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• Mic Check in the Morning: Janie Lidey

  21-04-2017 23:07
  
  Janie Lidey is an Emmy-winning songwriter, speaker and author of the book “Leap of Faith: 8 Daily Habits to Power Up Your Leap.”
  Lidey’s book also comes with an album simply titled, “Leap of Faith.” Each of her original songs go at the end of each chapter, and relate to its message. According to Lidey’s website, the book is filled with inspirational quotes and stories to lead the reader to their own success.
  “Leap of Faith: 8 Daily Habits to Power Up You
  
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• Mic Check in the Morning: Beautifuljoy

  21-04-2017 23:04
  
  Singer-songwriter Olivia “Beautifuljoy” Carmody released her EP, “Honestly, ” at the age of 14. Now 16, Carmody has released a new single titled “Swan.” She is currently working on her next EP, due out sometime in 2017.
  Beautifuljoy’s EP “Honestly” can be purchased at CDBaby.com. Her single, “Swan” is available on iTunes and Spotify as well.
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• March For Science on Earth Day

  21-04-2017 23:03
  
  This Earth Day, Alaskans can join Americans all over the country in the March For Science. It’s a movement to encourage people to look to science when forming opinions and decisions on policy and public interest.
  Bryan Box, a forest ecologist and presenter during the march, said the movement also advocates the furthering of science education and sparking the curiosity and interest in children about the subject.
  Victoria Clark, who is the executive director of Trustees for Alaska says
  
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• Gambell teenager leads successful whale hunt, brings home 57-foot bowhead

  21-04-2017 22:57 via ktoo.org
  
  Chris Agragiiq Apassingok was the striker who landed this 200-year-old female bowhead whale Monday, April 17, 2017, for his family and community. (Photo by Karen Trop, KNOM.
  Families and community members on St. Lawrence Island will be eating bowhead whale this week after a local hunter caught Gambell’s second whale of the season Monday night.
  Chris Apassingok, a 16-year-old who would normally be spending his days in high school, was the “striker,” or hunter credited with catch
  
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• Charges dropped for all but 2 arrested in DC pot giveaway

  21-04-2017 22:10
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against six of the eight people arrested during a marijuana giveaway near the U.S. Capitol.
  The U.S. attorney’s office said Friday that it would pursue misdemeanor charges only against two men who had more than 2 ounces of pot on them. Possession of up to 2 ounces for personal use is legal in the District of Columbia, although it remains illegal under federal law.
  The men were arrested Thursday near the Capitol during a demon
  
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• Lawyer: Airport shooting suspect’s mental health stable

  21-04-2017 21:59
  
  MIAMI (AP) – A defense lawyer says the mental condition of an Alaska man accused of killing five people and wounding six at a Florida airport has stabilized.
  An attorney for 27-year-old Esteban Santiago of Anchorage, Alaska, said at a hearing Friday he continues to take anti-psychotic medication for schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder and is competent to assist in his defense.
  Santiago has pleaded not guilty to a 22-count indictment in the Jan. 6 mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hol
  
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• Thomas tips cap to the past while building the Seawolves’ future

  21-04-2017 21:57
  
  Big time collegiate programs, no matter the sport, have history. The University of Alaska Anchorage hockey team, though young by college hockey standards, is aiming for such a history. As a Division I program since 1982, it’s seen its share of stars come through the program. Now, head coach Matt Thomas wants to promote that history as he grows the organization.
  “A lot of other programs have that connection to the past and I think we’re getting into that stage now where we can r
  
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• March for Science: Alaska communities to host events, urge all to ‘stand up for science’

  21-04-2017 21:56 via ktoo.org
  
  
  University of Alaska Fairbanks ecology professor says, “We’re concerned about the threats that face science and scientists.”
  (Photo by Tim Ellis/KUAC)
  Ten Alaskan communities will join hundreds of others worldwide Saturday to show support for science and the role it plays in improving the lives of people.
  Two Alaskans who’ll be participating in their communities’ March for Science observances say they’ll also be protesting steep budget cuts proposed for federa
  
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• Learning lifelong lessons at the Horsin’ Around Summer Camp

  21-04-2017 21:25
  
  With the school year ending, it’s time to start thinking about summer vacation. Kids all around the state will be enjoying what Alaska’s summers have to offer, including summer camps.
  The Horsin’ Around Summer Camp focuses on horsemanship and life skills to kids who may have anger problems, an abusive history or challenges being in a large group setting. Laurie Linsley, the camp’s director, said it’s about getting kids outside and up close with the animals. They wil
  
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• Wind-farm developer assails GVEA’s refusal to buy more power

