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• Lecture to cover whaling and other Alutiiq sea mammal hunting techniques

  07-09-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Sea mammals were a staple in historic Alutiiq diets, and a lecture this week will cover the traditional methods and rituals of hunting them.
  You can learn more about whaling and other traditional hunting methods at the lecture Thursday. It’s the second installment in the Alutiiq Museum’s fall lecture series, and it’ll begin at 7 p.m. in the Kodiak Public Library.
  Alutiiq Museum Curator of Archaeology Patrick Saltonstall said Alutiiq people hunted whales, porpoises, fur sea
  
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• Judge’s order halts construction on part of North Dakota pipeline

  07-09-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Native Americans march on Sunday to a sacred site they say was disturbed by bulldozers working on the Dakota Access Pipeline, near an encampment where hundreds of people have gathered to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s protest.(Photo by Robyn Beck /AFP/Getty Images)
  A federal judge has granted part of a Native American tribe’s emergency request to halt construction of a section of oil pipeline in North Dakota.
  The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe fears the planned pipeline could contam
  
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• Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, Newscast

  07-09-2016 22:47 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  A bad boat parking job damages Aurora Harbor, update on state marijuana business licensing, the Nageak-Westlake statehouse race narrows, and North Dakota law enforcement ramps up in anticipation of a judge’s ruling on a pipeline tribal interests are protesting.
  
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• Trial opens for occupiers of Oregon wildlife refuge

  07-09-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A sign is placed on a closed road to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore., on Jan. 29, during the armed occupation of the refuge. (Photo by Rob Kerr/AFP/Getty Images)
  The armed occupation of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge lasted for 41 days. The conspiracy trial for the first defendants in the case — which begins today, with the start of jury selection — could drag on far longer.
  Back in May, U.S. District Judge Anna Brown raised the question of how
  
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• Parents of Juneau schoolchildren worried about increasing price of EpiPens

  07-09-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  (Creative Commons photo by Greg Friese)
  A number of Juneau parents are worried about the price of EpiPens, according to Auke Bay and Glacier Valley Elementary School Nurse Luann Powers.
  Most allergic reactions can be treated with Benadryl, but if there’s a life-threatening reaction, known as anaphylaxis, it usually sets in within two hours, she said.
  “It can start with simple hives and then there can be problems with your respiration because it can cause swelling inside of the b
  
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• Borough Assembly OKs funds for Ketchikan public library services

  07-09-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  In a 5-1 vote Tuesday, the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly approved a motion to provide about $400,000 for the borough’s share of library services.
  The Ketchikan Public Library is owned by the City of Ketchikan, and the borough has helped fund that library for many years through a non-areawide property tax charged to residents outside of city limits.
  For the past several years, some Borough Assembly members have questioned the value of library funding.
  During its Aug. 22 meeting, the As
  
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• FCC subsidies to expand rural broadband and cell service

  07-09-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A new plan will extend high-speed broadband and cell service in rural areas. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld)
  More Alaskans will have affordable access to mobile phones and broadband internet, thanks to a change in federal communication rules and funding.
  Rural communities throughout the United States benefit from what’s called the Universal Service Fund, which subsidizes expansion of and improvements to telecommunication systems.
  It also keeps costs in small communities closer to those in bi
  
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• Construction to begin on new athletic center in Homer

  07-09-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Construction crews are getting ready to break ground on a new athletics building in Homer.
  The South Peninsula Athletic and Recreation Center, or SPARC, will be used for a variety of activities, including indoor soccer, baseball and pickleball.
  Daniel Zatz, who is spearheading the SPARC project, said the facility will allow residents to be active throughout the year.
  “We’ve needed this space forever,” Zatz said. “As our winters have increasingly b
  
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• Sept. 11 marked turning point for Muslims in increasingly diverse America

  07-09-2016 20:08 via ktoo.org
  
  (Illustration by Ashley Mackenzie for NPR)
  Fifteen years after the attacks of Sept. 11, Americans have grown aware not only of the danger of terrorism but also of the reality that their nation is far less white, Christian and European than it used to be.
  “Culturally, we’re a country of Bollywood and bhangra and tai chi and yoga and salsa and burritos and halal and kosher,” says Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion at Harvard University and author of A New Religious Amer
  
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• Trails cleared, bodies recovered from midair collision crash sites, rescuers say

  07-09-2016 20:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Crash site of one of the planes. The plane is visible just above the helicopter’s shadow. (Alaska State Troopers)
  The five bodies of the victims in last week’s deadly midair plane collision were recovered over the weekend, Bethel Search and Rescue said.
  The two planes collided northwest of Russian Mission. State troopers in Bethel were notified of the crash at about 11 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 31.
  BSAR was asked by State Troopers to assist in clearing trails to the crash sites in Southwe
  
