Juneau Independent

An Anchorage man is set to plead guilty for making violent threats against U.S. Supreme Court justices and their families.

Veronica Lambertsen is a small business owner with no professional law enforcement experience and a volunteer secretary for the advocacy group Moms for Liberty.

The U.S. Coast Guard said it has seized 5.4 metric tons of allegedly unreported pollock roe and discovered several significant fishing violations aboard one of the biggest factory trawlers operating in the Bering Sea off Alaska.

Gubernatorial hopefuls are blasting Alaska’s trawlers for catching salmon. Now industry allies have launched a radio ad campaign.

With just a few weeks before a renewed state-managed bear killing program is set to start in Western Alaska, conservation groups are seeking a court order to halt it.

Mining, long a part of state history, is now a $4 billion-a-year industry in Alaska, with export value rivaling that of seafood, a state analysis shows.

Here’s what’s happening in the Alaska Capitol and elsewhere across the state.

Mike Dunleavy, in a required gift disclosure, said he accepted a helicopter ride and overnight stay at a preserve. But his hosts won’t be getting any special treatment, he said after returning home.

The Alaska House on Wednesday advanced a bill to establish cooperatives for salmon setnetters, which would allow commingling of fish.

Staff voted to form the union Coalition of Alaska University Staff for Equity, which would join the roughly 120,000 higher education workers with the national United Auto Workers union.

Supporters say the constitutional change could be a powerful tool to provide stable funding for public education, while critics suggest it could remove flexibility in budgeting.

The Alaska Senate on Tuesday unanimously advanced a bill that would clarify state regulators’ authority to oversee pricing for imported natural gas.