  21-04-2017 20:50 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The Delta Wind Farm can produce up to 2 megawatt with its two 900-kilowatt and one 100-kilowatt wind generators. (File photo by Alaska Environmental Power)
  Lawyers representing the Delta Wind Farm are asking state regulators to deny a tariff filed by Golden Valley Electric Association that argues the utility should not be required to buy more power from the wind farm.
  GVEA said it should be exempt from state and federal regulations intended to promote use of renewable energy, because i
  
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• Russian bombers escorted off Alaska coast — again

  21-04-2017 20:11
  
  Two Russian bombers were intercepted by the U.S. military again Thursday, according to Air Force Capt. Anastasia Schmidt. This is the fourth day in a row Russian aircrafts have entered the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone
  Schmidt, the director of public affairs for the Alaska NORAD, said at 7 p.m. Thursday two Russian TU- Bear Bombers were intercepted by two American F-22 Raptors and two CF-18 Hornets from the Royal Canadian Air Force. She explained that the planes were never in U.S.
  
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• Cook Inlet gas leak sparks debate over Hilcorp’s Arctic drilling plans

  21-04-2017 19:42 via ktoo.org
  
  Hilcorp’s design plans for the gravel island it aims to build in federal waters in the Beaufort Sea, as submitted to federal regulators in 2015. (Image courtesy BOEM)
  Last week, Hilcorp was finally able to fix a fuel line in Cook Inlet that regulators say started leaking gas in December. But the oil and gas company and its allies are still struggling to contain another issue: environmental groups, which argue that Hilcorp’s problems in Cook Inlet disqualify the company from drilling
  
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• BP well that spewed oil and gas successfully plugged

  21-04-2017 19:32 via ktoo.org
  
  Image taken on April 18, 2017, showing Drill Site 2 well house and the adjacent reserve pit with an area of
  light crude spray. (Photo by Jade Gamble, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation)
  The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation today announced that a leaking oil and gas well on the North Slope was successfully plugged.
  The well, owned by BP, began spewing oil and gas last Friday.
  The spray of crude oil was halted on Saturday. But it took responders until early Monday morni
  
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• Trial opens for couple accused of starting 2015 Willow wildfire

  21-04-2017 19:30 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The Sockeye Fire devastated Willow in 2015. (Photo courtesy Mat-Su Borough)
  A jury heard opening statements Thursday in Palmer in the trail over what became known as the Sockeye Fire began.
  Prosecutors and state fire investigators say Anchorage couple Greg Imig and Amy DeWitt are to blame for starting the 2015 wildfire that devastated a big swath of Willow. Defense attorneys for the husband and wife told jurors that their own experts can prove otherwise.
  Imig and DeWitt face charges of reck
  
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• Aurora expected to be very active next week

  21-04-2017 19:02
  
  Brent Reynolds Aurora borealis over Fairbanks. (Credit: Jenn Ruckel, KNOM.org) The northern lights as seen from Coldfoot. Photo courtesy Scott McMurren. The northern lights over the Interior town Bettles. Only 11 people live in the community.Northern lights over Anchorage - Aug. 29, 2016Emily Landeen / KTVA Northern lights over Anchorage - Aug. 31, 2016Joe Vigil / KTVA Aurora display - Aug. 2, 2016Emily Landeen / KTVA Photo courtesy Emily Landeen/KTVA Photo courtesy Emily Landeen/KTVA Aurora on
  
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• Prince fans join ‘purple family’ at Paisley Park

  21-04-2017 18:21
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The Latest on the anniversary of Prince’s death (all times local):
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  A few fans are starting to gather outside Paisley Park on the anniversary of megastar Prince’s death.
  Rhonda Soso traveled from Compton, California, to shoot photos on a sunny Friday morning of the recording-complex-turned-museum in suburban Minneapolis where Prince lived and died.
  Soso is in Chanhassen for a four-day celebration of Prince’s life and music that started Thursday
  
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• Air pollution violations will cost seafood processing plant $3.2 million

  21-04-2017 18:20 via ktoo.org
  
  Westward Seafoods is required to install a new electronic monitoring system. (EPA)
  A seafood processing plant in Unalaska is on the hook for $3.2 million for breaking air pollution regulations.
  The settlement reached Thursday with the Environmental Protection Agency comes eight years after employees at Westward Seafoods turned off air pollution controls and falsified records to cover their tracks.
  Westward is required to install a new electronic monitoring system and $1 million will be spent on
  
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• Cause of 2015 whale die-off in Gulf of Alaska still unknown

  21-04-2017 18:13
  
  KODIAK, Alaska (AP) – The cause of a Gulf of Alaska whale die-off in 2015 is still unknown, but researchers believe changes in oceanographic conditions could have played a part.
  The Daily Kodiak reported (http://bit.ly/2plzTZG ) Thursday that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say warmer gulf waters could be the cause.
  From 2000 to 2004, nine fin whale carcasses were found in Alaska. But in the summer of 2015 alone, 44 carcasses of various whale species were found.
  This in
  
