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• Is the Arctic ready for the Crystal Serenity?

  20-08-2016 04:57 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The Crystal Serenity is the largest passenger ship to traverse the Northwest Passage, traveling from Seward to New York City. Photo: Rachel Waldholz, Alaska’s Energy Desk
  The luxury liner Crystal Serenity on its way from Seward to New York City through the Northwest Passage.
  It’s the largest cruise ship to navigate the route, which hugs the coasts of Alaska, Canada and Greenland. And it’s attracted international attention, with many wondering if it’s a sign of what’
  
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• Voters in one village were allowed to cast ballots in both primaries

  20-08-2016 02:40 via ktoo.org
  
  Rep. Benjamin Nageak, D-Bethel, during debate on the creation of Indigenous Peoples Day, April 1, 2016. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  The result of Tuesday’s Democratic primary for House District 40 remains in doubt.
  There also are concerns over how voters in the Northwest Arctic village of Shungnak were able to cast ballots in both the Republican primary and in the primary for Democrats and others.
  According to the Alaska Dispatch News, Shungnak precinct chairwoman Evelyn Woods says she
  
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• Juneau Afternoon 8-22-16

  20-08-2016 02:17 via ktoo.org
  Monday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon, Laury Scandling hosts..
  We’ll talk Programmer Shay Wilson about Thursday’s workshop, “Think Like a Computer.’
  We’ll talk with former Juneau resident, Britt Arnesan, about her new CDs.
  That, Writers’ Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, live at 3 on KTOO-NEWS, repeated at 4 on KRNN, and available on line via ktoo.org
  Tonight at 7 on KTOO-NEWS, a live broadcast of the regular meeting of the CBJ Assembly.
  
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• Vandals hotwire, steal school district pickup trucks

  20-08-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Two school district pickup trucks were stolen Thursday morning from the Lower Kuskokwim School District office parking lot.
  Vandals hotwired one truck about 5:30 a.m. Thursday and rammed it into the side of a school van before speeding away, Superintendent Dan Walker said.
  Later, they returned the truck, hotwired another one and drove away again.
  The second truck was found in a ditch off BIA Road, just past Larson Subdivision.
  All the vehicles involved were damaged.
  Walker says that the van
  
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• Language assistance provisions enacted in western Alaska and the Arctic

  20-08-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  When Alaskans went to the polls this week, some had new options for language assistance.
  Expanded help for Yup’ik, Gwich’in and Inupiaq speakers was the result of a lawsuit brought against the state in 2013.
  A team of state elections officials and those involved in the lawsuit traveled to three Bristol Bay communities to see how the provisions worked out on primary day.
  Before choosing a primary ballot at polling place set up at the Manokotak City Office this week, Mike Toyukak glan
  
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• Ketchikan resident trains to be Navy pilot

  20-08-2016 01:07 via ktoo.org
  
  A Ketchikan native and 2008 Kayhi graduate is participating in a training program that transforms U.S. Navy officers into Navy pilots in Corpus Christi, Texas.
  Ensign Mari Freitag, a student naval aviator with the “Rangers” Training Squadron that operates the T-6 Texan II aircraft, attended the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, studying political science and justice.
  During her last semester, she took flying lessons and decided she wanted to be a pilot. She considered s
  
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• Southeast Alaska tribes share mining concerns with feds

  20-08-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  JUNEAU — State tribal groups have met with federal officials to discuss concerns that Canadian mining projects could divert potentially toxic water to southeast Alaska watersheds.
  The Juneau Empire reports that the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska met with officials from the Department of State and the Environmental Protection Agency last week in Juneau. They discussed ways to protect the region’s water quality and salmon habitat.
  The tribe is concerned ab
  
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• Ketchikan to host ‘Plunge for Peace’ to recognize officers

  20-08-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  KETCHIKAN — A Ketchikan woman is leading an effort to show local and state law enforcement agencies that they have the community’s support by taking a plunge in the Pacific Ocean.
  The Ketchikan Daily News reports that the “Plunge for Peace” event, organized by Debbie Karlson, will take place Saturday at Ketchikan’s Knudson Cove. She says docks will be cleared of boats to make way for jumpers.
  Karlson says idea for the plunge came out of wanting to show support for l
  
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• Hillary Clinton walks a fine line between police and Black Lives Matter

  20-08-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Sitting between New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and policy adviser Maya Harris, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke during a meeting with law enforcement officials earlier this week in New York City. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
  As Hillary Clinton began a meeting with police chiefs from departments around the country, she expressed gratitude to those on the force.
  “They represent officers who get up every day, put on their uniforms, kiss their fam
  
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