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Fishermen to feel budget cuts

By DJ Summers Morris News Service – Alaska Discussions continue on how to patch up the state’s $3…

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Flower Mill owner wants to make your day

Pots of poinsettias — the traditional solid red and white ones, as well as the newer variety known…

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New assisted living home opens on southern peninsula

For elders needing help with the basics of daily living, but not needing around-the-clock skilled nursing care, a…

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)

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New vocational program connects offenders with local employers

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

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

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State puts Taku ferry up for sale

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

New oil escort tugs get poor review before citizens' council

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New oil escort tugs get poor review before citizens’ council

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

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Marijuana cash flies to Anchorage as state collects $145,800 for December sales

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

Ratepayers to save millions under Railbelt utilities’ power sharing deal

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Ratepayers to save millions under Railbelt utilities’ power sharing deal

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

Chamber unveils Baycrest visitor kiosk

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Chamber unveils Baycrest visitor kiosk

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

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Fish board splits on Bering Sea Tanner season

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

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)

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S&P: Downturn in energy production hits budgets in 6 states

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

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Walker says Alaska is in the ‘gravest fiscal crisis in state history’

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