The move follows an investigation by ProPublica and the Anchorage Daily News that found some cases have taken as long as a decade to reach juries, potentially violating the rights of victims and defendants alike.
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‘Other people’s beloveds’: The decisions and delays that preceded a fatal beating at Anchorage’s jail
The two men, who’d each been diagnosed with schizophrenia in their 20s and ended up in Alaska’s correctional system, should never have been held in a cell together, relatives say.
Alaska has resolved school funding equity concerns, feds say, releasing $17.5M in pandemic aid
For months, the federal education agency said Alaska had not funded schools equitably during the pandemic, which was a condition of receiving $359 million in federal education funding.
Alaska school districts could take financial hit as education department considers tighter limits on local funding
Anchorage and Juneau schools appear to face the biggest hit, but education officials warn the impacts could be felt more widely.
Stolen suitcase and quarantined steamship led to arrest in Juneau woman’s 1919 murder
Myra Schmidt, around 22 years old, was killed in her isolated cabin in February 1919. Later that year, a jury convicted John “Whiskey Jack” Gaslow of her murder.
Decades ago, sperm whales learned how to raid fishermen’s lines of black cod. Now, an Alaska man is charged with killing one.
A Ketchikan fisherman has pleaded guilty in federal court to killing an endangered sperm whale in a first-of-its-kind case.