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ASD employee charged with embezzling thousands from schools
Anchorage police have charged a former Anchorage School District employee with embezzlement. The charges come after a five month investigation. APD fraud division detective Tony Pate told reporters...
View ArticleNapaskiak man kills puppy to threaten ex-girlfriend and her husband
A dead puppy, a blood splattered window, and a threatened family remain after a violent incident in Napaskiak over the weekend. Listen Now According to a police affidavit, Alexie Evan, age 22 of...
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White House: No nation an island on Arctic science
NOAA scientists on a 2005 mission in the Arctic. (Photo: NOAA) Cabinet members and high-ranking science advisors from 25 governments will convene on the White House tomorrow to discuss the Arctic....
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016
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 Access to overdose...
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Access to overdose preventative still bogged down in barriers
Scores of people have died in Alaska from heroin and other opioid overdose deaths this year that the drug naloxone, also known as Narcan, could have prevented. Listen Now (Creative Commons photo by...
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Downtown assembly member kneels for pledge
The Anchorage Assembly chambers at the Z. J. Loussac Public Library in Anchorage. (Staff photo) Citing the concerns among his constituents an Anchorage Assembly member knelt during the pledge of...
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Fishermen, state, in flux after circuit court overturns state control of Cook...
In Cook Inlet, managing the salmon runs for commercial, sport and subsistence interests is so controversial, it’s often called a fish war. United Cook Inlet Drift Association Vice-President Erik...
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Forest Service purchases 4,500 acres of Cube Cove forest
Logged lands at the head of Lake Kathleen, on Admiralty Island, are among those Shee Atiká has sold to the Forest Service to add to its Kootznoowoo Wilderness Area. (Photo courtesy U.S. Forest...
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Coast Guard rescues two men from foundering sailboat
Two people were rescued from their sailboat after it began taking on water Tuesday in the Gulf of Alaska. A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, Alaska, MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew transfers a patient to...
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How the Blue Lake Dam is costing Sitka
Sitka’s Electric Department is in crisis. There isn’t enough money to both keep up with bond payments on the Blue Lake Dam and address needed infrastructure repairs. To fix this, the Assembly plans to...
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Rep. Young bucks tide, supports Obama on veto
Photo by Liz Ruskin Congress, for the first time, overrode one of President Obama’s vetoes. The bill – which now becomes law — allows 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia based on allegations it provided...
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1919: The Spanish Flu in Dillingham
The deadly influenza pandemic known as the Spanish Flu, killed millions of people world wide but hit Alaska particularly hard. Thursday evening, an Anchorage lecture will examine the impacts to the...
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Ask a Climatologist: Long temperature streak ends
(Graphic by Brian Brettschneider) For the first time since February, the statewide temperature index for Alaska dipped below normal earlier this week. Sunday and Monday were both slightly below normal,...
View ArticleAlaska transportation agency fined over waste storage
The state transportation department has been fined $118,100 for its handling of hazardous waste at a maintenance facility in Juneau. Listen Now The penalty was levied by the U.S. Environmental...
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Bethel Native Corporation opens Bethel’s second liquor store
Bethel has another liquor store. At 11 a.m. Tuesday, Bethel Native Corporation opened Bethel Spirits on Front Street. It’s the second liquor store to open in Bethel this year after an almost half...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016
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YKHC offering blood tests to patients potentially affected by partially...
The Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation is offering blood tests to patients treated at their dental clinic between Sept 13 – 21 after the clinic learned that some instruments were only partially...
View Article21-year-old Dillingham man enters guilty plea in shooting case involving a...
Reece David Johnson, 21, of Dillingham pleaded guilty Tuesday in a case that involved his alleged shooting of a friend in the back last May. Johnson and Isiah Thompson were drinking whiskey late on May...
View ArticleMarijuana fees could fund Sitka student travel
During their regular meeting Tuesday night, the Sitka Assembly approved – on first reading – a dedicated fund for student activity travel using marijuana fees. See ordinance here: Ord 2016-39 The...
View ArticleKetchikan volleyball players and coaches raise Title IX concerns to school board
Representatives of Ketchikan High School’s volleyball team came to the Ketchikan School Board on Wednesday with a long list of complaints, including gender bias, alleged violations of Title IX, and...
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