Crime & Courts

Jude Pate is also the first justice to come from Southeast Alaska since 2013.

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.

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.

The two new judges will fill seats opened by the impending retirements of Erin Marston and Eric Aarseth.

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.

Prosecutors say Walls slammed a man against a stone wall and held him in a chokehold after the man stumbled into Walls’ wife’s chair.

Jeff Walls was indicted in the alleged felony assault on Thursday.

She hopes someone will recognize the regalia or come forward to Juneau police if they know anything.

The most serious charge is third-degree assault — injuring someone with a dangerous instrument.

The Wasilla Republican had been accused of violating the Alaska Constitution’s disloyalty clause with his Oath Keepers membership.