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• Kodiak officials say some city tsunami sirens not working

  12-01-2019 22:03
  KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — Kodiak officials say nearly half of the city’s aging tsunami warning sirens are not working. The Kodiak Daily Mirror reports city manager Mike Tvenge made the disclosure this week at a City Council work session. Five of the city’s 12 sirens are inoperable, including one near the harbor master’s office. At […]
  
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• Sealaska Heritage Institute donates exhibit to schools

  12-01-2019 21:59
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Sealaska Heritage Institute is donating copies of an exhibit featuring Alaska Native place names to schools across the region. The interactive exhibit called “Our Grandparents’ Names on the Land” also features indigenous fishing tools. Heritage Institute officials say the display offers a look at how Native people in the area […]
  
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• Hawaii’s humpback whales to be counted despite fed shutdown

  12-01-2019 21:53
  KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — An annual humpback whale count in Hawaii will take place despite the federal government shutdown. West Hawaii Today reported Friday that volunteers from the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation will coordinate this season’s Ocean Count, a community citizen science project that occurs during the peak of whale season. The survey is usually […]
  
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• Police find man fatally shot on Seattle’s Capitol Hill

  12-01-2019 19:57
  Police found a man fatally shot in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood after they responded to 911 calls late Friday about gunfire near Broadway and Pike Street. The calls began to come in around 11:50 p.m, according to Seattle police. Officers found the man and called for medics, but he died at the scene, according to […]
  
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• Portland police renew effort to put cameras on officers

  12-01-2019 19:27
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland police have renewed an effort to equip officers with body-worn cameras. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that the police bureau has assigned a civilian program manager to lead a team drafting policies about how the cameras are used and how footage is retained and released. The manager, Tammy Mayer, held the first […]
  
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• Control of Alaska House unsettled ahead of session start

  12-01-2019 18:31
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The big question heading into the new legislative session Tuesday is: Who will control the Alaska House? Republicans will hold 23 of the chamber’s 40 seats, which would be enough for a small majority. But party doesn’t always dictate how lawmakers organize. Bipartisan coalitions have formed when the parties are closely […]
  
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• Gov.’s husband sending Trump bill for cleaning bathrooms

  12-01-2019 15:55
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown says her husband is sending President Donald Trump a $28 bill after he cleaned garbage-filled bathrooms while visiting a sno-park on Mount Hood that was unstaffed because of the partial government shutdown. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Brown announced on Twitter Friday that Dan Little saw bathrooms at a […]
  
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• Kodiak-made horror short based on Native legend

  12-01-2019 15:46
  KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — After wrapping up a month-long shoot, a budding filmmaker is putting the finishing touches on a movie short produced on the Emerald Isle. Cameron Currin, a Coast Guard member by day and film director in his free time, said his film “Kushtaka” is inspired by a Tlingit legendary creature of the […]
  
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• Kiteboarding makes waves with Southeast Alaskans

  12-01-2019 15:25
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The two objects were unmistakable from the Egan Drive traffic. Large kites, similar in appearance to the ones used by paragliders in the summer, sailed gently above Mendenhall Wetlands State Game Refuge on a rainy December afternoon. Below the flying instruments were two black dots, kiteboarders, grasping a small bar to […]
  
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• Sea-Tac Airport workers lose sleep and apply for loans as longest-ever federal shutdown continues

  12-01-2019 15:00
  At a resource fair organized by the Port of Seattle, credit unions, nonprofits and utility companies told federal workers how they could access short-term loans, late bill-payment support and emergency assistance.
  
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• Readers share their tips for how they’ll deal with the three-week Highway 99 shutdown

  12-01-2019 15:00
  The Alaskan Way Viaduct closed permanently Friday night. Highways, streets, buses and sidewalks will be more crowded at least until the new Highway 99 tunnel opens in about three weeks.
  
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• As federal shutdown continues, Sea-Tac Airport workers lose sleep and apply for loans

  12-01-2019 15:00
  At a resource fair organized by the Port of Seattle, credit unions, nonprofits and utility companies told federal workers how they could access short-term loans, late bill-payment support and emergency assistance. The partial federal government shutdown will soon enter its fourth week.
  
