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• APD seeks whereabouts of missing woman

  11-02-2017 23:16
  
  The Anchorage Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating 44-year-old Shannon Lee Gularte.
  Gularte was reported missing on Wednesday, police said in a statement Saturday.
  Police described her a Native female with brown hair and brown eyes. She is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs approximately 240 pounds, according to police.
  “She was last seen wearing a dark, purple jacket and a green shirt,” police wrote. “She is thought to be driving a blue, 2007 Honda
  
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• APD says missing woman found safe

  11-02-2017 23:16
  
  Last updated at 1:31 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 12
  Anchorage police issued a statement Sunday afternoon saying Shannon Gularte had been found and is safe.
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  The Anchorage Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating 44-year-old Shannon Lee Gularte.
  Gularte was reported missing on Wednesday, police said in a statement Saturday.
  Police described her a Native female with brown hair and brown eyes. She is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs approximately 240 pounds, accordi
  
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• Borough may scrap religious invocations before meetings

  11-02-2017 22:05
  
  An Alaska borough will consider scrapping invocations before meetings as a case challenging the policy moves through court.
  The Peninsula Clarion reports the third such ordinance in a year is expected to be introduced in the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly on Tuesday.
  Policy currently allows invocations from members of religious organizations that have established local presences and regular meetings.
  Chaplains serving organizations like fire departments and hospitals can also give invocations.
  
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• Inside the Gates: Small army keeps JBER troops fed

  11-02-2017 21:43
  
  As Napoleon Bonaparte famously said, “An army marches on its stomach.” Making sure our modern military is well supplied takes as much effort and planning as preparing for battle.
  It’s something staff at the Iditarod Dining Facility on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson know well. Airman 1st Class James Tapang says things can get busy, but he doesn’t mind.
  “The more people there is, the more people I can help,” said the services apprentice airman.
  Tapang signed up
  
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• Trump transition team limits EPA at environmental forum

  11-02-2017 21:36
  
  The Environmental Protection Agency halved the number of staffers attending an annual Anchorage forum on issues like climate change in response to a request from President Donald Trump’s transition team.
  Trump transition official Doug Ericksen told Alaska’s Energy Desk in an email that the EPA was directed to limit staff at the conference to save money on travel.
  Alaska Forum on the Environment Director Kurt Eilo says even some Anchorage-based EPA employees were pulled.
  Eilo said he
  
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• Iditarod restart move means financial hit for Willow businesses

  11-02-2017 09:00
  
  The Alaskan Host Bed and Breakfast in Willow is booked up for Iditarod weekend.
  “For this kind of event, we usually have bed rolls on the floor. We usually have dog mushers here,” owner Jim Huston said Friday.
  But he expects to see all the reservations cancelled now that the restart is officially moving to Fairbanks.
  “It can easily make a thousand dollars in the weekend,” he said.
  Huston is also the Willow Chamber of Commerce president. He said they’ve come to
  
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• Decision to seize CBD products started will call from postal workers, AMCO says

  11-02-2017 06:17
  
  Alaska’s Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office (AMCO) says there’s more to the story about why it seized several thousand-dollars’ worth of inventory from pot shops around the state.
  Acting director Sara Chambers said it all started with a call from the U.S. Postal Service.
  AMCO investigators were asked to come take a closer look at a leaking package containing over a 1,000 vials of CBD (cannabidiol) oil, as well as 20 unmarked vials.
  Unmarked bottles of a liquid substance. Cour
  
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• Decision to seize CBD products began with call from postal workers, AMCO says

  11-02-2017 06:17
  
  Alaska’s Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office (AMCO) says there’s more to the story about why it seized several thousand-dollars’ worth of inventory from pot shops around the state.
  Acting director Sara Chambers said it all started with a call from the U.S. Postal Service.
  AMCO investigators were asked to come take a closer look at a leaking package containing over a 1,000 vials of CBD (cannabidiol) oil, as well as 20 unmarked vials.
  Unmarked bottles of a liquid substance. Cour
  
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• Damien Peterson charged with murder after troopers reopen Wasilla death investigation

  11-02-2017 06:10
  
  Last updated at 8:53 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 10
  Alaska State Troopers say an Anchorage teenager has been charged with murder in connection to a boy’s death in Wasilla.
  Authorities charged 19-year-old Damien Peterson with second-degree murder in connection to the June 27, 2016 death, according to an online trooper dispatch.
  He is the older brother of Devin Peterson, who is currently in jail, charged in the November kidnapping and murder of David Grunwald.
  In the dispatch, troopers said the vi
  
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• Juneau count identifies homeless as predominately older, Alaska Native

  11-02-2017 05:32 via ktoo.org
  
  Organizers of the Juneau Project Homeless Connect outreach event held last month have released numbers and related data on who attended. Most were in their 40s and identified as Alaska Native.
  In the data released Friday, 238 people were counted, including 50 people living in a place federal housing authorities says are not meant for habitation.
  The Juneau Assembly is slated to debate an anti-camping ordinance on Monday that would ban people from camping in the downtown
  
