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UA Regents schedule meeting to discuss Senate’s approved cuts
University of Alaska Fairbanks (Creative Commons photo by Jimmy Emerson) The University Of Alaska Board Of Regents is holding a special meeting Thursday in Fairbanks to discuss contingency plans in...
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Senate passes Petersburg land grant bill
The Petersburg Borough with its final boundaries. (File photo) Legislation to increase the Petersburg Borough’s land grant from the state passed the Alaska Senate on Monday (April 10). The bill would...
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GCI: Law enforcement investigating damaged fiber cable, outages
GCI Antenna. (Photo by Sir Mildred Pierce/Flickr Creative Commons) Alaska’s largest telecommunications company, GCI, has blamed statewide outages over the weekend on intentional damage to a fiber optic...
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Repairs begin on Hilcorp’s leaking Cook Inlet gas line
Still from footage taken by a helicopter of a gas leak in Cook Inlet, obtained by the environmental group Cook Inletkeeper. (Image courtesy Cook Inletkeeper) Dive teams are finally working to repair...
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President Xi’s Alaska visit: salmon, scenery and a chance to deepen Arctic ties
Chinese president Xi Jinping met with Alaska Gov. Bill Walker during a short visit to Anchorage on April 7, 2017. Xi stopped in Alaska on his way home from a summit with President Donald Trump in...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Monday, April 10, 2017
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Oil tax credit bill on its way to the Senate, with ultimatum from House
Rep. Geran Tarr, D-Anchorage, during a debate on the state House floor over an oil tax credit overhaul bill on Monday in Juneau. Tarr spoke in favor of the bill. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s...
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New version of Permanent Fund bill would require income tax, oil tax hike
Rep. Paul Seaton, R-Homer, works at his desk in the House Chambers on Monday. Seaton is the co-chairman of the House Finance Committee, which is amending Senate Bill 26 to require an income tax and oil...
View ArticleMost of Alaska should see normal winter breakup this year
A more normal winter across much of Alaska bodes for more normal river breakup conditions this spring. National Weather Service Alaska region climate science and services manager Rick Thoman said after...
View ArticleAlaska’s congressional delegation sticking by Sea Grant
When President Donald Trump’s blueprint budget came out in March, it included eliminating funding for the Sea Grant program for next year. But Alaska’s congressional delegation doesn’t want it to go...
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Following majority departure, Dunleavy to lose committee seats
Sen. Mike Dunleavy, R-Wasilla. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North) When Senator Mike Dunleavy left the Senate majority last week, he knew it meant he would lose some of his official positions of power....
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Fish and Game predicts more Chinook fishing openings this summer
Chinook salmon (Photo: Craig Springer, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) Kuskokwim river subsistence fishermen should receive more fishing openings for Chinook salmon this summer than they had last...
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State economists publish a “Where are they now?” for Alaska high school grads
Bethel Regional High School students dance at their graduation ceremony in May 2016. (Photo by Dean Swope/KYUK) According to federal data, about one in four high schoolers in Alaska doesn’t graduate,...
View ArticleKing salmon trollers to have lower harvests this year
King salmon fishermen in Southeast Alaska will see a significant reduction in their harvest this season. Listen now The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced on Monday that trollers will be...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Tuesday, April 11, 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 Pebble project...
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Unalaska receives surprise visitor from the deep
An Unalaskan sees if he is as long as the beached squid. (Zoë Sobel/Alaska’s Energy Desk) Carlin Enlow has lived in Unalaska her entire life, all 22 years. This is the first time she’s seen a squid...
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Anchorage bus overhaul pushes frequency over breadth
Mayor Ethan Berkowitz at a press conference unveiling the city’s new public transit plans (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media) Officials in Anchorage Tuesday unveiled a long-waited overhaul...
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New stipulations, shorter time period, for Pebble’s state land use permit
Stock photo of work camp at the Pebble deposit. (KDLG Photo) After months of delay, the Pebble Limited Partnership was granted its land use permit by the state’s Department of Natural Resources...
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UAA Chancellor Tom Case announces retirement
Chancellor Tom Case addresses faculty and staff at a recent UAA 2020 gathering. (Photo by Philip Hall / University of Alaska Anchorage) The University of Alaska Anchorage chancellor has announced his...
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On the water: One harvester’s hope for herring eggs
Leonty Williams grew up harvesting herring eggs. He says subsistence is in his blood. (Emily Russell/KCAW) Every spring millions of herring return to spawn in Sitka Sound. The small, silvery fish are...
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