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• Alaska House passes trans sports ban after extended filibuster by opponents

  13-05-2024 20:54 via ktoo.org
  
  Speaker of the House Cathy Tilton, R-Wasilla, talks to fellow lawmakers about rules for debate on House Bill 183 on Saturday, May 11, 2024. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
  The Alaska House of Representatives voted 22-18 late Sunday to ban transgender girls from girls’ school sports teams by limiting access to girls whose original birth certificates identify them as girls.
  The decision followed hours of filibustering by a coalition of opponents, but supporters mustered enough votes to
  
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• Southeast Alaska not ready for a hatchery-only king fishery, study finds

  13-05-2024 20:48 via ktoo.org
  
  King salmon landed in the commercial troll fishery in the summer of 2019. (Photo courtesy of Matt Lichtenstein)
  Should Southeast Alaska have a hatchery-only king salmon sports fishery? Researchers recently tried to answer that question as a possible solution to a declining number of wild kings.
  Chinook or king salmon are the largest and most valuable salmon species. They’re sought-after by sport, commercial, and subsistence fishermen alike. But in recent decades, their harvest has become m
  
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• New report questions business model of British Columbia gold mines

  13-05-2024 20:43 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A view of the Stikine River near Wrangell and Petersburg. The river is downstream of many Canadian mines in the Alaska transboundary watershed. (Photo courtesy of Cindi Lagoudakis)
  Gold mines near the British Columbia border are controversial in Alaska because of the potential for negative impacts to the environment and fisheries downstream. A nonprofit group called the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) released a report in January that found that these gold mines operate somewh
  
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• Alaska lawmakers support push to investigate, document forced assimilation in boarding schools 

  13-05-2024 19:33 via ktoo.org
  
  Jan Bronson of Anchorage and Cathy Walling of Fairbanks, representing the Alaska Friends Conference, apologize to Alaska Native communities for the boarding schools it ran in Alaska and the United States. The apology took place at Sayéik Gastineau elementary school, the former site of a Quaker mission school in Juneau, during Orange Shirt Day, Sept. 30, 2022. (Photo by Lisa Phu/Alaska Beacon)
  Alaska lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to support a federal proposal that would investigate and do
  
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