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• Yukon subsistence fishermen needed to collect king salmon samples

  22-05-2017 23:22 via ktoo.org
  
  Over the past several years, fishery managers have placed extremely tight harvest restrictions on king salmon fishing in the Yukon River.
  A subsistence fishermen collects biological samples of king salmon. (Photo courtesy Spearfish Research)
  The hope is that conservation will lead to larger runs.
  When managers make those decisions — telling fishermen when and where they can fish and what gear they can use — they need to know how those measures affect subsistence harvests; they need s
  
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• Newscast – Monday, May 22, 2017

  22-05-2017 23:13 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/05/newscast3.mp3In this newscast:
  The U.S. Coast Guard rescued two separated kayakers near Chichagof Island on Saturday evening.
  The Alaska Department of Corrections is investigating the death of a 60-year-old inmate who complained of breathing trouble.
  Senator Dan Sullivan was heckled at a town hall meeting primarily for his positions on health care.
  The operator of the Red Dog Mine will give millions of dollars to 11 Northwest Arctic Borough village
  
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• Teacher of the Week: Highlights from the School Year

  22-05-2017 22:58
  
  Over the past school year, Daybreak has highlighted 35 educators for Teacher of the Week, from Palmer to south Anchorage. Here is a look back at all of our teachers’ contributions as they share the secret to their success.
  In lieu of summer break, our Teacher of the Week segment will begin be back when the new school year begins in August.
  The post Teacher of the Week: Highlights from the School Year appeared first on KTVA 11.
  
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• New road and landowner collaboration key to harvesting young growth Tongass timber

  22-05-2017 22:44 via ktoo.org
  
  The U.S. Forest Service is also looking at harvesting young growth on Kosciusko Island in the Southeast region. (Photo by Henry Hartley/Wikimedia Commons)
  After new federal plans were set in motion last year, old growth logging in Alaska’s national forests is on its way out. Still, the feds have to make some timber sales available in the Tongass. And so, the U.S. Forest Service is in the early stages of planning one of its first young growth sales since the switch, just outside of Ketchika
  
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• Officials who promoted inclusivity seek to bar recall effort

  22-05-2017 21:38
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Three leaders of an Alaska fishing community who sponsored a resolution to promote inclusivity after President Donald Trump’s election have asked a judge to block efforts to recall them.
  During a court hearing in Anchorage on Monday, Eric Glatt, an attorney for the three Homer City Council members, told Superior Court Judge Erin Marston there are insufficient grounds for recall.
  Eric Sanders, who is representing the city of Homer, said there is nothing in state
  
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• State asks for mule deer sightings due to moose winter tick concern

  22-05-2017 21:22 via ktoo.org
  
  Mule deer like these in Oregon have been spreading into Alaska over the past few decades. Wildlife experts worry they may be carrying the winter moose tick, which has devastated moose populations in Canada and the Lower 48. (Photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is asking for the public’s help in reporting sightings of mule deer around the Interior.
  The deer isn’t indigenous to Alaska, but Fish and Game experts believe the species has b
  
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• Bill Condon will direct 2019 ‘Bride of Frankenstein’ remake

  22-05-2017 21:19
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) – After helping Disney’s live-action “Beauty and the Beast” spin box office gold, director Bill Condon has been tapped to breathe new life into “Bride of Frankenstein.”
  Universal Pictures said Monday that Condon’s remake will hit theaters in February 2019, making it the second film in its newly coined “Dark Universe ” series.
  Universal is one of the few studios without any superhero intellectual property and have long planned
  
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• New fruit juice guidelines include big change for babies

  22-05-2017 21:15
  
  Kids love their juice, but new recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advise parents to pull back on fruit juices of all kinds for children of all ages.
  It’s the first update to the group’s guidelines on fruit juice for kids in 16 years. One of the biggest changes is the recommendation that parents avoid giving fruit juice at all during a baby’s first year of life. Previous recommendations said fruit juice was OK after six months.
  The AAP’s latest a
  
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• Flynn to take the 5th, refuses to turn over documents to Senate panel

