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• Surveys seek input on rural dogs, veterinary care

  05-02-2017 05:10
  
  Health officials are seeking information on dogs and veterinary care in rural Alaska to create a base of data that could be used to pursue funding.
  KYUK-AM reports there were 982 recorded dog bites in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta in the last 10 years.
  The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium considers this a public health concern.
  Children younger than 10 years old represented more than half of the people bitten and many of the incidents involved stray dogs.
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• DOJ acts to appeal ruling lifting travel ban

  05-02-2017 05:07
  
  The Justice Department is asking a federal appeals court to set aside a judge’s order that temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s travel ban.
  The Justice Department has alerted a court in Washington state that it is appealing the judge’s ruling from a day earlier.
  The appeal is to be filed Saturday night with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
  The ruling from U.S. District Judge James Robart temporarily halted a Trump administration executive order that suspended America
  
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• University president faces no-confidence vote

  05-02-2017 04:56 via ktoo.org
  
  University of Alaska president Jim Johnsen, August, 2016. (Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)
  University of Alaska’s president is facing a no-confidence vote related to a decision to headquarter the school of education at the Juneau campus instead of Fairbanks.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the Fairbanks Faculty Senate is expected to take up the issue Monday.
  Proposed resolutions find no confidence in President Jim Johnsen and put forward ways to keep faculty more involved in decision-making.
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• One year later, Nigerian ‘witch boy’ healthy, heading to school

  05-02-2017 04:52
  
  A year ago, Danish aid worker Anja Ringgren Lovén was on a mission with her husband in Nigeria to rescue some of the thousands of children abandoned each year after being accused of being a witch.
  “We’ve seen both frightened, tortured and even dead children,” Lovén, co-founder of the African Children’s Aid Education and Development Foundation (ACAEDF), described in a 2016 blog post.
  That’s when she first met a little boy who she now calls Hope. Th
  
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• American Red Cross of Alaska practices emergency preparedness, requests more volunteers

  05-02-2017 04:50
  
  The American Red Cross of Alaska works with people who are often going through one of the most difficult times in their life. The organization responds to roughly 400 disasters statewide each year, helping an estimated 500 to 600 Alaskans get back on their feet. The majority of disasters are house or apartment fires, but the Red Cross is also prepared to handle large-scale emergencies.
  The agency depends a network of volunteers. There are roughly 300 of them in Alaska, outnumbering paid staff 20
  
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• Alaska’s busy volcano: Seawater, magma figure in eruptions

  05-02-2017 04:46 via ktoo.org
  
  An underwater volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands has erupted more than two dozen times since mid-December and may keep going for months.
  Geologists at the Alaska Volcano Center continue to monitor Bogoslof Volcano because its ash clouds threaten aircraft.
  Most of the 6,000-foot volcano is underwater. The summit forms tiny Bogoslof Island 850 miles southwest of Anchorage.
  U.S. Geological Survey research geophysicist Chris Waythomas says at least two factors are at play in the eruptions.
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• Iditarod says 2017 race could start in Fairbanks

  05-02-2017 04:45 via ktoo.org
  
  The official start of this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race could take place in Fairbanks because of poor conditions on key parts of the nearly 1,000-mile route from Anchorage to Nome.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the Iditarod Trail Committee announced Wednesday that a decision on the location of the restart, which marks the beginning of actual racing, will come Feb. 10.
  The ceremonial start kicks off in Anchorage March 4, with the restart currently scheduled for the following
  
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• Shee Atiká’s revenue fell 98 percent in 5 years; shareholders call for CEO’s resignation

  05-02-2017 02:35 via ktoo.org
  
  A crowd of Shee Atiká shareholders look over the corporation’s financial statements on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017 (Emily Russell/KCAW)
  Revenue for Shee Atiká, Sitka’s Native corporation, has dropped by nearly 100 percent since 2010. Shareholders packed the tribal community house on Saturday, Jan. 28 to discuss the fate of their corporation, and it’s more than just revenue they’re worried about losing.
  It’s a Saturday night in downtown Sitka. Sheet’k
  
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• New proposal could split Permanent Fund draw between PFDs, state budget

  05-02-2017 02:35 via ktoo.org
  
  Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, speaks on the Senate floor in 2015. He has proposed a bill to draw money from the Permanent Fund. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  The amount residents receive in Permanent Fund dividends would be the same as the amount available for the state budget, under a new proposal.
  It’s one of two Permanent Fund plans lawmakers are considering, although more may be on the way.
  Using Permanent Fund earnings for anything but dividends was long considered untouchable in Alask
  
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• Lawmakers want new rules for testing sexual assault kits

  05-02-2017 02:35 via ktoo.org
  
  A statewide audit of sexual assault kits that most law enforcement agencies participated in a year ago, revealed there are several thousand kits that haven’t been tested.
  If you’re picturing stacks of hundreds of kits sitting in a line to be examined with police wringing their hands waiting to find out who did it, you’d be wrong.
  Alaska Public Media reported that at the end of last year there were actually about 117 kits waiting for testing at the state crime lab.
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• U.S. Treasury Department announces new sanctions on Iran

  05-02-2017 01:55 via ktoo.org
  
  Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tuesday that Iran’s missile program is purely defensive. The U.S. announced new sanctions on individuals and companies it says support Iran’s ballistic missile program. Vahid Salemi/AP
  Updated at 2 p.m. ET
  The U.S. Treasury Department announced additional sanctions on Iran on Friday, less than a week after a ballistic missile test prompted the Trump administration to accuse Iran of violating an international a weapons agreement.
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• Trump’s campaign paid millions to his own properties, FEC documents say

  05-02-2017 01:54 via ktoo.org
  
  Donald Trump’s presidential campaign spent $435,000 for facility rental, catering and lodging at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., according to Politico. Carolyn Kaster/AP
  Donald Trump’s presidential campaign had many unusual aspects, not the least of which was the huge amount of money it funneled into Trump’s own businesses.
  And now there’s a new twist: Such payments can continue indefinitely because he’s already declared himself a candidate for re-electio
  
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• National panel advises judges on people who can’t pay court fees

  05-02-2017 01:54 via ktoo.org
  
  When NPR in 2014 ran a series about how people around the country end up in debtors’ prisons when they don’t have the money to pay court fines and fees — even on minor infractions like traffic tickets — one cause of the problem, the stories noted, was confusion among state judges.
  Many didn’t know that, in 1983, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled against the practice. Or judges had no set standard for determining who was too poor to pay court fines and fees that typic
  
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