The mourners were mostly women, and they joined others in Anchorage, Fairbanks and across the country in grieving for 87-year-old justice.
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Juneau reports two inmates at Lemon Creek among 9 new COVID-19 cases
According to the city, both had recently been admitted to the facility and were in quarantine, so they didn’t have contact with other inmates.
Juneau suspends drinking in bars again as COVID-19 cases spike
A weekend pop-up testing site at Centennial Hall targeted toward people who have been to bars in recent weeks saw 147 people by mid-afternoon on Friday.
Alaska’s plan to borrow money to pay off oil tax credits blocked by state supreme court
According to the Friday ruling, the court said that this plan is exactly the kind of debt the framers of the state’s constitution were trying to avoid when they prohibited lawmakers from taking on debt under most circumstances.
The runway lights broke, but Igiugig guided in a child’s medevac plane with headlights
Late Friday night a child in Igiugig needed to be medevaced to Anchorage. The small Southwest Alaska village is right at the mouth of the Kvichak River on the south end of Iliamna Lake. LifeMed sent a King Air flight over from Kodiak — that usually takes about 30 minutes. But this year the village’s…
Juneau man found dead at construction site in the Mendenhall Valley
Juneau police say 33-year-old Johnathan Danial Hacko had been working and wasn’t out of sight for very long when one of his coworkers found him.