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• Gov. Walker signs opioid addiction prevention bill

  26-07-2017 23:04 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Gov. Bill Walker on Tuesday signed into law House Bill 159, which aims to help prevent opioid addiction before it starts. (Photo by Casey Grove/Alaska Public Media)
  Alaska Gov. Bill Walker on Tuesday signed into law House Bill 159, which aims to help prevent opioid addiction before it starts.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170725-02.mp3The law puts new limits on opioids like capping new prescriptions at seven days-worth of pills, and requires training about abuse for medical practitioners.
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• Newscast – Wednesday, July 26, 2017

  26-07-2017 22:52 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/07/noon072617.mp3In this newscast:
  FBI investigating cruise ship death,
  Alaska Air Group reports earnings,
  Economics program cut at UAF, and
  Comment period ending on new ferry schedule.
  
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• Following health care vote, Trump singles out Murkowski with critical tweet

  26-07-2017 22:51 via ktoo.org
  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski speaks to a Joint Session of the Alaska Legislature, Feb. 22, 2017. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  This afternoon, the U.S. Senate voted against an amendment to partially repeal the Affordable Care Act in a 55-45 split.
  It was one of several votes concerning the health law in two days.
  Following Tuesday’s narrow Senate vote to allow debate on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, President Donald Trump tweeted his disapproval toward Sen. Lisa Murkowski &
  
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• Trump says transgender people can’t serve in military

  26-07-2017 22:34 via ktoo.org
  Updated at 4:30 p.m. ET
  President Donald Trump has announced that the government will not allow transgender people to serve in the U.S. military, a year after the Pentagon lifted its ban on transgender service members.
  In a series of tweets on Wednesday morning, he wrote:
  “After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow … Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our m
  
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• Ask a Climatologist: For summer in Alaska, 70 is the magic number

  26-07-2017 21:47 via ktoo.org
  Graphic Courtesy of Brian Brettschneider
  In other parts of the country, the temperature on a perfect summer day might land somewhere in the mid-80s. In most  of Alaska though, the mid-70s are a more realistic target.
  Alaska’s Energy Desk is checking in with Brian Brettschneider each week as part of the segment, Ask a Climatologist.
  He says Juneau has had very few days above 70 this year. In contrast, Anchorage logged its warmest temperature of the year Sunday, 76 degrees:
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• State’s cruise ship monitoring program shielded from budget cuts by tourists

  26-07-2017 21:16 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A Celebrity Cruise Line ship sails into Juneau in 2012 with emissions coming out of its stack. Ed White with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation monitors cruise ship emissions. (Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/07/19-shipwatch.mp3Over a million cruise ship visitors are projected to land in Juneau this year. And the summer cruising season is a big boost for coastal retailers. But, it also brings all of the noisy traffic, haze and wate
  
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• ‘Suspicious death’ reported on cruise ship in Southeast Alaska

  26-07-2017 20:30 via ktoo.org
  The Emerald Princess is moored Wednesday, July 27, 2017, at the S. Franklin Street Dock in Juneau. (Photo by Tripp J Crouse/KTOO)
  Investigators were headed to Juneau early Wednesday after a “suspicious death” occurred on a cruise ship, according to the FBI Anchorage division.
  Staci Feger-Pellessier, an FBI spokeswoman, said the death happened aboard a Princess Cruises liner.
  Princess Cruises said in a statement Wednesday there was a “domestic dispute” aboar
  
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• New Tlingit teachers weave language education into Kake’s Culture Camp

  26-07-2017 19:39 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Myrna Demmert, left, works with her mom elder Ruth Demmert to filet dog salmon at Culture Camp. (Photo by Nora Saks/KFSK)
  For almost 30 years, the remote village of Kake has been running its annual summer Keex’ Kwaan Culture Camp – a chance for kids and adults to practice and celebrate Tlingit traditions.
  It’s the longest running camp of its kind in Alaska.
  This year, two young women are taking over the reins from a cherished elder and are bringing more Tlingit language to camp
  
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• Murkowski, Sullivan split over Senate health care vote amid dramatic protests and debate

