The move follows an investigation by ProPublica and the Anchorage Daily News that found some cases have taken as long as a decade to reach juries, potentially violating the rights of victims and defendants alike.
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The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.
The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing system of hatcheries. Now, that system is falling apart.
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Searching for solutions to Alaska’s high rate of deadly air crashes
Alaska’s share of fatalities in such crashes has increased from 26% in the early 2000s to 42% since 2016.
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NTSB: Searchers described poor visibility around Misty Fjords fatal crash site
Pilots described cloud ceilings as low as 600 feet above the ground in the valley where the aircraft was found.
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Alaska’s share of fatal, small commercial plane crashes is growing, KUCB and ProPublica investigation shows
The Aug. 5 sightseeing crash near Ketchikan has renewed concerns about the number of fatal, small commercial aircraft accidents in Alaska.
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Fatal crash renews concerns about safety of Alaska aviation
A KUCB and ProPublica investigation in June found that Alaska is home to a growing share of the country’s crashes involving small commercial aircraft. Over the past two decades, the number of deaths in crashes involving these operators has plummeted nationwide, while in Alaska deaths have held relatively steady.
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Commercial aviation is essential to life here. It’s also home to a growing share of the country’s deadly crashes.
Alaska has made up a growing share of the country’s crashes involving small commercial aircraft, according to an investigation by KUCB and ProPublica.
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Attorney General Taylor says ending Alaska’s leading status in sex crimes is priority
Taylor noted that the Department of Law’s budget request includes 10 new prosecutors and nine new support staff that would focus on sex crimes.
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ANTHC boss resigned after employee accused him of ‘unrelenting’ abuse
For more than a decade, Teuber was the president of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and one of the most powerful executives in Alaska.
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Alaska requires that DNA be collected from people arrested for violent crimes. Many police agencies have ignored that.
By failing to collect those DNA samples, law enforcement has left Alaska’s DNA database with crucial gaps, allowing at least one serial rapist to go undetected.
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The House of Representatives voted to eliminate already-approved funding for public media. This bill, now headed to the Senate, will have a devastating impact on public media in Alaska. Make your voice heard before it’s too late.