Report looks at Alaska’s violent crime trends from 1980 to 2012
The University of Anchorage Alaska’s Justice Center has compiled 32 years of violent crime arrest data statewide, showing some notable
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Reports of violent crime increasing in Sweden’s North
Reported cases of violent crime in Sweden have gone up by on average 39 percent since the beginning of the
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Canada’s North has highest homicide rates
Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut had the country’s highest homicide rate last year, according to numbers from Statistics Canada.
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Canadian Inuit community applies for holiday booze ban
The alcohol education committee in the Inuit community of Kimmirut in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut is asking for
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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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Iceland has first fatal police shooting
Police in Iceland said Monday they shot dead a gunman — the first time armed police have killed someone in
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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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Arctic police seize pot in Kaktovik, Alaska
North Slope Borough police and postal service inspectors seized nearly a pound of marijuana Tuesday, which was being shipped from
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Column fuels alcohol debate in Finland
Turku security guard and freelance journalist Wali Hashi has touched a soft spot with the Finnish public. His opinion, published
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