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Legislative compromise
The Alaska State Legislature sign at the Legislative Information Office in Downtown Anchorage. (Staff photo) State lawmakers called themselves into a third special session to pass a scaled back capital...
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Mandated reporting of prescribed controlled substances begins in Alaska
Medical professionals prescribing controlled substances in Alaska are now required to provide hard numbers. (Photo by Aaron Bolton/KBBI) The state has been collecting data on prescription opioids and...
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Egan calls for criminal justice bill, income tax
State Sen. Dennis Egan, D-Juneau, speaks to the Juneau Chamber of Commerce on Thursday. He called for another attempt to revise the 2016 criminal justice law. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO) State...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Friday, Aug. 4, 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 U.S. senators: Same...
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U.S. senators: Same state, same party, not same page
CNN interviewed Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins. (Image: CNN.com.) Last week, while Sen. Lisa Murkowski was in the national spotlight for defying her party on health care, Alaska’s...
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State lets Conoco expand North Slope unit, but with conditions
A flow line curves above the horizon on the western North Slope. ConocoPhillips wants to expand one of its units in the region. (Elizabeth Harball/Alaska’s Energy Desk) The state is trying to speed up...
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State budget cuts hitting Interior’s main public media company
The state’s fiscal situation is taking a toll on one of Alaska’s longest operating and largest public media companies. Listen now KUAC, which brings public radio and television programming to...
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Teaching the next crop of whale entanglement responders
Ed Lyman is in Unalaska teaching the next crop of large whale entanglement responders. (Berett Wilber/KUCB) On a sunny Tuesday night, about a dozen people are gathered on a dock. They’re practicing the...
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PenAir files for bankruptcy protection as CEO promises to refocus on Alaska...
(Courtesy of Pen Air) The largest air carrier in southwest Alaska has filed for bankruptcy protection. Listen now “PenAir filed for reorganization under Chapter 11,” CEO Danny Seybert said on Monday....
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More than $100,000 raised for injured Anchorage firefighter
Anchorage Fire Department Fire Engine (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage) An Anchorage firefighter badly hurt during training is making progress in a Colorado hospital amid an...
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With a few weeks to go, Alaska schools are short 245 educators
(Photo illustration by Quinton Chandler/KTOO) Imagine you’re fresh out of school, broke and hunting for your first teaching job. Then a school district offers you a job paying $70,000 a year....
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Witness hearings start Monday in F/V Destination investigation
Six F/V Destination crew members died when their boat disappeared in February near St. George Island, marking the deadliest accident in more than a decade for the Bering Sea crab fleet. The Coast Guard...
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Trump administration signals it could open more of the Arctic to drilling
BLM’s map of NPR-A acreage available for leasing. The Trump administration is gauging industry interest in portions of the region not currently available for drilling. (Image courtesy BLM) The Trump...
View ArticleFirefighters work to extinguish Chistochina Fire
State and federal firefighters are mopping up a wildfire in the Copper River Valley. Listen now The Chistochina Fire started Friday along long the Tok Cutoff, and the Alaska Fire Service reports that...
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Drue Pearce appointed to US pipeline safety agency
PHMSA Deputy Director Drue Pearce. (2016 photo by Lawrence Ostrovsky for Alaska Public Media) Former Alaska legislator Drue Pearce has a new job in the Trump administration. She is now the deputy...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Monday, Aug. 7, 2017
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Anchorage Parks and Recreation builds new community garden plots to keep up...
David Parrish weeds his plot at C Street Community Gardens. (Henry Leasia / Alaska Public Media) On a recent cloudy afternoon, David Parrish yanked weeds from a patch of dirt where he’s been growing...
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In Angoon, a rural water system gets help from beavers
Auk’Tah Lake became Angoon’s water source in the early 1990s. Before that, the village relied on a muskeg for its drinking water. (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/Alaska’s Energy Desk) The village of...
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YK Delta tribes sign treaty, forming Nunavut provisional government
A provisional government was formed last Thursday at the Bethel Cultural Center. Over the last three days, and many long discussions, a treaty was signed to form the Provisional Nunavut Alaska...
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Douglas Indian Association tours T’aaḵu Kwáan territory
Members of the Yaaw Tei Yi Tlingit Dancers sing during a July 28, 2107, tour of the Taku Tlingits’ traditional territory. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News) It’s important to know where you come...
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