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• Recent oil refinery owners share contamination cleanup costs

  28-08-2016 04:58 via ktoo.org
  Alaska’s Supreme Court says recent owners of a North Pole oil refinery share costs of cleaning up a contamination that has reached about 7 square miles of groundwater.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the Friday ruling keeps onsite cleanup costs attached to Flint Hills while former refinery owner Williams Alaska Petroleum is responsible for the plume that spread offsite.
  A nearby resident had sued Flint Hills over the contamination.
  Flint Hills then filed a claim against former refin
  
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• Canadian rescued near ‘Into the Wild’ bus

  28-08-2016 04:58 via ktoo.org
  Authorities in Alaska say a Canadian man is the latest person to be rescued near an abandoned bus made famous by the book and film “Into the Wild.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports 22-year-old Matthew Sharp of Manitoba was rescued after he was unable to hike back because of minor injuries and high river levels.
  Alaska State Troopers say a personal locator beacon registered to Sharp was activated early Thursday morning. Troopers responded by helicopter and found Sharp, who was flown to
  
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• Hep C cases are most severe in Southeast

  28-08-2016 04:57 via ktoo.org
  A statewide uptick in Hepatitis C cases is most severe in Southeast Alaska, where heroin use has been on the rise.
  The Juneau Empire reports that Alaska epidemiology experts found the rate of infection among those between the ages of 18 and 29 rose 490 percent in Southeast Alaska in a five-year period through 2015.
  Untreated cases of the infection could cause cancer and cirrhosis in the liver.
  Hepatitis C can spread when drug users share needles.
  
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• Art project “Bears on Parade” near completion in Anchorage

  28-08-2016 04:56 via ktoo.org
  Alaska’s largest city is nearing completion of a public art installation aimed at raising awareness of the grizzly and black bears that live nearby.
  Thirteen colorful, life-size fiberglass bears have been installed around Anchorage as part of “Bears on Parade.” More are being completed.
  Brenda Carlson is one of the organizers and a member of the Anchorage Bear Committee, dedicated to bear conservation in the city.
  She says the point of the statues is to spark conversation about
  
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• Protected Marine Area Near Hawaii Is Now Twice The Size Of Texas

  28-08-2016 04:51 via ktoo.org
  
  Rough seas prevented the NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer from collecting data in the the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in February.
  NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration
  President Obama is expanding a national monument off the coast of Hawaii, more than quadrupling it in size and making it the world’s largest protected marine area.
  The Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument was created by President George W. Bush in 2006. At the time, it was seven times larger
  
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• Has Hillary Clinton Actually Been Dodging The Press?

  28-08-2016 04:51 via ktoo.org
  
  Hillary Clinton, seen on a TV camera monitor in 2013, has been criticized for not holding more press conferences.
  Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
  Hillary Clinton has not held a single press conference since the start of 2016, triggering charges that she’s trying to duck questions from reporters on the campaign trail.
  Clinton and her senior campaign aides say that’s absurd. They have pointed repeatedly to what they call the swiftly growing number of interviews she has granted. In late Ma
  
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• Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Enforcement of State Bathroom Law At UNC

  28-08-2016 04:50 via ktoo.org
  
  Signage outside a restroom at 21c Museum Hotel in Durham, N.C. A North Carolina law limiting bathroom choice for transgender people is being challenged in a federal court in Raleigh.
  Gerry Broome/AP
  A judge has ruled that three transgender people — two students and one employee — at the University of North Carolina must be allowed to use the bathrooms corresponding to their gender identities.
  In his preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge Thomas Schroeder blocked the university f
  
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• School board candidate juggles race and Facebook

  28-08-2016 03:23 via ktoo.org
  
  Dan DeBartolo is one of four candidates running for the Juneau School Board. (Courtesy Dan DeBartolo)
  A Juneau school board candidate is figuring out that life in the public eye will require making some unforeseen changes to his life on social media.
  Dan DeBartolo is the creator and a moderator of the Facebook page Juneau Community Collective. It’s a public group with more than 5,500 members. Since DeBartolo started it a couple of years ago, the page has been a popular place to discuss com
  
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• Westlake widens lead in District 40 primary

  28-08-2016 03:16 via ktoo.org
  
  The unofficial results of a tight House primary race are in. Dean Westlake of Kotzebue appears to have won the Democratic nomination for House District 40 from incumbent Rep. Benjamin Nageak of Barrow.
  Previously Westlake had a lead of only three votes. Absentee and questioned ballots tallied Friday widened Westlake’s lead to 21 votes.
  Division of Elections officials have said it will likely take another week to certify the results. But, Westlake’s win might not be definite. Because
  
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• Plane makes emergency landing in Mendenhall Wetlands

  28-08-2016 03:12 via ktoo.org
  
  (Creative Commons photo by Neerav Bhatt)
  A Cessna aircraft made a hard landing Friday evening in the Mendenhall Wetlands State Game Refuge, east of the Juneau International Airport runway.
  Capital City Fire/Rescue Assistant Chief Ed Quinto said the plane was coming into Juneau from Hoonah when it lost power and made a forced landing about 2,000 feet from the end of the airport runway.
  All four people aboard walked away with no injuries.
  Quinto said airport maintenance workers were sent to remove
  
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