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    Vocational Instructor Tim Ward tells an audience about the work release programs at the Wildwood Correctional Facility during a Soldotna Chamber of Commerce luncheon Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017 at Froso’s Family Dining in Soldotna, Alaska. The facility’s new vocational work release program kicked off in the fall of 2016 and has connected several offenders with employers on the central Kenai Peninsula. (Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion)
    New vocational program connects offenders with local employers
    By Megan Pacer • February 9, 2017 11:45 am

    Getting a job after incarceration and transitioning back to life outside is looking a little easier for inmates at the…

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    Business Briefs
    Business Briefs
    February 9, 2017 11:45 am

    UAF professor honored for peony research The Alaska Peony Growers Association has given University of Alaska Fairbanks Professor Mingchu Zhang…

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    State puts Taku ferry up for sale
    State puts Taku ferry up for sale
    By James Brooks • February 2, 2017 9:53 am

    JUNEAU — The Alaska Marine Highway is beginning the long process of selling the ferry Taku. On Jan. 30, the…

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    New oil escort tugs get poor review before citizens' council
    New oil escort tugs get poor review before...
    By Elwood Brehmer • February 2, 2017 9:53 am

    A vessel design firm hired by a Prince William Sound environmental watchdog group is skeptical of the capability of tugs…

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    Marijuana cash flies to Anchorage as state collects $145,800 for December sales
    Marijuana cash flies to Anchorage as state collects...
    By James Brooks • February 2, 2017 9:52 am

    James Barrett flew to Anchorage this week with a suitcase of cash. Tuesday was the deadline for Alaska’s marijuana growers…

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    Ratepayers to save millions under Railbelt utilities’ power sharing deal
    Ratepayers to save millions under Railbelt utilities’ power...
    By Elwood Brehmer • February 2, 2017 9:52 am

    A trio of Alaska’s largest electric utilities announced an agreement Jan. 30 to start operating more as one. Matanuska Electric…

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    Chamber unveils Baycrest visitor kiosk
    Chamber unveils Baycrest visitor kiosk
    By Michael Armstrong • January 26, 2017 12:36 pm

    Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center board member Adrienne Sweeney cuts the ribbon at the formal opening of the…

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    Fish board splits on Bering Sea Tanner season
    Fish board splits on Bering Sea Tanner season
    January 26, 2017 12:32 pm

    There will be no bairdi Tanner crab season in the Bering Sea this year after the Alaska Board of Fisheries…

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    FILE 0 This Feb. 9, 2016, file photo, shows a million-pound drilling rig looming in the distance at the CD5 drilling site on Alaska’s North Slope in Nuiqsut, Alaska. Six of the country’s major energy-producing states have slipped into recession after a sharp decline in production and exploration over the last 18 months caused their tax revenue to plummet, according to a financial analysis released Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)
    S&P: Downturn in energy production hits budgets in...
    By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY • January 26, 2017 12:09 pm

    Six of the country’s major energy-producing states have slipped into recession after a sharp decline in production and exploration over…

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    Walker says Alaska is in the ‘gravest fiscal...
    By James Brooks • January 26, 2017 12:07 pm

    Speaking to the Alaska Legislature Jan. 18, Gov. Bill Walker referenced the words of the director of the Legislative Finance…

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    Business Briefs
    Business Briefs
    By Lori Evans • January 26, 2017 12:06 pm

    Alaska Flower Mill to host chamber mixer This week’s Homer Chamber of Commerce mixer will be at Alaska Flower Mill,…

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    Concerns raised over state leading LNG project
    Concerns raised over state leading LNG project
    By BECKY BOHRER • January 25, 2017 8:52 am

    JUNEAU — A legislative consultant has raised red flags about Alaska taking the lead on a major proposed liquefied natural…

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    Delegation revs up for another ANWR fight
    Delegation revs up for another ANWR fight
    By Elwood Brehmer • January 19, 2017 6:31 pm

    Alaska’s congressional delegation is hoping the 13th time will be the lucky one for legislation to open the Arctic National…

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