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After Alaska lawmaker’s fundraising controversy, Senate considers tighter rules
Alaska state Sen. Kevin Meyer, left, is sponsoring Senate Bill 5, which would extend state campaign finance rules to PACs controlled by individual legislators. Meyer recently spoke at a Policymakers’...
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Yukon Quest race pushes through to Steeping Stone
Laura Neese departs Braeburn with help from her brother in law Keith Hottle. (Photo:Molly Rettig / KUAC) Defending champion Hugh Neff, and past winners Brent Sass and Allen Moore are pushing the pace...
View ArticlePrivatization could save some money at API, not at youth centers
Alaska’s state government can save money by privatizing some services at the Alaska Psychiatric Institute, or API. But it doesn’t look like it would save if it privatized all services. Listen now...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Monday, Feb. 6, 2017
Stories are posted on the APRN news page. You can subscribe to APRN’s newsfeeds via email, podcast and RSS. Follow us on Facebook at alaskapublic.org and on Twitter @aprn Listen now Privatization could...
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Walker, House Dems aim to put climate policy back on the table
Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott (with Gov. Bill Walker, right) is heading up an effort to develop a formal climate change policy. Pictured April 20, 2016. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North) Climate change has...
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Now that it’s legal, what’s it like to buy pot in Alaska?
Evan Levinton, left, looks over security forms with his business partner and mother, Jane Stinson, right, and their security contractor, Thomas Craig, while they were remodeling their store last May....
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Alaska senators ultimately split as DeVos becomes Education secretary
Betsy DeVos is sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence as the Secretary of Education. (Screenshot from White House video) The U.S. Senate today (Feb. 7) voted to confirm Betsy DeVos as Education...
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Court to issue opinion on possible DNA testing in decades-old Juneau homicide
Manny Tells, left, and Newtown Lambert stand as Judge Pegease (SP?) enters the court. (Photo by Brian Wallace) After four years, convicted murderer Newton Lambert of Juneau may finally get an answer...
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Following winter storms, Governor Walker declares disaster in Savoonga and...
Savoonga. (Photo by Anna Rose MacArthur, KNOM – Nome) Governor Bill Walker has issued a disaster declaration for the winter storms that struck Savoonga and Gambell at the end of 2016. Almost $3 million...
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Spike in alcohol related calls straining Bethel resources
Bethel Search and Rescue President Mike Riley and Vice President Fritz Charles address BSAR members at a regular meeting on February 2, 2017. (Photo: Anna Rose MacArthur/KYUK) It’s the first winter in...
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Due to damaged reservoir, St. George Island waits for water delivery
Location of St. George, Alaska. (Image: Google) St. George Island is waiting on an emergency water delivery after falling ice damaged the community’s reservoir yesterday (Feb. 6). Listen now In St....
View ArticleNorth Pole municipality expands water system to areas impacted by sulfolane...
An agreement between the State of Alaska, City of North Pole and Flint Hills Resources will expand the municipal water system to properties impacted by spills at a former refinery. The refinery, closed...
View ArticleFairbanks considers becoming a sanctuary city
The Fairbanks City Council heard testimony last night from members of the public concerned about executive actions by president Trump blocking Syrian refugees and a temporarily halting travel to the US...
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Dawson serves as marathon racing test for Yukon mushers
Paige Drobny runs her team out of Pelly Crossing Monday Feb 6th. (Photo: Molly Rettig / KUAC) The race is tight between top Yukon Quest mushers, headed toward the race‘s halfway point at Dawson City,...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017
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Motor fuel tax would triple under bill, but remain below national average
If enacted, Alaska’s motor fuel tax would triple, but remain less than half of its inflation-adjusted high. (Screen capture of Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy report). Lawmakers are...
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Fairbanks School District eliminates graduate tests
Fairbanks High School seniors scheduled to graduate this spring won’t need to take a college entrance exam. At its meeting last night, the Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board revamped its...
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Rep. Young named ‘chairman emeritus,’ loses power of the gavel
Alaska Rep. Don Young. Photo: Liz Ruskin. For most of the past 20 years, Alaska Congressman Don Young has been either a committee or subcommittee chairman. But now he wields no gavel. Listen now...
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Ask a Climatologist: What the fog, Anchorage?
Morning fog in Anchorage on Monday, Feb. 6th, 2017 (photo by Brian Brettschneider) This week we’re responding to a listener who asked: What the fog? Why has there been so much fog in Anchorage this...
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Fishermen forced to share pounds in herring fishery
These herring pounds near Craig are floating pens used to hold herring while they spawn on kelp. (Photo: ADFG) New restrictions are being put into place for the upcoming spawn-on-kelp herring fishery...
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