Woodcutting case turns spotlight on indigenous rights in Canada’s North
A $230 fine for cutting firewood has turned into a court battle for an aboriginal man in Canada’s Northwest Territories
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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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Western Alaska leaders fret over marijuana legalization in rural communities
As debate over whether to legalize marijuana in Alaska heats up, the question as to how rural communities will tackle
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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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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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Strict security at Facebook’s server in Sweden’s Far North
This Spring, Facebook opened its first ever server outside the United States – in the northern Swedish town of Luleå.
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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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Domestic violence deaths preventable says coroner in Canada’s Northwest Territories
The Chief Coroner of Canada’s Northwest Territories says officials missed opportunities to prevent a woman in the community of Tuktoyaktuk
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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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VIEWS: Anchorage, Alaska unsettled over moose shooting
When is it a big deal to shoot a bull moose this time of year in Alaska? Only when it
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Pot raids in Canada’s Arctic and Montreal net 1,000 plants, 22 kgs
Police in Quebec and Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut say they’ve busted up a major pot-smuggling operation. More than
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Putin says Greenpeace activists not pirates
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Greenpeace activists apprehended after trying to scale an offshore oil platform aren’t
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BLOG -Seldom spoken truth in subsistence battle: How unproductive Alaska lands really are
Alaska’s long, bitter subsistence battle is back in the news again. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, last week called a hearing
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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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