  22-05-2017 21:05 via ktoo.org
  
  Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn is invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination on Monday, refusing to hand over documents subpoenaed by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
  The panel wants to see documents relating to Flynn’s interactions with Russian officials as part of its probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
  “We will be responding to the Senate Intelligence Committee today,” a source close to Flynn tells
  
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• More than 10 years after alleged sexual assault, Bill Cosby trial to begin

  22-05-2017 20:59 via ktoo.org
  
  Lawyers for Bill Cosby will get their first glimpse on Monday of potential jurors who will decide the fate of the 79-year-old comedian in his criminal trial on sexual assault charges in Pennsylvania.
  Cosby has maintained his innocence in the face of three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault over a 2004 encounter at his suburban Philadelphia mansion.
  Now, after one and a half years of hearings, the trial is finally about to begin, pitting the story of Andrea Constand against Cosby’
  
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• Delta returns to Juneau with summer flights to capital city

  22-05-2017 20:46 via ktoo.org
  
  Delta Air Lines started a daily flight between Seattle and Juneau on May 19. (File photo by Heather Bryant/KTOO)
  Delta Air Lines began seasonal flights to Alaska’s capital city on Friday, according City and Borough of Juneau news release.
  Flights will run once a day during the summer season, the release said. Planes will land in Juneau at night and depart in the morning.
  “When the weather is kind of nasty, instead of doing missed approaches, Delta has a better chance of getting
  
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• Troopers arrest man after high-speed chase near Wasilla

  22-05-2017 20:35 via ktoo.org
  
  WASILLA, Alaska — An Anchorage man on probation for felony theft was arrested after a high-speed chase near Wasilla.
  Nicholas Randazzo, 31, drove more than 100 mph as he tried to elude an officer Sunday night, troopers said.
  Alaska Wildlife Troopers tried to stop a compact car near Mile 5 Knik-Goose Bay Road for suspected moving violations.
  The driver accelerated, troopers said, ran red lights and passed cars in no-passing zones. The speed limit was 55 mph.
  After 2.5 miles,
  
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• Harvesting Alaska: The Learning Farm is teaching children about farm life, compassion for animals

  22-05-2017 19:17
  
  If you’ve got a little one, chances are they’re familiar with our native Alaska wildlife by the time they can talk. However, it may be a different story when it comes to common farm animals.
  “I’ve brought animals into schools for years and I really found that they know very little about animals, especially farms animals, and they really don’t have much opportunity in Alaska to be around them. It’s kind of developed and I really wanted an educational program an
  
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• Swim, Bike, Run: Gold Nugget Triathlon provides a challenge and inspiration

  22-05-2017 18:54
  
  It was damp and cool. At times the rain came down on Sunday morning, too — perfect for a triathlon, as the 2017 Gold Nugget took off and ended in its traditional spot at Bartlett High School. The 500 yard swim in the school’s pool, combined with a 12 mile bike ride and a 4.1 mile run saw nearly 1,600 participants in the all-female event, which GNT bills as, “Dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls through athletics.”
  The first swimmers were in the water at 8:3
  
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• NASA orders up urgent spacewalking repairs at space station

  22-05-2017 17:29
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – NASA has ordered up urgent spacewalking repairs at the International Space Station.
  On Tuesday, two astronauts will venture out to replace a data relay box that broke over the weekend. The job falls to the two Americans on board: commander Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer.
  The failed unit is one of two that control the station’s radiators and solar panels, among other critical systems. NASA says everything is still safe in orbit because one relay box is stil
  
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• Man accused of killing girlfriend during suicide attempt arraigned

  22-05-2017 17:24
  
   
  An Anchorage man accused of killing his girlfriend while attempting to kill himself appeared in court Sunday. A grand jury indicted Victor Sibson, 21, on a charge of second-degree murder.
  Police responded to a 911 call in at the Club at Eagle Point apartments in Midtown during the early morning hours of April 19, and found Sibson, and 22-year-old Brittany-Mae Haag suffering from critical gunshot wounds. First responders transported both to a local hospital, but Haag died later in the day.
  
