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• McHugh fire now estimated at 842 acres

  21-07-2016 22:57 via ktoo.org
  
  An Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and a State of Alaska Division of Forestry helicopter dump several thousand gallons of water onto the McHugh Creek fire near Anchorage, July 20, 2016. (Public domain photo by photo by Staff Sgt. Balinda O’Neal Dresel/U.S. Army National Guard)
  It’s raining in Anchorage, and fire officials say prospects are looking good for the 842-acre McHugh Fire in Chugach State Park.
  The five days of predicted rain are improving the situatio
  
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• U.S. Appeals Court Finds Texas Voter ID Law Discriminates Against Minority Voters

  21-07-2016 08:55 via ktoo.org
  
  Voters stand in line to cast their ballots inside Calvary Baptist Church in Rosenberg, Texas, on March 1, during the primaries. (Photo by Erich Schlegel/Getty Images)
  A federal appeals court has ruled that a Texas voter ID law has a discriminatory effect on minority voters, and it has ordered a lower court to devise a remedy before the November elections.
  A district court had found not only that the law discriminated, but that it was intentionally designed to do so. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
  
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• Pence Makes The Case For Trump After Cruz Is Booed

  21-07-2016 06:14 via ktoo.org
  
  Sen. Ted Cruz addresses the Republican convention on Wednesday –€” without endorsing Donald Trump. (Photo by Alex Wong/NPR)
  It was supposed to be Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s political coming-out party, but drama with Ted Cruz largely overshadowed his moment at the Republican Convention.
  The crowd quickly turned on Cruz Wednesday night after he refused to endorse GOP nominee Donald Trump.
  The Texas senator and GOP primary runner-up was initially met with a warm reception, hold
  
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• Twitter Permanently Suspends Conservative Writer For Targeted Abuse

  21-07-2016 05:44 via ktoo.org
  
  Milo Yiannopoulos, a conservative writer and Internet personality, holds a news conference down the street from the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., last month. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
  Twitter has permanently suspended conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, saying that he subjected other users to targeted abuse. Yiannopoulos’ suspension comes amid a recent campaign aimed at Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones in which users tweeted hundreds of racist and abusive messages.
  
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• Scientists Report The Planet Was Hotter Than Ever In The First Half Of 2016

  21-07-2016 05:39 via ktoo.org
  
  A heat-stressed koala is doused with water in December 2015 during an extreme heat wave in Adelaide, Australia. Last year was the hottest on record, but 2016 is on pace to supplant it at the top of the list. Every month of this year has set heat records. (Photo by Morne de Klerk/Getty Images)
  If you think it’s been hot this year, you’re right. The latest temperature numbers from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say the first six months of 2016 were the hot
  
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• Legislative working group could resolve thorny problems

  21-07-2016 05:22 via ktoo.org
  
  Alaska Senate Majority Leader John Coghill, R-North Pole, and Sen. Anna MacKinnon, R-Eagle River, chat during a break in the Senate’s last floor session on Monday. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)
  The Alaska Legislature has adjourned, but that doesn’t mean lawmakers’ work is done for the year. They’re considering bringing a small group of legislators together to work on agreements on major unresolved issues, which could set the foundation for another special session or the ne
  
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• Reinforcements called in to fight McHugh fire

  21-07-2016 05:21 via ktoo.org
  
  Staff Sgt. Steven Elliot, a crew chief with B Co., 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment, looks onto the McHugh Creek fire during operations in support of wildfire suppression efforts near Anchorage on Wednesday. (Public domain photo by Staff Sgt. Balinda O’Neal Dresel/U.S. Army National Guard)
  The five-day-old McHugh fire continues to burn in Chugach State Park in southeast Anchorage, and fire officials are calling in additional crews to battle the blaze.
  Size estimates for the fire
  
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• B.C. mine officials announce new changes to mining code

  21-07-2016 05:21 via ktoo.org
  
  The Mount Polley Mine tailings dam failed on Aug. 4, 2014, devastating areas downstream. (Photo courtesy Cariboo Regional District Emergency Operations Centre)
  Two years after one of the worst mine disasters in Canada’s history, mine officials in British Columbia are rolling out new mining codes.
  They say the new codes will improve safety, prevent future disasters like the Mount Polley mine disaster in 2014, and increase transparency. B.C. officials announced the changes to the Canadian pr
  
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• Sullivan gives Trump-less address to GOP convention

