Patrick Yack, Alaska Public Media
Alaska News Nightly: February 22, 2010
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Pilot Runs into Trouble Over Haitian Orphan Flight
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Independent Lens: Behind the Rainbow
Over two tumultuous decades, South Africa has finally arrived on its own bumpy road to democracy. With the 2009 presidential election looming as a historical turning point, “Behind the Rainbow” is a previously untold...
Obama Administration Looking at Protection for Bristol Bay and Teshekpuk
An Obama Administration internal report lists Bristol Bay and Teshekpuk Lake in Alaska as places potentially worthy of federal protection. A draft document leaked from the Interior Department lists 17 locations throughout the country-...
Carter’s Land Plans Still Prompt Resentments
Alaskans have good reason to be nervous about potential executive actions by the federal government to protect land. Before the Alaska Lands Act was passed in 1980, then-President Jimmy Carter and his Interior...
Social Security Opens First Disability Office in Alaska
The Social Security administrative appeals process represents one of the largest judicial systems in the world. Most of the millions of disability benefits claims filed annually are decided at the state level, but...
Legislature Responds to High Court’s Decision on Campaign Finance
Bills introduced in the House and Senate on Friday would take steps to disclose corporations’ and unions’ open-ended financial involvement in political campaigns. The bills are a state response to the U.S. Supreme...
Voting Rights Case Settled in Bethel
The State of Alaska and a handful of plaintiffs in the Bethel area have settled a federal voting rights case that impacts Yupik speakers in the Bethel census area.
Mike Mason, KDLG - Dillingham
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Rate of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Drops
The rate of all children born in Alaska with fetal alcohol syndrome fell 32 percent from 1996 through 2002, according to a report released this week by the state Department of Health and...
Old Believer Communities Get New Date for Graduation Exam
The Alaska Department of Education has agreed to allow students from Russian Old Believer communities to take the High School Graduation Qualifying Exam on a date that does not conflict with Holy Week...
Land Rights on Tribal Leaders’ Agenda
Taking back tribal land rights is one of the issues to be discussed next week at a summit in Anchorage. More than100 tribal leaders are expected to attend the meeting.
Angela Denning-Barnes, KYUK...
Yukon Quest: Final Musher Heads Towards Finish
The final musher in the 2010 Yukon Quest left the race’s last checkpoint at Braeburn for the finish line early this morning. Joclyn LeBlanc, a rookie from Whitehorse, is headed home carrying the...
Alaska News Nightly: February 19, 2010
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Obama Administration Looking at Protection for Bristol Bay and Teshekpuk
Libby...
Rachel and Zack Steer Team Up in Yukon Quest
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Rachel Steer helped her brother, Zack, during his quest for victory in the Yukon Quest.
Zach hits the finish line.
Original APRN story by Ellen Lockyer, KSKA - Anchorage
Each musher has a...
Murkowski: DC Not Helping Fix Economy
Senator Lisa Murkowski on Thursday gave her annual report to the state legislature, focusing on the national economy and pointing at what she called the federal government’s “flawed,” short-term approach to fixing it.
Murkowski's...
Groups Appeal EPA’s Red Dog Decision
Canada's Teck Resources Ltd. says environmental and Native groups have appealed a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to renew a permit for the company's Red Dog mine in Alaska. Teck said Wednesday...
Conference Opens on Fetal Alcohol
Alaska has the highest rate of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in the nation. The preventable lifelong disability – caused by a mother drinking alcohol while pregnant – is the most common known cause...
Petersburg Asks DC Decision to Postpone Action on Sealaska’s Land Plan
Petersburg’s city council is asking Alaska’s congressional delegation to postpone action on a Sealaska lands bill. The legislation would allow the regional native corporation to select its remaining land entitlement from acreage outside...
Some Toyota Owners Facing Challenge
Toyota owners in rural Alaska face a challenge in getting their vehicles fixed.
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Musher Scratches in Yukon Quest after Dog Dies
A dog has died in the Yukon Quest. Rookie musher Terry Williams of Fairbanks scratched from the race yesterday after an 8-year-old male suddenly died.
Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks
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Parnell Defends His Scholarship Plan
Governor Sean Parnell – a Republican - has fired back at legislative critics of his proposed scholarship program for college-bound students. Parnell was in Sitka, speaking before the chamber of commerce.
Robert Woolsey, KCAW...