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• Ask a Climatologist: The Blob is back

  21-09-2016 22:55 via ktoo.org
  
  A map of sea surface temperatures from Sept. 19th shows the blob below Alaska. (Graphic courtesy of NOAA)
  The Blob is back. The term was coined a few years ago to describe a warm patch of water in the Gulf of Alaska and northern Pacific Ocean. It can turn the weather warm and dry in the state.
  Brian Brettschneider is a climatologist in Anchorage who closely tracks Alaska climate data and trends. Alaska’s Energy Desk is checking in with him regularly for the segment- Ask a Climatologis
  
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• Two people rescued near St. Mary’s

  21-09-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A hunter was medevac’d to Bethel after a search and rescue near St. Mary’s on Monday, Sept. 19.
  Travis Siekert, 38, was hunting an estimated 35 miles northwest of St. Mary’s when he began suffering from serious medical issues.
  Alaska State Troopers received a report of the incident at about 10:03 a.m. Monday.
  Siekart was found located on a raft with another individual.
  He was transported by private plane to Saint Mary’s for emergency medical treatment before being medevac
  
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• 4 charged with illegally killing walrus, causing stampedes

  21-09-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Federal prosecutors in Alaska have charged four men with killing walrus gathered on the state’s northwest shore last year, removing the animals’ ivory tusks and leaving the meat to waste.
  Prosecutors say the four residents of the village of Point Hope twice caused several hundred walrus to stampede, knowing that smaller animals in the herd could be crushed.
  A person connected to a remote Air Force radar station in mid-September 2015 photographed 25 dead walrus at Cape Lisburne about
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 9-22-16

  21-09-2016 20:11 via ktoo.org
  
  Thursday on A Juneau Afternoon, Joan Pardes will host
  We’ll talk with Kolene James, from UAS, about the Native and Rural Student Center, and the Wooch.een Club;
  We’ll get the details about an upcoming fundraiser, Boogie for da Bayou;
  Sarah McNair-Grove will be here to highlight Saturday’s Wind Chamber Music concert;
  And we’ll learn about the Barnaby Brewing Company’s Open House on Saturday;
  And Nancy DeCherney will be here with Arts Up!
  That, Writers Almanac, Bird N
  
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• Fairbanks launches investigation into its police chief

  21-09-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  FAIRBANKS — Fairbanks’ police chief is under investigation over allegations brought by a former chief that he used his position to promote his security business.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the city’s human resources director confirmed a personnel investigation into police Chief Randall Aragon was opened Monday.
  Former Chief Dan Hoffman called for the probe in a letter to the City Council that said he received a report from a business owner of “unethical activi
  
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• Did a large ship kill this Sitka Sound whale?

  21-09-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Researchers collect samples from a beached humpback whale carcass Saturday on a Sitka Sound beach. (Drone photo by Joe Serio)
  A dead whale found floating near Sitka last week was probably killed by a ship, according to a pathologist who inspected the carcass.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/09/20WhaleFolo.mp3The humpback whale was spotted floating in Sitka Sound on Sept. 13.
  A team from the Sitka Tribe of Alaska and the University of Alaska Southeast arrived last weekend to
  
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• After Fatal Police Shooting, Protest Erupts In Charlotte, N.C.

  21-09-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Police officers face off with protesters on Interstate 85 in Charlotte, N.C., during demonstrations following the death of a man shot by a police officer on Tuesday. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
  The police shooting of a man in Charlotte, N.C., sparked overnight protests and unrest. Protesters threw rocks at police, injuring 16 officers, while police wearing riot gear fired tear gas into the crowds. At one point, a major interstate was shut down as protesters set a fire and vandalized pol
  
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• Northwest exporters brace for ocean freight cost increases

  21-09-2016 17:00 via ktoo.org
  
  File photo of Hanjin container ship at the Port of Seattle (Photo by James Brooks/Flickr)
  Exporters are bracing for ocean freight price increases due to the collapse of Hanjin Shipping, one of the trans-Pacific lines serving the Northwest. Meanwhile, sailors and cargo are marooned on container ships in Northwest waters.
  Some of the biggest Pacific Northwest farm exports at this time of year are alfalfa and hay.
  Scot Courtright runs a Moses Lake, Washington-based export company, Courtright Enterp
  
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• 36-year-old charged in February 2015 murder

  21-09-2016 16:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Brian Vane Clark, 36, of Dillingham was arrested in Anchorage for the 2015 murder of Ella Olsen in Dillingham.
  (CREDIT ALASKA STATE TROOPERS)
  Dillingham police say they know who murdered Ella Olsen, 55, in February 2015, and have enough evidence to prove it. U.S. Marshalls had been monitoring the whereabouts of 36-year-old Brian V. Clark in Anchorage, and on Tuesday he was picked up on charges of first degree murder and robbery.
  Clark had long been the suspect of Olsen’s murder, but police
  