  21-07-2016 05:20 via ktoo.org
  
  Sen. Dan Sullivan visits with the Alaska delegation after his speech Tuesday, July 19, 2016, to the Republican National Convention. (Photo courtesy Office of Sen. Dan Sullivan)
  Alaska U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan took the stage in Cleveland on the second night of the Republican National Convention. While Sullivan never named the man the party had just nominated for president, Donald Trump, he did close with his campaign slogan.
  Sullivan reminded the crowd that Republicans took back Senate leaders
  
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• Without quorum, tribal delegates push AVCP demands to October

  21-07-2016 05:09 via ktoo.org
  
  Newly appointed meeting Chair Ivan M. Ivan at the Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center in Bethel.
  (Photo by Charles Enoch/KYUK)
  Tribal delegates in Bethel this week tried to hold an emergency meeting of the Association of Village Council Presidents.
  They want the AVCP administration and executive board to provide answers on financial matters and respond to what some delegates see as a mismanagement of power and lack of transparency within the organization.
  AVCP administration and executi
  
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• Denali Park postpones reopening area after bear sightings

  21-07-2016 04:22 via ktoo.org
  Denali National Park officials are holding off on plans to reopen an area closed because of a problem grizzly bear, saying they’ve received new reports bear sightings there.The bear bit and scratched a hiker along the Savage Alpine Trail July 1. The park had just reopened the area after it was closed when the bear charged vehicles and on June 22 obtained food from a daypack that a visitor threw to distract it.
  Officials had planned to reopen the Savage River area trails on Thursday. But th
  
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• Chief Johnson commits JPD to combat bias in policing

  21-07-2016 04:20 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau police officers are taking a stand against violence, and giving out hot dogs to boot.
  Members of the department hosted a cookout Wednesday, offering a place for people to make a connection with officers and to celebrate diversity within the community.
  People who stopped by were encouraged to wear name tags listing things about them and what makes them different. There also was a board where people could write their thoughts about recent violence in the U.S. and abroad.
  This came as Juneau
  
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• Half ton of food donated to homeless Anchorage youth stolen

  21-07-2016 04:07 via ktoo.org
  Authorities are investigating the theft of more than a thousand pounds of food that was intended to feed homeless youth in Anchorage.KTUU-TV reports the estimated $1,000 worth of food was reported stolen in late June. The food had been collected during an annual food drive conducted by the National Association of Letter Carriers.
  The food went missing from a shed at Anchorage Community Mental Health Services, where it was being stored until space opened up at Covenant House, a nonprofit that ser
  
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• Broken ice machine stymies commercial fishing in Marshall and Russian Mission

  21-07-2016 03:41 via ktoo.org
  
  Maserculiq’s broken ice machine. (Photo by Nick P. Andrew Jr.)
  The first commercial fishing opening for fall chum started Wednesday for Marshall and Russian Mission, but still no solution has been found for the villages’ broken ice machine, forcing fishermen to either stop fishing or travel 60 miles and back to the village of St. Mary’s to get ice.
  Marshall’s Maserculiq Native Corp. owns the machine but has made no effort to fix it since the compressor quit working t
  
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• Governor appoints Hollis French to oil and gas commission

  21-07-2016 02:33 via ktoo.org
  
  Sen. Hollis French addresses a joint session of the Alaska Legislature, April 17, 2014. (Photo by Skip Gray/Gavel Alaska)
  Gov. Bill Walker has appointed Hollis French to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, or AOGCC. French, a Democrat from Anchorage, served in the Alaska Senate for 12 years. Now he’ll oversee regulation of the state’s oil and gas industry.
  The third seat on the AOGCC is designated to a member of the public who is familiar with oil and gas. French says som
  
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• Governor appoints Hollis French to Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission

  21-07-2016 02:33 via ktoo.org
  
  Sen. Hollis French addresses a joint session of the Alaska Legislature, April 17, 2014. (Photo by Skip Gray/Gavel Alaska)
  Governor Bill Walker has appointed Hollis French to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission or AOGCC. French, a Democrat from Anchorage, served in the Alaska Senate for 12 years. Now he’ll oversee regulation of the state’s oil and gas industry.
  The third seat on the AOGCC is designated to a member of the public who is familiar with oil and gas. French says
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 7-21-16

  21-07-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Thursday on A Juneau Afternoon, Joan Pardes hosts.
  We’ll learn about the Juneau Rotaract Club’s fundraiser, Christmas in July
  We’ll continue our series of Juneau Summer Fun, with John McConnochie from Cycle Alaska
  And Nancy DeCherney will be here with Arts Up!
  That, Writers Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, on the Thursday afternoon on A Juneau Afternoon.
  
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