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• NTSB investigating helicopter crash on Herbert Glacier

  25-05-2017 23:40 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A May 22 crash involved an Airbus AStar 350 similar to this one flown by Coastal Helicopters of Juneau. (File photo by Jacob Resneck)
  The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating how and why a Juneau-bound helicopter ferrying tourists crashed during a glacier excursion.The pilot and six tourists were treated and released at Juneau’s hospital with minor injuries.
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/05/170525HELICOPTER.mp3Coastal Helicopters released a statement tha
  
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• Mic Check in the Morning: Eric Hutchinson

  25-05-2017 23:39
  
  Singer/songwriter Eric Hutchinson will play in Anchorage Saturday, June 3 at the Williwaw in Downtown Anchorage. It’s part of his “Uncharted Territory Tour,” his quest to play in all 50 states.
  Hutchinson’s first album “Sounds Like This” was released in 2007 according to his website. Since then he’s released three more, and performed with OneRepublic and Kelly Clarkson. His albums can be purchased on iTunes, Google Play and Amazon.
  Tickets to Hutchinson&
  
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• ‘Friends of the 4th Avenue Theatre’ celebrate landmark’s 70th anniversary

  25-05-2017 23:12
  
  Anchorage’s 4th Avenue Theatre opened to the public 70 years ago. Cap Lathrop was the man who envisioned the grand theatre, which was completed in 1947. To mark the occasion, Friends of the 4th Avenue Theatre will be hosting three days of events.
  One of those events will be a visit from Lathrop, as performed by Ron Holmstrom. He will be talking about Lathrop’s journey from shipping mogul to movie mogul. Lathrop started out in Seattle and invested in a sea captain who helped
  
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• Tribes bash proposed Trump budget cuts to Native Americans

  25-05-2017 23:01
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Dozens of Native American tribes in six Western states are bashing President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts to American Indian programs.
  Tribal leaders in Oregon, Washington state and Idaho speaking on behalf of the group said Thursday the proposed budget guts spending on Native American education, health care and environmental initiatives.
  Mel Sheldon, a councilman from the Tulalip Tribes in Washington state, says it’s the “worst attack on Indi
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, May 25, 2017

  25-05-2017 22:50 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/05/20170525-newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  An AP and USA Today Network analysis identifies five children in Alaska who have fatally shot themselves or another child between 2014 and 2016,
  U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan introduces a bill to bolster missile defense in response to North Korea, and
  the Iditarod Sled Dog Race loses a major backer and blames animal rights activists.
  
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• Spring Hill Elementary students honored for saving girl’s life

  25-05-2017 21:03
  
  It’s certainly not something they learned in a classroom, but some elementary school students made all the right decisions when something awful happened at the Southwood Manor Mobile Home Park recently in South Anchorage.
  Ten-year-old Emily Harris was climbing a tree when she slipped and fell. The hood of her hooded sweatshirt became snagged a branch.
  Harris was unable to get free, the collar of the hoodie was wrapped around her neck and she was being strangled in midair.
  However, oth
  
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• Stikine River mouth closing to king sport fishing

  25-05-2017 20:58 via ktoo.org
  
  Part way through Wrangell’s salmon derby and just before the start of Petersburg’s derby, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is closing sport fishing around the mouth of the Stikine River because of low returns of king salmon.
  Fish and Game issued an emergency order Tuesday, May 23, closing the Grey’s Passage area to king salmon sport fishing starting Thursday, May 25, and running through Saturday, July 15.
  Fish and Game’s sport fish biologist for Wrangell and Pe
  
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• US general heading Alaska forces outlines potential threats

  25-05-2017 20:27
  
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) – A U.S. military general has told Alaska business owners that he’s more worried about North Korea’s missile advancements than he is about the country’s current military capabilities.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported Wednesday that Air Force Lt. Gen. Ken Wilsbach made the comments at a Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
  He is the commander of the 11th Air Force based in Anchorage.
  Wilsbach also said he is concerned that Russia is bu
  
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• Miss Alaska USA visits Juneau-area schoolchildren

  25-05-2017 20:19 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Updated | 5:23 p.m. Thursday
  Miss Alaska USA Alyssa London arrived in Juneau on Thursday afternoon, making a stop at Sandy Beach in a series of visits to Juneau area schools.
  — Tripp J Crouse, KTOO
  Original story | 10:19 a.m. Thursday
  Miss Alaska USA encourages pride in heritage, education in Ketchikan visit
  Miss Alaska USA Alyssa London was in Ketchikan this week, visiting Fawn Mountain Elementary School on Wednesday.
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• Miss Alaska USA encourages pride in heritage, education in Ketchikan visit

