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• Friday, Sept. 2, 2016, Newscast

  02-09-2016 23:05 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/09/20160902-1230-newscast.mp3The One People Canoe Society sent two people to North Dakota to protest a pipeline, airships are coming to Alaska, the Court of Appeals says blood alcohol tests for motorists suspected of driving under the influence are legit, and bears in the Haines area have been spotted covered in what appears to be green paint.
  
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• Hermine floods coastal areas in Florida before heading to Georgia

  02-09-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Brian Mugrage watches the weather on TV as he stands in the storm surge inside the Riverside Cafe in St. Marks, Fla., on Thursday. (Photo by Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images)
  Updated at 10:15 a.m. ET
  Hurricane Hermine made landfall early Friday morning just east of St. Marks, Fla., as a Category 1 storm with 80 mph winds, but weakened to a tropical storm as it moved further inland.
  The National Hurricane Center expects Hermine to produce “a large extent of dangerous winds, life-threatening sto
  
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• Giant hybrid aircraft set to arrive in Kenai in 2019

  02-09-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  KENAI — New football field-sized airships are set to arrive in Kenai as part of an Alaska company’s plan to boost transport to construction sites in remote areas of the state.
  The Peninsula Clarion reports the hybrid airships from Lockheed Martin are expected to be housed at PRL Logistics’ 60-acre facility in Kenai by 2019.
  The egg-shaped aircraft can land on snow, ice, gravel and water and has space for 47,000 pounds of cargo and 18 passengers. About 80 percent of its lift is
  
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• Gardentalk – Planting and dividing

  02-09-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Tomato plants usually need lots of water to grow, but these tomatoes may have been slow to ripen because they were overwatered recently. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  Are you still waiting to harvest tomatoes in your greenhouse? Master Gardener Ed Buyarski suggests stressing your tomato plants by cutting back on the usual watering and fertilizing. That may force the plant to accelerate the ripening process for the tomato fruit.
  You should also consider removing any new flowers that would divert en
  
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• Ketchikan measure now would limit pot shops in city to one

  02-09-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  An ordinance that would limit the number of retail marijuana stores in city limits to one was approved in first reading Thursday by the Ketchikan City Council.
  The original measure called for a limit of two stores, but Council Member Julie Isom proposed an amendment reducing that to one.
  More retail stores can open outside of city limits, if the Ketchikan Gateway Borough chooses to let that happen, she said.
  “If the borough can come up and say we want one or two or three or however many we
  
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• Brock Turner freed from jail after serving 3 months of 6-month sentence

  02-09-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  (Brock Turner, seen here in his January 2015 booking photo released by the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, was released from county jail Friday. (Associated Press)
  Three months after he received a lenient punishment for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman at Stanford University, Brock Turner left the Santa Clara County Main Jail on Friday morning. He served half of a six-month sentence that drew a furious public response.
  Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky was widely criticized fo
  
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• Wildfire victims seek help from their tribal community

  02-09-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Firefighters mop up remaining fire and heat near residences threatened by the Cayuse Mountain Fire.
  (INCIWEB)
  The Cayuse Mountain Fire has been the second largest in Washington state.
  The blaze consumed 14 homes and displaced up to 50 people on the Spokane Indian Reservation, but the community is trying to get back to normal life.
  Word of the fire and its damage spread almost as fast as the flames.
  The day after it started, the community already had set up a donation center for victims in a
  
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• Levelock man charged sexually abused of a teenager

  02-09-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A 21-year-old Levelock man was arrested on charges in a case involving sexual abuse of a 14-year-old related to the him.
  Alaska State Troopers arrested Eric Andrew Tallekpalek, who is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old female relative relative on July 30, following an investigation that started with a tip to the Office of Children’s Services.
  Tallekpalek was arrested on a charge of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor, which is a class B felony.
  Tallekpalek told authoritie
  
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• Boundary Commission approves Whale Pass incorporation, on to voters next