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• Delta begins summer flights to capital of Alaska

  22-05-2017 16:52
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Delta Air Lines has begun its seasonal flights to the capital of Alaska.
  The Juneau Empire reports (http://bit.ly/2q35IXI ) flights from Seattle to Juneau started last week. They will run once a day during the summer season.
  Planes will land in Juneau at night and depart in the morning.
  Airport Manager Patty Wahto says Delta is more prepared this year for weather conditions that regularly make Juneau a difficult place to land.
  Delta officials advise passengers to allo
  
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• State investigates inmate’s death at Goose Creek prison

  22-05-2017 08:57 via ktoo.org
  
  WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Department of Corrections has launched an investigation after an inmate at Goose Creek Correctional Center died while in custody, KTVA TV reports .
  Officials tell KTVA and other media outlets that at 10 a.m. Saturday, Daniel Mark Brusehaber, a 60-year-old inmate, told corrections officers and medical staff he was having trouble breathing. Officials say that despite efforts to save Brusehaber, he was pronounced dead by emergency first-responders more than a
  
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• Coast Guard rescues 2 kayakers off Alaska’s southern coast

  22-05-2017 08:56 via ktoo.org
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says it rescued two kayakers who were near an island off the coast of southern Alaska and became separated as the weather deteriorated.
  The Guard says in a news release that two MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crews rescued the kayakers near Chichagof Island Saturday evening.
  The Guard says both kayakers were hoisted by the aircrews and transported to Sitka, Alaska. There were no injuries reported.
  The weather at the scene was reported as 40 mph winds an
  
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• Defibrillators installed in the North Tongass Service Area

  22-05-2017 08:52 via ktoo.org
  
  Members of the NTVFD and Alaska State Troopers installing AEDs. (Photo courtesy KRBD)
  The North Tongass Volunteer Fire Department recently purchased 34 automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, and is finishing installation of the units. Fire chief Jerry Kiffer says the project was funded through a Commercial Passenger Vessel grant due to the large number of cruise ship passengers bused into the service area.
  He says time is critical if someone goes into cardiac arrest, and to be effective, de
  
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• Preventing human trafficking of homeless youth by building connections

  22-05-2017 08:42 via ktoo.org
  
  Covenant House in downtown Anchorage. (Photo by Anne Hillman/Alaska Public Media)
  Young people who are homeless in Alaska are at high risk for human trafficking, but there are ways to prevent the problem.
  Josh Louwerse is the youth engagement coordinator at Covenant House Alaska, Anchorage’s only homeless center for youth. He’s very aware and cautious of assumptions people make about where people are most at risk.
  “I think far too often things get labeled…’Oh well,
  
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• Revisiting internment camp near Juneau promotes healing

  22-05-2017 08:24 via ktoo.org
  
  
  As the raven flies, Funter Bay is less than twenty miles from downtown Juneau. The bay is nooked into the northwest corner of Admiralty Island–if you’ve traveled by boat to Hoonah or Gustavus you’ve passed it.
  But did you know that was where the U.S. Government interned hundreds of Aleuts, or Unangan people, to protect them from Japanese invasion during World War II?
  The internees, from St. Paul and St. George in the Pribolof Islands, were moved about 1,300 miles against their
  
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• Buckets still available for Anchorage compost program

  22-05-2017 04:00
  
  A new recycling program run by the Municipality of Anchorage has room for a few more people who would like to trade in their table scraps for compost.
  On Sunday, volunteers with the Anchorage Community Compost program handed out hundreds of buckets at the Central Transfer Station to people who are interested in recycling food scrap waste in exchange for a bucket of compost.
  City Recycling Coordinator Travis Smith said people can drop off scraps, including grass clippings and leaves at the Region
  
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• New wheelchair brings new adventures for Anchorage woman

  22-05-2017 03:58
  
  If you saw Kristie Lent out walking her dogs at University Lake or Connors Bog, you’d be excused if you did a double take. Lent is probably the only person using a specialized wheelchair to get the job done and she’s used to getting looks.
  “People will comment, they’ll say,’that’s the coolest wheelchair we’ve ever seen, it’s completely bad ass,” said Lent.
  The ride that garners so much attention is called a track chair. Instead of two large w
  
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• Feeling sidelined by mainstream social media, far-right users jump to gab