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• Trailes cleared, bodies recovered from midair collision crash sites, rescuers say

  07-09-2016 20:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Crash site of one of the planes. The plane is visible just above the helicopter’s shadow. (Alaska State Troopers)
  The five bodies of the victims in last week’s deadly midair plane collision were recovered over the weekend, Bethel Search and Rescue said.
  The two planes collided northwest of Russian Mission. State troopers in Bethel were notified of the crash at about 11 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 31.
  BSAR was asked by State Troopers to assist in clearing trails to the crash sites in Southwe
  
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• Anchorage man sought in connection with robbery apprehended

  07-09-2016 20:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A 24-year-old Anchorage man wanted in connection with a robbery and for felony probation violations was taken into custody Tuesday evening in the Nerka subdivision.
  Christian Andre Young, 24, was apprehended Tuesday evening. (Alaska State Troopers)
  One final tip led police to Christian Andre Young, and ended a brief saga that had kept area residents a bit on edge through the Labor Day weekend.
  “We found him in a home in Nerka,” Dillingham Police Chief Dan Pasquariello said.
  
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• Feds release report on Chugach National Forest management

  07-09-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  KENAI — The U.S. Forest Service is moving forward with plans to update its management plan for the Chugach National Forest on the eastern part of the Kenai Peninsula.
  The Peninsula Clarion reports the federal agency began a revision process for the forest in 2012 by gathering input from the public and researching current use and environmental conditions.
  A report released last week says the Forest Service is revising the forest plan because of a changing environment and public concern.
  Mor
  
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• After attack on Dallas police, recruits more committed to law enforcement

  07-09-2016 18:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Trainees participate in a tactical defense class at the Dallas Police Basic Training Academy. The officer deaths in July strengthened the camaraderie among recruits training at the academy. (Photo by Yvonne Muther/NPR)
  In the hallway of the Dallas Police Basic Training Academy, students are greeted by a row of paintings. There is a portrait hanging of every Dallas PD officer who has died in the line of duty. Soon there will be four more — the victims of sniper Micah Xavier Johnson, who amb
  
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• Joe Miller will run as Libertarian against U.S. Sen. Murkowski

  07-09-2016 05:44 via ktoo.org
  
  Joe Miller in 2010. (Creative Commons photo by Ryan McFarland/www.zieak.com)
  Fairbanks attorney Joe Miller announced Tuesday that he will challenge U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski after all.
  Miller said Libertarian nominee Cean Stevens has withdrawn from the race and her party’s leadership agreed to let Miller appear on the general election ballot in her place.Six years ago, Miller ran as a Tea Party-style Republican and beat Murkowski in the primary. Murkowski
  
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• Westlake leads by 4 votes in the official tally

  07-09-2016 05:03 via ktoo.org
  
  Dean Westlake has a four-vote lead over Rep. Benjamin Nageak. (Photo by Rachel Waldholz/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  The Democratic primary results for the District 40 House seat grew closer Tuesday.
  Dean Westlake remains ahead of incumbent state Rep. Benjamin Nageak, but Westlake’s lead was cut to four votes, from 21. The district includes North Slope and Northwest Arctic boroughs, as well as nearby precincts in the the Unorganized Borough.
  The state election review board certified the res
  
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• Fishing boat smashes into Aurora Harbor slip, driver charged with DUI

  07-09-2016 05:00 via ktoo.org
  
  There’s substantial damage at Aurora Harbor in Juneau after a 43-foot fishing vessel smashed its way into a slip on Monday.
  “The report I got was that he rammed the dock pretty hard and hit a couple of vessels on the way in,” said Juneau Harbormaster Dave Borg.
  He said he got a call around noon that the fishing vessel Nor’Gale was having trouble tying up.
  “The north end of the harbor, our main float suffered some pretty significant damage. It broke some of the
  
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• Most humpback whales removed from Endangered Species List

  07-09-2016 03:24 via ktoo.org
  
  Map of different populations of humpbacks provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Tuesday that most humpback whales will come off the endangered species list, but it’s a mixed bag for humpbacks that visit Alaska.
  Some sub-groups of humpbacks around the world will remain on the list.
  Three different humpback populations swim to Alaska and now they all fall into different categories. The Hawaii popula
  
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• Skagway shop owner found not guilty of misrepresenting Native art

