Senate Bill 91 would allow some low-risk nonviolent offenders to avoid jail time.
Alcohol & Substance Abuse
Dillingham police see disturbing pattern of theft, scams of elders by drug users
Dillingham police are investigating three cases of elderly residents being robbed or scammed for drug money, and chief Dan Pasquariello believes more have occurred.
After 4 days of debate, House adopts criminal justice overhaul
The House and Senate will likely form a conference committee to resolve the differences between the chambers’ different versions of the bill.
AC Quickstop opens Bethel’s first liquor store since ’70s
Facebook comments predict inevitable death and abuse. But no one knows what’s going to happen.
An Opioid Treatment Model Spawns Imitators
Unlike most of the roughly 1,400 methadone clinics across the country, the Broadway Center offers not only methadone, but the two other federally approved addiction medications, buprenorphine and naltrexone, and a full complement of mandatory addiction counseling and group classes.
Alaska Republican Party supports mandatory drug-testing for welfare applicants
The Alaska Republican Party wants to require drug testing for welfare recipients. That’s one of the new planks it added to the party platform at its convention in Fairbanks over the weekend.