Alaska Dispatch News - Afternoon update for 07/18/2016

[adn.com] [Alaska Dispatch News] [Alaska News] [Politics] [Voices] [Arctic] [Culture] [Sports] [Multimedia] Monday, July 18, 2016 [Alaska Dispatch News] [Best of Alaska polls are open. Nominate your favorite businesses and be entered to win an Alyeska Getaway Package.] [CLICK HERE] [Alaska goes to Cleveland: Dispatches from the Republican National Convention] Alaska’s most enthusiastic Republicans are in Cleveland to help select their party’s nominee to be president of United States. [Erica Martinson] [Alaska Senate adjourns special session, leaving budget reforms to wait] The special legislative session called by Gov. Bill Walker is over after just a handful of hearings and without votes on any of the deficit-reduction bills that he proposed. [Nathaniel Herz] [Life after hepatitis C] SPONSORED: These two Alaskans are enjoying life one year after a new treatment cured them of the virus they once saw as a lifelong burden. Presented by Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium [Troopers: Mountain goat harassed by people drowns in Seward] The goat drowned Saturday night after it "was unable to come back to the rocks due to the people standing on the rocks," troopers said. [Chris Klint] [McHugh Creek wildfire estimated at 60 acres as crews work to contain it] A wildfire southeast of Anchorage above the Seward Highway was estimated Monday to have grown overnight as crews continued to work to stem its spread. [Chris Klint] [Rundown stretch of Anchorage's Spenard Road headed for major facelift] A public housing nonprofit has begun redevelopment at 36th and Spenard, and it may be the start of big changes in the area. [Devin Kelly] [Baton Rouge gunman targeted and ambushed officers, police say] A video posted on social media that has been linked to Baton Rouge police shooting suspect Gavin Long shows a man fed up with mistreatment of blacks who suggests only violence and financial pressure would bring change. Mark Berman, Adam Goldman, The Washington Post [What's behind the seeming disappearance of an Alaska tern?] Concerned by an ‘almost unparalleled population crash’ of Aleutian terns, scientists ramp up efforts to monitor the Alaska seabird. Margaret Thomas Copyright © 2016 Alaska Dispatch Publishing. All Rights Reserved This email was sent to [{EMAIL}] [why did I get this?]    [unsubscribe from this list]    [update subscription preferences] Alaska Dispatch · 300 W. 31st Ave. · Anchorage, AK 99503 · USA