Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, July 13, 2017
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Health care bill has ‘caribou kickback’ for Alaska
Sen. Bob Corker, R-TN, at the center of one media scrum outside the Senate chamber. Photo by Liz Ruskin. The latest version of the health care bill in the U.S. Senate has a special carve-out to help...
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Special session nears end without public progress on oil taxes
Rep. Geran Tarr, D-Anchorage, speaks during a House Floor session in April. Tarr and the House majority haven’t agreed on an oil and gas tax bill with the Senate majority. (Photo by Skip Gray/360...
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Newly found disease could threaten Southeast Alaska spruce
Forest Service Forest Pathologist Robin Mulvey points out infected spruce branches on July 11, 2017. at Juneau’s Shrine of St. Therese to shrine volunteer Brian Flory. (Photo by Ed...
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AK: Mod Carousel brings boylesque world premiere to Juneau
Moscato Extatique performs “Small Death” in Seattle boylesque collective Mod Carousel’s new show “Gilded,” premiering Friday, July 14, 2017, in Juneau. (Photo courtesy Meneldor Photography) Under a...
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49 Voices: Doreen Cooper of Skagway
Doreen Cooper in Coldfoot. She lives in Skagway. (Photo by Rashah McChesney, Alaska’s Energy Desk) This week we’re hearing from Doreen Cooper from Skagway. She’s working as a volunteer at the Arctic...
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As low Nushagak River restricts barge travel, New Stuyahok limits heating fuel
The Nushagak River trickles down the main channel past Koliganek on July 10, 2017. (Photo: Avery Lill/ KDLG) Low water levels on the Nushagak River are still thwarting barges efforts to travel upriver....
View ArticleMoody’s downgrades state’s credit rating
Moody’s has downgraded the state’s credit rating again and said the state has a negative outlook. Listen now A report from the credit agency cited multiple reasons for the change, including the state’s...
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Where are Koliganek’s king salmon?
Christian Mulipola reaches for king salmon strips his grandmother, Diane Ishnook, has hung up to dry. Her king salmon were caught far downriver from Koliganek. (Photo: Avery Lill/ KDLG) More than 2.5...
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Wrangell Borough, union reach amended contract agreement
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers representative Julius Matthew walked the picket line with Wrangell municipal workers Lorne Cook, Dwight Yancey and Andrew Scambler before the strike...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Friday, July 14, 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 With hedging...
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With hedging statements, Alaska lawmakers say they’re close on oil and gas...
Sen. Cathy Giessel, R-Anchorage, at a Senate majority press availability in January. She says she believes she’s reached an agreement with Rep. Geran Tarr, D-Anchorage, on a bill to end tax credits for...
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Environmental legacy of the pipeline
A group of 798 pipeliners welds a section of the Trans Alaska Pipeline. (Photo courtesy of Diane Schenker) Environmental groups lost their fight to stop the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. But along the way...
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Special session ends with compromise on oil and gas tax credits
Senate President Pete Kelly and Sen. Anna MacKinnon meet with House majority leader Christ Tuck and House Speaker Bryce Edgmon just before adjourning the special session in Juneau on the night of July...
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Healthy housing market shows Ketchikan’s resilience
A view of Ketchikan from the top of the Edmonds Street stairs. (Photo courtesy of the state) Like many industries in the city, the story of Ketchikan’s housing market is closely tied to the shutdown of...
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Kotzebue commercial fishers have two buyers in town this season
Kotzebue fishermen (KNOM file photo) For the first time in three years, Kotzebue commercial fishermen will have two buyers to sell their fish to. Listen now According to Jim Menard, the area manager...
View ArticleLevelock stabbing under investigation as a homicide
On Friday night, Alaska State Troopers and Alaska Wildlife Troopers responded to a reported stabbing in Levelock. They found Ellis Lee Kaloke, age 37 of Eagle River, dead. Their investigation...
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Ecosystem study unlocks the mystery of black cod survival
A juvenile black cod is tagged and released back into the ocean. (NOAA photo) Over the past couple of decades black cod — or sablefish — has become one of Southeast Alaska’s most commercially-important...
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Hold your nets! Chilkat Inlet subsistence fishery delayed another week
The Chilkat River in 2009. (Photo courtesy of Dave Bezaire/Flickr Creative Commons) Subsistence fishermen near Haines will have to wait another week to throw their nets into Chilkat Inlet. A need to...
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North Star Borough to close North Pole transfer site for cleanup, reopen with...
The borough Solid Waste Division will close a North Pole transfer site, at 2740 Old Richardson Highway, at noon Wednesday and reopen it at 7 a.m. Thursday after a cleanup and with greater on-site...
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