Legal experts say that unless the justice system includes more Indigenous people as lawyers and judges — inequities in incarceration will continue.
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Watch: In August, scientists saw rare right whales twice in Alaska waters
Biologist Jessica Crance witnessed both sightings personally, and is among a handful of living people who have seen one of this population of right whales up close since the species was devastated by commercial whaling.
Alaska Senate passes bill aimed at easing COVID-19 strain on hospital, but amends it to oppose vaccine mandates
The House could vote to remove the amendments focused on vaccine mandates before the session ends on Tuesday.
Alaska reports 2 new COVID deaths as hospitalizations continue to break records
By Friday, a total of 208 people were fighting COVID-19 in Alaska hospitals, up from 206 on Thursday. Twenty-seven of the COVID-19 patients were on ventilators.
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Under the first draft of a state redistricting plan Southeast Alaska keeps all four of its current House seats despite losing population in most of those constituencies since 2010,
Wrangell’s newspaper is having a changing of the guard,
Eagle River Republican Senator Lora Reinbold has been excused from attending Senate floor sessions starting this weekend through next January because she has been banned from Alaska Airlines for refusing to wear a mask and says she doesn’t have another way to get to Juneau,
The number of Alaskans hospitalized with COVID-19 reach a new high in a string of record totals this week
Storms, high winds projected to be more frequent in Western Alaska
A University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist said that the reason why Western Alaska is getting windier is that it will soon inherit the Aleutian Islands’ storms. In today’s climate, the Aleutian islands are the windiest area in Alaska.