Last year, Tracy Day’s family requested a death declaration hearing as a way to ask police officers questions about their investigation. But the judge said their questioning wasn’t allowed.
Yvonne Krumrey
Justice & Culture Reporter, KTOO
"Through my reporting and series Tongass Voices and Lingít Word of the Week, I tell stories about people who have shaped — and continue to shape — the landscape of this place we live."
Tongass Voices: Brian Wallace on preserving time through photography
Wallace has been taking photos of Juneau people, places and happenings since he was a kid. He’s also working to memorialize the past — his own family’s and Juneau’s.
Retrial of former Juneau chiropractor accused of sexual assault may move to Anchorage
The defense attorney for a former Juneau chiropractor who was accused of assaulting more than a dozen women said he wants a retrial to take place in Anchorage instead of Juneau.
Elective surgeries canceled Friday after fire at Bartlett Regional Hospital
Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau was evacuated Thursday after a fire broke out in a utility closet. A maintenance staff member accidentally cut heat tape in a closet in the surgery unit shortly before 2 p.m.
Tongass Voices: Ed Littlefield on composing a Lingít opera
For the past three years, Shaakindustoow Ed Littlefield has been a part of a team composing what will be the first full opera in the Lingit language. It’s about the Battle of Sitka in the early 1800s.
Repatriation and rematriation come together in two new Chilkat robes for Sitka clan
Two Chilkat robes — one very old, one not yet on the loom — will soon belong to a Lingít clan as they work to rebuild their clan house in Sitka.