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• Southeast gets a lot of rain, but it doesn’t compare to what Harvey brought

  31-08-2017 23:56 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Ruined furniture, carpets and other trash pile up on the curb in Houston’s Braeburn Glen neighborhood, where Sophi Zimmerman and her family live. All were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Harvey’s flooding. “Here’s how it looks in front of every house on our block,” Zimmerman said. (Photo courtesy Sophi Zimmerman)
  Southeast Alaska sees an incredible amount of rain each year. Ketchikan gets close to 13 feet, Juneau about 7.5, and Sitka closer to 7.
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• Tillerson proposes scrapping Arctic and climate envoys

  31-08-2017 23:08 via ktoo.org
  United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson chaired the 10th Ministerial Meeting of the Arctic Council in Fairbanks, AK on May 11, 2017. (Photo by Arctic Council Secretariat /Linnea Nordström)
  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wants to do away with special envoys focused on the Arctic and climate change, as part of his effort to overhaul the State Department.
  The proposal comes just months after Tillerson visited Alaska and spoke about the importance of the Arctic. Some worry it’s a
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, August 31, 2017

  31-08-2017 23:08 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/20170831newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  Alaska is exploring options for conducting elections after 2018;
  Gov. Bill Walker signed a bipartisan letter urging Congress to stabilize individual health insurance markets;
  Alaska’s state and local governments could save roughly $200 million a year if the state formed a health care authority; and
  The U.S. Interior Department inspector general dropped its inquiry into whether the Interior secretary threat
  
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• St. Paul Island ramps up reindeer program to improve food security

  31-08-2017 19:48 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Students at St. Paul’s reindeer camp butcher a female from the island’s herd. This summer, the tribal government organized the camp as part of its effort to develop a more robust reindeer management program. (Photo by Laura Kraegel/KUCB)http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170830-06.mp3For the last century, reindeer have roamed St. Paul Island without much oversight.
  But now, the tribal government is stepping up its management style to boost subsistence options and the local economy.
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• Militia leader appeal draws split ruling

  31-08-2017 19:38 via ktoo.org
  A federal appeals court has thrown out one of the convictions of former Fairbanks militia leader Schaeffer Cox.
  A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision filed Tuesday vacates Cox’s conviction of solicitation to murder federal officials.
  The six-page ruling upholds a conspiracy to murder conviction and remands the case back to district court for re-sentencing.
  Schaeffer Cox was convicted of both murder conspiracy and solicitation as well as weapons violations in 2012, and later s
  
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• Alaska soldiers to deploy for Afghanistan within week

  31-08-2017 19:26 via ktoo.org
  Airborne infantrymen from the 4-25 preparing to jump from a C-17 into Australia during a training mission in July 2015 (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/Alaska Public Media)
  Military officers in Anchorage said Wednesday that Alaska-based soldiers will start deploying to Afghanistan within the week.
  Over the course of the coming month, the Army is sending about 1,200 members of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division from Anchorage’s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
  Most of the soldier
  
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• Going further than Food Stamps in rural Alaska

  31-08-2017 18:00 via ktoo.org
  Marcia Anderson, left, and Karolyn Ceron demonstrate how to make fruity salmon salad at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. (Photo by Anne Hillman/Alaska Public Media)
  
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• Alaska Bar programs provide some legal help for low-income residents

  31-08-2017 17:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Alaska Bar Association President Darrel Gardner meets KRBD’s official greeter Monday. Gardner stopped by the station to talk about ABA outreach programs. (Photo by Krista Scully, ABA Pro Bono Director)
  Alaska Bar Association President Darrel Gardner was in Ketchikan this week to meet with local bar members.
  He and ABA Pro Bono Director Krista Scully came by KRBD Monday to talk about some of the association’s outreach programs, meant to help low-income Alaskans facing legal matters.ht
  
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• Study says creating Alaska health care authority could save hundreds of millions of dollars

  31-08-2017 05:13 via ktoo.org
  Alaska’s state and local governments could save roughly $200 million dollars a year if the state launches a health care authority, according to a study. (Creative Commons photo illustration by 401(k) 2012)
  Alaska’s state and local governments could save roughly $200 million a year if it formed what’s called a health care authority. That’s according to a long-awaited study by three consultants released Wednesday.
  The idea behind health care authorities is to offer a common
  