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• Police: At least 1 killed in Aloha mobile home

  12-01-2019 11:25
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Washington County Sheriff’s Office says it’s investigating the death of at least one person reported at an Aloha mobile home park. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports someone called 911 around 5:15 p.m. Friday from the Pine Ridge Mobile Park and reported finding at least one relative dead inside a mobile home, said […]
  
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• Police: 2 found dead in Aloha mobile home

  12-01-2019 11:25
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Washington County Sheriff’s Office says it’s investigating after two people were found dead at an Aloha mobile home park. Authorities said someone called 911 around 5:15 p.m. Friday from the Pine Ridge Mobile Park and reported finding two unresponsive adults inside. Deputies found a man and a woman dead. The […]
  
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• Bare-handed surgeries as Zimbabwe’s health system collapses

  12-01-2019 10:06
  HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A doctors’ strike in Zimbabwe has crippled a health system that was already in intensive care from neglect. It mirrors the state of affairs in a country that was full of promise a year ago with the departure of longtime leader Robert Mugabe but now faces economic collapse. Doctors describe grim […]
  
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• Fish and Game surveys eastern Idaho fawns

  12-01-2019 09:02
  IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The helicopter hovered low over the hills southeast of Kelly Mountain, snow billowing up from the ground, and deer bounded down the slope to flee the noisy monster. Idaho Fish and Game research biologist Mark Hurley spoke into his radio to a couple of dozen Idaho Department of Fish and […]
  
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• Optimist Club Youth House opens for young adults in need

  12-01-2019 09:01
  TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Alex Frandsen considers herself lucky. She was in two foster-care homes before she lived with her grandmother for two years. When she was 18 years old, she was homeless. She lived out of motels for months. Now, Anderson is the first resident living in the Twin Falls Optimist Club’s Youth […]
  
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• Goodbye, viaduct: The highway closes for good after 66 years on Seattle’s waterfront

  12-01-2019 06:30
  Drivers took to the 66-year-old highway during its final hours to savor a final roadside glimpse at Elliott Bay, and crowds filled Victor Steinbrueck Park to photograph the viaduct below.
  
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• Whidbey Island woman killed in what police are calling a domestic-violence murder-suicide

  12-01-2019 04:20
  Police say a man shot the mother of his infant and then himself Friday.
  
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• ‘Why did you kill my baby?’: Auburn man sentenced for gang shooting of a Kent toddler

  12-01-2019 04:12
  Marty Kime, now 27, was sentenced Friday to 48 1/2 years in prison for the April 2015 killing of 1-year-old Malijha Grant in Kent.
  
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• ‘Why did you kill my baby?’: Auburn man sentenced for fatal gang shooting of a Kent toddler

  12-01-2019 04:12
  Marty Kime, now 27, was sentenced Friday to 48 1/2 years in prison for the April 2015 killing of 1-year-old Malijha Grant in Kent.
  
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• Kirkland police did not violate department policy when they asked black man to leave yogurt shop, report finds

  12-01-2019 04:07
  The Kirkland Police Department said officers acted in accordance with "departmental norms" and did not act out of racial bias. The department has created a new protocol for "unwanted person" calls.
  
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• The Seattle City Council may be up for a big shift all right — further to the left

  12-01-2019 04:00
  Supposedly this is the year that Seattle's lurch to the left gets snapped back to the middle. But that's not where the momentum looks headed so far.
  
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• Five arrested in downtown pipeline protest Friday

  12-01-2019 03:38
  About 100 people gathered downtown to oppose pipeline construction in Canada.
  
