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University of Alaska plans big push to increase, retain homegrown teachers

Tegan Hanlon, Alaska Dispatch News @teganhanlon
Posted: Monday, February 2, 2015 at 16:51 — Last Updated: Monday, February 2, 2015 at 20:29
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For decades, teacher Arnold Marks has called the small Interior Alaska village of Tanana, about 130 air miles west of

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Alaska: Mining corporation a no-show in court as environmental criminal case moves forward

Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, January 23, 2015 at 14:58 — Last Updated: Friday, January 23, 2015 at 21:39
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An Outside mining company accused of polluting salmon streams in Western Alaska failed to show up this week for an initial federal

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Michael Williams, Jr's team rounds the corner at Cordova Street during the ceremonial start of Iditarod 2014 in Anchorage. (Loren Holmes/Alaska Dispatch)
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Low snow in Southcentral Alaska has Iditarod officials pondering Fairbanks restart

Suzanna Caldwell, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 18:35 — Last Updated: Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 21:48
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With abysmal snow conditions in Southcentral Alaska, the Iditarod Trail Committee is considering moving the race’s restart north to Fairbanks. Race

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Some parts of Alaska's coastline have never been surveyed. (iStock)
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New ‘super-insulated’ homes in Arctic Alaska

Suzanna Caldwell, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Monday, January 5, 2015 at 16:40 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 at 22:25
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For Alaska homeowners, plumbing “freeze-up” is a recurring fear, maybe even more so for those living on Alaska’s frigid North

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Boy agrees to plea deal in Alaska musk ox killings

Tegan Hanlon, Alaska Dispatch News @teganhanlon
Posted: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 at 14:54 — Last Updated: Monday, January 5, 2015 at 21:04
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A second boy charged with killing musk oxen near the village of Brevig Mission in Western Alaska has reached a plea agreement with

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Lance Mackey at the 2013 Iditarod Mushers' Banquet. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News)
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4-time champ Lance Mackey adds name to impressive Yukon Quest field

Suzanna Caldwell, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 at 19:57 — Last Updated: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 at 15:35
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After a short break, four-time Yukon Quest champion Lance Mackey is hitting the trail once again. The Fairbanks musher announced

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Economist reflects on 100 years of shifting fortunes in Anchorage

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 at 17:58
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In 2015, Anchorage will turn 100 years old. In the December issue of Alaska Economic Trends, local economist Neal Fried reflects on change in

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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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Scientists ID two bat species never before seen in Alaska

Josh Edge, APRN - Anchorage
Posted: Monday, December 22, 2014 at 12:00 — Last Updated: Monday, December 22, 2014 at 22:08
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Scientists are in a race to learn as much as they can about bats in Alaska. And that race has

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Some parts of Alaska's coastline have never been surveyed. (iStock)
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Bill to remove Alaska exception to Violence Against Women Act passes in U.S. Senate

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 16:19 — Last Updated: Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 16:33
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A bill to remove the Alaska exception from the Violence Against Women Act cleared the Senate on Tuesday. Outgoing Alaska

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Assistant district attorney Brian Sullivan, photographed in a Barrow courtroom on Nov. 12, 2013, was shot and killed in Barrow Monday night. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News)
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Assistant district attorney shot and killed in Arctic Alaska

Laurel Andrews, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 15:48 — Last Updated: Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 16:33
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An Alaska assistant district attorney who once was a Washington state lawmaker was shot and killed in the Arctic community of

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Postpartum nurse Elisa See collects blood samples from one-day-old Bryce Jones on Monday afternoon, Nov. 24, at Alaska Native Medical Center. The blood was drawn to screen for 50 conditions including CPT1A, which occurs in some Alaska Native people and other Arctic indigenous people. If undetected, CPT1A Arctic variant can have serious health consequences. A new and improved test, expected to be implemented next year, will do a better job of finding CPT1A Arctic variant. (Erik Hill / Alaska Dispatch News)
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Clues emerging about Arctic gene, diet and health

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, December 1, 2014 at 14:46 — Last Updated: Monday, December 1, 2014 at 21:18
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For thousands of years, the indigenous people of the far north survived the extreme cold of their environment with a

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A pot of vegetable and moose stew. What are you having for American Thanksgiving this year? (iStock)
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Walrus and moose, salmon and berries: It’s Thanksgiving in Western Alaska

Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, November 27, 2014 at 14:32 — Last Updated: Thursday, November 27, 2014 at 22:02
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BETHEL — Across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Wednesday, the turkeys were thawing – and so was the moose and walrus,

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Stanley Hoffman spoke at Calista's shareholder meeting in Bethel on Nov. 12. He said Calista doesn't have the money to support expanding its rolls to descendants. (Lisa Demer / ADN)
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Alaska Native corp. to vote on whether to enroll descendants as shareholders

Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, November 17, 2014 at 21:02 — Last Updated: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 20:48
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BETHEL — A proposal to open up membership in a Western Alaska regional Native corporation to children and grandchildren of shareholders is raising questions

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Jill Kaasteen Meserve, 23, of Juneau, performs with the Woosh.ji.een Dance and Drum Group at the First Alaskans Institute Elders and Youth Conference on Wednesday. Meserve said she supported a bill passed this year recognizing 20 Alaska Native languages as official state languages. (Lisa Demer / Alaska Dispatch News)
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Alaska bill to be signed recognizing indigenous languages as official state languages

Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 19:11 — Last Updated: Friday, October 24, 2014 at 21:27
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If the legislation to recognize 20 Alaska Native languages as official state languages was wrought with emotion, the ceremony to

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In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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