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Analysis of National Guard Records Released Under Walker Yields Few Significant Findings; From Alaska to Australia: A $23M Military Exercise Takes Flight; Missing Hiker Found Dead Near Juneau; Troopers Detain Man After Standoff in Selawik; Couple Missing from Denali Highway Found Dead; Juneau’s state flags display receives attention as nation debates Confederate flag; East Coast Theology School Selling Off Alaska Native Art, Feds to Investigate; Caribou Emigrate From Adak, Feds Struggle to Stop the Spread; Mt. Marathon Attracts A Deep Field of Competitors This Year Download Audio

Wade Hampton Census Area Gets A New Name; Coast Guard Cutter Sherman Returns To Port To Address Engine Trouble; Computers Aid Firefighting Efforts; State Fish And Game Officials Warn Of 'Rabbit Fever' Outbreak; Haines Assembly Approves Lower Cruise Ship Moorage Fees; UAF Addresses Water Quality Concerns; AK: Seward's Mount Marathon Race Hits The Century Mark

Cross-Border Salmon Dispute Puts A Damper on Summer Troll Opener; Bristol Bay Sockeye: A Run on the Brink?; Berkowitz Emphasizes New Tone for a New Anchorage in Inaugural Address; Anchorage's 2014-2015 Snowfall Levels Lowest on Record; Alaska's Shoreline Erosion Rate Among Highest Worldwide; Parasite Plagues Some Yukon Kings; Hjalmar "Ofi" Olson, Bristol Bay Elder, Dies at 75; Sea Shanties, Scurvy, and a Sailboat Regatta Without Wind Download Audio

Shell Gets Federal Approval to Head North, With Some Stipulations; Study: Climate Change Is A Chief Threat to Polar Bears; On His Way Out, Mayor Sullivan Collects A Couple Souvenirs; State Lifts Burn Ban, OKs Fireworks Before the 4th; In Petersburg, Childcare Shortage Leaves Parents Hanging; Study: Kings Are Smaller Than They Used To Be; Kenai Borough Re-Evaluates Controversial Fish Habitat Protections Download Audio

A Dark View of Arctic Geopolitics; Shell's Arctic Drilling Rig Arrives to Dutch Harbor; Gov. Walker Signs Fuels Tax Increase; What the Supreme Court's Redistricting Decision Means For Alaska; Kachemak Residents Buck A Hatchery Proposal in Tutka Bay; Katmai Bear Cams Draw International Audience of Millions; Bristol Bay Salmon Camp: 'Can We Eat the Fin?' Download Audio

ACLU-Alaska Applauds SCOTUS Marriage Decision; Efforts Underway to Recover 9 Plane Crash Victims; Budget Cuts Sideline 3 of Alaska's 11 Ferries; Senator Calls on Governor to Expand Medicaid; How David Holthouse Decided to Out the ‘Bogeyman’; Juneau Soccer Camp Grooms Players for the International Field; AK: The Journey to Bristol Bay's Fishing Grounds; 49 Voices: Will Ross from Anchorage Download Audio

With oil prices stuck in the gutter, Alaska is staring down the possibility of economic recession. Combine that with declining federal dollars and jobs, military reductions and a weakened fishing industry and it all adds up to a perfect storm. It's an uncomfortable question: what will our economy look like without a booming oil sector? APRN: Tuesday, 6/30 at 10:00am Download Audio

Plane With 9 On Board Crashes in Misty Fjords; 'Northern Edge' Military Exercise Returns to Alaska After 4-Year Hiatus; State Applauds Supreme Court Ruling on Subsidies; E. Coli Detected in Haines' Water Supply; Partial Evacuations Underway in Aniak and Chuathbaluk; Sled Dogs Safe, But Musher Stays To Protect Fire-Threatened Homestead; Soldotna Lodge Opens Doors to Fire Victims 2 Years Running; Ready.. Set... Sparc!; Historic Juneau Park Becomes an Oasis for Alaska Artists Download Audio

Conservation Groups Say Shell's Drilling Plan Violate Walrus Rule; Interior Alaska Ablaze With Lightning-Ignited Fires; Crews Stage in Kalskag to Quell An Upshot in Wildfires; 55 Homes Destroyed by Sockeye Fire, According to New Estimate; Two Volcanoes Under Watch in the Aleutians; A Collaborative Classroom Drives Team Learning; Guide Academy Helps Locals Land Jobs At Sportfishing Lodges; French Company Courts Petersburg As A Cruise Destination Download Audio

'Fairbanks Four' Suspect Paroled; Economic Report Assesses Potential for A Recession in Alaska; GOP Presidential Candidate Announces Alaska Team; Wildfire Threatens Nulato; Village Evacuates Upriver; Conflicting Water Rights at the Heart of Chuitna Mining Debate; Breaking the Link Between Childhood Trauma And Suicide; Online Map Keeps Tabs on the Lay of Juneau's Cemetery Download Audio

Progress Being Made To Contain Sockeye Fire; Anatomy of the Wildland Firefight in Willow; Evacuation Notices Lifted Near Card Street Fire; Vets, Lawmakers Irate Over New VA ‘Choice’ Program; Dead Whales Near Kodiak Island Pose Mystery; AK: Citizen Scientists Deploy ‘Bat Mobiles’ In Southeast

Small Part of Card Street Fire Under Control; Sockeye Fire Starting to “Cooperate”; Healy Lake Fire Doubles In Size; Juneau Protesters Rally Against Shell’s Arctic Plans; Six Cruise Ships Release Treated Sewage into Harbors; Fishermen In the Dark About King Limits; Mat-Su Residents To Learn About Their Homes in Wake of Sockeye; Kids Gather in Tanana to Learn Some Basketball and Life Skills

Firefighters Report Good Progress on Sockeye Fire; Card Street Fire Grows to 3,000 Acres; Lightning Thought to Cause Cooper Landing Fires; New Fires Ignite Near Healy Lake; 2015 Alaskan Wildfire Tally is Below Normal; As Fires Burn, Agencies Coordinate Helicopters to Gift Cards for Relief; Groundwater Contamination Spreads off Eielson Air Force Base; Navy Reps Hear Complaints on Northern Edge Exercises

Sockeye Fire No. 1 Priority Fire in US; Card Street Fire Grows to 1,500 Acres; Wildfire Burns Near Dot Lake; Walker Signs Bill Repealing Film Credit; Murkowski Bill Would Impel Izembek Road; Industry Chafes at Regulations for Arctic Drilling; Shell Rig Departs for Dutch Harbor; Audio Postcard; Dozens Evacuate to Escape Card Street Fire; Capital of Mushing Evacuates Hundreds