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• Federal court sides with tribes in Alaska Indian Country land rights case

  02-07-2016 03:58 via ktoo.org
  
  The flag of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  Tribes in Alaska can move forward with petitioning the federal government to take lands into trust. A federal appeals court Friday dismissed the state of Alaska’s challenge in the litigation.
  Tribal land held in a Bureau of Indian Affairs trust would give it “Indian Country” status, affording it the same protections as reservation lands in the Lower 48.
  In 2007, Alaska tribes sued the Interior Department for the right to take land
  
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• New California law could jeopardize Alaska’s ivory market

  02-07-2016 03:57 via ktoo.org
  
  An ivory walrus carving on display at Maruskiya’s in Nome. (Photo by Emily Russell/KNOM)
  The ivory market in America just got a lot smaller, or at least that’s how it seems. A new law went into effect Friday in California that bans the sale of all ivory products, including walrus ivory.
  Alaska Natives are protected under a federal law, but confusion and inconsistency between state and federal legislation has many concerned.
  John Kokuluk Sr. is sitting at his carving booth a
  
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• As economics of gas pipeline shift, stakeholders mull state takeover

  02-07-2016 02:26 via ktoo.org
  
  Gov. Bill Walker announces line-item budget vetoes at the Atwood Building in Anchorage on Wednesday. Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott is also pictured. (Photo by Rachel Waldholz/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  Gov. Bill Walker says the state’s three oil company partners told his administration this winter they weren’t sure they could move ahead with efforts to build a natural gas line — and suggested the state take over.http://www.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/30LNGUPDATE.mp3Walke
  
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• New Sealaska board member targets change

  02-07-2016 02:13 via ktoo.org
  
  Journeyman carver Mick Beasley is the newest Sealaska board member. He’s the only independent candidate among four winners in a field of nine candidates. (Photo courtesy Mick Beasley)
  Sealaska’s newest board member says he’ll continue to push for election and management changes. And at least some on the Juneau-based regional Native corporation’s governing body say they’re willing to listen.
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• Focus on Community – Mind Over Matter – 7-4-16

  02-07-2016 02:01 via ktoo.org
  
  We all know that part of being alive is risking being hurt , perhaps even hurt so badly that we are traumatized.  And trauma can have lifelong effects.  Fortunately there are body/mind techniques that show great promise in treating the impacts of trauma.  Please join Dr. Elaine Schroeder and her guest, Megan Nigro, this Monday at 7pm on KTOO’s monthly program, Mind Over Matter, to explore how somatic therapy can relieve the painful impacts of traumatic experiences.  Tun
  
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• 7 Years Of U.S. Drone And Airstrikes: White House Tallies Civilian Deaths

  02-07-2016 01:12 via ktoo.org
  
  Since President Obama took office in 2009, the Predator drone and other aircraft have carried out nearly 500 strikes in areas that aren’t in combat zones such as Syria and Afghanistan, according to a new official report. (Photo by Eric Gay/AP)
  Since 2009, the U.S. has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in countries other than Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, the White House says, providing new details to the often secretive strikes — many of which were carried out via unpiloted drone air
  
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• Babies Of Color Are Now The Majority, Census Says

  02-07-2016 01:10 via ktoo.org
  
  (Creative Commons photo by Dru Kelly)
  Today’s generation of schoolchildren looks much different than one just a few decades ago. Nonwhites are expected to become the majority of the nation’s children by 2020, as our colleague Bill Chappell reported last year. This is now the reality among the very youngest Americans: babies.
  Babies of color now outnumber non-Hispanic white babies (1 year or younger), according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. The newest estimate shows th
  
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• Police release surveillance images in Anchorage airplane tire slashing case

  02-07-2016 00:39 via ktoo.org
  
  One month after the tires on 87 private airplanes were slashed at a small airport in Alaska’s largest city, police released grainy surveillance images Friday showing what they are calling a person of interest in the unsolved case.The four images show a figure dressed in dark clothing and wearing a backpack near airplanes recorded around 1:20 a.m. June 2 at Merrill Field in Anchorage. The person in the image is shown on foot near airplanes in three of the images, and at a gate in the fourt
  
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• 6 New Gun Control Laws Enacted In California, As Gov. Brown Signs Bills

  02-07-2016 00:28 via ktoo.org
  
  California Gov. Jerry Brown at the Democratic State Convention in 2014. (Creative Commons photo by Randy Bayne)
  Gov. Jerry Brown has signed new gun control legislation for California, enacting bills that limit magazine capacity to 10 bullets; require a background check for those purchasing ammunition; and restrict the lending of firearms, among other effects.
  In signing the bills, Brown said he wants “to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused man
  
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• Armed Attackers Storm Cafe In Bangladesh’s Capital

  02-07-2016 00:16 via ktoo.org
  
  People help an unidentified injured person after gunmen attacked a cafe popular with foreigners in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, July 1, 2016. (AP photo)
  A group of gunmen attacked a cafe and have taken hostages in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, according to local media reports.
  It’s not clear whether there are any casualties or how many attackers might be involved.
  The U.S State Department and local media say the cafe is in an upscale neighborhood called Gulshan that is home to m
  
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• Aviation threat level bumped up for Alaska’s Pavlof Volcano

  02-07-2016 00:01 via ktoo.org
  
  A minor ash emission from Pavlof Volcano viewed from Cold Bay at 7:50 p.m. on May 14, 2016. (Photo courtesy Royce Snapp)
  The Alaska Volcano Observatory is again raising the threat level for a remote volcano near the Aleutian Islands.The observatory said seismicity at Pavlof Volcano increased Thursday.
  Web camera images Friday showed minor steam emissions.
  That observatory raised the aviation advisory color code from green to yellow, one step above normal volcanic activity.
  Pavlof is about 625 mi
  
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• US rig count up 10 this week to 431

  02-07-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The sun rises on the North Slope between drill rigs, Nov. 6, 2012. (Creative Commons photo by Kevan Dee)
  The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by 10 this week to 431.A year ago, 862 rigs were active. Oil and gas exploration has plummeted amid depressed energy prices.
  Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. said Friday 341 rigs sought oil and 89 explored this week for natural gas. One was listed as miscellaneous.
  Among major oil- and gas-producing
  
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