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• Investigators drop query into Zinke calls to Alaska senators

  31-08-2017 02:34 via ktoo.org
  U.S. Congressman Ryan Zinke of Montana speaking at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor, Maryland, on March 3, 2016. (Creative Commons photo by Gage Skidmore)
  The inspector general’s office for the U.S. Interior Department has dropped its inquiry into whether the Interior secretary threatened to retaliate against Sen. Lisa Murkowski for voting against proceeding on a health care reform bill.
  A letter from the inspector general’s office said Alaska&rsqu
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-31-17

  31-08-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Thursday, August 31 on A Juneau Afternoon, Scott Burton will host.
  We’ll talk about First Friday at the CANVAS;
  Sara Raster will be here with an update on Kindness;
  We’ll learn about an upcoming presentation with Dr. Emily Kane about Marijuana as Medicine;
  We’ll get a preview of this weekend’s Con Brio concert, A Call to Life;
  Merridy Davis, this month’s featured artist at the Juneau Artists’ Gallery; will be here to talk about her First Friday show;
  And Nancy
  
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• Brown bear found shot and killed on the Haines Highway

  31-08-2017 01:52 via ktoo.org
  Troopers located a brown bear that had been shot and killed near the Haines Highway last week. The animal was found in the middle of the road near mile 17. (Photo courtesy of Trent Chwialkowski)
  A brown bear was shot and killed near the Haines Highway last week.
  Haines Wildlife Trooper Trent Chwialkowski said early on August 22, callers reported a dead bear in the middle of the highway near mile 17.
  Chwialkowski located the bear. He says it was either shot near a creek and ran toward the road, o
  
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• Cruise ship anchor cut to free humpback whale in Southeast

  31-08-2017 01:46 via ktoo.org
  
  
  NOAA-trained marine mammal responders collect a sample from the exhalation of an entangled a humpback whale on Sunday, August 27, near the mouth of Tracy Arm, Alaska. (Photo courtesy of John Moran/ NOAA Fisheries)
  A cruise ship in Southeast Alaska cut its anchor free Sunday to release a humpback whale tangled in the ship’s anchor chain.
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said numerous whales were bubble net feeding in Holkham Bay near Tracy Arm, about 45 miles south of Jun
  
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• Ketchikan shatters summer rainfall record

  31-08-2017 01:32 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Rain gear proved useful Wednesday morning, when Ketchikan easily broke the previous record for summertime rainfall. The record was broken at 7 a.m., with 44.2 inches falling since June 1st. And it’s not stopping. (Photo by Leila Kheiry/KRBD)
  Early Wednesday morning, Ketchikan broke its record for the most summertime rainfall.
  With more than 45 inches at last count, this summer is officially the soggiest Alaska’s First City has experienced in its recorded history.
  https://krbd-org.s3.
  
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• New Stuyahok teen learns Yup’ik, Inupiaq, Russian and Tagalog fluently by high school graduation

  31-08-2017 01:26 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Jalen Konukpeok, 18, learned four languages fluently before graduating Mount Edgecomb High School in May. (Photo by Avery Lill/KDLG)
  Most students take classes in a second language during high school, but one Bristol Bay polyglot took it to another level.
  Jalen Konukpeok, an 18-year-old from New Stuyahok learned four languages fluently before graduating from Mount Edgecomb High School in May.
  https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kdlg/audio/2017/08/konukpeok_8.30_pkg.mp3Konukpeok is Russian Orthodox, and his f
  
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• St. Paul ramps up reindeer program to improve food security

  31-08-2017 00:51 via ktoo.org
  Students at St. Paul’s reindeer camp butcher a female from the island’s herd. This summer, the tribal government organized the camp as part of its effort to develop a more robust reindeer management program.(Photo by Laura Kraegel / KUCB)
  For the last century, reindeer have roamed St. Paul Island without much oversight. But now, the tribal government is stepping up its management style — to boost subsistence options and the local economy.
  Fleshy red reindeer quarters are spread
  
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