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Fairbanks Police say Monday morning shooter was prepared for armed confrontation
Fairbanks Police Department commander’s Dodge Charger. (Flickr Creative Commons photo by Steven H. Robinson) Fairbanks Police have released details about an officer involved shooting in the city...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Tuesday, June 20, 2017
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Unionized borough workers want more contract talks
Alaska’s IBEW Local 1547 represents 24 Wrangell municipal workers. (Photo by Casey Kelly, KTOO – Juneau) Wrangell’s municipal employees’ union has authorized a strike. But one of its leaders said...
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Belleque Family Farms pivots, selling produce to subscribers instead of...
Kyle Belleque and his daughter, Amy, are in the midst of planting these greens. Some will go in the garden in their yard. Others will be replanted in their hydroponic growing system. (Avery Lill/ KDLG)...
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Chiniak replanting begins
Sitka spruce bark. (Josh Blouin / Flickr) Foresters began replanting the scorched areas of Chiniak on Friday. The Kodiak Island Borough contracted with Washington-based NorthWind Forest Consultants to...
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Fairbanks looks to recruit seasoned officers with $20,000 bonus
(Courtesy of the Fairbanks Police Department) Fairbanks is offering a $20,000 bonus to attract seasoned police officers to the city after the money was approved unanimously by the city council on June...
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Business as usual for marine mammal deterrence
Sea lions nap on a buoy in Frederick sound. (Nora Saks, KFSK – Petersburg) In Southeast Alaska, populations of some marine mammals, like humpback whales and Stellar sea lions, are on the rise. Some...
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Alaska trail advocates warn Governor Walker of transportation funding lapses
Logo for Alaska Department of Transportation Advocacy group Alaska Trails sent a letter to let Governor Bill Walker know that transportation funds are at risk. Last September, Alaska returned $2.6...
View ArticleAssembly member wants to turn fallow land into an urban farm
Officials in Anchorage are taking the first steps to convert a blighted downtown property into an urban farm. Listen now The move comes as an amendment to a five-year management plan for the Heritage...
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Hilcorp picks up more acreage in Cook Inlet for oil and gas development
Hilcorp’s Anna Platform in Upper Cook Inlet. The company is looking to further expand its operations in the Inlet after buying up additional acreage at federal and state lease sales. (Photo courtesy...
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Advocates opposed to mining in Bristol Bay region ramp up summer outreach
Nick Harvey is a deckhand from Seattle. This is his first season fishing in Bristol Bay.(Avery Lill/ KDLG) Kristina Andrew greets Nick Harvey as he steps into the Sustaining Bristol Bay Fisheries booth...
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Borough Assembly approves funding for Port Mac repairs
Ship unloads at Port MacKenzie. Courtesy of Mat Su Borough. On Tuesday, the Mat-Su Borough Assembly approved the transfer of over half-a-million dollars from existing funds to pay for repairs to the...
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A ‘funnybug’ holds a serious clue to Ice Age ecology
One-tenth of an inch long, C. dectes is easy to miss. Although hardy, the “funnybug” could not have survived glaciation. So what’s it doing in Sitka? (KCAW photo/Robert Woolsey) A lot of science...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Wednesday, June 21, 2017
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State eyes Alaska Permanent Fund earnings draw without plan
The Alaska Permanent Fund Corp.’s exterior sign. (Photo by Skip Gray, 360 North) Lawmakers have proposed drawing money from the Alaska Permanent Fund earnings to pay for state government for the first...
View ArticleFish and Game shoots black bear thought to have killed 16-year-old runner
In response to the fatal bear mauling last weekend of 16-year-old Patrick Cooper in a mountain running race south of Anchorage, wildlife officials shot and killed four black bears, including the one...
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Juneau tops national list of smallest cities with most millionaire households
Downtown Juneau on Aug. 4, 2008. (Creative Commons photo by Sam Beebe) Do you have a million dollars lying around? Chances are one out of every 13 households in Alaska’s capital city qualifies as a...
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“Doesn’t he know it’s frozen?” How Alaska almost overlooked Prudhoe Bay
Tom Marshall was a geologist and a land selection officer for Alaska in the 1960s. He was the driving force behind the state’s Prudhoe Bay selection. (Photo by Elizabeth Harball/Alaska’s Energy Desk)...
View ArticleWalker signs bill granting health insurance to dependents of fallen police,...
Governor Bill Walker has signed legislation which requires the state to provide health insurance for the dependents of state law enforcement officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty. Listen...
View ArticleMan charged in 2015 Wasilla double murder
Court documents detail the case against a Wasilla man accused of a double murder along the Denali Highway. Listen now 42-year-old Bruce Floyd Dowd Butler is charged with killing his estranged wife:...
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