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• Coach, teacher and ally among eight honored for tribal achievements

  27-04-2018 23:46 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Longtime educator and coach Gil Truitt speaks after receiving the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award during a Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska fundraiser on April 19. Seven others were also honored. (Photo courtesy Tlingit & Haida)
  Gil Truitt spent 34 years teaching and coaching mostly Alaska Native students at Sitka’s Mount Edgecumbe High School. He’s been called a legend who helped raise a generation of leaders and culture bearers.
  Now
  
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• Wolves are eating sea otters near Gustavus. What does that mean for the deer?

  27-04-2018 23:22 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Sea otters eat clams, mussels, sea urchins and crab. (U.S. Fish & Wildlife photo)
  Biologists are investigating a surprising connection between two animals that aren’t exactly well loved in parts of Southeast. Gustavus locals suspect wolves are picking off deer at a popular hunting spot on an island near the mainland. The wolves started swimming over to feast on the deer about five years ago.But on a recent camping trip, a Gustavus man realized the wolves weren’t just eating deer.
  
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• Alaska Supreme Court weighs legality of Yes for Salmon ballot initiative

  27-04-2018 22:56 via ktoo.org
  Valerie Brown of Trustees for Alaska delivers arguments before the Alaska Supreme Court on the Yes for Salmon ballot initiative. (Photo by Elizabeth Harball/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  The Alaska Supreme Court yesterday heard arguments in a case that will decide the fate of the closely watched Yes for Salmon ballot initiative.
  Representatives from both sides of the controversy filled the courtroom to listen in, including staff from the Alaska Oil and Gas Association and the Resource Development
  
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• Newscast — Friday, April 27, 2018

  27-04-2018 22:10 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  In this newscast:New ideas for Mendenhall Valley Glacier Visitor Center unveiled
  Alaska Supreme Court rules lawsuit over 2010 Thane Campground shooting may proceed
  Alaska Supreme Court hears arguments over Stand For Salmon ballot initiative
  
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• Oil prices are up, but how long will it last?

  27-04-2018 19:17 via ktoo.org
  Pipelines stretch toward the horizon on NPR-A land leased by ConocoPhillips. The company announced it’s found 300 million barrels of recoverable oil nearby. (Photo by Elizabeth Harball/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
   Oil prices are up again.Alaska North Slope crude jumped above $70 per barrel two weeks ago and has stayed above that mark.  While that’s several dollars higher than state economists predicted, it doesn’t quite fill the hole in the state’s budget &mdash
  
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• U.N. committee moves toward banning heavy fuel oil in the Arctic

  27-04-2018 18:37 via ktoo.org
  The Marine Environment Protection Committee of the U.N.’s International Maritime Organization, meeting in London in April 2018. At that meeting, the committee took steps to develop a ban on heavy fuel oil use in the Arctic. (Creative Commons photo by International Maritime Organization.)
  The United Nations group that regulates international shipping recently decided to move toward banning the use of heavy fuel oil in the Arctic. The thick oil presents unique challenges for cleanup in the e
  
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• 2018 Native Youth Olympics begin in Anchorage

  27-04-2018 15:58 via ktoo.org
  At the 2015 Native Youth Olympics, Makiyan Ivanoff studyies the target before making his first place kick at 110 inches. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA)
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — To most spectators, the term “Olympics” means world-class swimming competitions, downhill skiing or the 100-meter dash.
  But near the Arctic Circle, a different type of Olympics for young people pays homage to the region’s subsistence hunters and the methods they’ve used for centuries to feed t
  
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• How tourists could see the glacier after it retreats

  27-04-2018 07:35 via ktoo.org
  The Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center was built in 1962. (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  The Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center is preparing for a future that includes more tourists and a melting attraction.On Thursday, more than 50 people attended an open house to catch a glimpse of the new concepts. That includes expanding some of the national forest trails and creating a shuttle system to reduce traffic.
  But some of the biggest proposed changes could help people get clo
  
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• State capital spending would be down slightly in Senate plan

  27-04-2018 05:21 via ktoo.org
  Sen. Anna Mackinnon, R-Eagle River, chairs the Senate Finance Committee in the Alaska Capitol on Wednesday. The committee introduced its version of the capital budget on Wednesday and heard public testimony on it on Thursday. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  The Senate Finance Committee has proposed a capital budget that would $1.43 billion for the coming year. It’s $42 million less than this year.
  The capital budget would fund scores of projects across the state, from road maintenance
  
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• Muktuk and ice cream: Exchange brings Noorvik students to Juneau

  27-04-2018 04:48 via ktoo.org
  Students on a cultural exchange trip from Noorvik Aqqaluk School make ice cream with Marc Wheeler in the kitchen at Coppa in Juneau. (Photo by Adelyn Baxter/KTOO)
  Four middle school students from Noorvik Aqqaluk School visited Juneau this week as part of the statewide Sister School Exchange program.
  The program promotes understanding between Alaska’s rural and urban communities by setting up cultural exchanges for middle and high school students. The Northwest community of Noorvik was pair
  
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