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• Want to learn Tlingit? There’s a new app for that.

  31-08-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Sealaska Heritage’s Katrina Hotch, left, and Kathy Dye both worked on the recently-released Tlingit language app. (Photo by Lakeidra Chavis/KTOO)
  There are only a few hundred Tlingit speakers in the world, according to linguists and researchers.
  In a world where English is considered the dominant language, Tlingit is endangered, linguistically speaking.
  The Sealaska Heritage Institute hopes to combat that.
  The organization announced the release of two free apps Monday, aimed at making
  
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• Trump to meet with Mexican president ahead of immigration speech

  31-08-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he would meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto just hours before a major immigration policy speech he intends to make. (Photo by Gerald Herbert/Associated Press)
  Hours before he is slated to make a major policy speech on immigration Wednesday in Phoenix, Donald Trump is making a bold move — he will be meeting with Mexico’s president.
  “I have accepted the invitation of President Enrique Peña Nieto, of Mexico, and look
  
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• Red Carpet Concert: Chantil Dukart

  31-08-2016 18:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The latest Celebration Sessions Red Carpet Concert video features Miami-based jazz musician Chantil Dukart. She performs her song “The Future Is Our Friend” in a studio shared by Rico Worl and Christy NaMee Eriksen who curated the eight-part series.The Celebration Sessions Red Carpet Concerts are a collaboration between KTOO, Kindred Post and Trickster Company. Watch other Red Carpet Concerts with Lily Hope, Silver Jackson, and Stephen Qacung B
  
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• Wind farm can generate up to 30% of Nome’s power

  31-08-2016 17:00 via ktoo.org
  
  All of the wind turbines are fully repaired and now generating up to 30 percent of the city’s power. (File photo by Matthew F. Smith/ KNOM)
  Depending on how the wind blows,  Nome’s wind farm on Banner Peak can generate up to 30 percent of the city’s power.
  This productive, six-year-old wind farm and its about 20 vanes generate a significant amount of energy to offset diesel fuel power for the city, said John Handeland, utility manager for Nome Joint Utility System.
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• California lawmakers approve mandatory sentencing for rape

  31-08-2016 04:13 via ktoo.org
  
  Brock Turner, a former Stanford University swimmer, received six months in jail and three years’ probation for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. State lawmakers have approved a proposal to mandate prison terms for such a crime. (Associated Press)
  The California Assembly unanimously passed a measure that requires a prison sentence for anyone convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious person.
  The 66-0 vote comes after a six-month jail sentence (and three years’ probation)
  
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• Forest service gives go ahead for Kuiu Island timber sale

  31-08-2016 04:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Kuiu Island in 2014. At the time, the U.S. Forest Service was repairing streams on the island damaged by logging from the 1970s. Now, 23 million board feet could be harvested on the north part of the island. (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/KTOO)
  An old growth timber sale recently announced in a Ketchikan newspaper has one conservation group scratching its head.That’s because this type of harvest — near valuable salmon streams — won’t be allowed in the future.The U.S. for
  
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• Alaska Native elder and leader dies at age 77

  31-08-2016 04:00 via ktoo.org
  
  ANCHORAGE — John Schaeffer Jr., an Inupiat Eskimo elder and tribal leader in northwest Alaska, has died. He was 77.
  Schaeffer was the first president and CEO of the NANA Regional Corp.
  NANA Chief Operating Officer Lori Henry says Schaeffer died Aug. 25 in Kotzebue, his hometown. He will be buried in Kotzebue on Wednesday following a memorial service at the high school gym.
  A cause of death was not disclosed.
  Schaeffer joined the Alaska Army National Guard’s Eskimo Scout battalion in
  
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• Elections office still waiting on ballots to arrive by mail in tight House primary

  31-08-2016 03:59 via ktoo.org
  
  Election review board members sort through election materials at the Division of Elections office in Juneau on Tuesday. (By Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO)
  The Alaska Division of Elections is still working to certify the results of the House race for the district that includes North Slope and Northwest Arctic boroughs.
  Division director Josie Bahnke said on Tuesday afternoon that the division’s office in Juneau was waiting for the ballots to be mailed in from four precincts in District 4
  
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• Juneau man wanted for probation violations, may be connected to reckless driving incidents

  31-08-2016 03:30 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau police want help finding Micah William Nelson. They’re calling him a person of interest in some recent reckless driving incidents. (Photo courtesy Juneau Police Department)
  Police are looking for a 25-year-old Juneau man considered a person of interest in several reckless driving incidents including a hit-and-run since Sunday, according to a news release from the Juneau Police Department.
  Micah William Nelson is wanted on two outstanding felony warrants related to probatio
  
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• Enhanced IDs help some tribal members cross borders

  31-08-2016 03:30 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Enrolled members of Alaska’s largest tribal government are getting enhanced photo IDs.
  They can be used for border crossings and some other situations where official identification is necessary.
  But many other tribes can’t afford them.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/08/30TribeID.mp3The Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska counts more than 30,000 members in and outside the state.
  It’s issued photo ID cards for more than a dozen years. But Cent
  
