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The feds are finally paying to move a village, but it’s not in Alaska
The village of Newtok in western Alaska, in August 2016. (Photo by Eric Keto/Alaska’s Energy Desk) Alaska villages facing rapid erosion have been trying to move for decades. But they’ve always run up...
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Kodiak kids make sandwiches for the needy
The holidays tend to inspire people to be all-the-more charitable, and a couple of classes at Peterson Elementary School have made the spirit of giving a monthly tradition. Since September, a group of...
View ArticleDespite fire, the World Ice Art Championships will still go on
Preparations for the 2017 World Ice Art Championships are continuing in Fairbanks, despite a fire that destroyed the annual ice sculpture event’s main building Friday. Listen Now ”Saturday, we...
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Man sentenced for drunken Iditarod snowmachine incident
Jeff King and Aliy Zirkle thank the community of Nulato at the Iditarod Banquet Sunday night. The checkpoint village raised money for the mushers after a drunk snowmachiner struck their teams on the...
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Revenue department forecasts jump in oil prices, drop in production
A crowd walks across a map of Alaska at the Alaska State Library, Archives & Museum on Dec. 19, 2016, in Juneau. The state released its revenue sources book, which will help lawmakers and Gov. Bill...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016
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View ArticleWaning membership spurs Anchorage ski organization to change tack
Without much snow, the last couple of years have been tough for many winter-sport enthusiasts across Southcentral Alaska, especially cross-country skiers. And conditions have forced an Anchorage...
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Mike Kelly funeral held
Former state Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Fairbanks, on Dec. 21, 2010. Kelly died Dec. 7, 2016, as a solo pilot in a plane crash 17 miles southeast of Fairbanks. (Creative Commons photo by James Brooks) A...
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Ask a Climatologist: Tallying daylight on the darkest day of the year
Above the Arctic circle, there’s no daylight on the solstice. Farther south, Fairbanks has about 3.5 hours. Anchorage, 5.5 hours and Juneau a bit more than six hours. (Graphic courtesy of Brian...
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Federal coal mining rule angers operator
(US Interior Department logo) The operator of Alaska’s only coal mine is speaking out against a new Obama administration water protection rule for the industry. Healy-based Usibelli coal mine saw the...
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Aleutian volcano erupts
Although Bogoslof Island is uninhabited, it is an important breeding ground for sea birds, seals and sea lions. (Photo by T. Keith, U.S. Geological Survey) Update: 12/21 at 3:15 p.m. Listen Now A...
View ArticlePFD lawsuit moves to Alaska Supreme Court
The state Supreme Court will decide if Alaskans’ Permanent Fund dividends this year were the right amount. Listen Now That’s after Senator Bill Wielechowski and two former lawmakers filed an appeal on...
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Timeline extended for state takeover of Alaska LNG project
Alaska Gasline Development Corporation President Keith Meyer, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Andy Mack discuss meetings with potential buyers of Alaska’s LNG...
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ASRC: Obama acts in our name, ignores our needs
Ole Lake, right, manning the Alaska Wilderness League table at the 2015 AFN convention. Photo: AWL President Obama cited subsistence and the needs of Alaska Natives yesterday as part of the reason he...
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Fight continues in Tongass over how to keep logging industry alive
A Lincoln Log cabin. (Creative commons sketch by Lloyd Wright John) The U.S. Forest Service wears a lot of hats. The agency oversees federal lands, repairs salmon streams and auctions off trees. In...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016
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Outdoor rec area at Goose Creek might violate constitutional rights
The outdoor recreation area for the Special Management Unit at Goose Creek Correctional Center in Wasilla. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media) In many correctional facilities in Alaska, an enclosed room with...
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Sullivan finds traction, moves up in Senate
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, in his Washington, D.C. office. (Photo by Liz Ruskin) When new members of Congress take the oath of office on Jan. 3, Sen. Dan Sullivan will give up an unsought distinction: The...
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HEA members vote against deregulation
(Image Courtesy of HEA) Homer Electric Association members voted overwhelmingly against deregulation, and the cooperative will remain under the oversight of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska. About...
View ArticleY-K Delta sees its first marijuana applications
Two businesses in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta are applying for the region’s first marijuana store licenses: The Green Tree LLC in Bethel, located at 260 C Osage Avenue, and Kuskokwim Enterprises, LLC in...
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