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• Asian tapeworm found in Alaskan salmon of Kenai Peninsula coast

  19-01-2017 23:47 via ktoo.org
  
  
  (Graphic by Jayde Ferguson/Alaska Department of Fish and Game)
  Scientists recently announced they had found an Asian tapeworm species in pink salmon caught off the coast of the Kenai Peninsula.
  In a recent study, a team of scientists identified a Japanese broad tapeworm larva in pink salmon caught in Resurrection Creek near Hope.
  The study appears in the February issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases.https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kbbi/audio/2017/01/170119_tapeworm_pkg.mp3Humans can contract the ta
  
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• Asian tapeworm found in Alaska salmon off Kenai Peninsula coast

  19-01-2017 23:47 via ktoo.org
  
  
  (Graphic by Jayde Ferguson/Alaska Department of Fish and Game)
  Scientists recently announced they had found an Asian tapeworm species in pink salmon caught off the coast of the Kenai Peninsula.
  In a recent study, a team of scientists identified a Japanese broad tapeworm larva in pink salmon caught in Resurrection Creek near Hope.
  The study appears in the February issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases.
  https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kbbi/audio/2017/01/170119_tapeworm_pkg.mp3Humans can contract the t
  
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• Overdue snowmachiner succumbed to hypothermia, state troopers believe

  19-01-2017 23:30 via ktoo.org
  
  An overdue snowmachiner, who was traveling to Fairbanks from Shungnak, by way of Huslia, has been found dead near Selawik Hot Springs.
  Travis Loughridge, 27, left Shungnak about noon Saturday and was expected to arrive in Fairbanks by Monday evening.
  A search-and-rescue team was deployed from Shungnak after Loughridge was not heard from, according to the Alaska State Trooper dispatch.
  Ground searchers located Loughridge’s snowmachine and body about 7 p.m. Tuesday near S
  
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• Juneau’s legislators talks fiscal crisis with Assembly

  19-01-2017 23:05 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau’s state legislative delegation told a half-dozen members of the Juneau Assembly on Thursday morning that the state’s budget outlook isn’t rosy.
  Democratic Sen. Dennis Egan said there are real risks to middle-class public sector jobs under threat by budget cuts.
  “If we do what we did last year we’re in deep trouble,” Egan said. “Especially this community because of all the public sector jobs that are here. And they’re not — and I d
  
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• Juneau’s legislators talk fiscal crisis with Assembly

  19-01-2017 23:05 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau’s state legislative delegation told a half-dozen members of the Juneau Assembly on Thursday morning that the state’s budget outlook isn’t rosy.
  Democratic Sen. Dennis Egan said there are real risks to middle-class public sector jobs under threat by budget cuts.
  “If we do what we did last year we’re in deep trouble,” Egan said. “Especially this community because of all the public sector jobs that are here. And they’re not — and I d
  
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• Mic Check in the Morning: Simply Three

  19-01-2017 22:55
  
  Simply Three is a classically trained trio bringing a modern sound to their stringed instruments.
  According to their biography on their website, they are known for their high-energy shows and covers of pop hits, but they also play the old masters like Gershwin. The band has an online following based on their creative music videos with their take on modern hits. Their albums can be purchased on Google Play and iTunes.
  They will play Jan. 20 and 21 in Anchorage at the Performing Arts Center.
  
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• Nordic skiing for newbies: What you need to get started

  19-01-2017 22:52
  
  Anchorage has received more than 30 inches of snow so far this winter, and with temperatures staying below freezing this year, the snow has stuck around. This means great conditions for nordic skiers — also known as cross-country skiers — both experts and novices.
  If you’re a newbie who wants to get out on Anchorage’s trails but don’t know where to start, the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage (NSAA) has a few tips:
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  The basic setup for classic
  
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• Deer Mountain logging off the table for now

  19-01-2017 22:15 via ktoo.org
  
  A springtime view of Deer Mountain. (File photo by Leila Kheiry/KRBD)
  The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority’s Trust Land Office is no longer pursuing action toward timber sales on Deer Mountain or land in Petersburg.
  The trust board meets next week – Jan. 25 and 26 – and in the meeting packet is a memo from Trust Land Office Executive Director John Morrison.
  Morrison writes that while a federal land exchange deal wasn’t approved by Congress during its last se
  
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• Anchorage municipal attorney rejects initiative to change equal rights ordinance

  19-01-2017 22:10
  
  The battle between religious freedom and LGBT rights in Anchorage is at a standstill, with one side trying to figure out their next move.
  Wednesday, the Anchorage Municipal Attorney’s office rejected a ballot initiative from a group that wants to make changes to the equal rights ordinance the Anchorage Assembly passed in 2015.
  The ordinance protects people from being fired or denied housing and services because they’re lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. The sponsors of
  
