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On Thursday in Juneau’s Dimond Courthouse, justices appeared likely to reject the request on procedural grounds. 

The judgment against Carla and James Vernon Sigler is the largest awarded in an Alaska elder abuse case, officials say. Sigler was just re-elected as treasurer of her home county.

Jeffrey Fultz was arraigned Wednesday after two more women accused him of assaulting them under the guise of medical treatment.

Former Juneau-area chiropractor Jeffrey Fultz was arraigned Wednesday after two more women accused him of assaulting them under the guise of medical treatment.

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Posted by Katherine Rose | Apr 29, 2021 A group of local advocates known as the ‘Herring Protectors’ protest the state’s management of the Sitka Sound Sac Roe Herring Fishery. (KCAW/Berett Wilber) After several years of litigation, the case between the Sitka Tribe of Alaska and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and Board of Fisheries has been resolved and will not go to trial this summer.  Sitka Tribe filed suit against ADF&G in 2018, over the department’s management of the Sitka...

Posted by Katherine Rose | Apr 22, 2021 The Board of Fish meeting at Sitka’s Harrigan Centennial Hall in 2018. Earlier this year, legal representatives for the Sitka Tribe of Alaska argued in court that the Alaska Department of Fish and Game had not upheld its constitutional duty in its management of the Sitka Sound Sac Roe Herring Fishery, when it did not provide the “best available information” to the Board of Fish during the 2017-2018 meeting. In March, a Juneau Superior Court Judge de...

Court hears more arguments from Tribe, state on herring fishery Posted by Katherine Rose | Jan 20, 2021 2019: STA employees sorted and weighed a 700 pound truckload of herring eggs on hemlock branches to distribute to Sitka elders. (KCAW/ Enrique Pérez de la Rosa) A Juneau Superior Court judge will decide whether the state has met its constitutional obligation for subsistence, in the management of the Sitka Sound Sac Roe Herring Fishery. The court heard oral arguments on January 14 from attorn...

Sitka Tribe scores one win in herring lawsuit and tries for another Posted by Katherine Rose | Jan 7, 2021 STA staff and volunteers distribute herring eggs on branches after the 2020 subsistence harvest (KCAW/Berett Wilber) The Sitka Tribe of Alaska in November won another round in its legal fight with the state over the management of the commercial herring fishery. And next week (1-14-20) the court will hear new oral arguments, and decide whether the state has upheld its constitutional respons...