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• Search underway for missing Juneau woman; brother found dead in Lemon Creek area

  11-07-2016 22:18 via ktoo.org
  
  Searchers are looking for Kristina Elizabeth Young who went missing in the Lemon Creek area on Sunday. (Photo courtesy Juneau Police Department)
  Searchers are scouring Lemon Creek area for a Juneau woman missing since Sunday afternoon.
  Kristina Elizabeth Young, 36, may have been wearing a green top when she disappeared. She’s described as white, 5 feet 4 inches tall, 140 pounds, blond hair and blue eyes.
  Lt. Dave Campbell of the Juneau Police Department said Monday morning that at least 20
  
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• Gardentalk – Bolting vegetables

  11-07-2016 22:08 via ktoo.org
  
  
  This bolting and flowering mint in an indoor herb garden needs to go. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  Do you have vegetables and herbs that are bolting and flowering because of the long daylight hours? It’s time to harvest them quickly and plant something new in their place.
  “They have gotten the signal from Mother Nature that the daylight hours or temperatures, whichever triggers the bolting,” said Master Gardener Ed Buyarski. New side shoots will also bolt.
  Buyarski warns that bo
  
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• Alaska lawmakers begin another special session

  11-07-2016 21:21 via ktoo.org
  
  The Terry Miller Legislative Office Building on April 20, 2016. The building’s gym has been converted into temporary chambers for the Alaska House and Senate while the Capitol is under renovation. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  Alaska lawmakers have begun a special session called by Gov. Bill Walker to address the state’s multibillion-dollar budget deficit.
  An earlier special session ended last month with the centerpiece of Walker’s fiscal plan faltering in the House after
  
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• Lemon creek assault earns inmate additional charges

  11-07-2016 05:42 via ktoo.org
  
  An inmate is facing additional charges of assault and harassment after she has been accused of attacking a correctional officer at the Lemon Creek Correctional Center in Juneau.
  KTVA-TV reports that Alaska State Troopers were notified of the incident on Friday. They reported the assault in an online dispatch.
  The officer was treated for minor injuries at a local hospital.
  The investigation into the assault is ongoing.
  
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• Legislators to meet for special session Monday

  11-07-2016 05:42 via ktoo.org
  
  Alaska state legislators are poised to meet Monday for their fifth special session in two years.
  Gov. Bill Walker says they need to finish the work of addressing Alaska’s budget deficit. But Walker’s agenda could face an uphill battle, given his proposals so far have struggled to gain traction.
  House Minority Leader Chris Tuck questions how productive the session might be. He says his fear is that holding a special session weeks after the last special session and weeks before the pri
  
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• Ketchikan hatchery struggling after losing stock to acidic water

  11-07-2016 05:42 via ktoo.org
  
  A Ketchikan mariculture nonprofit that previously secured funding from the Ketchikan Gateway Borough is struggling after water quality led to losses of stock.
  The Ketchikan Daily News reports that nonprofit shellfish hatchery OceansAlaska aims to support its operations by selling oyster and geoduck seeds, but water issues led to only $4,704 worth of shellfish seed being sold in 2015. OceansAlaska has since sold seed worth $23,100 in 2016 but is facing a funding gap.
  OceansAlaska officials presen
  
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• Heavy Fighting Erupts In South Sudan’s Capital

  11-07-2016 05:29 via ktoo.org
  
  South Sudanese troops loyal to Vice President Riek Machar, pictured here in April, say their military positions in the capital are being attacked.
  Jason Patinkin/AP
  Heavy fighting erupted Sunday in South Sudan’s capital Juba after a lull Saturday. The clashes between forces loyal to the country’s president and vice president have reportedly killed more than 150 people since they started mid-week.
  As NPR’s Ofeibea Quist-Arcton tells our Newscast unit, “former rebels loyal
  
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• GCI to expand internet service in rural Alaska

  11-07-2016 05:29 via ktoo.org
  
  Telecommunications provider GCI says it aims to further access to high-speed internet in Western Alaska in the near future. By the end of 2016, the company says, their TERRA network will expand to ten more communities in Norton Sound and the Northwest Arctic Borough.
  TERRA is an acronym for “Terrestrial for Every Rural Region in Alaska.” GCI’s fiber-optic and microwave network project started in 2010 and currently services 72 communities, extending from Sout
  
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• CIRI holds the federal government to a decades old promise

  11-07-2016 05:29 via ktoo.org
  
  Alaska Native Regional Corporations Map. (Courtesy of the Department of Natural Resources)
  Alaska’s delegation to Congress writes bills every year to transfer or sell federal land to local governments and Native corporations. In late May, Sen. Lisa Murkowski sponsored one public land bill for Native corporations that’s particularly far-reaching — apparently more expansive than the senator intended.
  Congress, in 1971 promised Cook Inlet Region Inc. more than a million
  
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• Bahamas Tells Young Male Citizens To ‘Exercise Extreme Caution’ With U.S. Police

  11-07-2016 05:29 via ktoo.org
  
  The Bahamas has issued an advisory for its citizens traveling to the United States.
  Leonora Giovanazzi/Flickr
  The Bahamas is advising its young male citizens traveling to the U.S. to “exercise extreme caution” in their interactions with police, following two recent high-profile police shootings of black men.
  “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration has taken note of the recent tensions in some American cities over shootings of young black males by police officers,&rdquo
  
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• A lesson in archaeology at the Dena’ina culture camp of Kijik

  11-07-2016 05:29 via ktoo.org
  
  Archaeologist Randy Tedor shows kids how to sift through dirt at the “Quk Taz’Un” house site. (Photo by Hannah Colton, KDLG – Dillingham)
  On the north shore of Lake Clark, there’s a place called Kijik. It’s the historic homeland of the Dena’ina Athabascans of the area, and also the site of a culture camp where youth and elders from the village of Nondalton came together last week. Dozens of abandoned homes dot the area.
  “A little pushdown, flick ou
  
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