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• State gasline corporation quietly opens office in Tokyo

  19-01-2017 21:06 via ktoo.org
  
  Chief Oil & Gas Advisor John Hendrix, Alaska Gasline Development Corporation President Keith Meyer, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Andy Mack gave a news conference on Friday Sept. 30, 2016, to discuss their meetings with potential Asian markets for Alaska’s LNG in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  The state gasline corporation has opened a satellite office in Tokyo.
  State officials and the Alaska Gas
  
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• Bethel homeless shelter dealing with drunk residents

  19-01-2017 19:23
  
  Operators of a homeless shelter in Bethel say they’re struggling to deal with intoxicated residents.
  KYUK-AM reported Wednesday that Bethel Winter House Director Eva Malvich says she may be forced to shut down the facility if problems continue.
  Malvich described an incident that took place earlier this month in which staff had to call police. She says people were “belligerent and acting out” and that staff had to send people from the shelter to a sobering center because it
  
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• 2 charged with burglary at Public Safety Department building

  19-01-2017 19:07
  
  A former Department of Public Safety employee will be arraigned next month on a felony burglary charge and misdemeanor counts of theft and criminal mischief.
  Alaska State Troopers say 22-year-old MarieKimberly Ramos and 32-year-old Jeremiah Ranem on Dec. 22 broke into a locked area of the Department of Public Safety Building on east Tudor Road in Anchorage.
  Ramos was a department employee.
  Troopers say Ramos and Ranem damaged a door and door frame and stole money from the locked area. They were
  
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• Gov. Walker hits on same budget themes with new Legislature

  19-01-2017 11:05 via ktoo.org
  
  Gov. Bill Walker delivers his State of the State Address to the Alaska Legislature on Wednesday. Behind him, left to right, are Senate President Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks,  and House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, D-Dillingham. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  Same concepts, new Legislature.
  In his annual State of the State Address on Wednesday, Gov. Bill Walker pushed a lot of the same ideas and proposals for solving the state’s budget crisis as last year.
  Walker said the state government risks s
  
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• Governor renews demand for fiscal fix, unveils plan to combat opioid epidemic

  19-01-2017 10:09
  
  Gov. Bill Walker’s State of the State address Wednesday was similar to his speech last year. It was serious, mainly focused on the budget, but did prompt a few laughs, like when he told lawmakers about an incident from his youth where he had to drive home to Valdez from Delta Junction in reverse.
  For most of the nearly hour-long speech, the governor painted a grim picture of Alaska’s economy. He urged lawmakers to take action on his proposed fiscal plan to reduce spending by thr
  
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• YWCA Alaska tackles pay equality between men, women

  19-01-2017 10:02
  
  In Alaska, women make up 48 percent of the workforce, but only earn an average of $.67 for every dollar men make for the same work. Because of this, Alaska has been ranked 48 out of all 50 state for pay equality.
  The YWCA Alaska is halfway through its two-year EconEquity Initiative, which aims to change those numbers.
  “When we first started, no one knew that, it was very surprising news, so we spent time seeing if there was support for an initiative to eliminate the pay gap,” YWCA Al
  
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• Gov. Walker to attend Trump inauguration

  19-01-2017 06:55
  
  Gov. Bill Walker will be among the governors in attendance at the presidential inauguration on Friday.
  The Republican-turned-Independent did not make public his support for candidates in the 2016 presidential campaign.
  Katie Marquette, spokesperson for Walker, said that as an Independent governor, Walker is committed to working with any presidential administration for the good of Alaska.
  Marquette said she is unaware of any meetings between Walker and the President-elect, and says Walker’s
  
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• Bethel police: Napaskiak man dies from injuries sustained in snowmobile crash

  19-01-2017 06:13
  
  A Napaskiak man died after a snowmobile crash on Friday morning, Bethel police report.
  The Bethel Police Department announced the death of 28-year-old James Joekay Jr. in a Facebook post about the crash.
  BPD and the local fire department responded to a report about the crash around 8:30 a.m., police wrote. They found Joekay with his snowmobile on Standard Oil Road in Bethel.
  The route was part of Joekay’s daily commute to work at Bethel Regional High School, KYUK Public Media rep
  
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• Temperatures drop to record levels, school canceled