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• University of Alaska reorganization planning advances toward second phase

  21-09-2016 13:02 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The University of Alaska Board of Regents met on Friday in Juneau. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/09/20Regents.mp3The University of Alaska is in the middle of a year-long review of its academic programs and administration. It’s called Strategic Pathways and is an attempt to save money and make the university system more efficient.
  “How can we take advantage of our oneness, being ‘The University of Alaska,’ and at the same time
  
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• Man arrested for assault after alleged break-in, spraying officer with pepper spray

  21-09-2016 03:20 via ktoo.org
  
  A 40-year-old Juneau man was arrested after he allegedly broke into someone’s home, refused to leave and sprayed an officer with pepper spray.
  John Paul Lucion Holland was arrested on three counts of assaulting a police officer and one count of violating conditions of his release.
  According to a Juneau Police report, a 29-year-old woman called police at about 9:52 p.m. Monday to report a man had broken into her house and refused to leave.
  Holland allegedly popped a window out of a door to
  
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• Saxman rally supports Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

  21-09-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Protesters carry signs opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline. (Photo by KRBD)
  A peaceful gathering took place Monday afternoon in Saxman in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline.
  Speakers expressed concerns beyond what is happening in North Dakota.
  More than 50 people held protest signs, while about a dozen more watched and joined in on rally cheers.
  The event initially was organized only to protest the pipeline project, but Organized Village of Saxman
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 9-21-16

  21-09-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Wednesday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon,
  Julie Speagle and Mandy Lindberg will highlight the  video short, “A Shoreline Online,” airing on Thursday on 360North;
  We’ll talk with Russ Rodgers about his Wednesday presentation, “Connecting With the Spirit of the Land;”
  We’ll spotlight The Alaskan Legacy of William Seward, a panel discussion led by Historian Professor Stephen Haycox, part of Wednesday’s presentation @360, downstairs in the KTOO Building;
  We
  
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• Man on a mission: Gov. Walker and the gas line

  21-09-2016 01:34 via ktoo.org
  
  Bill Walker, fifth from left. As a Valdez City Council member, Walker traveled with a delegation from the Organization for the Management of Alaska Resources (later the Resource Development Council) to meet with California Gov. Jerry Brown to advocate for a gas line, 1977. (Photo courtesy of Bill and Donna Walker)
  The announcement this summer that Alaska will pursue a state-owned natural gas pipeline is a major U-turn after more than a decade of negotiations with the big three North Slope oil co
  
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• Gas shortages, price spikes seen across the South following pipeline spill

  21-09-2016 01:06 via ktoo.org
  
  A motorist who found an Atlanta gas station had run out of fuel calls a nearby gas station Monday to see if they have any left. Gas prices spiked and drivers found “out of service” bags covering pumps as the gas shortage in the South rolled into the work week, raising fears that the disruptions could become more widespread. (Photo by David Goldman/Associated Press)
  After a 330,000-gallon spill shut down a gasoline pipeline in Alabama on Sept. 9, fuel shortages and high gas prices are
  
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• Working group to continue Haines trash talk

  21-09-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  In many communities, municipalities take care of trash collection.
  In Haines, each citizen has to deal with disposal of their own refuse.
  For some, that motivates good behavior like recycling and composting. For others, it leads to bad behavior, like dumping trash in the woods or water.
  Whether the municipality should step in is a question that’s come up periodically over the years.
  Now, the borough plans to form a working group to delve into the issue again.
  Here’s how it works now:
  
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• Navy has explaining to do about military exercise, Murkowski says

  21-09-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski says the Navy is again snubbing the concerns of Alaskans as it prepares for the next Northern Edge, a military exercise held every two years that stretches from the Gulf of Alaska into the Interior.
  The next Northern Edge is scheduled for May.
  More than 100 Alaskans sent her letters this summer with concerns about the potential impact of the exercise, particularly on fish and marine mammals, she said.
  “When the exercise moved forward in 2015, after a great deal of
  
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• Stock wants to take saw to partisan gridlock in D.C.

  21-09-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  U.S. Senate candidate Margaret Stock (I-Alaska)
  Next to incumbent Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s name on November’s General Election ballot will be the names of several people looking to unseat her and take over her job in the United States Senate, including a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel.
  “I think Lisa Murkowski is a really nice person, but she’s been a terrible senator for Alaska,” said Margaret Stock, an Anchorage immigration attorney and independent candid
  
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• Petersburg assembly considers revenue from proposed pot tax

  21-09-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A proposed tax on marijuana and marijuana products advanced in second reading Monday before the Petersburg borough assembly.
  However, the assembly voted to change the wording for future use of the proceeds of such a tax.
  If voters approve commercial marijuana sales in the borough in next month’s election, then the a new tax of $25 an ounce could be charged on all pot grown in the borough or marijuana products produced locally.
  That same amount would also be collected on any pot imported fo
  
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