Juneau Independent

Chief Sean Case addressed questions raised by the national series and said recent policy changes, outreach and coordination are helping the department improve MMIP investigations.

Officials with the Alaska National Guard said plans to deploy a trained rapid response force this month to support federal authorities in Washington D.C. has been pushed back to May.

House lawmakers are scheduled to vote on the proposal at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, with big spending from savings possible.

New lawsuit says leading companies failed — in thousands of cases — to get charities’ permission before trying to raise money in their names.

Wind and snow whipped at Kotzebue preacher Rusty Dimmick and three travelers as they stood in a circle holding hands. The travelers, all from the Northwest Arctic, planned to drive over 600 miles to dozens of remote villages across Western Alaska by snowmachine, educating rural residents about voting.

Environmental plaintiffs say the administration’s decision to revoke decades-old protections for land around the trans-Alaska pipeline violates several laws.

Corrections officials pointed to ballooning costs for staffing the state’s 13 prisons and medical care for inmates, and recommended a new task force or consultant to address budgeting.

Billionaire investor John Paulson made a splash in Alaska’s mining industry last year when he paid $800 million for a 40% stake in the huge Donlin gold project.

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

Proposal would reestablish state authority to manage sport hunting and trapping in federal territory that is part of the national park system.

In Alaska, a suspended driver’s license will stay suspended unless a driver takes steps to reactivate it, the Alaska Court of Appeals ruled this week.

Division of Elections and Department of Law decline to waive secrecy on advice that led state to hand detailed data to the Department of Justice.