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• PSP warnings for four Juneau and Douglas beaches

  03-07-2016 02:28 via ktoo.org
  
  The Chilkat Range from Eagle Beach, Nov. 21, 2010. (Creative Commons photo by Joseph)
  Four beaches in the Juneau-Douglas area have elevated levels of toxins that can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning.
  Eagle Beach, Amalga Harbor, Auke Recreational Area and Outer Point all have toxin levels that exceed the Food and Drug Administration’s limit for safe consumption.
  Elizabeth Tobin is a post-doctoral researcher. She and her team collected the data last month. She said it’s not abn
  
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• Whale deaths near Anchorage, Glacier Bay prompt investigation

  03-07-2016 01:51 via ktoo.org
  
  Bears feed on a fin whale carcass in Larson Bay near Kodiak, June 13, 2015. (Photo courtesy NOAA)
  Researchers are trying to determine what caused the deaths of three large whales found along Alaska’s coastline within a single week in late June, and whether the fatal strandings might be related to a big spike in whale deaths in the region last year.
  A fin whale died in Knik Arm near Anchorage on June 22. Four days later, a humpback was found dead off Point Carolus in Glacier Bay Nation
  
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• Gardentalk – Greenhouse tomatoes

  03-07-2016 01:38 via ktoo.org
  
  These tomato plants desperately need thinning. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  Humid, stagnant air is the enemy of the greenhouse gardener.
  Master Gardener Ed Buyarski said he keeps his greenhouse as dry as possible. That means frequently leaving the doors and vents wide open, and regularly trimming his tomato plants.
  “I’ve talked to whole bunch of folks who commented over the weekend,” Buyarski said. “”Gee, this is a pretty nice dry greenhouse. Not like mine that&rsquo
  
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• Bangladesh In Mourning After Gunmen Kill 20 Hostages In A Cafe

  03-07-2016 01:25 via ktoo.org
  
  A relative tries to console Semin Rahman (covering face), whose son is missing after militants took hostages in a restaurant popular with foreigners in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Photo by AP)
  Bangladeshi forces raided an upscale cafe early Saturday in the capital Dhaka, ending an hours-long standoff with a group of gunmen.
  The Bangladeshi military said 20 civilians were killed, along with two police officers and six attackers. Police arrested one of the militants at the scene.
  The gunmen stormed into t
  
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• A Fond Farewell To Garrison Keillor’s ‘Prairie Home’

  03-07-2016 01:19 via ktoo.org
  
  Garrison Keillor hosted his show, A Prairie Home Companion, for 42 years. (Photo by Jim Mone/AP)
  It somehow just seems right the last A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor will be heard tonight, on this weekend of flags, parades, and lemonade stands. The show was recorded last night at the Hollywood Bowl.
  The first Prairie Home Companion was in 1974, and all of us who share this sliver on the radio spectrum know we wouldn’t be in business if Garrison Keillor hadn’t made a ne
  
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• Clinton Interviewed By FBI Investigators In Email Probe

  03-07-2016 01:14 via ktoo.org
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a Digital Content Creators Town Hall at the Neuehouse Hollywood in Los Angeles on Tuesday. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/AP)
  The FBI interviewed Hillary Clinton for the probe into her use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State on Saturday morning, according to a spokesman for Clinton.
  Spokesman Nick Merrill said in a statement that the interview about her email arrangements was “voluntary” and adds, “She
  
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• Video: 3 GoPros and a barge full of Fourth of July fireworks

  03-07-2016 01:05 via ktoo.org
  
  What’s it like to watch Juneau’s Independence Day fireworks from the barge? It’s loud and smelly — and it’s a blast!
  Watch Juneau’s 2015 fireworks show from a dangerously close vantage.A Unique Perspective from KTOO on Vimeo.
  How the video was made
  Members of the Juneau Festival Association gave KTOO permission last year to observe and photograph the process setting up the annual fireworks display. For a couple days leading up to the shoot, volu
  
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• What Tesla And Google’s Approaches Tell Us About Autonomous Driving

  03-07-2016 00:53 via ktoo.org
  
  Tesla logo on the new Tesla Model S 70D during a test drive in Detroit. (Photo by Carlos Osorio/AP)
  U.S. transportation authorities are investigating the deadly collision of a Tesla Model S car. And many reports say the fatal crash has heightened concern about self-driving cars. Which may be true. Except — Model S isn’t a self-driving car.
  As NPR’s Sonari Glinton points out, what Tesla’s Model S has are self-driving features, autonomous elements meant to assist drivers ra
  
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• Sanders only presidential candidate to address National Congress Of American Indians

  03-07-2016 00:46 via ktoo.org
  
  Bernie Sanders at a rally in Akron, Ohio, March 14, 2016. (Creative Commons photo by Mark Vitullo)
  The National Congress of American Indians invited four presidential candidates to its mid-year conference in Spokane this week. But only one addressed the Congress directly.
  Although Hillary Clinton is likely to be the Democratic party’s nominee for president, Bernie Sanders is still on the campaign trail. In a three-and-a-half minute video message to the National Congress of American Indians
  
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• Bethel high school gets $7 million for new cafeteria

  03-07-2016 00:32 via ktoo.org
  
  A school lunch of turkey taco salad, iced tea, mashed potatoes and peach cobbler. (Creative Commons photo by Laura Taylor)
  Seven million dollars for a brand new kitchen and cafeteria at the Bethel Regional High School survived the governor’s veto pen this week.
  BRHS does not have a cafeteria. At lunch, some students sit at tables in the gym while they eat, and others wander the halls.
  “But the trouble is the gym at BRHS is used from 6 p.m. in the morning until 8 p.m. at night, includ
  
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• Oregon’s minimum wage increases

  03-07-2016 00:27 via ktoo.org
  
  Oregon’s minimum wage went up July 1, 2016, to $9.50 per hour in rural counties and $9.75 in the rest of the state. (Image courtesy Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries)
  Tens of thousands of Oregonians will got a raise Friday when the state’s minimum wage went up for the first time in 18 months.
  The amount of the increase depended on where you work. The wage goes up 25 cents per hour in rural counties and 50 cents per hour everywhere else. Full-time minimum wage workers wi
  
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• 3-man catamaran finishes first in Race to Alaska

  03-07-2016 00:03 via ktoo.org
  
  A three-man team on a catamaran has finished first in the motorless Race to Alaska, beating last year’s winning time by more than a day.The Ketchikan Daily News reports that captain Randy Miller and crew members Ian Andrews and Colin Dunphy of team MAD Dog Racing sailed into Thomas Basin on Thursday with a time of three days, 20 hours and 13 minutes.
  Two-hulled catamarans are large sailboats often built for high speeds.
  More than 100 people in more than 50 boats began the race. The fi
  
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