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Fairbanks-Area Voters To File Opposition To Latest Redistricting Plan; Volcano Screams Just Before Eruption; Man Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder In Fatal Fire; Evacuation Watch Lifted For Two Rivers, Pleasant Valley; Debate Grows Over Use Of State Agricultural Land; State Sets Record Low For Boating Fatalities; AK: Eyes on the Sky; 300 Villages: Coffman Cove Download Audio

Fishery Disaster Funds Included In Early Appropriations Bill; Senate Confirms Labor, EPA Nominees; HAARP Facility Shuts Down; Muslims Adapt For Holy Month In The Midnight Sun; Teenage Kodiak Shooting Victim Dies Of Wounds; Troopers Search For Missing Man Near Big Lake; State Receives Plan To Recover Sunken Bulldozer Near Talkeetna; Yup’ik Teen Wins At National Martial Arts Championships; Cargo Airships In Alaska’s Future Download Audio

Interior Mayors Voice Concerns Over F-16 Move; Failed Test May Hinder Ft. Greely Missile Field Expansion; Research Details Alaska’s Role In Bird Migration; Missing Woman’s Body Found Along Turnagain Arm; Denali Climbing Season Wraps Up; Fishermen Celebrate High Bristol Bay Sockeye Prices; Farmers Could Be Reimbursed For Supply Transportation; Cool, Damp Weather Assisting Stuart Creek 2 Firefighters; Flood Warning Issued In Brooks Range; Group Getting To Root Of Non-Native Plant Invasion Download Audio

Dunbar Sets Alaska Mile Mark At 3:59.06; Hundreds Gather For Regional Economic Summit; Veteran Senators Defuse Rule-Changing Confrontation; More Charges Surface In Bethel Child Abuse Case; Galena Residents Seek Fish Donations; Chilkoot Watershed Closed To Sockeye Sport Fishing; Former Wrangell Hospital CEO Appointed Interim SEARHC Director; Overdue Hikers Found Safe On Stampede Trail; Officials Lift Evacuation Watch For Portion Of Chena Hot Springs Road; UAF Professor Attempting To Improve Sea Ice Forecasting Download Audio

Coast Guard Opens Forward Operating Location In Kotzebue; Worry About Whale Watching Comes From Within The Industry; Redistricting Board Adopts Final Plan; Hundreds Gather To Remember Pilot Killed In Soldotna Crash; Will A Marine Shipping Merger Pit David Against Goliath?; Author Revives Aleutian History Through ‘Lost Ledgers’; New Book Delves Into Life Of ‘Papa Pilgrim’ Download Audio

Repeal Group Gets 45,000 Signatures For Referendum; FAA Ups Qualification Requirement For First Officers; Tenakee Seeks Families To Keep School Open; Central Peninsula Hospital Opens New Oncology Unit; Cyclist Survives Wold Pursuit On The Alaska Highway; StoryTRACKS Gets Kids Reading Outdoors; AK: Game Entrepreneurs; 300 Villages: King Cove Download Audio

Native Corporations Concerned Over Dam Study Trespassing, Safety; State Files Cross-Appeal In Fishermen Trial; Stalled Engine May Have Caused Soldotna Crash; Stuart Creek 2 Fire 22 Percent Contained; Former State Biologist Suggests Voluntarily Not Fishing To Boost Chinook Escapement; Kenai Peninsula College Founder Dies; Brooks Falls Bear Cam Comes Online; Elusive Amphibians Chronicled Along Stikine Download Audio

Palin Hints At Potential Senate Run; LGBT Protections Advance In Senate; Investigation Continues For Soldotna Crash; Army Backs Away From Stuart Creek 2 Fire Statements; Study Attempts To Pinpoint Salmon As They Hit Rivers; Kwik’pak Fisheries Traceability Program Ahead Of The Curve; M/V Tustumena Repairs Hit Additional Roadblock; Russian Fire Bomb Washes Up Near Chignik; Man Becomes Oldest Climber To Summit Denali Download Audio

Medicaid Fraud Charges Levied Against 28 Personal Care Attendants; State Presents New Plan For ANWR Development; NMFS Denies Ribbon Seal Endangered Species Listing; NTSB Team Begins Investigation Of Deadly Soldotna Plane Crash; Peter Tony’s Stepdaughter Speaks Out About Abuse; Stuart Creek 2 Firefighters Race To Beat Warm, Dry Weather Coming Later This Week; Incident Meteorologists Help Crews Predict Fire Paths; Seward Ceviche Whiz Dines At White House Download Audio

South Carolina Family Killed In Soldotna Plan Crash; Stuart Creek 2 Fire Started During Army Artillery Training; Redistricting Board Releases ‘Concept Plan’; Coast Guard Investigating ‘Naknek Spirit’ Grounding; Igushik Fishery Remains Closed; Traini Targets Executive Pay And Benefits; Program Helping Anchorage’s Childhood Obesity Rate Drop; Elodea Spreading In Southcentral Alaska; Centennial Denali Climb Members Return To Talkeetna; Yup’ik Artist Heading Mural Project For Anchorage Covenant House Download Audio

Oil Sheen From Sunken Tender Closes Igushik River Fishery Again; Grounded Fishing Tender Under Watch In Prince William Sound; F/V Bangun Perkasa Finished Long Journey To Scrapyard; With Federal Funding Drying Up, Fate Of Trails Program Uncertain; Flightseeing Tour Returns To Talkeetna After 3 Nights On Ruth Glacier; Forest Service Announces Large Timber Sale On Prince Of Wales Island; State Approves Skwentna-Area Coal Lease; AK: Saloon Secrets; 300 Villages: King Island Download Audio

Residency Program Designed to Recruit More Pediatricians to Alaska, Igushik Fishermen Told to Pull in Nets, Firefighters Still Battling Stuart Creek Wildfire, Rookie From Palmer Wins Mount Marathon, Stedman Adds Name to Petition to Repeal New Oil Tax Structure, NEA Alaska President Says Teachers Should Not Be Armed, Walruses Changing Their Lifestyles

Specialists Survey Old Plane Crash Near Knik Glacier; Forest Service Speeds Up Tongass Second Growth Plan; Scrap Company Makes Plans For Aleutian Clean-Up; Hmong Student Heads To College, Credits Cut Counselor; Renowned Tlingit Carvings To Be Publicly Displayed; Catholic Church Rings In ‘Fortnight For Freedom’; Digital Preservation In National Historic Park Download Audio

Stuart Creek Fire East Of Eielson Triples In Size; Gabrielle Giffords Visits Alaska On ‘Rights and Responsibilities’ Tour; Efforts To Boom Off Sunken Tender ‘Lone Star’ Are Unsuccessful; Gara Considers Run For Governor; Smaller Gold Operations Gain Interest Around Yakutat; Unusually High Percentage Of Climbers Summiting Denali; Aviator Visits Unalaska On Around-The-World Trip; Recovery Process Continues On ‘Sandbar Mitchell’ Download Audio

Oil Sheen Spotted Leaking From Sunken Tender In Bristol Bay; Redistricting Board Puts Another Set Of Maps Up For Review; Rate For Subsidized Stafford Loans Doubles; Employees Worry About State-Imposed Office Space Standards; Bill Puts $35 Million Toward Residential Housing For ANMC; 3 Killed In Nunam Iqua House Fire; 150 March In Support of ‘Fairbanks Four’; Adak Seeks Processing Plant Operator; Centennial Denali Expedition Reaches Summit Download Audio