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A 2024 Supreme Court decision allows cities to ban people from camping in public places, but Juneau city policy allows what’s called “dispersed camping” on unimproved public land.

The Dunleavy administration is bypassing lower courts in its attempt to overturn a decision barring permitting of the controversial copper and gold mine.

Peltola stressed the importance of keeping children with their families or placing them within their tribe.

The Supreme Court’s action means that for now at least, the abortion pill will be widely available, at least in those states where abortion is legal for up to 10 weeks into a pregnancy.

Because Native children represent about 55% of all children in state custody, overturning ICWA would have huge implications for Alaska.

Judge Debra O’Gara says that some states are better than others at adhering to ICWA. “But right now, Alaska, I would say, is not doing so well.”

A Supreme Court ruling overturned Roe v. Wade. Now there’s a big push to increase funding for Title X, a federal program that offers birth control and other reproductive care to low-income patients.

Baltimore was one of the first places to file a lawsuit seeking damages from fossil fuel companies.

The Alaska Housing Finance Corporation opened another round of rental assistance applications last week.

The state of Alaska has been ordered to pay nearly $87,000 in attorneys fees to the American Civil Liberties Union after losing a lawsuit over the governor’s vetoes of court funding in 2019 and 2020.