  02-09-2016 20:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Alaska’s Local Boundary Commission on Tuesday approved a petition to incorporate a new city on northern Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska.
  Whale Pass is a former logging camp and community of around 50 people. Late last year residents there submitted a petition to the state to form a second-class city encompassing about 26 square miles of land and water.
  The Local Boundary Commission held a hearing on the petition Aug. 2 in Whale Pass and voted to approve the incorporation.
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• Native groups criticize fair board over rappers’ ejection

  02-09-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  FAIRBANKS — Alaska Native organizations are calling on an Interior Alaska state fair board to address issues of minority treatment and cultural insensitivity after a performance by two rappers was cut short and the men were ordered to leave the fairgrounds.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the groups told the Tanana Valley State Fair board in a letter that they won’t support the fair until the issues are addressed.
  Natasha Singh with the Tanana Chiefs Conference said the o
  
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• How the Catholic Church documented Mother Teresa’s two miracles

  02-09-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Catholic nuns attend visitors at the Missionaries of Charity house in Kolkata on Aug. 26. (Photo by Bikas Das/Associated Press)
  Hundreds of Catholics have been declared saints in recent decades, but few with the acclaim accorded Mother Teresa, set to be canonized by Pope Francis on Sunday, largely in recognition of her service to the poor in India.
  “When I was coming of age, she was the living saint,” says the Most Rev. Robert Barron, the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los An
  
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• One People Canoe Society to paddle for Standing Rock Tribe to protest controversial pipeline

  02-09-2016 18:13 via ktoo.org
  
  Doug Chilton and DeAndre King in front of the canoe they’ll take to North Dakota. (Photo courtesy of Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska)
  Members of the One People Canoe Society will travel this week from Alaska to North Dakota to paddle in protest over a controversial pipeline.The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has asked paddlers from around the country to show support with a float down the Missouri River.
  Doug Chilton and DeAndre King left Wednesday night on the ferry
  
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• One People Canoe Society to paddle for Standing Rock Tribe

  02-09-2016 18:13 via ktoo.org
  
  Doug Chilton and DeAndre King in front of the canoe they’ll take to North Dakota. (Photo courtesy of Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska)
  Members of the One People Canoe Society are traveling this week from Alaska to North Dakota to paddle in protest over a controversial pipeline. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has asked paddlers from around the country to show support with a float down the Missouri River.
  Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska
  
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• Banned from national forest, for-profit mushroom pickers go underground

  02-09-2016 18:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Morel mushrooms thrive in forests following a big burn. (Photo by Christine Weaver-Cimala/Flickr)
  At a campground in northwestern Montana, 30 people are groggily gearing up for a day of mushroom picking.
  Most are here because they want an excuse to get outside and taste some of Montana’s more exotic wild mushrooms. But others, like Matt Zaitz from Kansas, are here to turn a profit.
  “It’s not easy work,” Zaitz says. “It’s tough.”
  Zaitz started pickin
  
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• Pioneering musher helped establish oldest kennel for Siberian huskies in the world

  02-09-2016 17:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A pioneer of Alaska mushing, who along with her husband, Earl, helped establish the oldest kennel for Siberian huskies in the world, has died.
  Natalie Norris of Willow, Alaska, died Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016, “peacefully and in the presence of family,” according to a Anadyr Siberians Facebook page post.
  Norris grew up in Lake Placid, New York, in the 1920s, when it was still common to see people driving dog teams.
  She began collecting dogs at a young age, eventually competing in sle
  
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• Western Arctic caribou herd smaller than original estimates

  02-09-2016 15:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The Western Arctic caribou herd is smaller than previous estimates of 206,000. (Photo courtesy of Alaska Department of Fish and Game)
  Originally thought to total 206,000, the Western Arctic caribou herd is smaller than first estimated.
  A new photo survey done by the Department of Fish and Game indicates the Western Arctic caribou herd totals 201,000.
  The herd is Alaska’s largest that many use for subsistence and sport hunting.
  Photo surveys of the herd are done every two to three years.
  Of
  
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• Implementing a philosophy: As Juneau tackles crime bill, lots of questions left unanswered