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• New airline route to connect Alaska, British Columbia

  21-04-2017 18:06
  
  KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) – Flights between Ketchikan and Prince Rupert, British Columbia will soon be available for the first time since the 1990s.
  The Ketchikan Daily News reported Thursday that the flights will begin May 1. Misty Fjords Air & Outfitting Inc. will fly three scheduled round-trip flights per week.
  Flights will leave from the company’s Seaplane Base located just south of the U.S. Coast Guard base in Ketchikan. Passengers will be in the air for about 45 minutes.
  The c
  
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• Wells Fargo ups sales practices settlement to $142 million

  21-04-2017 17:56
  
  NEW YORK (AP) – Wells Fargo is agreeing to expand a recently settled class-action lawsuit by an additional $32 million as well as extend claims for fraudulent accounts that may have been opened going back to 2002.
  Wells Fargo will now pay $142 million to customers for damages caused by any accounts opened without their customers’ permission, the company said Friday. That’s on top of the $185 million that Wells Fargo was fined by federal and local authorities back in September.
  
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• Why aren’t there strip clubs in Juneau?

  21-04-2017 14:00 via ktoo.org
  
  One Juneau visitor’s Super Bowl tradition prompted him to wonder why Juneau doesn’t have any strip clubs? Photo of eXXXotica Miami 2010 on May 15, at the Miami Beach Convention Center. (Creative Commons photo by brh_Images/Flickr)
  Ashwin Kiran was visiting Juneau in February when he noticed something was missing from the local entertainment scene.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/04/21STRIP.wavA few weeks later, we brought him into the studio to chat.
  “Why are there n
  
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• Thomas tips the cap to the past while building Seawolves’ future

  21-04-2017 07:44
  
  Big time collegiate programs, no matter the sport, have history.
  The University of Alaska Anchorage hockey team, though young by college hockey standards, is aiming for such a history.
  As a Division I program since 1982, it’s seen its share of stars come through the program. Now, head coach Matt Thomas wants to promote that history as he grows the organization.
  “A lot of other programs have that connection to the past, and I think we’re getting into that stage now where we can
  
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• Reality Check: Education funding

  21-04-2017 07:29
  
  Who says the state Senate can’t come together and find fiscal solutions? Last Friday, the Senate on a 19 to 1 vote approved what amounts to a raffle to help fund education.
  Like the Pick, Click, Give program, you could buy a $100 raffle ticket by checking it off your PFD application, and you could gamble with your entire dividend if you want.
  The office of Senator Click Bishop, the Fairbanks lawmaker who sponsored the bill, estimates that if just half of us cough up the $100 for the r
  
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• Hotshots prepare for wildfire season

  21-04-2017 07:21
  
  Firefighters in the Mat-Su Valley are in the middle of an intensive two-week training.
  Member of the Pioneer Peak Interagency Hotshot Crew learn the basics in the classroom before trying out their skills in the field.
  On Thursday afternoon, the crew put its newest firefighters to the test with the “rookie run.” It’s an eight- to 10-mile run on the frontage roads in Palmer while crew leaders pepper the six rookies with questions about their training.
  “Pushing each and ever
  
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• Judge rejects plea deal in Eagle River murder

  21-04-2017 07:12
  
  The family of an Eagle River woman, murdered in September 2014, will have to wait a little longer for justice. Wednesday, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Kevin Saxby rejected a plea deal which would have ended the already lengthy case.
  David Thomas has admitted to strangling his girlfriend, 19-year-old Linda Bower. In the deal, he agreed to plead guilty to second-degree murder in exchange for a sentence which would have made him eligible for parole in 14 years.
  In emotional testimony, Bower&rsquo
  
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• Reliving gold’s glory at the Treadwell Mine, 100 years later

  21-04-2017 07:05
  
  People in Juneau are getting ready to celebrate a big anniversary.
  Friday marks 100 years since the collapse of the Treadwell Gold Mine complex on Douglas Island, connected today to downtown Juneau by a bridge.
  Treadwell launched Alaska into the national spotlight in 1882, but its prosperity was cut short suddenly on April 21, 1917.
  The foundations of Alaska’s capital were figuratively set in gold from the mine. Easy access and quick energy from surrounding waters made Douglas the perfect
  
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• Woman overcomes obstacles to take part in Heart Run

  21-04-2017 07:01
  
  Phyllis Kruger is a pretty positive person. “You have to make it matter, you have to wake up every day, you have to challenge yourself every day to do something,” the Anchorage native told KTVA.
  “You have to make it matter, you have to wake up every day, you have to challenge yourself every day to do something,” the Anchorage native said.
  Kruger’s life changed when she collapsed on a Phoenix, Arizona, golf course on April 8, 2003.
  “Turns out I had a blockage o
  
