Nineteen-year-old Jamison Gallion admitted to setting fire to seven properties, including two structures with people inside.
Crime & Courts
Alaska public defender shortage will grow worse without action, budget documents indicate
The shortage has already caused public defenders to begin refusing cases in Nome and Bethel.
Retiring from the high court, Alaska’s chief justice defends its system of selecting judges
Members of the Senate’s coalition majority say they don’t expect changes to the system before the 2024 election, but others aren’t sure.
Federal charges for Halibut Cove woman accused of driving boat at floatplane
The plane’s pilot said he was taking a group on a sightseeing tour of Katmai National Park when Beck’s boat headed straight at him.
Disgraced former Anchorage health director accused of defrauding state militia
Former Anchorage Health Director Joe Gerace has been charged with one civil count of fraudulent misrepresentation.
Dunleavy picks Sitka judge for Supreme Court, first justice in decades from small-town Alaska
Jude Pate is also the first justice to come from Southeast Alaska since 2013.
Juneau womanʼs stolen regalia has been returned anonymously
More than two weeks after Neilga Koogéi Taija Revels’s regalia was stolen from her Juneau home, she says it’s been returned anonymously by someone who refused the reward she offered.
Attorneys to offer free legal counsel on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
This is the first year services will be offered in-person since the pandemic began. Events will be held in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau and — for the first time this year — Bethel.
Alaska Gov. Dunleavy appoints two new judges to Anchorage Superior Court
The two new judges will fill seats opened by the impending retirements of Erin Marston and Eric Aarseth.
After suspect’s arrest, Juneau woman is still hopeful her regalia will come home
Neilga Koogéi Taija Revels says the stolen regalia is an important piece of Hoonah’s history — and one of the few things she had left from her grandmother.