  07-09-2016 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A Skagway shop owner was found not guilty of misrepresenting Native produced art in federal court on Friday.
  Rosemary Libert owns Lynch and Kennedy Dry Goods and was the subject of an investigation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the past couple of years.
  She was charged this spring after selling a piece of art to an undercover agent in 2015.
  In Juneau court last week, federal prosecutors tried unsuccessfully to prove that Libert knowingly deceived the agent, who was posing as a custo
  
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• Fiber-optic cable aimed at improving internet to be installed this month

  07-09-2016 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The path of the Lynn Canal fiber-optic cable. (AP&T
  Dreams of access to faster internet in Haines and Skagway may come true later this year.
  This month, Alaska Power and Telephone is set to install an underwater fiber-optic cable in the Upper Lynn Canal.
  The cable will grow Internet capacity in Haines and Skagway.
  A ship holding an 86-mile fiber-optic cable will make its way from Washington to the Upper Lynn Canal within the next couple weeks.
  In mid-September, the crew will start laying the
  
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• Wanted man slipped out of city limits, likely in Aleknagik, police say

  07-09-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Dillingham’s most sought after fugitive remains at large, but has likely left Dillingham Police Department’s  jurisdiction.
  Police and state troopers were looking for Christian Andre Young, a 24, of Anchorage through the weekend, starting about noon Friday when he fled on foot from police near the airport.
  “He still hasn’t been caught,” police chief Dan Pasquariello said Monday morning. “The last verifiable sighting we have of this man here in t
  
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• Sullivan details some Alaska success stories

  07-09-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, speaks during a Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce lunch on Aug. 31. (Photo by Leila Kheiry/KRBD)
  During his visit to Ketchikan last week, Sen. Dan Sullivan covered a variety of topics.
  Alaska’s junior senator touched on a number of topics during his talk to the Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce.
  Alaska’s economy in the face of low oil prices has been a big topic for a while, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
  Sullivan said that as a U.S. senator,
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 9-7-16

  07-09-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Wednesday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon,;
  We’ll talk with pianist Mary Watson about her upcoming benefit concert for the Juneau Piano Fund;
  Christina Della Rosa will be here with an update on this week’s Planetarium presentation;
  Kelly Manning will be here with news about art activities at the CANVAS;
  Collette Costa will be here to highlight special films at the Goldtown Theatre
  And we’ll talk with Dr. Kathy Stepien about immunizations.
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, mus
  
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• The difficulty of enforcing laws against driving while high

  07-09-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Abby McLean of Northglenn, Colo., stands near the stretch of U.S. 85 in Adams County where she was pulled over for a DUI check in September 2014. (Photo by Nathaniel Minor/CPR News)
  This story starts with a stay-at-home-mom from the Denver suburbs.
  Her name is Abby McLean. She’s 30 and lives in Northglenn, Colo. She was driving home from a late dinner with a friend two years ago when she came upon a DUI roadside checkpoint.
  “I hadn’t drank or smoked anything, so I was like, &ls
  
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• Anchorage man faces charges in fatal hit-and-run accident

  07-09-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  ANCHORAGE — A 20-year-old Anchorage man faces manslaughter and other charges in a fatal hit-and-run accident over the holiday weekend.
  Quinton Molinar was being held Tuesday at the Anchorage jail without bail, according to a news release from anchorage police. He’s also facing failure to render aid and tampering with evidence charges.An online court database doesn’t list an attorney for Molinar.
  Molinar called them late Monday night to report he was the driver involved in the f
  
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• Responders cleaning up fuel spill on Richardson Highway

  07-09-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  ANCHORAGE — Alaska State Troopers say responders are cleaning up a fuel spill on the Richardson Highway.
  Troopers say a fuel tank trailer was leaking fuel after a rollover at mile 306 of the highway southeast of Fairbanks Monday afternoon. According to troopers, the tank trailer was reportedly hauling about 5,500 gallons of fuel.
  Troopers say 63-year-old Edwin Case of Fairbanks was driving the 2012 Freightliner semi north with double fuel tanks.
  Troopers say the rear trailer tongue failed,
  
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• Chicago passes threshold of 500 homicides in 2016

  07-09-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Church hangs the American flag upside down outside his church Aug. 31 as demonstrators protest the uptick in homicides across Chicago. Thirteen people were fatally shot over the weekend, bringing the city’s annual toll to at least 500. (Photo by Joshua Lott/Getty Images)
  Chicago cemented its reputation as the murder capital of the country with 13 fatal shootings over the Labor Day weekend, bringing the city’s annual toll to at least 500 killings.
  
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