  25-05-2017 20:19 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Miss Alaska USA Alyssa London was in Ketchikan this week, visiting Fawn Mountain Elementary School on Wednesday.https://krbd-org.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/24MissAKpkg.mp3Miss Alaska USA Alyssa London stands for a group photo with students at Fawn Mountain Elementary School. (Photo by Leila Kheiry/KRBD)
  Miss Alaska USA Alyssa London dropped by a handful of classrooms at Fawn Mountain Elementary School, wearing a formline-design robe trimmed with fur along with her dress, hi
  
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• 25 breweries will offer samplings at annual Haines beer fest

  25-05-2017 20:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Servers at the Gourmet Brewer’s Dinner, which is part of the Great Alaska Craft Beer and Home Brew Festival. (Photo courtesy Andy Hedden)
  “It not a drinking contest, it’s a contest of drinks” is one line from a brochure about the Haines Craft Beer and Home Brew Festival, which occurs May 26-27.
  The beer-centric celebration is a quarter-century old this year and it’s bigger than ever. Twenty-five breweries will offer samplings to nearly 2,000 attendees.
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• Former Gov. Frank Murkowski pitches Alaska-Canada rail link (again)

  25-05-2017 19:29 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Frank Murkowski is again pitching a rail link between Canada and Alaska, an old idea the former senator and governor worked on when he was in office.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170524-07.mp3
  Now Murkowski is back, as a special envoy working under the current governor to get talks on the rail link on track.
  He spoke at a luncheon Wednesday put on by World Trade Center Anchorage.
  “You know, there’s a lot of potential in Alaska,” Murkowski said. “The problem always
  
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• Anchorage police seek female suspect in credit union robbery

  25-05-2017 19:13 via ktoo.org
  
  Anchorage Police Department are looking for this woman, who they believe is about 30-years-old, who is suspected in the robbery of an Alaska USA Federal Credit Union in Anchorage. (Video capture image courtesy Anchorage Police Department)
  ANCHORAGE — A woman robbed a south-side credit union and escaped in a red pickup, Anchorage police said.
  The woman at about 5 p.m. Wednesday walked into Alaska USA Federal Credit Union, 125 W. Dimond Boulevard, Anchorage.
  She approached a teller
  
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• Anchorage police confront man with hatchet; shots fired

  25-05-2017 19:03 via ktoo.org
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Anchorage officer confronted a suspected prowler armed with a hatchet Thursday and fired shots in south Anchorage, police say.
  An initial police news release does not indicate whether the suspect was struck.
  Police just before 4:30 a.m. Thursday took a report of a prowler in south Anchorage between the Old and New Seward highways off 100th Avenue.
  Officers found that someone had broken into multiple cars.
  An officer spotted a man cutting through neighborhood yar
  
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• In recall case, Homer City Council members weigh appeal after judge rules against them

  25-05-2017 18:53 via ktoo.org
  
  
  An Anchorage Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday against three Homer City Council members seeking to halt a recall election next month.
  Council members Donna Aderhold, David Lewis and Catriona Reynolds are subjects of a recall election sparked over two resolutions they crafted and sponsored.
  The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska represented the council members and is still weighing the possibility of an appeal.
  https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kbbi/audio/2017/05/24Recall.mp3Homer election. (Pho
  
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• District court upholds appeal, Beringia segment of bearded seals listed as ‘threatened’

  25-05-2017 18:24 via ktoo.org
  
  A bearded seal rests on ice in 2011 off the coast of Alaska. (Photo by John Jansen/NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center)
  A portion of bearded seals are again listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act, because of the latest judgment from the U.S. District Court for Alaska.
  The District Court determined May 12, that the Beringia distinct population segment of bearded seals, found specifically in the Beaufort, Chukchi, and Bering seas, should be
  
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• Police involved in shooting in South Anchorage neighborhood

  25-05-2017 17:10
  
  Anchorage police officers were reportedly involved in a shooting early Thursday morning while pursuing a suspect through a South Anchorage neighborhood.
  According to a Nixle alert from police, officers were called to the area of 1200 China Berry Circle in South Anchorage around 4:30 a.m. to investigate a report of a prowler.
  When they arrived, officers discovered that someone had broken into multiple vehicles in the area.
  A man matching the description given to police earlier was seen
  
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• Anchorage police officer shoots, critically injures suspected thief

  25-05-2017 17:10
  
  (Heather Hintze / KTVA)
  Last updated at 1:14 p.m. on Thursday, May 25
  Anchorage police officers were involved in a shooting early Thursday morning while pursuing a suspect through a South Anchorage neighborhood.
  Numerous Anchorage Police Department (APD) officers, along with a K-9 unit, were called to the area of 1200 China Berry Circle around 4:30 a.m. to investigate a report of a prowler, Acting Deputy Chief Ken McCoy said during a press conference Thursday.
  When they arrived, office
  
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• Juneau girl donates national competition money to hospital

