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1 hr ago | SeacoastOnline

Hampton Academy students aid Iditarod musher

Hampton Academy students felt like they were part of this year's Alaskan Iditarod, even though it was 4,500 miles from home.

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6 hrs ago | Roll Call

Lobbying Heats Up in Fight Over Alaska Mine

Last week, Democratic senators from California, Oregon and Washington wrote to Obama to express concern about the potential effect of the Pebble Mine on their salmon fishing industries and demanding a 'valid, sound science based approach to ensuring that Bristol Bay salmon are safeguarded.'

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Related Topix: Alaska Government, Environmental Law, Law

7 hrs ago | The Washington Post

Record-shattering heat bakes Alaska

Red shades over Alaska's interior indicate an unusually strong ridge of high pressure at high altitudes, which promotes sinking air and hot weather.

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Related Topix: Weather, Sports

9 hrs ago | USA Today

Alaska Lt. Gov. Treadwell to run for Senate

Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell formally jumped into the 2014 race for U.S. Senate, hoping to take on Democratic incumbent Mark Begich.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Senator Mark Begich, US Senate, Democrat, Alaska Government, Matt Mead, US Governors

13 hrs ago | Peninsula Clarion

Kelly plans bill to keep signatures private

A Fairbanks senator plans to introduce legislation that would keep the names of those who sign initiatives and referenda private.

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Mon Jun 17, 2013

Denali National Park And Preserve

1912 Parker-Browne Expedition Featured in Denali's 1913 Centennial Speaker Series

DENALI PARK, Alaska: On Friday, June 21 mountaineer Brian Okonek will speak about Belmore Browne and the 1912 Parker-Browne Expedition on Mt.

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Related Topix: Recreational Vehicle, Alaskan, US National Parks, Denali National Park And Preserve

Anchorage Daily News

Mosquito invasion in Southcentral Alaska leads to run on supplies

Each spring, it seems, the air of Alaska is filled with the buzz of mosquitoes and the whines of people declaring that this is undoubtedly the worst bug season they've ever experienced in their umpteen years in the far north.

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Related Topix: Kenai, AK, Blizzard, Anchorage, AK

Marine News

Infrastructure for Alaska's LNG and Other Resources

It is time for the global maritime industry to push development of Trans Arctic Shipping Routes and port facilities along Alaska's northern coast.

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Anchorage Daily News

Alaska receives donation for debris removal

The Department of Environmental Conservation said the gift is from the Hokkaido Development Engineering Center and members of the International Association of Cold Region Development Studies.

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Related Topix: Alaska Government, Tsunami, Asian Tsunami Disaster

SFGate

Alaska receives donation for debris removal

Environmental Conservation Commissioner Larry Hartig said in a release that the donation is a symbol of the "deep friendship" between the U.S. and Japan.

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Related Topix: Alaska Government, Tsunami, Asian Tsunami Disaster, California

The Hill

Begich says he's more a Rockefeller Republican than Pelosi Democrat

"Probably a Rockefeller Republican," he said when asked on CNBC Monday morning whether he was closer to identifying as that or as a Pelosi Democrat.

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Related Topix: US News

BellaOnline

Aurora Borealis in Fairbanks, Alaska

Pictures of the Aurora Borealis better known as the Northern Lights were the driving factor for us to visit Fairbanks, Alaska.

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Related Topix: Fairbanks, AK, Anaktuvuk Pass, AK

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Peninsula Clarion

UAF sets up engineering school in Mongolia

Seven professors from the University of Alaska Fairbanks are helping establish an engineering school at the new American University of Mongolia.

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Related Topix: Mongolia, Asia, World News, University of Alaska Fairbanks, American University

WFTV Orlando

Poems of Place selects 2013 works

Poems by local writers Emily Wall and Ernestine Hayes have been selected for permanent placement in Totem Bight State Historical Park in Ketchikan as part of the Alaska Center for the Book's Poems in Place project.

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Related Topix: Alaska Government, Ketchikan, AK, Arts, Poetry, University of Alaska Southeast, Entertainment

MLive.com

Adventures in Alaska: North Muskegon native spends year teaching in remote Alaskan village

North Muskegon native Chad Brown didn't know what to expect when he attended a job fair at Michigan State University in April of 2012.

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Related Topix: Michigan State University, Grand Valley State University, Kivalina, AK, Anchorage, AK

Anchorage Daily News

Art Beat: 2 Alaska composers are getting national attention

Among the notices from performing arts groups around the country received here recently, I spotted a familiar name -- Olga Bell.

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Related Topix: Anchorage, AK, Arts, Symphony, Classical, Fairbanks, AK

Sat Jun 15, 2013

Anchorage Daily News

Michael Carey: Suicide has long been an Alaska wilderness hazard

Jack London's "To Build a Fire" is one of the rare pieces of fiction set in the Gold Rush that continues to attract readers.

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Related Topix: Juneau, AK, Nulato, AK, Ruby, AK

Anchorage Daily News

Molly Rettig: Digging up ancient culture in Interior Alaska

On a small hill surrounded by boggy muskeg in the Tanana River Valley, prehistoric skin scrapers made of schist, polished slate tools and glass beads were uncovered in the last week.

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Related Topix: Archaeology, Anthropology, Science, Delta Junction, AK, Tanana, AK

Anchorage Daily News

WWII vet reminisces, shares legacy

When the brothers grow up, if they chose a life in the sky, 8-year-old Devin Martin would like to fly barrel rolls and backflips; 9-year-old Tyler Treider would just like to fly a plane like the antique AT-6 Harvard warbird they had just climbed down from.

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Related Topix: Life, Veteran Affairs

Home

Governor Requests a Federal Disaster Declaration for Floods

Gov. Sean Parnell has requested a federal disaster declaration for the 2013 spring floods that hit communities like Galena along the Yukon River.

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Related Topix: Sean Parnell, US Governors

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