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• Alaska city leaders put ride-sharing ban on ballot

  06-08-2017 07:31 via ktoo.org
  KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — Voter in an Alaska city are getting the chance to decide whether or not they want ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft to operate in their city.
  The Ketchikan City Council voted on Thursday to place a proposed city ban of ride-hailing companies on the upcoming Oct. 3 ballot.
  Ketchikan Daily News reports the action comes after Gov. Bill Walker in June signed legislation allowing ride-sharing companies to operate statewide.
  Council members and Mayor Lew Willi
  
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• Alaska men sentenced in musk oxen poaching case

  06-08-2017 07:28 via ktoo.org
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After pleading guilty in a poaching case, three men were ordered to pay restitution for illegally killing three musk oxen in northwest Alaska.
  At their Wednesday sentencing, 33-year-old Thomas Tazruk, 30-year-old Billy Bodfish and 58-year-old Willie Bodfish were ordered to pay $3,000 restitution for each of the three kills, for a total bill of $9,000 to be split among them.
  The men are residents of the small Inupiat Eskimo village of Wainwright.
  The men also were o
  
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• Both sides seek to drop Alaska abortion lawsuit

  06-08-2017 07:27 via ktoo.org
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Abortion-rights advocates and the state of Alaska are seeking to dismiss a lawsuit after the state medical board adopted new regulations for abortions after the first trimester.
  Attorneys for Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands and for the state jointly filed a motion asking a judge to dismiss the case brought by Planned Parenthood last year. They say the new regulations render the lawsuit moot.
  The state medical board, prodded by the la
  
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• Study: Suicide is top reason for Alaska gun deaths

  06-08-2017 07:26 via ktoo.org
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A new six-year study on guns in Alaska shows the state has one of the top rates of gun deaths and injuries in the U.S.
  The Juneau Empire reports the study was published on Wednesday by the Alaska Section of Epidemiology. It examined three statewide databases and found almost 1,500 people were injured or killed by firearms from the start of 2009 to the end of 2015.
  Figures compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show Alask
  
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• BlueCrest to pause drilling in Cook Inlet

  06-08-2017 03:58 via ktoo.org
  The Buccaneer jackup rig drills for oil and gas just north of Anchor Point, in Cook Inlet, Alaska in 2015. (Photo by Bill Smith)
  A Texas-based oil company plans to pause its onshore drilling operation in Cook Inlet in September, leaving about 150 workers without a job for the time being.
  Currently, BlueCrest Energy has two wells drilled at its 38-acre drill site just north of Anchor Point and plans to finish a third before halting operations. CEO Benjamin Johnson says the com
  
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