ANCHORAGE, ALASKA – The Wilderness Society Wednesday announced its support for a bill sponsored by Sen. Lisa Murkowski that is known as the Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act (S. 1889). The legislation would allow five communities omitted from the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to receive settlement land and form corporations, […]
ANCHORAGE – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Alaska, with co-counsel Howard Anderson of Truluck Thomason LLC, has filed a class action lawsuit against the Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) for the denial of religious accommodations for Muslim people detained at Anchorage Correctional Center (ACC). This lawsuit is filed on behalf of William ‘Jamal’ […]
The Reuters/Ipsos poll also found that support for Israel had dropped by nearly 10 percentage points since the last edition on October 12 and 13. Nearly 70% of Americans think that Israel should call a cease-fire in its attack on Gaza, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Wednesday has found. Around 68% of respondents answered that they agreed with the […]
At 2:11 pm in the afternoon on Sunday, the Anchorage Police were called to the 18300-block of North Fire Lake Avenue in Eagle River regarding an incident involving a shooting. When they arrived at the scene, officers found an adult male with a gunshot wound in the lower body who was receiving first aid from […]