  02-09-2016 04:56 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Corrections officers wait outside of a cell during a weekly inspection at the Lemon Creek Correctional Center on June 18, 2016. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/KTOO)
  Earlier this year, the state passed Senate Bill 91, a reform of Alaska’s criminal justice system. Its proponents hope it will reduce recidivism and the likelihood of repeat offenders.
  But as the bill’s effects trickle down to local governments, Juneau city officials are realizing there are a lot of questions left unanswe
  
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• Clock is ticking on state dispute with Prudhoe Bay leaseholders

  02-09-2016 03:48 via ktoo.org
  
  Prudhoe Bay. The Department of Natural Resources has refused to approve the oil field’s 2016 Plan of Development until operator BP includes detailed marketing information for its massive gas reserves. (Photo courtesy of BP)
  The clock is ticking on a dispute between Gov. Bill Walker’s administration and the state’s largest oil producers.
  The Department of Natural Resources has rejected the annual plan for Prudhoe Bay, demanding detailed new information on how North Slope compani
  
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• New 3-D map will help monitor climate change in Alaska

  02-09-2016 03:21 via ktoo.org
  
  The digital elevation models show the unique boreal forest vegetation patterns alongside Western Alaska’s Koyukuk river. (NSF/NGA)
  In Kotzebue a year ago, President Barack Obama called for a publicly available, high-resolution elevation map of Alaska, a map that will help Alaskans monitor the effects of climate change. Now, it’s here.
  There are many satellites that orbit the Earth. Typical satellites — like NASA’s Landsat — capture really large images, more than 100
  
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• State biologists investigate green bears in Haines

  02-09-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A sow and her cub showed up at the Chilkoot River on Wednesday doused in what appears to be green paint. Biologists are trying to figure out what happened. (Tom Ganner/T. Ganner Photography -Time & Space)
  Social media sites were atwitter in Haines on Thursday morning after photos surfaced of green bears in the Chilkoot River.
  The bears — a sow and her spring cub — had somehow been doused in what appears to be green paint.
  State biologists were examining the ph
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 9-2-16

  02-09-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Friday on A Juneau Afternoon, Joan Pardes hosts.
  We’ll talk with Julie Neyhart and Gareth Hummel about Suicide Prevention Week;
  Chef Stef, this month’s featured artist at the Juneau Artist’s Gallery, will be here to talk about Salted Caramels;
  We’ll talk with UAS Chancellor Rick Caulfield about the Upcoming Board of Regents meeting and their new format for public testimony;
  That, Writers’ Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, Friday on A Juneau Afternoon, live on KTOO
  
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• No evidence that ballot issue affected race result, Steinau says

  02-09-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  JUNEAU — Alaska Democratic Party chairwoman Casey Steinau says there’s no evidence to suggest that primary election-day problems affected the outcome of a northern Alaska legislative race.
  The Division of Elections has said a poll worker in one House District 40 precinct mistakenly gave election-day voters both a Republican ballot and a ballot with the Democratic, Libertarian and Alaskan Independence Party candidates.
  Both House candidates were Democrats. Unofficial results showed De
  
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• Walking tour explores Juneau’s art scene

  02-09-2016 00:30 via ktoo.org
  
  In June, the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council began selling guided art walk tours that weave through the capital city.
  Attendance has been low on the tour, which stops at about 32 galleries, public art displays and studios.
  Art walk participant Cornelia Seckel looks for familiar faces in Jane Terzis and Dan DeRoux’s “Children’s Storybook Characters.” (Photo by Scott Burton/KTOO).
  “Now this is about two hours, and we do some hills, you don’t mind that? I
  
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• Investigation continues into midair plane collision near Russian Mission

  02-09-2016 00:02 via ktoo.org
  
  Crash site of one of the planes. The plane is visible just above the helicopter’s shadow. (Alaska State Troopers)
  The investigation continues into a mid-air plane collision northwest of Russian Mission on Wednesday that left no survivors.
  Alaska State Troopers and investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are heading to the crash sites today.
  “Our focus is on body recovery efforts,” said Megan Peters, public information officer for the Alaska State Troopers.
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