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A unique policing agreement in a part of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough will allow tribal police to enforce some state laws.
The idea is that, with state authorization, the Chickaloon Native Village’s tribal police will fill a policing gap in the Sutton area, east of Palmer in a part of the borough that often does not have a meaningful Alaska State Trooper presence....

The Alaska Senate has proposed a new aid package for the state’s fish processing companies — some of which have been teetering among a crash in prices that’s caused an industry-wide crisis.
The Senate, in its capital budget passed last week, included the $7.5 million grant to a nonprofit organization called SeaShare. Most of the cash would go toward buying out what SeaShare calls an “oversupply” of seafood from last year’s harvest, which...

Anchorage police have arrested a man in a deadly cold-case shooting that happened nearly 15 years ago, after officers say he confessed last week.
Court records show John Patrick Dahlquist, 56, charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder in the Dec. 14, 2009 shootings of Sang Chun and Monte Howell at the now-demolished Inlet Inn downtown. Chun died in the shooting, and Howell was severely...