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• City looks to build ‘recovery campus’

  21-04-2017 06:43
  
  It’s located at the end of the road, but if a city plan goes through, it could become a one-stop shop for people going through drug and alcohol treatment in Anchorage.
  Anchorage Homeless Coordinator Nancy Burke said the City would like to tear down the old Clitheroe Center located near Point Woronzof and build a brand new one. It would become one component of what they are calling a “recovery campus”.
  Burke said the campus would ideally include housing and possibly a job train
  
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• Seward Highway closed due to wildfire

  21-04-2017 05:33
  
  (Credit: @Anchoredinn)
  Anchorage Fire has closed the Seward Highway near milepost 105, south of Anchorage, due to a wildfire near the roadway.
  The road is closed near Falls Creek, to all non-emergency traffic, the Fire Department says.
  Anchorage 511 reports the flames are near the roadway.
  Closure on SEWARD HIGHWAY at MILEPOST 105
  Flames next to road, road closure, emergency vehicles on road, thank you for your patience.
  — AK511 Anchorage (@AK511_Anchorage) April 21, 2017
  AFD says the fire
  
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• New project to showcase supernatural Bering Strait stories

  21-04-2017 03:43
  
  Phase one is finished for a project that’s collecting stories from within the Bering Strait region relating to the supernatural. It’s been several years in the making. Kawerak’s social science program director, Julie Raymond-Yakoubian, is leading this curation of local cultural traditions and mythology on the supernatural, which encompasses many topics.
  According to Julie Raymond-Yakoubian, more than 150 people representing 17 tribes have participated in this project through fo
  
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• ‘Distraught’ woman with a gun taken into protective custody after giving school a scare

  21-04-2017 03:14 via ktoo.org
  
  A 39-year-old woman with a gun put an elementary school in the Valley on alert Thursday.
  About 11:44 a.m., Juneau police were called to the Riverbend Apartments after receiving a report of the woman who was said to be distraught and had a firearm on her, according to a news release.
  Police notified Riverbend Elementary School of the incident, but that there was not an immediate threat to the school, Juneau schools spokeswoman Kristin Bartlett said.
  “The information that they gave
  
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• Juneau boundary expansion could threaten subsistence living in Angoon

  21-04-2017 02:59 via ktoo.org
  
  The village of Angoon is the home to about 400 people. (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/KTOO)
  The City and Borough of Juneau is looking to expand its boundaries on Admiralty Island.
  That island is home to Angoon, a community of about 500 people, some of whom fear a nearby land annexation would threaten their subsistence lifestyle.
  A meeting between Angoon and the City and Borough of Juneau was supposed to take place this week, but was canceled at the last minute.
  Albert Howard grew up in Angoon. He&r
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 7-21-17

  21-04-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Friday at 3 on a Juneau Afternoon, Andy Kline will be your host.
  We’ll get the details about this weekend’s March For Science;
  Scott Ferguson will be here to highlight JuneauVentures;
  We’ll discuss Saturday’s Kindness and Couture fundraiser for Rotaract
  And we’ll get a preview of Dirty Skeeze, playing at the Alaskan this weekend.
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, live at 3 on KTOO, repeated at 4 on KRNN, and available on demand via ktoo.org
  
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• 1917 Treadwell Mine cave-in remembered a century later

  21-04-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  This photo taken April 22, 1917, shows a massive sinkhole that opened up as the Treadwell Mines collapsed and filled with seawater. (Photo courtesy Alaska State Library, from the Harry F. Snyder Photograph Collection)
  This weekend will be the centenary of a massive cave-in that flooded much of the Treadwell Mine complex.
  At its peak the mines on Douglas Island were among the largest gold mining operations in the world and helped shape the development of Douglas and Juneau.http://s3-us-west-2.ama
  
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• The truth is out there: ‘The X-Files’ is coming back

  21-04-2017 01:38
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) – The truth is out there: “The X-Files” is coming back.
  Fox said Thursday it has ordered a second chapter of what it’s calling an “X-Files” ”event series.” The 10-episode series will air during the upcoming 2017-18 TV season.
  The 1993-2002 drama about paranormal events and UFOs returned in 2016 for a six-episode run with stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson.
  Fox said Duchovny and Anderson will be back as Mulder and Scully for
  
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• Alaska to get $2M to help fight opioid abuse

  21-04-2017 00:59
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Alaska is set to receive a $2 million federal grant to help fight addiction to heroin and other opioids.
  The funding is part of a larger disbursement of grants for prevention and treatment efforts across the country.
  Gov. Bill Walker says the funding will be critical to ongoing state efforts to fight opioid abuse.
  In a release, Walker’s office says it is assessing which programs and services it will direct the funding.
  In February, Walker declared rampant opioid
  
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