ANCHORAGE, AK—Corporate interest groups filed appeals Monday seeking to overturn a DNR decision that reserved water for wild salmon in a stream in Upper Cook Inlet. The appeals came in response to an October 7 decision by DNR to grant a water reservation on Middle Creek – a tributary to the Chuitna River – to […]
After seven hours of jury deliberation, Aurora Theater Killer, James Holmes, escaped the death penalty and instead received life without parole, it was announced moments ago. He avoided the death penalty because every jury member must agree on the death penalty in order to apply it. The jury could not come to a unanimous decision. […]
ANCHORAGE – The U.S. Department of Justice has conceded and U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason Tuesday is signed an order confirming that the State of Alaska owns the submerged lands of the Fortymile River’s Mosquito Fork. This is a successful outcome for the State of Alaska, which filed a lawsuit in 2012 seeking to confirm state […]
In a decision announced by the Supreme Court on Thursday, the judges determined that the federal subsidies for Alaska and other states that opted for federally run health care markets were legal. It was determined by a 6-3 vote that it was legal for the 34 states that chose to have the federal government run their […]