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Welcome to the Alaska Newsreader. We launched it in the spring of 2007 with a simple idea: To give you a quick-read summary of what's news in and for Alaska - not just in the ADN but from every source we can find, whether it's the Nome Nugget or The New York Times. Click for more...

Video: 'A grizzly ate my GoPro'

Alaska naturalist and guide Brad Josephs strapped his GoPro camera to a rock and got more bear than he expected. "The first bear to appear is an older mother, and the second is her 3 year old cub. The bear only gently mouthed the camera, and didn't even put a dent in it! Obviously the card ...

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Climate-change researchers surprised by Arctic's carbon resiliency

For almost a quarter-century, a greenhouse in the Alaska Arctic has been the setting of an experiment in trying to speed up the effects of global warming. Researchers have watched as the soil within the greenhouse has become more hospitable to woody shrubs than tundra plants. It was expected the...
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Deal to sell Mat-Su's unused ferry appears to be falling through

The Matanuska-Susitna Borough kind of, sort of thought it had reached a deal to sell its white-elephant ferry M/V Susitna for $6 million, but all of a sudden the prospective buyer seems to have lost interest, reports the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman.
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Alaska villagers called America's first 'climate refugees'

The U.K.'s Guardian is taking an in-depth look this week at the effects of climate change in rural Alaska, where villages built generations ago on river bluffs and coastlines already prone to erosion are seeing a magnification of the danger in the form of rising sea levels and permafrost thawing...
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Unalaska police blotter

"DUI – Caller reported a possibly intoxicated driver. Officers learned, prior to contacting the suspect driver, that the suspect vehicle was driven by a young woman whose father was teaching her to drive. The father-daughter team was given some advice on safe locations at which to learn vehicle...
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Copper Center School set to close; Stony River students fight to keep school open

The Copper River School Board has voted to close the Copper Center School, the district's oldest, because of low enrollment. KCHU in Valdez reports the district must next receive an OK from the Alaska Department of Education. But there's still hope in Stony River, a village of a few dozen residents...
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North Pacific gray whale spotted in southern Atlantic for first time

Did it navigate the Northwest Passage or round Cape Horn? Scientists working off the coast of Namibia in southwest Africa say they've confirmed a sighting of a North Pacific gray whale there, the first ever south of the equator. In 2010, a North Pacific gray whale was confirmed to have wandered ...
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Wasilla hunting guide indicted over alleged swapping of Dall sheep horns

Chad A. Reel of Wasilla-based Reel Alaska Trophy Hunts has been indicted by an Anchorage grand jury over an incident in which he allegedly claimed a legal set of Dall sheep horns came from an animal killed illegally by a client in 2009, reports the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman.
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UPDATED: Large, mysterious sunken vessel found near Haines

The sunken barge found in Lutak Inlet just off the main Haines dock area is likely one that sank in a storm in 1976 during a dredging operation. A former dredge contractor now living in Juneau tells the Chilkat Valley News that if it is indeed his barge, anything found aboard it is up for grabs. "...
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Troubled Aleutians hovercraft fails at yet another assignment

The Aleutians East Borough has again decided a hovercraft is not the right solution for a transportation problem in its turbulent, remote waters. Pressed into service last year to ferry air passengers from the new Akutan airport across a strait to town, the hovercraft "is way too expensive to operate...
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Anchorage man sentenced for leading Canadian police on 250-mile Alaska Hwy. chase

An Anchorage man who blew past Canadian border guards on the Alaska Highway last year and then led the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on a 250-mile chase has been sentenced to time served and will be released this week after spending more than 7 months in a Yukon jail, reports CBC News. But he still...