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• Bill would bring back income tax, draw Permanent Fund money for state budget

  11-02-2017 03:18 via ktoo.org
  
  Rep. Paul Seaton, co-chair, House Finance Committee, discusses House Bill 115 with Alaska Public Media and KTOO reporter Andrew Kitchenman following the House floor session Friday. The bill creates a state income tax, draws money from the Permanent Fund for the state budget, and introduces a new formula for setting the amount of the Permanent Fund dividend. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  Alaskans would pay a tax on income for the first time since 1980 under a bill introduced in the Legislature o
  
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• Environmental group calls for shutdown of leaking gas line in Cook Inlet

  11-02-2017 03:15 via ktoo.org
  
  Local environmental group Cook Inletkeeper is calling a gas leak in the Inlet “serious,” while Hilcorp characterizes the incident as “low risk.” (Photo by Paxson Woebler/Wikimedia Commons)
  A local environmental group is calling on regulators to shut down a leaking gas line in Cook Inlet until it is repaired. The leak, first reported by the Alaska Dispatch News, is coming from an 8-inch gas pipeline owned by Hilcorp. In the report, Hilcorp characterized the leak as “
  
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• Renewed fight, but old arguments for lawmakers wanting to open ANWR for drilling

  11-02-2017 02:58 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The Canning River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
  Over the past twenty-five years, Alaska’s Legislature has passed nearly a dozen resolutions asking Congress to allow drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.  But this year, something is different. There’s been more push back and public testimony opposed to passing an ANWR resolution.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/02/10ANWRPUSH.mp3When Donetta Tr
  
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• Funter Bay landowners object as Juneau eyes expansion

  11-02-2017 02:41 via ktoo.org
  
  
  CBJ staff recommends annexing the red areas labeled A, B and D. (Courtesy City & Borough of Juneau)
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/02/170210-ANNEX-WEB.mp3The City and Borough of Juneau is eyeing four tracts of land it could annex into the borough. The most controversial piece includes the northern end of Admiralty Island and Horse and Colt islands, which have a number of mostly seasonal cabins.
  At least a half-dozen people with property on Admiralty Island&rs
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 2-13-17

  11-02-2017 02:22 via ktoo.org
  
  MONDAY, February 13, 2017
  8 Crosscurrents with John Sivertsen
  Soundings – Phil Paramore
  Noon Beale Street Caravan – Blues
  1Performance Today
  3Classical Guitar Alive
  4 A Juneau Afternoon (recorded earlier today at 3)
  5Tidelines –7Southeast Set9Mountain Stage
  Monday at 3 on a Juneau Afternoon,
  We’ll get a preview of this week’s League of Women Voters Lunch & Learn luncheon;
  Steve SueWing will be here with a rundown of Tuesday’s Mudrooms Event
  We’ll lea
  
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• 31 people laid off in Alaska Railroad job cuts

  11-02-2017 00:43
  
  Forty-nine positions are being cut from the Alaska Railroad Corp. (ARRC), according Timothy Sullivan Jr., the company’s manager of external affairs.
  “ARRC has experienced a 44% downturn in freight tonnage since 2008 and has recorded a net loss from operations since 2015, with the 2017 budget showing such a loss of $4.9 million,” Sullivan said in a release issued Friday afternoon.
  According to the release, there are many contributing factors to AARC’s financial woes; inclu
  
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• High school students test their knowledge this weekend

  11-02-2017 00:38
  
  High school students from across Alaska will be at the Dena’ina Center this weekend to test their knowledge of world affairs in a buzz-in style game. It’s called the Academic Student WorldQuest Competition. The event will be hosted by the Alaska World Affairs Council.
  According to the website, the importance of having youth engaged in world affairs will help them become more globally connected. Having knowledge of world affairs will also let the youth strive later on in life, while h
  
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• Ketchikan man arrested on child porn charges

  11-02-2017 00:16 via ktoo.org
  
  A 25-year-old Ketchikan man was arraigned Friday in Ketchikan District Court on charges of possession of child pornography.
  Officers received information about 8:45 p.m. Thursday that Andy W. Cameron was in possession of child pornography on his cell phone, according to the Ketchikan Police Department.Officers obtained a search warrant for Cameron and his residence. They located and seized a cell phone and two laptops.
  According to officers, numerous images and videos depicting child pornography
  
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• Skagway man sentenced in September shooting incident

  11-02-2017 00:10 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A Skagway man who pleaded guilty to September armed confrontation with local police was sentenced in Juneau Superior Court this week.http://khns.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/10EstepwINTRO.mp3
  Judge Phillip Pallenberg accepted a plea agreement, sentencing Eric Craig Estep on two counts related to the September incident.
  Skagway police responded to Estep’s home Sept. 29, after receiving reports he was suicidal, intoxicated, armed with guns and knives and requesting police to resp
  
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