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newsminer on August 3rd, 2012

FAIRBANKS — Pogo Mine, near Delta Junction, poured its 2 millionth ounce of gold Tuesday, according to mine officials. “Milestones like this are only achieved when safety and environmental performa…

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BETHEL, Alaska – It was free taco Sunday in Bethel, Alaska, and more than 6,000 of them were gobbled up. Fliers went up all over town last month saying a Taco Bell was coming to Bethel. The excite…

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FAIRBANKS — When Lew Platt, former chairman and chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard, held his first management meeting with the HP team he could have uttered the typical corporate platitudes…

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FAIRBANKS — Some of us look at kids in the millennium generation, and we say “tisk tisk.” I and other faculty, staff and volunteers are looking today at more than 200 millennium generation high sch…

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newsminer on June 1st, 2012

BETHEL, Alaska – An Alaska Native corporation has canceled its shareholders meeting. KYUK reports (http://is.gd/5jtW6W) shareholders of Calista Corp. were to have met Saturday in Goodnews Bay. Ch…

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FAIRBANKS — The way a supervisor spends his or her most valuable possessions each day speaks so loudly that those supervised do not hear what that manager says. Say what? What are a manager’s most …

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newsminer on May 22nd, 2012

JUNEAU, Alaska – A report says most Juneau visitors prepare their trips to Alaska’s capital city online. That is according to a McDowell Group-prepared report for the Alaska Department of Commerce…

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FAIRBANKS — Life at work would be so much easier if we were not constantly interrupted by self-absorbed customers, both internal (supervisors, supervisees, and coworkers), and external (shoppers), …

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A psychological thriller that Wayfare Entertainment hopes to film in Alaska has a name and director, but the company has yet to make a commitment to shooting the film in the sta…

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JUNEAU, Alaska – Failure of a large-scale mine planned near the headwaters of one of the world’s premier salmon fisheries in Alaska could wipe out or degrade rivers and streams in the region for de…

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