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Edie Grunwald withdraws as Alaska lieutenant governor candidate over running mate Charlie Pierce's sexual harassment allegations

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Republican lieutenant governor candidate Edie Grunwald is withdrawing from the November election after her running mate, former Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Charlie Pierce, was sued over allegations he sexually harassed a former borough employee.

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In lawsuit, former assistant accuses Alaska governor 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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Alaska governor candidate accused of sexually harassing former assistant in new lawsuit

A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Alaska faces accusations he sexually harassed a former assistant while he was a borough mayor

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Alaska asylum seekers are Indigenous Siberians from Russia

Alaska's senior U.S. senator says two Russian Indigenous Siberians were so scared of having to fight the war in Ukraine, they chanced everything to take a small boat across the treacherous Bering Sea to reach American soil

The Independent UK

Alaska governor candidate faces sexual harassment lawsuit

A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Alaska faces accusations he sexually harassed a former assistant while he was a borough mayor

The Independent UK

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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

Miami Herald

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.…

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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.

Tribune News Service

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

The Guardian - US

‘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

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