Juneau

She says she’s a big supporter of the therapeutic and mental health courts, which offer treatment-based alternatives to incarceration.

Some people are already lining up to cast their votes.

Polls show the presidential race is unusually tight in Alaska. Juneau residents attending two election events shared their opinions on the polls and the candidates.

The legislature that voters send to Juneau in January will be very different than the one that left in July.

The device consisted of a seal bomb and other homemade explosive materials, a police spokeswoman said.

KTUU is reporting that a local legislative aide tried to affect a state law in a way that would benefit his son, who state prosecutors said sexually abused a 12-year-old girl when he was 18. KTUU reporter Austin Baird discusses the story.

It was the last chance for the public to register opposition to the plan, which has been nearly three years in the making and will go into effect this winter.

The first of two public meetings is Wednesday night at 6 p.m., at the Assembly Chambers.

No one was injured during an incident in which someone fired several shotgun rounds into a residence in the Auke Bay area of Juneau.