  19-01-2017 06:11
  
  As temperatures dropped Wednesday, new records were set in Alaska.
  Most of the Interior dropped to 50 to 60 below zero, including McGrath, which saw some of the coldest temperatures in five years. The official thermometer dropped to 53 degrees below zero, cold enough to cancel school.
  The principal of the school said 50 below is the cutoff for when they have to close school for everyone’s safety and because some of their equipment can start to fail at that point.
  With the day off from scho
  
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• Providence hospital first in Alaska to install NICU webcams

  19-01-2017 05:40
  
  Parents who’ve had a baby spend time in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of a hospital often say how difficult it is to be separated from their child, even for a short period of time. That’s one of the reasons Providence Alaska Medical Center has become the first hospital in the state to install live-streaming web cameras in the neonatal intensive care ward.
  Ginny Shaffer, whose title is “parent navigator” for Providence’s NICU, said the cameras can help
  
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• Maintenance crews dig out thousands of hydrants after snowstorm

  19-01-2017 05:08
  
  Maintenance crews are digging out thousands of fire hydrants after the weekend snowstorm.
  Alaska Water and Wastewater Utility (AWWU) is responsible for clearing about 7,400 hydrants around the Anchorage Bowl.
  Journeyman Marshall Kennon said he can shovel out up to 50 hydrants a day. That involves clearing a 6-foot diameter around the hydrant, then checking to make sure a leak hasn’t left frozen water inside.
  “It’s important because it allows the fire department to have a quicke
  
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• Watch Live: Gov. Walker gives 2017 State of the State address

  19-01-2017 04:40
  
   
  State of the State Address
  Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 7 p.m.
  Watch live coverage of Gov. Bill Walker’s remarks from the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau.
  (Video will begin shortly before 7 p.m.)
  Web stream provided by 360 North/Gavel Alaska.
   
  The post Watch Live: Gov. Walker gives 2017 State of the State address appeared first on KTVA 11.
  
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• Grades cost 2 UAA Seawolves the rest of the women’s basketball season

  19-01-2017 04:23
  
  The University of Alaska Anchorage women’s basketball team is in Seattle. However, two players did not make the trip with the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) leaders who will play at rival Seattle Pacific University Thursday. Their seasons are done.
  Junior guard Kaitlyn Hurley and junior forward Dominique Thomas have been declared academically ineligible by the university.
  UAA representatives said the two failed to maintain a 2.0 grade point average for last semester.
  
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• Obama denies Newtok’s request for disaster declaration

  19-01-2017 03:55 via ktoo.org
  
  The village of Newtok, seen from above in the summer of 2016. (Photo courtesy of Romy Cadiente)
  President Barack Obama has turned down a request from the western Alaska village of Newtok for a disaster declaration.
  Newtok applied for relief based on erosion and thawing permafrost that are expected to destroy the village within three years. It was a test of whether the nation’s disaster laws apply to slow-moving impacts linked to climate change.
  On Wednesday, the answer from the W
  
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• Writer John McPhee was at ease in a canoe, Brad Snow was at ease with him

  19-01-2017 03:31 via ktoo.org
  
  Brad Snow in a canoe looking very relaxed and free, living along the Yukon River in Alaska. Snow appeared in John McPhee’s 1977 book “Coming into the Country.” (Photo courtesy Brad Snow and Lilly Allen/UAF Project Jukebox)
  Brad Snow was 26 years old when he left Anchorage to start a life with his girlfriend, Lilly Allen, near the Yukon River. The couple is featured in John McPhee’s book “Coming into the Country,” published 40 years ago.
  Snow and Allen built a
  
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• Senate majority eyes $750M in budget cuts over three years

  19-01-2017 03:04 via ktoo.org
  
  Sen. Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks, answers a question from a member of the press corps during a Senate Majority press availability on Tuesday Jan. 17, 2016 in Juneau, Alaska.
  The state Senate is generating ideas to make significant cuts to the state budget. They’d like to lock in lower spending levels into the future.
  The Republican-led Senate majority is more focused on cutting spending to close the state’s budget deficit than the new mostly Democratic House majority or independent Gov.
  
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• Grunwald case suspect now faces federal child porn charges

  19-01-2017 03:00
  
  Jordan Santistevan and Devin Peterson
  Devin Peterson’s long list of child pornography-related charges has grown to include two federal charges.
  If that name sounds familiar, it’s because the 18-year-old is one of the five Valley teens arrested in connection with David Grunwald’s murder. Alaska State Troopers seized Peterson’s phone during that investigation and found a disturbing video that could send Peterson to prison for decades.
  Court documents allege that Peter
  
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• Ask a Climatologist: Why is it so cold here when everywhere else is so warm?