  25-05-2017 16:49
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Eleven-year-old Leora Murray had been asked by her teacher to define kindness, so she wrote a poem about it.
  But little did she know, that poem would go on to win her $250 in a national competition. And little did 70 patients at a nearby hospital know, Leora would be giving that money to them.
  The Juneau Empire reports the sixth-grader at Dryden Middle School in Alaska won the Think Kindness competition, which asks the winner to use their earnings to spread kindn
  
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• South Anchorage homeowners fed up with trashed properties, squatters

  25-05-2017 08:17
  
  People who live near multiple trashed properties in South Anchorage say the Municipality should be able to do something about the health hazards they’re living next to; but, after months– and in one case years– of reaching out for help, they’re still waiting on a solution.
  At The Learning Farm on Gander Street off Huffman Road, there’s always work to be done, but owner Deborah Baines wouldn’t have it any other way.
  “I love it,” she told KTVA Wednes
  
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• President Trump includes opening ANWR in budget proposal

  25-05-2017 06:35
  
  While lawmakers are debating the best way to balance the state budget, President Trump says Alaska could play a big role in helping to fill the federal deficit; the president wants to open ANWR to oil and gas development.
  Cara Moriarity, president of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association, said getting the refuge open to development couldn’t happen quickly, nor is it the president’s call.
  “There is a whole process that has to go first,” said Moriarity. “Congress has to
  
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• Teen avoids prison in deal, apologizes to victims

  25-05-2017 06:30
  
  He shot and killed his friend, 17-year-old Xeryus “Iggy” Tate, last August, but, Deandrew Walker-Webster will not spend any more time in prison.
  The 18-yr-old reached a plea deal that gave him a three-year sentence late Thursday afternoon. However, Superior Court Judge Michael Wolverton suspended two years and credited Walker-Webster for time served.
  That’s the law when it comes to criminally negligent homicide or accidental death– the charge in this case.
  Walker-Web
  
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• Lower permit cost opens door for more cottage foods at market

  25-05-2017 06:16
  
  You could see some new vendors at the farmers’ markets popping up around Anchorage after the Municipal Assembly approved lowering the permit fee for cottage foods.
  Cottage foods are non-potentially hazardous items made in home kitchens that earn less than $25,000 a year. A permit to sell cottage foods at markets used to cost $310, but the assembly lowered it to $50 Tuesday night.
  The Center Market at the Mall at Sears doesn’t have many cottage items, but manager Alex Davis says a che
  
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• After one week in special session, ‘not a whole lot’ of progress made

  25-05-2017 06:12
  
  One week after lawmakers gaveled into a special session in Juneau, they have yet to pass an operating budget for state services.
  Pink slips were issued to teachers Wednesday as lawmakers left the capitol building for the holiday weekend.
  The Alaska Senate and House held floor sessions with less than half of their members in chambers filled with empty chairs. Nothing was on the agenda for either body.
  “Instead of going home, enjoying a holiday, we really need to get our business done–
  
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• FBI, APD searching for bank robbery suspect

  25-05-2017 05:08
  
  Surveillance video shows the bank robbery suspect. (Credit: FBI)
  Both federal and local authorities are on the lookout for a female who robbed an Anchorage bank early Wednesday evening.
  Just before 5 p.m., the FBI says a white female entered the Alaska USA Federal Credit Union in the 100 block of Dimond Boulevard and handed the bank teller a note, which authorities say implied she had a weapon.
  The woman fled the scene with an undisclosed amount of cash and fled in a red Ford F-150 extended cab
  
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• RAW: Dashcam shows moments before APD confronts serial killer

  25-05-2017 03:56
  
  The Anchorage Police Department has released raw dash cam footage of the early morning hours of November 12, 2016, when James Dale Ritchie was killed after he opened fire on police.
  Last summer, a series of killings prompted APD to warn residents to avoid parks and remote places such as the trail systems at night.
  In late-April of this year, APD said Ritchie was responsible for the deaths of Brianna Foisy, 20; Jason Netter Sr., 41; Treyveonkindell Thompson, 19; Kevin Turner, 34; and Bryant
  
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• No legislative action on special session’s seventh day

  25-05-2017 03:53 via ktoo.org
  
  There was no legislative action on the seventh day of the special session. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO and Alaska Public Media)
  There were no committee meetings and only technical floor sessions in the Capitol on Wednesday, the seventh day of the Alaska Legislature’s 30-day special session.
  There has been no sign of progress in resolving the state’s budget crisis. House Speaker Bryce Edgmon put out a statement Tuesday saying that House members could go home for the Memorial Day
  
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• Bittersweet last day at ASD as pink slips go out

  25-05-2017 03:31
  
  It was a bittersweet last day of school in the Anchorage School District; Wednesday morning, 220 educators received pink slips.
  The principal at Bayshore Elementary hand delivered four layoff notices to two first-year teachers and two second-year teachers, including Jennifer Derks.
  Derks broke the news to her fourth-grade class in tears. They spent the afternoon signing yearbooks and saying goodbye.
  Caden Cartwright says Mrs. Derks was one of the best teachers he’s ever had.
  “She&rsq
  
