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• Shishmaref residents decide to stay or leave

  31-07-2016 03:59 via ktoo.org
  A tiny island village on Alaska’s storm-battered western coast is entering a new chapter in its decades-long pursuit to move the entire community from its badly eroding shores to safer ground.
  The Inupiat Eskimo community of Shishmaref will hold a special election next month asking residents if they should develop a new community at a nearby location on the mainland or stay put with added protections.
  Either scenario selected in the Aug. 16 vote would cost millions. That’s money the
  
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• Kenai Peninsula group wants to ban commercial marijuana

  31-07-2016 03:59 via ktoo.org
  A citizens group has submitted a petition for a ballot initiative that would ban all commercial marijuana operations outside cities in the Kenai Peninsula Borough.
  The Peninsula Clarion reports that the borough clerk is working to verify signatures on the petition to be sure the group garnered support from at least 15 percent of the number of voters in the last regular election.
  The petition comes after a similar ordinance failed to pass through the borough assembly in April. That ordinance woul
  
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• Invasive crawfish takes root in Kodiak waters

  31-07-2016 03:59 via ktoo.org
  Tribal leaders in Kodiak are working to determine why crawfish, an invasive species, are spreading into the Buskin watershed.
  The Kodiak Daily Mirror reports that the small crustaceans have been spotted in the Kodiak waters occasionally since the early 2000s, but now the Sun’aq Tribe says the problem is more widespread than previously believed.
  Sun’aq officials have been working to catch the crawfish with funds from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. So far, 228 crustaceans have been samp
  
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• Trump Responds To Slain Soldier’s Father, Who Appeals To GOP Leaders

  31-07-2016 02:31 via ktoo.org
  
  Khizr, whose son was killed in Iraq, speaks directly to Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 28. His wife Ghazala Khan stands beside him.
  Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images
  Updated at 6:30 p.m. ET with a reaction from Hillary Clinton provided by her campaign.
  In one of the most powerful moments at the Democratic National Convention, a Muslim father of a fallen U.S. soldier took the stage with his wife beside him and spoke directly to Donald Trump.
  That father, Khiz
  
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• County Sheriff: Hot Air Balloon Crashes In Central Texas, No Apparent Survivors

  31-07-2016 02:31 via ktoo.org
  
  Police cars block access to the site where a hot air balloon crashed early Saturday in Central Texas.
  James Vertuno/AP
  A hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people crashed in central Texas after catching fire, and the Caldwell County Sheriff said “it does not appear there were any survivors.”
  Sheriff Daniel C. Law said in a statement that “investigators are determining the number and identities of victims at this time.”
  There were “a number of fatalities,” Er
  
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• Seattle-based company gets permit for senior housing in Juneau

  31-07-2016 02:18 via ktoo.org
  
  A sign advertising a public meeting marks the location of a planned senior housing building at Vintage Park in the Mendenhall Valley . (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)
  A Seattle-based company is one step closer to building a 49-unit senior housing facility in Juneau. If successful, it would cater to a region’s housing market that’s been historically difficult for everyone, especially Southeast’s aging population.
  Earlier this week, the Juneau Planning Commission approv
  
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• Alaska scientist: Colder, compressed atmosphere surrounds Pluto

  31-07-2016 02:18 via ktoo.org
  
  NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took this stunning image of Pluto only a few minutes after closest approach on July 14, 2015. The image was obtained at a high phase angle –that is, with the sun on the other side of Pluto, as viewed by New Horizons. Seen here, sunlight filters through and illuminates Pluto’s complex atmospheric haze layers. The southern portions of the nitrogen ice plains informally named Sputnik Planum, as well as mountains of the informally named Norgay Montes,
  
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