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James Brooks

Juneau

State Reporter at Alaska Beacon

State reporter for @alaskabeacon, formerly @adndotcom, @juneauempire, @newsminer and @kodiakmirror. He/him. -On Mastodon @[email protected]

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  • 3 weeks ago | juneauempire.com | James Brooks

    In an extraordinary order, a Ketchikan Superior Court judge has dismissed murder charges against a Metlakatla man, citing a lengthy series of errors, lies and evidence concealed from defense attorneys by the Metlakatla Police Department. The errors, Judge Daniel Doty said last week in an order, were so severe that defendant Isaac Henderson cannot be guaranteed a fair trial. The order dismisses the charges against Henderson with prejudice, meaning that they cannot be brought again.

  • 3 weeks ago | arctictoday.com | James Brooks

    Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s annual energy conference included visits from three of the Trump administration’s top officials, but it didn’t include any major developments on the financing of the proposed 800-mile trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline.

  • 3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | James Brooks

    The trans-Alaska pipeline is seen on Sept. 19, 2022, in Fairbanks. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s annual energy conference included visits from three of the Trump administration’s top officials, but it didn’t include any major developments on the financing of the proposed 800-mile trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline.

  • 3 weeks ago | juneauempire.com | James Brooks

    The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development is proposing new rules that could reduce the amount of money that local governments are able to contribute to their neighborhood school districts.

  • 3 weeks ago | juneauempire.com | James Brooks

    A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the board which regulates subsistence hunting on federal lands within Alaska acted legally when it created an emergency hunt for a Southeast Alaska village during the COVID-19 pandemic emergency.

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RT @KRNV: NEW EPISODE 🎙️ Before Nevadans vote on Question 3, how has ranked choice voting worked in other states? Have there been hiccups?…

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