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In lawsuit, former assistant accuses Alaska gubernatorial candidate Charlie Pierce of sexual harassment

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In a lawsuit filed Friday, a former executive assistant to Alaska gubernatorial candidate Charlie Pierce said Pierce sexually harassed her when he was Kenai Peninsula Borough mayor.

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Union Station: Alaska Supreme Court hears arguments on whether Janus requires annual opt-ins for union membership

The Alaska Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in a case where the state of Alaska claims that the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling in Janus v. AFSCME requires annual opt-ins for union membership.

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Transgender bathroom ban in school district becomes permanent in apparent first for Alaska

PALMER, Alaska — In what appears to be a first for Alaska, transgender students in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District are now banned from using bathrooms and changing facilities that match their gender identity.

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Alaska Natives fete their 1st Congress member, Mary Peltola

Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola received a hero’s welcome Thursday when the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress gave the keynote address at the Alaska Federation of Natives conference in Anchorage

The Independent UK

Billions gone: what’s behind the disappearance of Alaska snow crabs?

Authorities close snow crab season for first time as numbers of the prized seafood crash from 11bn to 2bn in four years

The Guardian - UK

EXPLAINER: How ranked choice voting works in Alaska

Most Americans are used to casting their ballot for a single person for each office

The Independent UK

Billions of snow crabs have disappeared from Alaska waters

Experts fear the likely causes include increased predation and stresses from warming water.

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Alaska cancels snow crab season over population decline

Causes being researched but likely included increased predation and stresses from warmer water

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Where In The World Is Cannabis Legal?

This article was originally published on Cannabis & Tech Today and appears here with permission.

Benzinga

Ben Stevens, former Alaska Senate president, dies at age 63

Ben Stevens, a former Alaska Senate president and a son of the late U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, has died

The Independent UK

Composer Lei Liang and Scripps oceanographers take deep dive in Arctic to create game-changing 'Six Seasons'

SAN DIEGO — Groundbreaking composer Lei Liang has never been to the Arctic or to its Chukchi Sea, which sits between Alaska and Siberia. But that imposing 240,000-square-mile body of water's beneath-the-surface sounds not only inspired his provocative new work, "Six Seasons," they are an intrinsic and very audible part…

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Previewing Alaska’s second U.S. House election of 2022

Incumbent Rep. Mary Peltola (D), Nicholas Begich III (R), Sarah Palin (R), and Chris Bye (L) are running for Alaska’s at-large congressional district on Nov. 8, 2022. Peltola, Begich, Palin, and Tara Sweeney (R) advanced from the Aug. 16, 2022, top-four primary. Sweeney withdrew, meaning Bye, the fifth-place finisher, advanced.

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Greg Cote: Larry Csonka, ‘heart’ of Dolphins glory days, on his life of adventure — and perfection

It was 1987 when the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, made Larry Csonka one of its own. He had grown up on a farm a half hour north in Stow, Ohio, one of six kids in a Hungarian family of modest means. They made their own butter.…

Miami Herald

Chunky one-ton Alaskan bear ‘747’ wins Fat Bear Week competition yet again

747 led the polls by 10,000 votes against 901, a female bear who fiercely “defends her fishing spots from other bears”

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‘We Are Resilient People’: A Project To Keep Cultures And Land Above Water

Separated by thousands of miles, two Indigenous groups are working together to elevate their voices on a shared problem.

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Biden releases Arctic strategy with emphasis on competition with China and Russia

WASHINGTON —The Biden administration has released its vision for U.S. strategy in the Arctic in a new document that underscores competition with Russia and China over the next decade.

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Conservation concerns cancel Alaska's Bering snow, king crab seasons

Alaska officials have canceled the fall Bristol Bay red king crab harvest, and in a first-ever move, also scuttled the winter harvest of smaller snow crab.

The Independent UK

Russia invites US states to secede and join country

Comments came after another lawmaker called for Alaska to be returned

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‘Ballots have been stuffed’: voting scandal rocks Alaska’s fat bear contest

Katmai national park, which runs Fat Bear Week, forced to discount votes after irregularities in semi-finals discovered

Benzinga

Cannabis Reg. Update: Possession Pardons In Tennessee And MA, Jobs In Alaska & UK Home Secretary Hates Weed

Marijuana Legalization In Tennessee

The Independent UK

As suicides rise, US military seeks to address mental health

Rising suicide rates among active service members have forced the Pentagon to review the military's mental health protocols

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Emergency FAA order points to one possible cause of Whidbey seaplane crash

SEATTLE — The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a warning regarding potential weaknesses in parts of the tail of Otter seaplanes, the same type of aircraft that crashed off Whidbey Island last month.

The Guardian - US

Fat Bear Week 2022: thousands tune in to plump for their favorite

This year’s iteration of the popular Alaskan tournament pits 435 Holly against four-time winner 480 Otis

ABC News

Two Russians flee to Alaska's St Lawrence Island in small boat to escape Putin's Ukraine war conscription

Two Russian men braved the Bering Strait in an attempt to escape being drafted into Vladimir Putin's army.

Daily Mirror

Two Russians fleeing Vladimir Putin's draft arrive in US by boat seeking asylum

Two Russians are seeking asylum in the United States after arriving by boat in Alaska and saying that they were trying to avoid the military mobilisation by Vladimir Putin to fight in Ukraine

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