(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, the Alaska Supreme Court issued an order in Dunleavy v. Alaska Legislative Council (S-18003), concluding that the governor’s appointments to executive branch boards and commissions that he presented last year to the Thirty-first Alaska Legislature remain in effect because of the legislature’s failure to act on them in joint session. The Court […]
Two Year Upgrade of Alaska’s Automated Fingerprint System Will Help Solve Crimes Faster December 29, 2020 (Anchorage, AK) – After years of planning and months of testing, the upgrade to Alaska’s portion of the Western Identification Network (WIN) Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) has been successfully completed. Alaska, the first state to upgrade among the […]
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Tuesday in a Republican effort to strike down the Affordable Care Act health care law. The hearing comes weeks after Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court, giving conservatives a 6-3 majority. At the center of the case is a requirement in the 2010 law for most people to have a […]
(Anchorage) – Monday, the State of Alaska filed two preliminary injunctions in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska against actions recently taken by the Federal Subsistence Board. The first injunction would halt the unwarranted and unjustified closure of federal lands in Unit 13 to non-federally qualified hunters. The second injunction would […]
The Alaska Department of Law, after a two-year investigation, leveled charges against Anchorage’s Republican legislator. Representative Gabrielle LeDoux and two of her associates accusing them on Friday of election fraud in 2014 as well as 2018. It was on August 16th, 2018 that the Division of Elections notified Alaska State Troopers that they had […]
Recently 10 million dollars were allocated for this particular purpose. Well, I am here in the village of Newtok, Alaska, and wondering if the money used for assisting the Village Police Officers and the concerned citizens. And I am beginning to wonder if the money used for paying the natives to testify in the […]
New outreach efforts underway so that fishery observers feel comfortable reporting harrassment issues and ensure that fishing vessel crews, captains and fishing company managers understand what constitutes harassment. If you’ve watched a reality TV show profiling life on U.S. commercial fishing vessels, you know it’s a challenging and dangerous work environment for the crew. […]