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Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about Alaska's slow wildfire season, and how some other regions of the far north are experiencing much more active conditions.
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The Alaska Division of Elections is sending follow-up letters to most of the 3,000 voters it removed from the state's active-voter list advising them how they may be able vote this year. // Alaska lost more of its federal workforce than almost all other U.S. states to sweeping Trump administration job cuts last year, a new report says. // A looming firewood shortage in the Interior has residents and businesses worried that thousands of customers will have to find new sources of dry wood before winter. // The Trump Administration is again threatening cuts to the federal Essential Air Service program, which provides funding for flights to and from rural Alaska. // Alaska Public Media’s Eric Stone talks with former health and revenue commissioner Adam Crum in today’s installment of interviews with this year's top gubernatorial candidates.
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NewsThe University of Alaska is eliminating out-of-state tuition rates. // Alaska Public Media’s series of interviews with candidates for governor continues with Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins. // A North Pole woman was sentenced to 21 years in prison Wednesday for selling drugs that resulted in a man’s fatal fentanyl overdose. // An Azul Airlines plane briefly blocked the main runway at Fairbanks International Airport Wednesday. // Sen. Lisa Murkowski refuses to comment on how she’ll vote on the confirmation of Todd Blanche, Trump’s pick for attorney general.
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NewsAlaska District Court Judge Aaron Peterson handed down the sentence to 39-year-old Samantha Pearson Wednesday. She was accused of selling the drugs that led to death of 32-year-old Adam Sakkinen, also of North Pole, about four years ago.
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NewsThousands of households rely on the company’s wood to keep warm through the Interior’s brutal winters.
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NewsA workplace-safety agency has begun an investigation into an accident that killed two people last week who were working on a septic project in Delta Junction. // A top City of Fairbanks official says he wants to stall certain public records requests submitted by Outside YouTubers. // A series of Alaska Public Media interviews with gubernatorial hopefuls kicks off with Democratic candidate Tom Begich. // The Trump administration wants to loosen offshore Arctic drilling rules that were put in place during the Obama administration. // Two dance groups — one from rural Alaska, and one from Chicago — met in Nome last week in an effort to blend contemporary and Alaska Native dance styles.
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NewsCity of Fairbanks Chief of Staff Mike Sanders told the City Council he'd prefer to tell Lower 48 content creators seeking police body-cam footage that they'll "get it when they get it."
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NewsA state workplace-safety agency has begun an investigation into an accident that killed two people last week who were working on a septic-system project in Delta Junction.
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NewsThe Northwest Arctic community of Ambler has been without drinking water and sewer for five months. // The Alaska Supreme Court has decided that Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg can stay in the race for U.S. Senate. So, what exactly are his policy priorities?
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NewsThe National Transportation Safety Board released its final report on the Bering Air crash that killed 10 people last year. // Authorities say a construction site accident killed two people working to install a septic system in Delta Junction last week. // Alaska librarians fear effects of possible cuts to a federal program that subsidizes school and library internet. // The University of Alaska and its new staff union have begun negotiations on a first contract, but union members aren’t impressed with the initial offer.
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