Crime & Courts

Protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement drew thousands of residents from around Southcentral Alaska who marched peacefully over the weekend. One of the most-watched – and well-attended – was a protest in Palmer that raised concerns about violence but ended mostly peacefully on Saturday. The march, advertised as the Palmer Vigil for…

“We recognize that too often African-Americans, Alaska Natives, and other people of color are not treated with the same dignity and respect as white members of our communities,” the justices wrote.

One protestor says it can be difficult to see the impacts of systemic police violence in a town where officers generally have a good relationship with the community.

His parole officer was trying to find him to deliver the test results but found Fields broke quarantine by leaving his hotel to visit his mother, the charges say.

Dunleavy will make his first appointment to the five-member Supreme Court from four candidates.

This comes after two more staff members tested positive for the disease this week, more than a month after the first case was detected at the facility. So far, 10 staff members at the facility have contracted the virus. 

Four girls are suing the Lower Kuskokwim School District, alleging that it didn’t properly follow up on multiple complaints of sexual misconduct by a former Bethel elementary school principal.

The missing and murdered Native women epidemic is an issue affecting Indigenous people in the United States, Canada and around the world.

How to identify and protect yourself from fraudulent activity related to economic stimulus payments, home testing kits, nonexistent vaccines and dubious cure-all elixirs.

Although the identity of the deceased remains unknown, law enforcement officials believe the remains are contemporary rather than archaeological.