Alaska is asking frontline essential workers, teachers, prisoners and others in high-risk settings to wait until those elderly Alaskans can be vaccinated first.
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Want to root out discrimination and inequality in Juneau? Apply for a seat on the city’s Systemic Racism Review Committee.
The seven-person committee will review proposed laws and advise the assembly if they include a policy or implication that is racist.
After 3 years and $1.5 million devoted to testing rape kits, Alaska made one new arrest
First of two parts: In the state with the highest rate of sexual assault in the nation, testing the backlog of rape kits may not be enough. Many were from cases where the identity of the suspect was already known, or were opened only to find no usable DNA.
Massive mountain rockslide near Juneau shakes the earth on Christmas Eve
When all that rock fell, it shook the earth equivalent to a magnitude 2.8 or 2.9 earthquake.
Sealaska Heritage and Neiman Marcus will settle lawsuit over sale of Ravenstail coat
SHI President Rosita Worl said “the widespread interest in this story indicates to us that the public is as concerned as we are about protecting our cultural heritage.”
Lisa Murkowski has been vaccinated, and Sullivan and Young will be, too
Members of Congress are eligible for early access to vaccine doses to help ensure continued functioning of government.
Cruise Town, Season 2, Ep. 4: The season that wasn’t
How bad was it? Will the industry bounce back? Will Juneau bounce back? We discuss the cruise season that wasn’t and what Cruise Towns might expect for next year.
Closures send clamdiggers across Cook Inlet
Scientists aren’t sure why the razor clam crash started about a decade ago. What they do know is that stocks aren’t rebounding.
Ketchikan house fire leaves 2 dead
The fire marshal says heavy smoke, heat and flames hampered an effort to rescue those trapped upstairs.
Judge orders Dunleavy administration to treat Alaska Landmine journalists like other media
The temporary order came from U.S. District Court Judge Josh Kindred after a hearing on Wednesday. Kindred said Landfield’s legal team and the evidence they’d shown so far persuaded him that the Landmine would likely win its lawsuit against the state.