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• Slog PM: An Orca Baby, Foundation Nightclub Owner Arrested, Logan Paul Wants to "Go Gay" for a Month

  12-01-2019 03:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by Nathalie GrahamA fresh orca has joined the pod! Hero Images
  Slog PM today is brought to you by this glimpse of the far side of the moon: Thank you, China. The Chang’e 4 spacecraft is the first robot to land on that part of the moon. We're really broadening our horizons in 2019.Check out world's first panorama of the Moon's far side pic.twitter.com/lErzLRIIZ7
  — China Xinhua News (@XHNews) January 11, 2019New orca calf born! Wow! There's a baby calf that's blessing our beleaguered s
  
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• Memo: Staff would be affected by unorganized Alaska House

  12-01-2019 03:04
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Legislature’s human resources manager says legislative staff will be affected if the House does not organize a majority. Skiff Lobaugh, in a memo, says the current speaker, Democrat Bryce Edgmon, temporarily approved staff using interim funding that extends through Tuesday, when the new session begins. But Lobaugh says if […]
  
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• European Carnival Creatures Take Over Belltown's Phylogeny Contemporary

  12-01-2019 02:26 via thestranger.com
  
  These fantastic prints will be up until February 16th.by Jasmyne Keimig"Donceila", a print featured in Les Bonshommes Courtesy of the Artist
  There’s something about French artist Didier Hamey’s figures—or perhaps it’s better to call them entities—that’s a bit mystic. These beings, on display at Phylogeny Contemporary, seem to inhabit several different planes all at once, taking forms that blend leaves, animals, and human heads to create something almost outsid
  
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• Quiet day at the Ballard Locks

  12-01-2019 02:22
  Sketched Jan. 11, 2019 When I think of federal workers in Seattle, the Ballard Locks and its U.S. Army Corps of Engineers workers come to mind. On this unusually balmy January afternoon, the scene there was rather quiet, but that had nothing to do with the partial government shutdown. The federal employees manning the post […]
  
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• Mediator to handle Oregon Legislature civil rights complaint

  12-01-2019 02:03
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries says it will pursue mediation over a civil rights complaint against the state Legislature, whose leaders were accused of allowing harassment to persist. In a statement Friday the agency said representatives of the Legislature requested the conciliation process, which will be overseen by a […]
  
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• Seattle's Vietnamese Community Rallies to Stop Trump From Deporting War Refugees

  12-01-2019 01:52 via thestranger.com
  
  Trump is trying to deport thousands of Vietnamese people that have lived in the U.S. for decades.by Lester BlackActivists marched across the International District demanding protections for refugees. Lester Black
  The local Vietnamese community is on edge after reports that the Trump administration is trying to renegotiate a treaty with Vietnam that would allow Trump to deport thousands of people—including people who came to the U.S. as orphaned babies during the Vietnam war. On Friday, the
  
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• Yellowstone’s federal workers to resume some basic services

  12-01-2019 01:04
  YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park officials say federal employees will start providing some basic services again, despite the ongoing partial government shutdown. Park officials said in a statement Friday that by Sunday, staff will resume collecting trash, cleaning bathrooms and manning park entrances to provide safety information. They also will remove […]
  
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• Why Cher Is Wrong to Plead for Democrats to Give Trump "His Fucking Money"

  12-01-2019 00:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeCher, on a normal tour. Scott Barbour / Getty Images Entertainment
  The pop-icon Cher, who is no fan of Trump, recently tweeted that Nancy Pelosi, the new (or renewed) Speaker of the House of Representatives, should just give Trump the money he wants for the "fucken wall." Cher feels great sympathy for the hundreds of thousands of working-class people who've been directly hit by Trump's shutdown, and simply and honestly just wants the madness they are in and enduring daily to end
  
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• Alaska Supreme Court orders mandatory retirement for judge

  12-01-2019 00:34
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Supreme Court has placed a Superior Court judge on mandatory retirement because of a medical disability. Justices on Friday backed the recommendation of the Alaska Judicial Conduct Commission regarding Judge Angela Greene of Utqiagvik (oot-kay-AH’-vik), the Chukchi Sea community formerly known as Barrow. Greene did not oppose the recommendation. […]
  
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• Nao Brings Wonky Funk to Seattle on Sunday

  12-01-2019 00:14 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jasmyne KeimigNao Courtesy of the artist
  Nao is in the 23rd century, in terms of what her vision for R&B looks and sounds like. The London singer’s music takes its cues from electro, funk, and soul, fusing them all together and pitting her distinctive falsetto over it to create sounds that she terms “wonky funk.” She’s worked with everyone from Mura Masa to the so-elusive-that-I’m-not-even-sure-they-are-real—but genre-vital—Paul Brothers, forging
  
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