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32 Hospitalized After Smoking Spice In Anchorage; Choice Improvement Act Helps Close VA Funding Gap; Coast Guard Boss: Ahoy! Icebreakers on Budget Horizon; No More Kicking the Can Down the Road: Talkeetna Starts Recycling; In Price William Sound, AEA Hears Input On Regional Energy Plans; Open Call for Gas Supply Proposals Closes; Harnessing the Fizz of A Ferment: Homer Gets A Lesson From A Pro; Ishmael Hope Recrafts A Family Tale in 'Never Alone' Follow-Up Download Audio

Shell's Arctic Icebreaker Returns to Unalaska; Gov. Walker Meets with Kuskokwim Tribes on Trust Lands; University of Alaska-Fairbanks Cuts Means $200k Bite to Nome’s Northwest Campus; 'Expedited Partner Therapy' Lowers Gonorrhea Cases in the YK Delta; The Elasmosaur: A Nessie-Like Dino Unearthed Near Talkeetna; Bering Straits Native Corp. Buys Alaska Industrial Hardware; Kodiak's Alutiiq Museum Releases Book On Karluk Archaeological Site; A New Totem Pole Graces Ketchikan Shipyard; Drums of Hazardous Waste Dumped Near Kodiak Download Audio

Happy 225th Birthday, Coast Guard!; Bird Death Reports Are Up In Homer, Food Sources Possibly To Blame; Atchak Arraigned For Murder Charge In Death of Roxanne Smart; Murkowski's Planned Parenthood Vote Has the Left Seething, the Right Unmoved; Legislative Special Session Cost Nearly $1M; Artist Casts Bodies in Bethel to Highlight Mental Health; Suspected Capitol Flag Thieves Caught on Tape; Construction to start at Brucejack Mine in British Columbia; A Year After Mine Disaster, Wrangellites Protest BC Mines; Cantwell Hydro Projects Draw Skepticism Download Audio

3,000 In Anchorage to Lose Food Stamps After Work Requirement Change; Alaska Exempt From New Federal Clean Power Rules; Murkowski Votes to Move Planned Parenthood Defunding Bill; Summer Work Underway at Red Devil Mine in Advance of Big Cleanup; Pregnant Kotlik Woman Loses Child After Assault; Former NICU Parent Helps Others Navigate A Stressful Time; With Subsistence Foods Running Short, Bering Strait Villages Receive A Donation of Halibut; Gambell Basketball Player Chooses Between Hometown Team and Seattle Offer Download Audio

Shell Begins Exploratory Drilling in the Chukchi Sea; Attorney General Says Tribal Protection Orders Deserve Equal Recognition; At Least 7 Vehicles Involved In Fatal Seward Highway Wreck; 15-Year-Old Plane Crash Survivor Honored By Coast Guard; Yukon King Run Stronger Than Expected; Strange Orange Robots Sail Into Dutch Harbor... Just What Are They Up To?; AK: At A Lonely Lighthouse, Cruise Tourists Bring A Welcome Dose of Noise, And Cash; 49 Voices: Albert Gamboa of Anchorage Download Audio

Health Department Says Medicaid Expansion Can Save State Money; Report: Mat-Su Behavioral Health Services Inadequate; Supreme Court Denies Rachelle Waterman Appeal; State Seeks Delay In Indian Country Expansion; Kuskokwim Fishermen Set Sights on Co-Management; Cook Inlet LNG Will Require Lead Time; High Winds, Low Temperatures Cut Through Southeast Alaska; AK: Climate Change and the Quest; 300 Villages: Levelock Download Audio

Governor's New Budget Cuts 300 State Employees; Training Nears For First Wave Of Armed Alaska VPSOs; U.S. Senators Try Again to Kill Vessel Discharge Regs; Glory Hole Homeless Shelter Reopens After Repairs; Yukon Quest Rookies Tout Knowledge, Experience Of Champions; SeaLife Center Blind Seal Warms Trainers' Hearts; Why Some Alaskans Are Learning The Tlingit Language Download Audio

