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Trump administration signals it could open more of the Arctic to drilling; Witness hearings start Monday in F/V Destination investigation; Drue Pearce appointed to US pipeline safety agency; With a few weeks to go, Alaska schools are short 245 educators; PenAir files for bankruptcy protection as CEO promises to refocus on Alaska routes; In Angoon, a rural water system is built with the help of beavers; More than $100,000 raised for injured Anchorage firefighter; Firefighters work to extinguish Chistochina Fire; Teaching the next crop of whale entanglement responders; Norton Sound salmon arrive in high numbers, save for kings; Forest Service could delay Wrangell contaminated soil move Listen now

U.S. senators: Same state, same party, not same page; State lets Conoco expand North Slope unit, but with conditions; State budget cuts hitting Interior’s main public media company; Egan calls for criminal justice bill, income tax; Alaska men sentenced in musk oxen poaching case; Mandated reporting of prescribed controlled substances begins in Alaska; No charges filed in Mount Polley mine disaster; AK: Southeast researchers are keeping up with the humpbacks; 49 Voices: Phil Runkle of Nicolai Listen now

Zinke tweets beer pic showing he's A-OK with Murkowski; Lt. Gov. Mallott says he and Gov. Walker will run for re-election; Both sides seek to drop Alaska abortion lawsuit; Britsol Bay sees an unexpectedly large salmon run; Foretold Disaster – the Exxon Valdez oil spill; Climate change may have driven gray whale up Kuskowkim; Changing climate pushes polar bears toward more dangerous interactions with humans; Climate expert predicts warmer-than-normal fall, continuing 10-year trend; Southcentral Alaska to feel hotter weather this weekend Listen now

Closed process on capital budget draws criticism; GoFundMe campaigns created to help cruise ship murder victim's family; Nunapitchuk VPO shot in Napaskiak; Alaska police training facility nears completion; Mat-Su sales tax ordinance postponed indefinitely; Cruise-ship tourism will expand next summer; Gelvin's air strip being restored with tons of gravel; Water restored to all New Stuyahok homes; Tsunami zone update gets pushback from Oregon Coast legislators; Ask a Climatologist: August is Alaska’s rainiest month Listen now

Premera says ACA premiums to drop 22%; Revenue commissioner resigns to serve ministry; State Sen. Gary Stevens files to run for lieutenant governor; No commercial fishing on Kuskokwim this year; With cut after cut, state food safety inspections stretch years apart; Less mercury found in Beaufort Sea polar bears — that’s not necessarily a good thing; Feds look to relinquish mineral rich Interior lands to the state; Ekwok substance use recovery program teaches subsistence skills to fight addiction; Transgender activist looks to connect trans men in the 49th state Listen now

Murkowski in Sitka hours after critical health care vote; Gray whale harvest on the Kuskokwim stirs up controversy; Test missile launches from Kodiak; Man killed with hatchet in Fairbanks bar; Sand Point loses entire police force; State fire service battles blazes north of Ft. Yukon; State looks to update Bicycle and Pedestrian plan; Beluga whale harvested near Dillingham Sunday evening; Teenage Gambell whaler under social media fire from noted environmentalist Listen now

New capital budget is much lower than previous budgets; $5 million in capital budget designated for UA renovations and repairs; Pilot recovered from wreckage of Regal Air Cessna 206 north of Lake Clark; State OSHA investigation targets Silver Bay Seafoods in Naknek; NSSP plant in Nome violated processing discharge permit, agreement reached with EPA; Review finds Fairbanks officers justified in May shooting; Competition for airspace between drones and eagles intensifies in Unalaska; Caterpillars spike around lakes and rivers near Aleknagik and Dillingham for second year; AK: Russian adventurers look to retrace Alaska route of past countrymen; 49 Voices: Casey Ketchum of Anchorage Listen now

Alaskans weigh-in on Senator Murkowski's role in the health care debate; Legislature divided as they pass a capital budget; Aircraft downed on north side of Lake Clark, recovery efforts underway; Feds charge Utah man with wife's murder aboard cruise ship in Alaska; When the lights went out – Alaska’s great recession; Controversial Anchorage bathroom bill will go on April ballot; Fish Creek opens for dipnetting, drawing crowds Listen now

Following health care vote, Trump singles out Murkowski with critical tweet; Transgender Air Force Staff Sergeant reacts to Trump's declaration against transgender service-members; Lawmakers to vote on capital budget on Thursday; FBI investigating death of woman aboard Southeast cruise ship; ‘Forward-deployed’ Coast Guard helicopter crews help rescue 6 people in two searches; Late state budget delays fall-winter-spring ferry schedule; Work starts on expanding Richardson Highway; Green sponge discovered in Southeast could treat some cancers; Entomologist tracks the year in Alaska bugs; Ask a Climatologist: For summer in Alaska, 70 is the magic number Listen now

Murkowski bucks party with health care vote; Walker signs opioid addiction prevention bill; Coast Guard works together with mariners on Kodiak rescue; Reassigned climate official worries “nobody home” on village relocation; Top VA official in Alaska talks privatization, staffing challenges; Fairbanks approves putting tax increase in hands of voters; Slow gas deal causing problems for Interior Energy Project; Hospitalized in Alaska, Maryland teacher wants to come home; Afognak Island elk study looks at balancing logging with game management; UAA celebrates 10 years of bringing writers together during summer reading series Listen now