damaged by flooding nearly done; next project: paving

  07-09-2017 02:14
  Three projects worth a total of $109 million are wrapping up for the season on the northernmost stretch of the Dalton Highway that was badly damaged by Sagavanirktok River flooding in spring 2015. One project was completed last week; another is expected to be done next week, and the third is scheduled for completion next year. (Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities)Work is wrapping on a project to rebuild the northernmost stretch of the Dalton Highway that was badly damaged t
  
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• The melancholy Juneau summer of blue ice

  07-09-2017 02:05
  Part of the mass balance group skiing to their pit located behind Emperor Peak. (Photo by Julian Cross, courtesy Juneau Icefield Research Program)For many first-time visitors, the Juneau Icefield is a surreal and sublime experience.
  “I’m completely in love with it. I cried when we hiked off the glacier the last day,”  Hannah Perrine Mode laughed.
  Mode’s originally from Boston and had never been to Alaska before this summer. Mode served as the first-ever, artist-
  
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• Illegal pot, heroin and opium among drugs seized most by Anchorage police

  07-09-2017 01:17
  Police officers in Anchorage are seizing more heroin than almost any other drug.
  During a presentation to the Assembly’s public safety committee today, Anchorage Police Department officials shared figures on confiscations of illegal substances. Between March and August, officers intercepted 870 grams of heroin — the equivalent of roughly 9,000 individual doses. Most of that came from street-level enforcement by the Community Action Policing team.
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• How Alaska seismologists detected North Korea’s nuke test

  07-09-2017 00:34
  The suspected North Korean nuclear test as recorded on seismic stations across Alaska. (Courtesy of AK Earthquake Center’s Twitter)A North Korean nuclear bomb test was detected in Alaska. State seismologist Michael West said Alaska Earthquake Information Center seismometers clearly registered the underground blast Saturday.
  “An explosion of magnitude 6.3 is something that can be viewed or recorded, really all around the globe,” West said.
  West says the center seismometers, whic
  
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• One man’s quest to find Glacier Bay’s ecological Holy Grail

  07-09-2017 00:10
  Brian Buma received funding support from the National Geographic Society. (Photo courtesy of Brian Buma/University of Alaska Southeast)Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is home to some of the oldest ecology records in the world. But until fairly recently, nobody knew where to find the metal nails that marked the research plots. They were left by scientists over 100 years ago and buried beneath a carpet of soil and shrubs.
  When William S. Cooper arrived in Glacier Bay in 1916, he did so in a
  
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