Southeast feels the sting of curtailed ferry service
People who use the Alaska Marine Highway System ferries will have longer travel times and less service next year under a proposed summer schedule released by the state this week. The Marine Highway is proposing to keep the state’s two fast catamarans tied up next year along with two other, older vessels. That will mean fewer stops in some coastal communities.
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Southeast red, blue king crab fishery closed, again
Commercial fishing for red and blue king crab will be closed again this year for Southeast Alaska. There just isn’t enough crab in the area.
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Budget cuts force 4 ferries out of service
State transportation officials plan to take four of Alaska’s 11 ferries out of service next summer because of budget cuts.
Unofficial results reveal Richard Beneville as Nome’s new mayor
With the polls closed and preliminary results in, it looks like Nome will be saying “Hello Central” to a new mayor. With 352 votes for Richard Beneville and 229 for Denise Michels, Beneville will replace Michels, who has held the job since 2003.
UAA launches Alaska’s first pharmacy program
The University of Alaska Anchorage is launching the state's first entirely local pharmacy program in partnership with Idaho State University.
Borough mayor’s race too close to call
Outcome of tight Mat Su Borough mayor's race may not be official for a while.
Looking for love: Newspaper diversifies revenue stream with dating website
A new dating website with a familiar parent company familiar is an attempt at diversifying revenues, shedding light on the unconventional ways media groups are trying to find money to pay for the news.
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Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015
State tallies $50k in consultant fees prepping for Obama visit; Chief justice Dana Fabe to retire; Court subpoenas emails of Pebble opponents; 3 suicides in a week leave Hooper Bay distraught; Muni planning commission approves controversial Elmore extension; Looking for love: Newspaper diversifies revenue stream with dating website; For middle schoolers to love Shakespeare, they must know Shakespeare
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State tallies $50k in consultant fees prepping for Obama visit
Gov. Bill Walker's administration spent $50,000 on Washington, D.C., consultants to help prepare them for a visit by President Barack Obama.
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Chief justice Dana Fabe to retire
Alaska Supreme Court Justice Dana Fabe was the first woman appointed to serve on the court and the first woman to serve as chief justice. She announced plans to retire next summer.
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Court subpoenas emails of Pebble opponents
The Pebble mine is back in the news this week. Dozens of Pebble opponents were issued subpoenas as part of a lawsuit in federal court. That lawsuit alleges EPA was coordinating improperly with some of the mine’s opponents, and is now in the discovery phase.
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3 suicides in a week leave Hooper Bay distraught
Three suicide deaths in the past week have rocked the community of Hooper Bay. Troopers believe all three victims were connected.
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Muni planning commission approves controversial Elmore extension
Anchorage's Planning and Zoning Commission last night [Monday] voted unanimously to move forward with the Northern Access Project. The controversial road would connect Elmore Road and Bragaw Street through the city's U-Med district. But it needs to clear several more hurdles before it's built.
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For middle schoolers to love Shakespeare, they must know Shakespeare
Thanks to a national program called Any Given Child, every Juneau eighth grader got to see Perseverance Theatre’s “Othello” before it closed on Sunday. To help prepare students, the theater’s education director went into the classrooms and had the students act it out.
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Storm surge hits Toksook Bay
October opened with the season’s first fall storm, flooding communities across Western Alaska’s coast. In the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, strong surges hit Toksook Bay.
Holmes implicates new assailant during day 1 of FBX Four hearing
A hearing re-examining long questioned murder convictions opened in state court in Fairbanks today. A group of Native men, who’ve come to be known as the Fairbanks Four, were convicted of the October 1997 beating of 15 year old John Hartman on a downtown street, but new evidence has leveraged another look.
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Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Oct. 5, 2015
Holmes implicates new assailant during day 1 of FBX Four hearing; Obama announced global fishing enforcement, new sanctuaries; Theology school calls off Native Art sale amid investigation; Candlelight vigil honors those who died on streets of Anchorage; ‘I thought he was safe,’ brother says of man found dead in wetlands; Denali Commission-funded diesel plants planned in Togiak, Koliganek; Volcano farts: Scientists look to gas for beta on atmosphere, geothermal resource
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Theology school calls off Native art sale amid investigation
A Massachusetts college that planned to liquidate its Native art collection has called it off. The pieces are from 52 tribes, including Tlingit and Haida items that might be sacred. Now the country’s oldest theology school could get dinged with penalties as feds investigate.
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Obama announces global fishing enforcement, new sanctuaries
President Obama today unveiled a package of global initiatives aimed at cracking down on illegal fishing. He also announced two new marine sanctuaries, and they are not in Alaska.
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‘I thought he was safe,’ brother says of man found dead in wetlands
John Knudson, 56, is one of at least eight people who have died outside in Juneau over the past three years. His body was found in the Mendenhall Wetlands in mid-September.
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