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Author: Sean Doogan, Alaska Dispatch

General Society Society (USA) Special Features USA 

Searchers return to Alaska glacier to recover remains from 1952 military plane crash

Sean Doogan, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 18:39 — Last Updated: Friday, June 12, 2015 at 18:27
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A team of military searchers, anthropologists and mountaineers is once again trying to turn back the clock on the crash of

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Business Business (USA) USA 

Alaska investors nervous as oil price drop plays out

Sean Doogan, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 16:04 — Last Updated: Monday, March 2, 2015 at 21:00
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With the state of Alaska facing a budget deficit of $3.5 billion this year due in large part to lower oil prices and

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General Society Society (USA) Special Features USA 

Aviation company inspiring new attitudes with altitude in rural Alaska

Sean Doogan, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Monday, December 22, 2014 at 18:02 — Last Updated: Monday, December 22, 2014 at 22:12
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A small helicopter company is hoping to expand its fledgling program designed to inspire Alaska village students into pursuing careers

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Culture Culture (USA) Special Features USA 

Two Alaska Native artifacts return home after clandestine auction bid by nonprofit

Sean Doogan, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Thursday, September 4, 2014 at 13:39 — Last Updated: Friday, September 5, 2014 at 20:03
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Two Alaska Native artifacts have been returned to local Native organizations after some behind-the-scenes intervention from the U.S. State Department

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Society Society (USA) USA 

Army uses Big Lake, Alaska as drop zone for paratrooper training

Sean Doogan, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Thursday, August 7, 2014 at 16:12
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About 200 Army paratroopers from the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment jumped into Big Lake, about 50 miles north of Anchorage,

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A musk ox and baby in Alaska. (iStock)
Environment Environment (USA) Special Features USA 

Musk ox invasion keeps wildlife managers busy in Alaskan city

Sean Doogan, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Thursday, July 3, 2014 at 14:17
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Nome is used to rowdy residents, but some relatively new transplants are making a real nuisance of themselves — although

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Nome, a gold gold rush community in Western Alaska, is betting big on geothermal in hopes of finally figuring out the riddle of high energy costs that plagues many off-the-road-system communities in the state.(Gabriel Bouys / AFP)
Business USA 

Geothermal could be key to Nome, Alaska’s power problem

Sean Doogan, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 09:49
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Scientists and drillers are searching for hot water — and lots of it — at Pilgrim Hot Springs, 60 miles

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Adult female walruses on an ice floe with their young in the U.S. waters of the Eastern Chukchi Sea in Alaska in 2012.S.A. Sonsthagen / U.S. Geological Survey / AP)
Environment Environment (USA) USA 

Shrinking Arctic ice forces walruses ashore in Alaska

Sean Doogan, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Friday, September 20, 2013 at 09:24
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Shrinking summer sea ice has forced thousands of walruses onto land near the village of Point Lay, Alaska — on

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The Shell drilling rig Kulluk that was used during the company's exploratory drilling during the summer of 2012. ( Courtesy Mark Meyer / Greenpeace / Alaska Dispatch )
Environment Environment (USA) USA 

Court upholds Shell’s Arctic spill response plans for offshore Alaska

Sean Doogan, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Wednesday, August 7, 2013 at 16:52
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A U.S. District Court judge has upheld the government’s approval of Shell Oil’s Arctic spill response plan. On Monday, federal

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Steller sea lions are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. (Alaska Department of Fish and Game / Alaska Dispatch)
Environment Environment (USA) USA 

Court upholds fishing restrictions for Alaska sea lions

Sean Doogan, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 11:04
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The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s ruling that keeps in place fishing closures

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Two F-16 from Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks on a training flight. (National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution / Alaska Dispatch)
Society Society (USA) USA 

Moving F-16 squadron to Anchorage, Alaska could shutter elementary school, mayor says

Sean Doogan, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 14:37
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A proposed move of nearly two dozen F-16 fighter jets from the Fairbanks area to Southcentral could force an Anchorage

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The Healy Clean Coal plant near Denali National Park in Healy may yet end up producing electricity for consumers. (Robert Lype / courtesy Alaska Dispatch)
Business USA 

Will idle Healy, Alaska power plant operate again?

Sean Doogan, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 12:47
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For almost 14 years, a small power plant near Healy, Alaska, has been among the cleanest coal-fired power facilities in

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Anchorage set a new monthly record for the most days above 70 degrees – 17 so far, with more expected before the calendar flips to July on Monday. Other parts of Alaska have been even hotter. ( Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch)
Environment Environment (USA) USA 

Alaska’s record-shattering summer sizzle due to end next week

Sean Doogan, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Friday, June 28, 2013 at 14:50
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Persistent warm temperatures are making Alaska’s late winter snowstorm in May a distant memory. In fact, this summer is one

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Fort Knox gold mine core samples at the Geologic Materials Center in Eagle River. June 7, 2013. (Sean Doogan / Alaska Dispatch)
Society Society (USA) USA 

Alaska’s hardest-rocking library: Curating the past on behalf of the future

Sean Doogan, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 11:51
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Tucked away inside a little-known state repository are tens of thousands of boxes filled with rocks that chart the history

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The yet-to-be-named volcano in Southeast Alaska differs from many on the ocean floor. Its top was likely above the water when it last erupted some 10,000 years ago. (Courtesy: NOAA, Alaska Dispatch)
Environment Environment (USA) USA 

Underwater volcano mapped in Southeast Alaska

Sean Doogan, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Monday, May 27, 2013 at 08:43
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Jim Baichtal has a habit of cruising the website of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration looking for new hydrographic

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