The seven-page draft policy covers everything from when troopers should turn on the cameras to how and when the footage will be released.

The head of the Alaska Public Defender Agency notified the judges overseeing the Nome and Bethel judicial districts of the plans Tuesday.

A public hearing is coming up on a proposal to restrict salmon fishing in the Kanektok River near Quinhagak to federally qualified subsistence users. The Federal Subsistence Board has announced that it will hold public hearings on Feb. 15 and Feb. 21.

Anyone impacted by Typhoon Merbok who has not already applied for federal assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency can still apply, but the process is unclear and the agency’s deadline is tight.

Around 9 a.m., just over an hour before sunrise, on Monday, Jan. 30, a handful of spectators gathered around two telephone poles jutting out of the soupy, yet still frozen, Kuskokwim River. The poles marked the finish line of the Kuskokwim 300.

Bethel musher Pete Kaiser has won his seventh Kuskokwim 300 title. He arrived at the Bethel finish line shortly before 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 29 with his team of 11 dogs. A big crowd of friends and family gathered at the finish line to celebrate.

The EPA has vetoed mining at the Pebble deposit in southwest Alaska, exercising a rarely-used power under the Clean Water Act to ban and restrict the discharge of mining materials in waters around the site.

The EPA is exercising its “veto authority” under section 404-c of the Clean Water Act to prohibit mining the Pebble deposit. It’s a move some Bristol Bay tribes have pushed the EPA to take for 13 years.

In 2020, Alaskans voted to change the state’s election system. And last year those changes went into effect in the form of ranked choice voting and non-partisan primaries. But those changes are being challenged, both by a petition and by bills lawmakers will take up this session.