Finnish-Swedish police launch cross-border cooperation
Burglars on the run get harder times in the Swedish – Finnish borderland as police forces will be allowed to
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Boy agrees to plea deal in Alaska musk ox killings
A second boy charged with killing musk oxen near the village of Brevig Mission in Western Alaska has reached a plea agreement with
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Sweden evades EU rules to allow wolf hunt
Hunters will get licenses to shoot wolves next year, despite a court ruling against last year’s hunt. This is raising
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Bill to remove Alaska exception to Violence Against Women Act passes in U.S. Senate
A bill to remove the Alaska exception from the Violence Against Women Act cleared the Senate on Tuesday. Outgoing Alaska
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Assistant district attorney shot and killed in Arctic Alaska
An Alaska assistant district attorney who once was a Washington state lawmaker was shot and killed in the Arctic community of
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Should Canada have a plan for climate refugees?
A new report looking at how climate change around the world will affect human migration, suggests governments need plans to
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Four divers charged with raiding ancient shipwreck in Finland
A southern Finland district prosecutor has pressed charges against four men for allegedly stealing from a shipwreck protected by antiquities
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Italian hunter snared for fake bird calls in Northern Finland
This past summer, Italian hunters were invited to Finland to hunt thrushes, a delicacy in southern Europe. Now one over-enthusiastic
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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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Police militarization scrutinized in U.S. — including Alaska
Images of armored, rifle-toting officers and tear gas canisters dispersing late-night protestors in Ferguson, Missouri, which followed the shooting death
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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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Replanting the sea in Sweden
Environmental damage on land is usually visible, a powerful reminder. But there are serious problems out of sight on the sea
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Archaeological sites targeted in Finland
Evidence of illegal, clandestine excavations has been recently discovered at two of Finland’s well-known prehistoric sites. Pits have been found
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