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In this newscast: Two bowhead whales were harvested in the same afternoon near St. Lawrence Island, A recent state report found that the Alaska Office of Children’s Services failed to offer enough support for a foster child with aggressive behaviors, Hospitals across the country are reeling from the collapse of a staffing agency for emergency…

The Anchorage Police Dept. on Monday released body camera footage of this summer's deadly officer-involved shooting of Anchorage teenager Easter Leafa. The video release comes as the Alaska Office of Special Prosecutions clears one of the officers involved from criminal charges. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Justice Susan M. Carney of the Alaska Supreme Court sits down with host MC Sungaila to discuss her road to Alaska, and to the bench. A post-law school clerkship with Alaska Supreme Court Justice Justice Jay Rabinowitz brought Justice Carney to Alaska, where she stayed, working as a public defender and for the Alaska Office of Public Advocacy before joining the court for which she clerked. Justice Carney shares how her athletic experience impacted her career, and the role that mentors and supporters played in her journey to the bench.

After weeks of debate, the Anchorage Assembly approves a process to remove the mayor. Subsistence users ask for greater restrictions on commercial fishing along the Alaska Peninsula. And the Alaska National Guard and the Alaska Office of Veterans Affairs honors the heroic rescue of a downed Navy air crew nearly 70 years ago.

There are many ways to make a family - through pregnancy, via adoption or by blending existing families - and in this episode we're taking a closer look at adoption. There are many ways, too, to adopt - as an infant or teen, internationally or from right here in Alaska! Those who choose to adopt will have many questions about the process and we'll be learning about adoption all throughout the week. IN-STUDIO GUESTS: To continue the conversation in the second installment of our ongoing Starting a Family series, three special guests join host Shana Sheehy in the studio to discuss adoption in Alaska: Sarah Blanning is the Coordinator for the Infant Adoption program and the Waiting Child program at Catholic Social Services of Alaska. Dr. Susan Bomalaski is the Executive Director of Catholic Social Services of Alaska where she oversees all of the programs offered, including the Infant Adoption program, the International Adoption program, and the Foster Care / Adoption programs. KariLee Pietz is the Social Service Program Officer that oversees the the Resource Family Unit at the Alaska Office of Children’s Services where she works with foster and adoptive famlies.

The Alaska Office of the Smithsonian’s Arctic Studies Center hosted an Iñupiaq language workshop in January 2011, bringing together eight fluent speakers of Alaska’s northernmost Native tongue for four days of intensive discussions about NMNH and NMAI objects in the Smithsonian exhibition, Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska at the Anchorage Museum. One goal of the project is to document a language that is now spoken fluently by fewer than 600 people, 92% of them over the age of 65. Another is to create language teaching videos for use in the North Alaskan schools. This project represents one of the Arctic Studies Center’s major initiatives under the NMNH Recovering Voices program. From Arctic Studies Center, Alaska.

In October 2010, the Alaska Office of the Smithsonian's Arctic Studies Center hosted the Dena'ina Language Institute at the Living Our Cultures exhibit gallery located in the Anchorage Museum. Elders Helen Dick and Gladys Evanoff shared their knowledge about Dena'ina heritage objects in the Smithsonian collections, using the objects as tools to teach the Dena'ina Athabascan language. They worked with language learners, linguists and museum staff to script and record new language learning videos for a series published on YouTube (http://qenaga.org/). The Dena'ina program initiated Recovering Voices – an international Smithsonian program to assist indigenous communities with language preservation and education – at the Arctic Studies Center in Anchorage.

If you follow the latest parenting or science news you've heard about the incredible ways that children ages 0-5 are capable of learning. During this crucial time it's parents and caregivers who can do so much to teach their little ones. IN-STUDIO GUESTS: Host Shana Sheehy speaks with Mike Hanley, the new Commissioner of the Dept of Early Education and Development, and with Shirley Pittz, Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Coordinator at the Alaska Office of Children's Services about what the state is doing to support very early education.