EPA Administrator Insists Water Rule isn't a Power Grab; UAA Prioritization Report Lays Out Next Steps, Many Questions Remain; Priceless Yupik Art Stolen From YKHC; Tax On Alcohol to Treat Anchorage's Worsening Substance Abuse Issues Fails; How Much Debris Litters Alaska's Beaches?; Interior Tourism Expecting Boost In 2015; Another Congress, Another Bill to Rename it Mount Denali Download Audio

Point Thomson Settlement Challengers Request More Time; Walker Files Supplemental Budget; Homeless Assistance Program Scrambling For Funding; Vet Suicide Prevention Bill Passes Congress; Pipeline Coordinator Still Shuttering Shop While Obama Calls for Funding; Alaska Railroad Seeks Approval To Move LNG; Fishermen Test Experimental Cook Inlet Pollock Fishery; After Regrouping In Anchorage, Kikkan Randall Looks Towards World Championships; Joyce Kerttula Dies At 91 Download Audio

Sex Workers Want Lobbyist; GOP Forecasts Special Session; Arctic Standards Not Ready; Earthquakes Shake Pribilof Islands; Child Center Leaving UAA; Regional to Open Mountain View Clinic; Erin's Law Gets Second Look; Poor Design Led to Pond Failure; Vets Check Yukon Quest Dogs Download Audio

Laurie Hummel Named Alaska National Guard's Adjutant General; Lawmakers Skeptical Of State's Plan To Buy Fairbanks Natural Gas Utility; Lack of Customers Puts CIRI Wind Farm Plans On Hold; Much To Sort Out Before Subsistence Gillnets Hit Kenai, Kasilof; Fairbanks Delays Vote On Air Quality Regulations; In Response To Obama Actions, Senator Goes Seuss; AK: Curling; 300 Villages: Huslia Download Audio

National Guard Problems Highlight Outdated Code; Shell Says It Plans Offshore Arctic Drilling This Year; Conoco Dials Back Investment in NPR-A; Western Aleutian Steller Sea Lions Potentially Falling Prey To Sleeper Sharks; Anchorage Police Address Rise In Gun Violence; Common Core Stirs Mat-Su Debate; Earthquake Forecasting At Kayhi; Alaska History Gallery To Get Complete Rebuild Download Audio

Lawmakers Scrap Bill Addressing Pot Legalization; Anchorage Assembly Bans Marijuana From Public Use; State To Appeal Education Funding Lawsuit Ruling; Murkowski Swings at Obama's Arctic Wilderness Plan But Misses; With Greater Numbers, Democrats Hope For More Leverage Over Medicaid Expansion; Donlin Gold Closes Camp During Permitting; Sugar Creates Genetic Trouble For Coastal Alaska Natives; Project Homeless Connect Brings Services, Information To Anchorage’s Homeless; Scattered Services Make Homelessness In Haines Hard To Grasp Download Audio

Obama Withdraws 9.8m Acres of Arctic Ocean; Invoices, Invitations, Litigation, and Even Secession: Walker Says All Responses Possible To Arctic Drilling Decision; Cook Inlet Gas Considered To Relieve Interior Alaska's Energy Costs; Sullivan: Alaskans Dream Big, Breathe Air 'Bathed in Promise'; Proposed ASD budget includes 24 new teachers; Delta To Add Year-Round Competition In Juneau, Fairbanks; Unalaska Locals Hope Proposed Watershed Fixes Are First of Many; Walker Says Rupert Terminal Will Be Rebuilt; AMHS To Close Ferry Bar Service This Winter Download Audio

Murkowski Says Obama Plans 3 Gut Punches to Alaska Economy This Week; Aleutian Sanctuary Proposal Stalls Out; Subsistence Community Allowed To Use Set Gillnets On Kenai, Kasilof Rivers; Fish Commissioner Names New Habitat Director; Bristol Bay Sockeye's Prey Quality Affected By Ocean Temperature; Foraker Says Bethel Residents Out-Give Urban Alaskans; Business Leaders Meet For Innovation Summit; Two Indicted After Break-In at Sand Point Post Office; Family Worried About Missing Ketchikan Man; Mushers Hand Off Their Drop Bags In Anticipation Of 2015 Yukon Quest Download Audio