  19-01-2017 02:36 via ktoo.org
  
  The University of Alaska Fairbanks campus on Jan. 18th, 2017. (Photo by Amanda Frank)
  It was -50 degrees today in Fairbanks. Anchorage hit -15 degrees. Much of the state is enduring the coldest temperatures in nearly five years.
  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 as part of the segment, Ask a Climatologist.
  Points in Anchorage and to the north and west are experiencin
  
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• By the numbers: Donald Trump’s $200 million inauguration

  19-01-2017 02:19
  
  Last Updated Jan 18, 2017 5:45 PM EST
  Donald Trump has promised that his inauguration will “very, very special, very beautiful.” By one measure, the event will definitely be as “bigly” as Mr. Trump envisions, given his inaugural committee has raised a record $90 million in private donations to help cover the tab. And oh, what a tab, judging by the following numbers:
  Total cost: about $200 million. Cost estimates for the event range from $175 million to $200 million.
  
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• Alaska volcano erupts again, sends ash cloud to 31,000 feet

  19-01-2017 02:07
  
  A Jan. 5 photo of the ashcloud from an earlier eruptionKevin Wright, via Alaska Volcano Observatory
  An Alaska volcano active since mid-December has erupted again.
  Bogoslof Volcano in the Aleutian lslands erupted at 1:20 p.m. Wednesday and sent up an ash cloud that pilots reported was estimated at 31,000 feet.
  “Bogoslof volcano is in an active eruption sequence that began on December 16, though retrospective analysis suggests unrest may have started earlier in December,” the Alaska V
  
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• Obama’s final news conference as president, annotated

  19-01-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  President Barack Obama gave his final news conference at the White House on Wednesday, just two days before Donald Trump’s inauguration. He reflected on his time in office and looked toward the incoming administration, ultimately concluding, “At my core, I think we’re going to be OK.”
  NPR’s politics team, with help from editors and reporters across the newsroom, annotated his remarks.
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• Juneau Afternoon 1-19-17

  19-01-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Thursday on A Juneau Afternoon, Joan Pardes hosts.
  Lora Vess with the UAS Sustainability Committee will be here to talk about an event they are having Friday called “The Inauguration of a New Era of Climate Change in America?”We’ll talk with Local artist Fumi Matsumoto, the Coffee & Collections presenter at the City Museum on Saturday,
  Sally Schlicting will be here to highlight this weekend’s Con Brio concerts;
  And Nancy DeCherney will be here with art news during Art
  
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• Troopers: Fairbanks man overdue from snowmachine trip found dead

  19-01-2017 01:36
  
  Search teams found a Fairbanks man’s body Tuesday after he didn’t return home from a snowmachine trip.
  Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters said in an online dispatch that 27-year-old Travis Loughridge was reported missing on Monday morning; the same day he was expected to return from his trip. Loughridge left Shungnak on Friday around noon and was headed for Fairbanks, according to Peters.
  Teams from Shungnak and Huslia searched for Loughridge along his planned route,
  
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• Culturally valuable yellow cedar on the decline

  19-01-2017 00:49 via ktoo.org
  
  Wayne Price works on a 12-foot-tall totem pole in his Haines studio. (Photo by Emily Files/KHNS)
  Yellow cedar trees grow from the top of California, all the way to Alaska, and according to a recent study, the Southeast part of the state could be the hardest hit with yellow cedar’s decline, due to the planet heating up. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been petitioned to put yellow cedar on the endangered species list. The wood is commercially valuable. It’s culturally valu
  
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• Coldest temperatures in several years recorded around Alaska

  19-01-2017 00:35
  
  A statewide cold snap is underway in Alaska. Numerous locations through the central and western Interior recorded temperatures in range of minus 40 to minus 55. The Fairbanks International Airport recorded a temperature of 50 below zero for the first time since Jan. 29, 2012. Ralph M. Calhoun Memorial Airport in Tanana observed a temperature of minus 56.Southcentral Alaska also experienced bitter cold, with the lowest temperatures recorded since 2012 for many areas. In Anchorage, Ted Steven
  
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• Unprocessed Excursion Inlet homicide evidence could delay trial

  19-01-2017 00:08 via ktoo.org
  
  Mark Anthony De Simone as he appeared in May 2016. (File photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  An Excursion Inlet homicide case is scheduled to be heard by a jury in four months, but the defense says it doesn’t have the evidence it needs to go to trial.
  Mark Anthony De Simone is accused of shooting 34-year-old Duilio Antonio “Tony” Rosales twice in the back of the head in May 2016.
  De Simone appeared in Juneau Superior Court last week, now 54 years old with his hair grown out and grayer t
  
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