  26-07-2017 06:03 via ktoo.org
  Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, addresses a crowd outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington protesting the Republican health care bill on Tuesday. (Creative Commons photo by kellybdc)
  It was a dramatic day in the U.S. Senate today with a vote to advance a Republican health care bill. Alaska’s two senators split their votes. Both said the outlook for the bill is uncertain.
  Protesters in the gallery chanted “Kill the bill! Don’t kill us!” and “Shame! Shame!&rdquo
  
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• Southeast Alaska State Fair kicks off Thursday

  26-07-2017 01:58 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A woman competes in the axe throwing contest during the logging show at the 2016 Southeast Alaska State Fair. (Photo by Jillian Rogers/KHNS)
  Haines is getting ready for a weekend full of music, food and Ferris wheels.
  The 49th annual Southeast Alaska State Fair takes place Thursday through Sunday.http://khns.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/25SEFair.mp3“It’s gonna be hard to see everything that you want to see this year at the fair,” director Jessica Edwards said.
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• Republicans Murkowski, Collins oppose GOP health vote

  26-07-2017 01:47 via ktoo.org
  WASHINGTON — Republican senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska broke with their party and opposed the Senate vote to move ahead on health care.
  The two women drew criticism from President Donald Trump, who said their votes were “very, very sad for them.”
  Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, hailed the votes as “an act of political courage” that will be remembered by history.
  Collins, in her fourth term, is a moderate kn
  
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• Coast Guard works together with mariners on rescue

  26-07-2017 01:24 via ktoo.org
  A good Samaritan vessel and a Coast Guard aircrew rescued four fishermen Monday in Kodiak waters.
  The fishing vessel Grayling capsized in Kuprean of Strait near Raspberry Island, according to a Coast Guard news release, and the nearby Calista Marie came to their aid.
  An Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter on a training flight also responded.
  Pilot Lt. Kevin Riley said they were flying in the vicinity of Old Harbor when they got word from Air Station Kodiak about the vessel’s distr
  
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• Late state budget delays fall-winter-spring ferry schedule

  26-07-2017 01:13 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The ferry Malaspina is shown in drydock and the Columbia is tied up at the Ketchikan Shipyard in February 2012. Damage to the Columbia is delaying its return to service this fall and the Malaspina will help fill in. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)
  Alaskans have until the end of the month to tell the Marine Highway System what they think of its fall, winter and spring sailing plans.
  The schedule, which is similar to last year’s, came out later than usual and the comment period is
  
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• Krattmania comes to Juneau: ‘Wild Kratt’ brothers teach kids about natural science, animals

  26-07-2017 01:08 via ktoo.org
  Martin and Chris Kratt share stories Thursday at Meet The Kratts, Wild Alaska Live Meet & Greet at Thunder Mountain Auditorium. (Photo by Annie Bartholomew/KTOO)
  Brothers and television hosts, Chris and Martin Kratt are known for their PBS Kids’ wildlife shows: “Kratts’ Creatures,” “Zoboomafoo” and now “Wild Kratts.”
  The Kratts are in Alaska, anchoring the BBC and PBS’s prime-time “Wild Alaska Live” specials from the Mend
  
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• Travel Tuesday: The Kratt brothers in Alaska

  26-07-2017 00:44
  If you’ve got kids, you likely know the Kratt brothers — hosts of Zoboomafoo and the Wild Kratts on PBS. The creative adventuring duo is in Alaska this week, to bring a taste of Alaska in real time.
  Hosts Chris and Martin Kratt and the PBS crew have cameras and correspondents spread out across the state to give audiences a glimpse of what’s going on, at the very moment you’re watching — whether it’s bears on the shore of Katmai, salmon swimming upstr
  
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• Dimond Boulevard closed near Jewel Lake after gunfire inside suidical man’s home

  26-07-2017 00:27
  Part of Dimond Boulevard in South Anchorage has been shut down Tuesday afternoon east of Jewel Lake Road, after police said a suicidal man inside a nearby home had fired a gun.
  Police were asking people to avoid the closed section of Dimond between Arlene and Blackberry streets, spokeswoman Renee Oistad said in a statement.
  Officers first responded to the 2800 block of West 91st Avenue just after 1:30 p.m., after a call reporting “an armed man threatening suicide.”
  “The suicida
  
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