Bethel, Alaska residents speak out against marijuana legalization
BETHEL – A small, mainly anti-pot crowd on Monday filled the tiny Legislative Information Office here to put on the
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Judge orders state to add language help for voters in Alaska villages
A federal judge directed Alaska election officials on Monday to comply with the federal Voting Rights Act by expanding their
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Prison for bomb threat on Norwegian plane
On Tuesday, the asylum-seeking man who made a bomb threat against a Norwegian airlines plane this spring, forcing the plane
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Alaska: Judge allows set-net ban initiative to move forward
A superior court judge has ruled in favor of an initiative to ban commercial set netting for salmon in urban
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Alaska Supreme Court affirms tribal court jurisdiction
The Alaska Supreme Court issued a decision today in a long running tribal court jurisdiction case. The case stems from
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Makeshift courtrooms in Nunavut need heat, toilets says judge
Some buildings used to hold circuit court in Nunavut communities still do not meet basic standards. That’s despite a directive
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Panel blasts ‘colonial model’ of justice in rural Alaska
Members of a Congressionally-created panel that blasted the state’s justice system for Alaska Native villages arrived in Anchorage on Wednesday,
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Alaska Supreme Court to hear climate change case
Alaska’s high court became the first state supreme court in the country yesterday to hear an appeal in one of
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What’s next after piracy charge for Finnish Greenpeace activist
Markku Kivinen, head of Helsinki University’s specialist Russian and east European Aleksanteri Institute, has cautioned Finnish politicians to use
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Perils of Prohibition: History repeats in Alaska’s failed attempt to stamp out booze
The worst of what Alaska’s war on alcohol has brought to the impoverished, rural areas of the state — a
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Perils of Prohibition: Drowning the past in rural Alaska
EDITOR’S NOTE: For three decades, alcohol has anchored the debate about the future of rural Alaska. That liquor and homebrew spread
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Alaska judge rejects setnetters’ bid for additional fishing time in Cook Inlet
Demands for more salmon in the setnets of commercial fishermen working the east side of Cook Inlet have been thrown
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No help in Nunavut, Canada for inmates with FASD
An offender suffering from Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) will have a hard time getting treatment in Canada’s eastern Arctic
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Yukon, Canada judge denounces domestic violence
The Yukon Supreme Court’s senior judge, Justice Ron Veale, is denouncing domestic violence in Canada’s northwestern territory. He’s overturned a
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