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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Crime rates slightly up in Canada’s North
Crime rates are going down everywhere in Canada except the Northern territories and parts of the Maritimes. Statistics Canada says
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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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Court upholds fishing restrictions for Alaska sea lions
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s ruling that keeps in place fishing closures
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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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Sweden’s Supreme Court blocks Gotland quarry
The Swedish Supreme Court has blocked a contested plan for a limestone quarry in Bunge on the island of Gotland
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Cultures collide in Alaska court
BETHEL — The strangely cathartic business of assembly-line justice ground its way through a state court here Tuesday as one by one
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Salmon run’s survival trumps religious rights of Alaska Native fishermen: judge
BETHEL — One by one, Yupik fishermen from along the Kuskokwim River appeared before an Alaska District Court judge here
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Snakes in the North: costly for one young Alaskan — and the government
Little could former Fairbanks dishwasher Matthew Mayo have guessed that his infatuation with the common garter snake would become a
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Village in North Canada wants to banish bootleggers
People in Colville Lake, a community in Canada’s Northwest Territories (N.W.T.), want to be able to hit bootleggers where it
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