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• Ketchikan, facing homelessness, discusses removing public benches

  21-08-2016 04:21 via ktoo.org
  Complaints about behavior at benches in Ketchikan have spurred a discussion about how the city can help homeless and inebriated residents.
  The Ketchikan Daily News reports Councilmember Bob Sivertsen recently directed city staff to create a task force to explore solutions.
  Ketchikan Gateway Borough officials discussed removing a street’s planter box benches in response to complaints from area business owners.
  Councilmembers Julie Isom and Janalee Gage say taking the benches out would only
  
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• Corrections officer caught smuggling drugs takes plea

  21-08-2016 04:21 via ktoo.org
  A former corrections officer suspected of smuggling drugs into prison is expected to take a plea deal.
  KTUU-TV reports Adam Jason Spindler was arrested in May.
  Court records say Spindler is expected to plead guilty Monday to drug conspiracy and possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. The plea agreement states Spindler started smuggling drugs in late March.
  He was put under surveillance after corrections officials contacted the FBI. Investigators say Spindler met with a su
  
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• BLM approves Canadian exploration 35 miles from Haines

  21-08-2016 04:21 via ktoo.org
  A federal agency has approved expanded exploration for a copper, zinc and gold deposit upstream of the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve outside Haines.
  The Bureau of Land Management approved additional exploration work for Vancouver, British Columbia-based Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. The company is exploring a prospect about 35 miles northwest of Haines.
  The approval means Constantine will have access to as many as 40 new exploration drill sites.
  The preserve is home to the world’s largest
  
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• Preserving the history of Alaska’s canned seafood

  21-08-2016 04:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Canned Alaska salmon. (Creative Commons photo courtesy of cookbookoman17)
  There used to be hundreds of seafood canneries all along Alaska’s coastline. Two people are involved in documenting and preserving some of that rich history in order to share it with others.
  When Anjuli Grantham was growing up she would help her family beach seine on the west side of Kodiak Island. It was the same place that an old cannery site had once operated.
  “My early childhood memories are playing in cann
  
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• Justice Sotomayor visits Anchorage

  21-08-2016 04:00 via ktoo.org
  
  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the Dena’ina Center in Anchorage Wednesday. (Photo by Anne Hillman/Alaska Public Media)
  Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke in Anchorage on Wednesday to a crowd of 1,200 people. While answering preset questions, she spoke about how being nominated to the high court transformed her life, and how different experiences can affect a ruling.
  “You have to understand,” she told the crowd. “You get nominated to the Supreme Cou
  
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• Homer art gallery hosts “Decolonizing Alaska” exhibit

  21-08-2016 04:00 via ktoo.org
  
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  An innovative new exhibit at Bunnell Street Arts Center has turned a spotlight on Alaska’s long history of colonization. Asia Freeman, the curator of “Decolonizing Alaska”, says colonization has had a powerful influence on the state.
  “As a resource state, Alaska has been colonized by forces for centuries now, that have defined and shaped our identity as a state,” said Freeman.
  The exhibition tells a multitude of stories from many perspective
  
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• PHOTOS: Welcome To The World’s ‘Highest And Longest’ Glass-Bottomed Bridge

  21-08-2016 03:59 via ktoo.org
  
  An aerial view of glass-bottom bridge at Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon on Saturday in China’s Hunan province.
  Visual China Group via Getty
  It’s touted as the “world’s highest and longest” glass-bottom bridge, elegantly stretched between two mountain peaks in central China’s Hunan province.
  And as of this weekend, it’s open to visitors. Now, one can walk the 470-yard length of the glass bridge, which is positioned a vertigo-inducing 328 yards above the ground,
  
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• Amid Industry Downturn, Global Shipping Sees Record-Low Growth

  21-08-2016 03:59 via ktoo.org
  
  After its maiden voyage from China, the largest container ship to ever make port in North America, unloads its cargo in the Port of Los Angeles on Dec. 26, 2015. The major shipping companies in Europe and Asia began ordering the state-of-the-art, supersized ships back in 2011, when times were better.
  Scott Varley/AP
  The massive container ships that ply the high seas bring us pineapples and mangoes in winter, and computers and cheap t-shirts all year round. But the shipping industry is a volatile
  
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• A Month After Turkey’s Failed Coup, Taking Stock Of A Sweeping Purge

  21-08-2016 03:59 via ktoo.org
  
  Detained Turkish soldiers who allegedly took part in a military coup arrive with their hands bound behind their backs at the Istanbul Justice Palace on July 20, 2016, following the failed military coup attempt of July 15.
  Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images
  Since a coup attempt just over a month ago failed to dislodge the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his government has launched a sweeping purge that has impacted tens of thousands over a wide cross-section of Turkish society.
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