A fair courts group and a Juneau man had challenged the governor’s decision to put a suspended attorney in a public seat on ...

Salmon dries in Quinhagak, Alaska, in July 2023. (Photo by Alice Bailey/University of Alaska Fairbanks) Alaska’s current subsistence fishing program can continue without changes, according to a ...

The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that a lower court acted correctly in dismissing an Alaska resident’s challenge to the ...

The judges in the Alaska Court System, and especially in Anchorage, are acutely aware of the challenges faced by our criminal justice system, particularly the significant backlog of criminal cases and ...

Alaska Supreme Court Chief Justice Susan Carney delivers the State of the Judiciary address on Feb. 12, 2025. Alaska Supreme Court Chief Justice Susan Carney defended the court system’s work and laid ...

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Friday proposed a constitutional amendment that would give future governors more latitude when picking judges for the Alaska Court System. If adopted by the Legislature, ...

Mar. 25—This article was produced in partnership with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network. Alaska's Supreme Court has placed new limits on how long criminal cases can be postponed, part of an effort ...

Former Kodiak Superior Court judge Joel Bolger has been named chief justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, effective July 1. Bolger, who was appointed to the court in 2013 by then-Gov. Sean Parnell, ...

On May 2, in a unanimous decision, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that the staff at the state-run Alaska Psychiatric Institute violated the constitutional rights of an Alaskan with mental illness when ...

State Attorney General Treg Taylor on Monday heard fiery testimony from a packed crowd during a town hall in Soldotna centering on investigative grand juries. The State Department of Law in July ...

Alaska’s current subsistence fishing program can continue without changes, according to a Wednesday opinion by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The ruling allows the ...