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• Trump’s proposed SNAP cuts could impact 85K Alaskans

  25-05-2017 03:20
  
  President Donald Trump’s budget proposal could leave thousands of Alaskans wondering where their next meal will come from.
  About 85,000 people in Alaska rely on SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
  The president’s budget proposes $193 billion in cuts to SNAP over the next 10 years, which means about a 25 percent reduction in the program’s funding.
  Sarra Khlifi, the program manager for the Alaska Food Coalition, said SNAP provides 10 times the meals the Feeding A
  
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• APD investigating Fairview stabbing

  25-05-2017 02:49
  
  The Anchorage Police Department (APD) is investigating a stabbing that happened near 15th Avenue and Karluk Street just after 1 p.m. Wednesday.
  The man, who has not yet been identified, claimed he was stabbed by someone he knows.
  “[A man] was injured around his neck area. We are not exactly certain what had happened,” Anchorage Police Lt. John McKinnon said. “When police arrived, he had began to lose consciousness.”
  The man was taken to the hospital with a life-
  
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• Sea lion feeding hot spots have reliable, not necessarily abundant, food

  25-05-2017 02:40 via ktoo.org
  
  Reliable food sources are more important to Steller sea lions than abundant prey. (Vladimir Burkanov/NOAA)
  New research could help wildlife managers better protect declining Steller sea lion populations. The study looks at why sea lions zero in on specific hunting hotspots.
  For humans, knowing where to find food is easy. But biologist Mike Sigler says for Steller sea lions, it’s a different story.
  “I wondered for sea lions what they did when they had to find food,&rdqu
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 5-25-17

  25-05-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Thursday, May 24, 2017
  Thursday on a Juneau Afternoon, Joan Pardes hosts;
  UAS Corner – Frank Coenraad will be here to highlight “Summer in the Rainforest,” a conference for teachers;
  We’ll get an overview of the pools in town with guest, Julie Jackson.
  We’ll talk with Jessica Edwards about the Southeast Alaska State Fair.
  And Nancy DeCherney will be here with Arts Up.
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, live at 3 on KTOO, repeated at 4 on KRNN,
  
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• No specific Alaska law restricts child access to guns

  25-05-2017 01:51
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – An analysis by The Associated Press and the USA TODAY Network shows that five children under the age of 12 died in Alaska between 2014 and 2016 after accidentally shooting themselves or being shot by another child.
  One of those cases, in which a 3-year-old boy in Anchorage died, resulted in an adult being charged and sentenced.
  According to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Alaska does not have laws that specifically penalize allowing children access to firearms
  
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• Republicans’ AHCA would leave 23M more uninsured, Congressional Budget Office says

  25-05-2017 01:46 via ktoo.org
  
  The revised Republican bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act will leave 23 million more people uninsured in 2026 than if that act, also known as Obamacare, were to remain in place. The GOP bill would also reduce the deficit by $119 billion over 10 years.
  That’s what the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported on Wednesday in its latest score of the American Health Care Act. The CBO’s assessment shows that the deficit would fall and premiums would fall for some A
  
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• Mendenhall Valley woman chases off burglars, helps JPD locate suspects

  25-05-2017 01:44 via ktoo.org
  
  A 60-year-old Juneau woman came home Tuesday night to find her door forced open, according to a Juneau Police Department news release.
  She chased two men out of her home, and then continued after them giving police updates on their location until their arrest, according to the police.
  Joseph C. Tong, 48, and Derek H. Goodman, 43, are each charged with one count of first-degree burglary, a class B felony.
  Juneau police spokesman Lt. David Campbell said the men had fo
  
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• Alaska city residents worry about herring population decline

  25-05-2017 01:40
  
  KENAI, Alaska (AP) – The value of commercial landings in Alaska was unchanged from 2014 to 2015, according to a federal report, but some popular fisheries such as herring were down.
  The Peninsula Clarion says the report released this month by the National Marine Fisheries Service shows the value of all commercially fished species in the North Pacific was $1.7 billion in 2015, virtually unchanged from the previous year.
  The salmon market remains troubled because of an ongoing embargo o
  
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• Trump’s big wall is now just 74 miles long in his budget plan

  25-05-2017 00:58 via ktoo.org
  
  After making the need for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border a central campaign theme, President Donald Trump has asked Congress for just $1.6 billion to start building 74 miles of barriers. Texas alone shares more than 1,200 miles of border with Mexico.
  If Congress approves the current request, 14 miles of old fencing in the San Diego sector would be replaced, and 60 miles of new structures would be built in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas — the region with the heaviest illegal traffic.
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