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26 min ago | Sunherald.com

Alaska Rep. Don Young, gone hunting in Africa, misses subcommittee oil hearing

Don Young missed the session. Aides said Thursday that Young, a 21st-term Fort Yukon Republican who is Alaska’s sole representative in the House, was hunting antelope when the Natural Resources Committee’s energy subcommittee met Wednesday to consider the legislation.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Don Young, Republican, US House of Representatives, Senator Mark Begich, US Senate, Democrat, Alaska Government, Doc Hastings

4 hrs ago | Anchorage Daily News

Pilots in fatal Alaska crash on different signals

The surviving pilot Kevin Earp, of Eagle River, told investigators he did not hear the other pilot on a frequency commonly used in that area, according to an NTSB factual report released this week.

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Related Topix: Anchorage, AK, US News, Federal Aviation Administration

8 hrs ago | Homer News

WWII battles in Alaska highlighted

The devastation of war is real enough when beamed into living rooms from across thousands of miles.

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Related Topix: Fishhook, AK

8 hrs ago | KRBD-FM Ketchikan

New shuttle ferry design moving ahead

New shuttle ferries are slated to be built at the Ketchikan Shipyard, operated by Alaska Ship and Drydock.

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Related Topix: Ketchikan, AK, Juneau, AK, Skagway, AK, Haines, AK

9 hrs ago | Mail on Sunday

Alaskan volcano pictured from space: Nasa astronauts capture eruption ...

Belching ash and spewing lava, Pavlof Volcano in Alaska has been erupting for ten days - and Nasa today released this remarkable picture of it, taken by crew on board the International Space Station.

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Related Topix: Volcanic Eruption, Natural Disasters, Science / Technology, Space, Dutch-Harbor, AK, Nelson Lagoon, AK

11 hrs ago | KIMO

Military Police Heading Back to Alaska

Army officials say 50 soldiers are due back in Alaska on Friday following a seven-month deployment to Afghanistan.

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Related Topix: US Army, US Military, Fort Wainwright

15 hrs ago | Homer Tribune

FYI News briefs & announcements - May 22

The United States Geological Center reported a magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck the Kenai Peninsula area last Thursday.

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Related Topix: Kenai, AK, Earthquake, Natural Disasters, Homer, AK, Spenard, AK, Cordova, AK

20 hrs ago | Whitehorse Star

U Kon Echelon cyclists aim high at Skagway Hill Climb

U Kon Echelon cyclists gave their lungs and thighs an intense early-season workout Sunday at the Skagway Hill Climb.

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21 hrs ago | Air & Space

The Pilots of Mount McKinley

Tiny against the immense snowfield, a Talkeetna Air Taxi Otter heads home after dropping off climbers on the Kahiltna Glacier.

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Related Topix: Talkeetna, AK

Wed May 22, 2013

Anchorage Daily News

Fishing, like the weather, is definitely getting better

Shawn Shipman was in second place with a 70.4 lbs. halibut. The Whitehorse, Yukon Territory resident caught the fish May 19, 2013 on the Dan Orion.

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Related Topix: Willow Creek, AK, Talkeetna, AK, Hughes, AK, Homer, AK, Anchor Point, AK

Homer News

Creating home wherever you are

How do you find a home when you find yourself away from the land you've grown up in? For Native Alaskans who have left the village for the big city, for young Alaskans who have moved to the Lower 48 to find careers and for new Alaskans who have left homes Outside, that can be a common theme.

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Related Topix: Homer, AK, Akiak, AK, Bethel, AK

KTOO-TV Juneau

Lawmaker plans bill on conflict of interest rules

An Anchorage lawmaker plans to introduce a bill in the next legislative session that would overhaul Alaska's conflict of interest rules.

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Alaska Journal of Commerce

Movers & Shakers 05/05/13

The 2013 recipients of the First Lady's Volunteer of the Year Awards were chosen by an executive committee of Alaskan community members.

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Related Topix: Juneau, AK, Alaska Government, Anchorage, AK, Fire

NatureNews

Financial blow for Alaskan volcano monitoring

Volcanologists who monitor eruptions of Alaskan volcanoes are scrambling to cope with US federal budget cuts - even as the Pavlof volcano, 1,000 kilometres southwest of Alaska's biggest city, Anchorage, spouts a towering ash plume that is threatening plane flights.

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Related Topix: Volcanic Eruption, Natural Disasters, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geology, Science

Alaska Journal of Commerce

Movers and shakers

The 2012 Women of Achievement honorees have been chosen by the YWCA. Our honorees this year are as follows: Ellen Arvold, Owner/President Second Run; Edith Bailey, Retired Captain Public Health Service; Lori Brewer, Owner Sappore Coffee Inc., Caffe D'arte; Doreen Brown, Supervisor, Title VII Education, Anchorage School District; Dr.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., University of Minnesota Duluth, Aniak, AK, Michigan State University

Air & Space

Alaska and the Airplane

Can there be a more suspenseful man-against-nature story than the history of the airplane in Alaska? For 100 years, pilots there have contended with the hazards of mountain flying, the unpredictability of weather, and the vast, wild spaces to be crossed.

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Anchorage Daily News

Governor signs oil tax cut, budget bills, vetoes $2.5M

Gov. Sean Parnell signed the oil tax reform Senate Bill 21, the More Alaska Production Act, into law during a special meeting of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce at the Dena'ina Center on Tuesday, May 21, 2012.

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Related Topix: Sean Parnell, US Governors

Tue May 21, 2013

Anchorage Daily News

Alaska Native Fund announces grant opportunities

Entering third year, Fund anticipates $200,000 to support Alaska Native priorities for protecting lands, waters and way of life The Alaska Native Fund, established in 2011 in a partnership between the Alaska Conservation Foundation and an Alaska Native Steering Committee, is an innovative grant program that supports Alaska Native organizations and ... (more)

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Energy, Dillingham, AK

Eielson Air Force Base Arctiz Sentry

Eielson spouse: More than meets the 'Eagle Eyes'

Special Agent Luis Sanjur, Office of Special Investigations Detachment 632 superintendent, presents an Eagle Eyes Certificate of Appreciation to Jenny Mosley, wife of Tech.

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Related Topix: US Military, Eielson Air Force Base, US Air Force, Terrorism

Alaska Journal of Commerce

COMMENTARY: Legislature must protect Alaskaa s most valuable resource

On the door of a kindergarten classroom in Juneau, I saw a sign that read "Graduating Class of 2025." What will 2025 be like? I don't know.

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Related Topix: Kids, Family

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