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• Revenue commissioner resigns to serve ministry

  01-08-2017 23:50 via ktoo.org
  Department of Revenue Commissioner Randall Hoffbeck discusses a compromise budget package with reporters as Gov. Bill Walker listens in the cabinet room of the Capitol in Juneau in June. Hoffbeck announced his resignation Tuesday. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)
  Randall Hoffbeck announced Tuesday he’s resigning as Commissioner of Revenue on Aug. 17, in order to return to the ministry.
  The 59-year-old commissioner has often served as the governor’s point person on how to close the state&
  
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• Newscast – Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017

  01-08-2017 23:22 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/2017-08-01-newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  Juneau Mayor Ken Koelsch opposes the introduction and debate of a resolution in support of the Paris climate agreement,
  Gov. Bill Walker signs a capital budget redirects some of the money earmarked for the suspended Juneau Access Project, and
  local investors express interest in trying to buy AELP from its new Canadian parent company.
  
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• Bail set at $75,000 for Bethel man accused of murdering his wife

  01-08-2017 23:15 via ktoo.org
  Yellow caution tape surrounds an alleged crime scene at 840 Jacobs Way, Bethel, where Jason Joseph Lupie is accused of murdering his wife, Marie Beebe Lupie. (Photo by Anna Rose MacArthur/KYUK)
  Bail for a Bethel man accused of killing his wife is set at $75,000. He also will need a third-party custodian.
  Jason Joseph Lupie, 39, was arrested Sunday afternoon and charged with second-degree murder, a felony, in the death of his wife, Marie Beebe Lupie, 46.
  Her body, covered in bruises and laceratio
  
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• Juneau’s mayor opposes ‘Climate Mayors’ initiative

  01-08-2017 22:30 via ktoo.org
  The City and Borough of Juneau will revisit its recent decision to join more than 360 U.S. city mayors in affirming its commitment to the goals of the Paris climate agreement.
  Ken Koelsch on election night in the Juneau Assembly Chambers, March 15, 2015. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)
  But one member of the Juneau Assembly isn’t on board with joining the group of so-called Climate Mayors.
  Juneau Mayor Ken Koelsch cast the lone vote Monday against considering a resolution to add Juneau to
  
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• Alaska State Troopers rescue two overdue boaters on Prince of Wales Island

  01-08-2017 21:26 via ktoo.org
  Alaska State Troopers rescued two overdue boaters in the Prince of Wales Island area over the weekend.
  According to the troopers online dispatch, a notice was put out by the U.S. Coast Guard late Saturday that two men in a 16-foot skiff had been reported overdue in the Whale Pass area.
  The men had last been seen in the skiff about noon that day on the north side of West Island.
  The troopers’ boat, the Enforcer, responded to the area to search. It was blowing about 25 knots with gusts
  
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• Athabascan artist teaches others how to weave with fish skins

  01-08-2017 20:58 via ktoo.org
  Athabascan artist Audrey Armstrong pulls a fish skin to demonstrate its durability. This week, she led at class at the Sitka Arts and Science Festival on how to weave the slippery material into traditional Athabascan-style baskets. (Photo by Sarah Gibson/KCAW)
  Fish skin: some people eat it, others throw it out, and some make baskets from it.
  This week at the Sitka Arts and Science Festival, five women are learning how to make a basket from fish skin, beads, and a needle and thread.
  Their teacher
  
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• Beluga whale harvested near Dillingham Sunday evening

  01-08-2017 19:52 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A beluga whale is processed. (Photo by Avery Lill/KDLG)
  A beluga whale was harvested Sunday evening near Dillingham.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170731-09.mp3The community showed up in force.
  Lines of cars brought people with their totes and trash bags.
  The successful hunters shared meat with everyone who came. Processing the animal took about two hours.
  It was the whole hunting party’s first time to take a beluga. The three were commercial fishing for silver salmon when they saw a pod
  
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• State Sen. Gary Stevens files to run for lieutenant governor

  01-08-2017 19:28 via ktoo.org
  Sen. Gary Stevens addresses a joint session of the Alaska Legislature during debate about confirmations of the governor’s appointees, April 17, 2014. (Photo by Skip Gray/Gavel Alaska)
  Longtime Kodiak resident Republican state Sen. Gary Stevens will run for lieutenant governor in 2018.
  Stevens has spent almost 18 years in the Alaska legislature.
  Before that, he was a familiar face in Kodiak’s local government.
  He’s served as mayor of both the Kodiak Island Borough and the city o
  