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• Homer awarded grant to fund assistant fire chief position

  31-08-2016 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The city of Homer has received a Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response, or SAFER, grant through Homeland Security for an assistant fire chief at the Homer Volunteer Fire Department.
  The goal SAFER grants is to enhance the ability of recipients to attain and maintain 24-hour fire department staffing, and to assure that their communities have adequate protection from fire and fire-related hazards.
  This is a two-year grant that fully funds an assistant chief position, something that has
  
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• For first time in a generation, Skagway School has single-grade classrooms

  31-08-2016 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Denise Caposey teaches first graders at Skagway School. This school year is the first in 20 years in which enrollment is big enough to warrant single-grade elementary classrooms. (Photo by Emily Files/KHNS)
  For more than 20 years, Skagway School was small enough that all students were taught in multi-age classrooms.
  But an increase in student enrollment prompted the school to transition to single-grade elementary classrooms this year.
  It’s the second week of classes at Skagway School.
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• New technology will help Unalaska clinic to provide better emergency care

  31-08-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Iliukliuk Family and Health Services’ eICU system will go online in September. (Photo by
  Laura Kraegel/KUCB)
  Unalaska’s clinic will soon be the first community health center in Alaska with an electronic intensive care unit, or eICU.
  That’s a type of telemedicine technology that’ll connect healthcare providers at Iliuliuk Family and Health Services with specialists in Anchorage.
  Officially, the local clinic is a community health center, which means it’s only supposed
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-31-16

  31-08-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Wednesday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon, Jamie Waste hosts;
  Emma Davis, Artist in Residence at the CANVAS, will be here to showcase her upcoming First Friday show;
  Julie Neyhart will be here with details about next week’s Suicide Prevention week;
  We’ll take a ride – on the air – in the Earthquake Simulator;
  We’ll find out about Saturday’s Whale Watch Benefit cruise for the Juneau symphony;
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more; live at 3 on KTOO
  
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• Despite contract changes, nurse’s assistant programs continue in Bethel

  31-08-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  When Alaska Vocational Technical Center, or AVTEC, closed its Allied Health Program in Anchorage this year, it was forced to end relationships with some rural communities that used AVTEC’s professors for their certified nurse’s assistant, or CNA, programs.
  The good news for students in Bethel is that not much will change for them.
  Jeremy Osborne, director of programs at the Yuut Elitnaurviat Learning Center, said that despite the AVTEC program’s closure, Yuut’s
  
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• Ketchikan, seasonal business owner reach tentative settlement in lawsuit

  31-08-2016 01:12 via ktoo.org
  
  The city of Ketchikan and a seasonal-business owner have reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit the city filed last year to recover the cost of demolishing a Water Street building damaged in a fire in fall 2011.
  The Alaska Duty Free building was alongside the downtown tunnel.
  After the fire, the city asked the owner to take care of the damaged structure.
  When owners Villa Machini Inc. took no action for a year, the city in September 2012 hired a local contractor to demolish it.
  In 2014, the
  
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• Junior senator meets with Haines veterans and business leaders

  31-08-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Sen. Dan Sullivan talks with Haines veterans at the American Legion. (Photo by Emily Files/KHNS)
  Alaska junior U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan visited constituents in Haines and Skagway for the first time since he was elected in 2014.
  The Republican was in Haines on Monday, where he spent time talking to veterans and members of the business community.
  Sullivan’s message to local veterans was “we’ve got your back.”
  He told about 20 veterans gathered at the American Legion that if t
  
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• Should Alaskans fear diseases frozen in the permafrost?

  31-08-2016 00:56 via ktoo.org
  
  Coastal erosion reveals the extent of ice-rich permafrost underlying the active layer in the Teshekpuk Lake special area of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve. (Photo: Brandt Meixell/USGS)
  Russian officials say warming permafrost could be linked to a deadly anthrax outbreak in Siberia this month. Permafrost can be found almost everywhere in Alaska — from the Arctic coast to Anchorage. But at least one expert isn’t alarmed about the potential for thawing ground to bring ol
  
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• Focus on Community – 9-5-16

  31-08-2016 00:08 via ktoo.org
  The practice of yoga in the West has exploded over the last decade. In Juneau alone there are over 45 yoga classes to choose from every week.
  What’s the magic?  Please join Dr. Elaine Schroeder and two local, highly trained yoga teachers this Monday at 7pm on KTOO’s monthly program, Mind Over Matter, where Juneau residents’ wellbeing is the focus. So tune in Monday to KTOO at 7pm to learn more about how yoga may enhance your life.
  
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• Search continues for missing hiker by Chena Hot Springs

  31-08-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  A search continues for an overdue hiker in the hills surrounding Chena Hot Springs Resort.
  Resort employee Anatoliy Balko, 19, left on what was he anticipated to be a two-day hike Friday morning, said Alaska State Trooper spokeswoman Megan Peters.
  “It was told last that he left the resort at approximately 9:30 Friday morning, and he was going to hike Far Mountain and back via the Charlie Dome area,” Peters said. “It’s about a 30-mile hike. He was supposed to be back
  
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