  22-05-2017 02:55 via ktoo.org
  
  The Gab.ai home page cites the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
  Gab.ai/Screenshot by NPR
  A new social network has grown quietly in recent months. It’s called Gab, and its users are invited to #SpeakFreely — an appeal attractive to many members of the far right and others who feel their views are stifled by mainstream sites like Twitter and Facebook.
  Gab.ai was born not long before the election, a brainchild of a young CEO in a “Make America Great Again” hat, taki
  
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• Why brain scientists are still obsessed with the curious case of Phineas Gage

  22-05-2017 02:54 via ktoo.org
  
  Cabinet-card portrait of brain-injury survivor Phineas Gage (1823–1860), shown holding the tamping iron which injured him. Wikimedia
  It took an explosion and 13 pounds of iron to usher in the modern era of neuroscience.
  In 1848, a 25-year-old railroad worker named Phineas Gage was blowing up rocks to clear the way for a new rail line in Cavendish, Vt. He would drill a hole, place an explosive charge, then pack in sand using a 13-pound metal bar known as a tamping iron.
  But in this instance
  
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• New laws in the U.K. and EU further restrict tobacco industry

  22-05-2017 02:54 via ktoo.org
  
  New regulations from the European Union aim to discourage young people from picking up smoking. New laws in the U.K. go even further. Mark Lennihan/AP
  In recent months, some Brits have expressed their distaste for European Union regulations — a frustration that helped motivate the Brexit vote last summer.
  But this weekend, new regulations on the tobacco industry came into force in the United Kingdom, and they go even further than what an EU directive required.
  The Tobacco Products Directiv
  
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• Turkey: Man detained on US plane just wanted 1st class seat

  22-05-2017 01:43
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) – Turkey’s official news agency says the FBI has detained a Turkish man who attempted to sit in first class on a Los Angeles-Honolulu flight.
  The Anadolu news agency reported Sunday that 25-year-old Anil Tuvanc Uskanli bought an economy ticket on American Airlines Flight 31 but left his seat to try first class. Flight attendants stopped him but in the ensuing argument, he kicked a service cart.
  The agency said Uskanli was handcuffed to his seat after refusing to sit.
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• 40-foot humpback whale stuck in Calif. harbor

  22-05-2017 01:36
  
  VENTURA, Calif. (AP) – A humpback whale that made a big splash with boaters after wandering into a Southern California harbor is on the move again, having found its way back to the open ocean.
  Ventura Harbormaster John Higgins said the whale swam away before dawn Sunday.
  Authorities may have provided it some guidance, playing a continuous loop of humpback whale feeding sounds near the harbor’s entrance-exit point.
  The 40-foot-long creature arrived in the harbor Saturday after apparen
  
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• State health board supports findings on adverse health effects to LGBTQ Alaskans

  22-05-2017 01:23
  
  When they met this week in Bethel, the state behavioral health boards took a look at the Alaska Mental Health Board (AMHB) and Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (ABADA) report about the adverse effects of discrimination against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Alaskans. The boards decided to endorse the report’s findings that discrimination brings a higher risk of drug and alcohol abuse and other risk behaviors. The boards think that more access to health and communi
  
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• Villages to get multi-million-dollar payments from mine owner

  22-05-2017 01:15
  
  NOME, Alaska (AP) – Eleven villages in Alaska’s northwest arctic borough will soon get yearly multimillion-dollar payments from the operator of a mine in the region in lieu of paying taxes.
  KNOM radio reports that the money will come from Teck Alaska, the operator of Red Dog Mine, where zinc and lead are gathered.
  KNOM reports that this year, $11 million in profits from Red Dog Mine will be put into a Village Improvement Fund, as well as between $4 and 8 million annually for the next
  
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• New housing chief focuses on services to help homeless

  22-05-2017 01:13
  
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) – Fairbanks’ new housing and homelessness coordinator says he is focusing on bringing in more housing complexes that provide services to people who need help overcoming mental illness or drug addiction.
  Mike Sanders tells the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner that the city has an estimated 240 homeless people and they need more support.
  Sanders says he has reviewed the Fairbanks Housing and Homeless Coalition’s 10-year plan and is working toward updating it with
  
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