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• Juneau investors and CBJ eye AELP amid parent company’s buyout

  01-08-2017 13:40 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Alaska Electric Light and Power Company headquarters on Tonsgard Court in Juneau. (Photo by Rosemarie Alexander/KTOO)
  A pair of businessmen is interested in raising funds to buy Juneau’s power utility and return it to local control. And they want the city’s help doing it. That revelation slipped out during Monday’s Juneau Assembly meeting.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/170801POWER.mp3After 120 years of local ownership, Juneau’s electric company, Alaska Ele
  
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• Juneau investors and CBJ eye AEL&P amid parent company’s buyout

  01-08-2017 13:40 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Alaska Electric Light and Power Company headquarters on Tonsgard Court in Juneau. (Photo by Rosemarie Alexander/KTOO)
  A pair of businessmen is interested in raising funds to buy Juneau’s power utility and return it to local control. And they want the city’s help doing it. That revelation slipped out during Monday’s Juneau Assembly meeting.
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/170801POWER.mp3After 120 years of local ownership, Juneau’s electric company, Alaska El
  
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• Man killed in hatchet attack in Fairbanks bar

  01-08-2017 03:56 via ktoo.org
  A Fairbanks man is dead following a hatchet attack at a local bar.
  Fairbanks Police Department reports that Mark Allen Mitchell, 54, died Monday morning following the attack Sunday night at Club Manchu.
  Police spokeswoman Yumi McCullough said its unclear what motivated the suspect, Brett Matthew Gilbert, 49.
  ”The initial investigation video surveillance show that without any warning or provocation inside the Club Manchu, the suspect struck the victim in the side of the neck and h
  
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• Alaska capital budget re-appropriates half of Juneau Access money

  01-08-2017 03:52 via ktoo.org
  A sign at the end of Glacier Highway in October 2016. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO)
  Late last year, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker said he would not pursue construction of the controversial Juneau Access Project.
  The project’s goal was to improve transportation between Juneau and the road-system-connected Haines and Skagway.
  After Walker’s decision not to move forward with the road extension, people wondered what would happen to millions of dollars earmarked for it.
  The passage of a cap
  
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• Sand Point loses entire police force

  01-08-2017 03:46 via ktoo.org
  A police car sits unused in Sand Point. (Photo by Zoe Sobel/KUCB)
  Sand Point faces a problem with its police force: It doesn’t have one any more.
  In just three weeks, all its officers resigned.
  City Administrator Andrew Varner said the first officer wanted to be closer to a spouse who is in the military. A week later, two more officers, a married couple, left because of a “family decision.”
  Varner said that left Police Chief Roger Bacon — who was scheduled to vacation in
  
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• Foretold Disaster – the Exxon Valdez oil spill | MIDNIGHT OIL: Episode 07

  01-08-2017 03:38 via ktoo.org
  The Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 killed hundreds of thousands of seabirds and brought commercial fishing in some of Alaska’s most productive waters to a standstill. It’s often talked about as an unprecedented, unthinkable event, but it was, in fact thinkable, and people tried to prevent it.
  
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• Audiogram: Foretold disaster

  01-08-2017 03:16 via ktoo.org
  The Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 killed hundreds of thousands of seabirds and brought commercial fishing in some of Alaska’s most productive waters to a standstill. It’s often talked about as an unprecedented, unthinkable event, but it was, in fact thinkable, and people tried to prevent it.
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-1-17

  01-08-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Tuesday on A Juneau Afternoon, Laury Scandling hosts.
  We’ll get an update on Library activities;
  We’ll hear the second episode of the Midnight Oil podcast from Alaska’s Energy Desk – about the Trans Alaska Pipeline and how it shaped the state.”
  And we’ll talk with Katrina Pearson about Jon Van Zyle’s show at Kaill’s,
  At 4, tune in to KTOO for All Things Considered, followed at 6, it’s Alaska News Nightly.
  At 7, tune in for a live broadcast o
  
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• Plaintiffs seek class action status for property seizure lawsuit

  01-08-2017 00:09 via ktoo.org
  Two men suing the Petersburg borough, a local police officer, a regional narcotics task force and state law enforcement are trying to broaden the lawsuit into a class action that would allow more plaintiffs to become involved.
  The lawsuit challenges the secrecy of search warrants for law enforcement investigations that do not result in criminal charges. If it ends up going to trial, the case won’t go before a jury until next year.
  The plaintiffs in the case are former Petersburg resident D
  
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