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Swedish regional airline Nextjet files for bankruptcy, cancels all flights

16 May 2018 15 h 01 min Frank Radosevich, Radio Sweden 0 Comments airlines, business, Finland, flight, Nextjet, North, Northern Sweden, Sweden, tourism

Sweden’s largest regional airline Nextjet filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday and cancelled all of its flights scheduled from 1 pm

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Northern Sweden to host more Facebook servers

4 May 2018 13 h 36 min — 4 May 2018 13 h 39 min Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Arctic, computers, energy, Facebook, Internet, Luleå, Node Pole, North, Porsön, Sweden, technology, web

Facebook buys land for its third server hall in the town of Luleå, in Northern Sweden. Facebook already has two

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Finnish religious group shuns youth arts program due to convictions

1 May 2018 13 h 59 min — 1 May 2018 14 h 04 min Yle News 0 Comments arts, conservatism, culture, education, Finland, Laestadianism, Lutherians, music, North, religion, theatre, youth

Pupils in northern Finland are choosing not to attend cultural performances that they find disturbing on religious grounds. The events

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Is hunting with drones ethical? Canada’s Yukon territory says ‘no’

31 August 2017 19 h 51 min Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Arctic, country food, fair chase, indigenous, law, North, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, regulations, technology, wildlife, Yukon

The issue of drones and hunting has become an increasingly hot-button issue in many areas of rural Canada, but at

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Canada’s environmental assessment process needs reform says report

5 April 2017 20 h 29 min — 6 April 2017 14 h 44 min Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Arctic, business, environment, IAIA, indigenous, North

MONTREAL — Canada released its long-awaited expert environmental assessment report on Wednesday and has opened the work up to public

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Flash, bang – no more wolves at the door in Finland

15 December 2016 16 h 31 min Yle News 0 Comments animals, North, preditors, wildlife

Police and game officials report that non-lethal explosive charges have been successfully used to convince wolves to stay away from

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Road accidents involving wild animals hit record high in Sweden

4 December 2016 9 h 09 min Radio Sweden 0 Comments North, transportation, wildlife

The number of accidents on Sweden’s roads involving wildlife has reached a record level this year and will pass 50,000 by the

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Alaska: Officials ban trailers for carrying dogs in Iditarod

29 November 2016 14 h 58 min Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments animals, Arctic, dogs, mushing, North, sports

Citing safety concerns, the Iditarod Board of Directors have ruled that Iditarod mushers will no longer be able to carry

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Cretaceous-era prints in Alaska park suggest newborn hadrosaurs walked on all fours

22 November 2016 4 h 18 min Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Arctic, history, North, Paleontologists, Paleontology, Science

Did baby duck-billed dinosaurs walk on two limbs or four? Paleontologists have long wondered. Now information gleaned from tracks found

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Investors bet on farmed kelp being Alaska’s next seafood export

15 November 2016 4 h 11 min Laurel Andrews, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments economy, farming, food, North, oceans

In the remote waters of Larsen Bay, off the coast of Kodiak Island, an experiment is underway. Two types of

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Alaska shop stocks poke and aloha spirit for relocated Hawaiians

14 November 2016 5 h 16 min Suzanna Caldwell, Alaska Dispatch 0 Comments Arctic, business, North

When Tasha Kahele and her family moved to Alaska in November 2009 from Hawaii, it was sight unseen. Her father

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Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski cruises to 3rd term in US Senate

9 November 2016 14 h 55 min Erica Martinson, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Arctic, Donald, elections, North, Trump

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski sailed into a third term Tuesday, more than 10 points ahead of her next closest challenger. Murkowski,

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Blog: Poirier’s Revenge – The map of Canada has the wrong Arctic boundaries. No, really.

1 November 2016 18 h 37 min — 1 November 2016 19 h 17 min Heather Exner-Pirot 0 Comments boundries, cartography, government, history, North

When Polar Knowledge Canada was created out of the ashes of the Canadian Polar Commission in 2015, it published a

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Alaska: Mushers frustrated over cell phones on Iditarod trail

31 October 2016 14 h 40 min Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments animals, Arctic, dogs, mushing, North, racing, technology

Mushers are expressing frustration over controversial rule changes the Iditarod made during a board meeting Friday. The race’s Trail Committee is

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Really? Alaska in play in presidential race?

19 October 2016 15 h 48 min Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Arctic, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, North

In the presidential race, Alaska has not voted for a Democrat since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. But national pundits say even red

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