US Senate passes bill with funds for missing and murdered Indigenous women
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate last week agreed to spend $6.5 million to tackle the epidemic of missing and murdered
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U.S. Justice Dept. awards $42 million in tribal grants to fight crime, help victims in rural Alaska
Speaking to the Alaska Federation of Natives convention in Fairbanks, in the state’s Interior region, Thursday, U.S. Attorney General William
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Offender in Northern Canada wins appeal, overturns banishment from his community
A Nunavut, Northern Canada man convicted of sexual assault and breaking and entering is no longer going to be banished
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Violence against Indigenous women in Canada: final report altered to fix error
The MMIWG national inquiry overstated in its final report the percentage of Canadian homicide victims who are Indigenous women and
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Northern Canada: Council of Yukon First Nations to train writers for Indigenous sentencing reports
The Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) is taking over a pilot project aimed at training people in the Northern
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Man in Arctic Canada found guilty of killing polar bear without tag
A man who killed a polar bear on an isolated island in Canada’s Arctic cannot claim self-defence because he got
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Judge sends sex offender back to Arctic Canadian community despite lack of treatment
The Northwest Territories newest judge recently faced a challenge N.W.T. judges have been confronting for decades — what to do
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Police continue investigation into fibre line cut in Canada’s Northwest Territories
RCMP, Canada’s federal police, are asking for the public’s help as they investigate two incidents of suspected vandalism that disrupted
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Judge ignored Indigenous sentencing report while giving Inuk man open-ended sentence, appeals court rules
A trial judge unfairly ignored an Inuk man’s abusive and violent upbringing when slapping him with an indeterminate prison sentence
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Waste traffic in Finland feeds lucrative illegal industry
Finland’s environment ministry says there are insufficient monitoring resources to combat mounting environmental crimes in the country. “It’s a clear
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Levels of violence against young women in Northern Canada triple rest of country
Young women and girls living in the northern parts of Canada are three times more likely to be victims of
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Will a new policing strategy help fight crime in Alaska’s largest city?
Police in Anchorage, Alaska are trying something new: having officers patrol beats built around community boundaries, rather than covering the
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Number of reported domestic violence cases rises in Finland
Last year there were 9,900 cases of domestic violence and intimate partner violence offences reported to Finnish authorities, which is
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33-month sentence in theft of ancient mammoth tusk in Alaska
The case of a fossilized mammoth tusk stolen in Anchorage, Alaska last year has finally come to a close. On
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U.S. Attorney General hears from Indigenous leaders about justice problems in rural Alaska
U.S. Attorney General William Barr met with Alaska Native leaders from around the state Wednesday in Anchorage to discuss law
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