Also: The Trump administration opens the vast majority of NPR-A to leasing, and a Kodiak couple faces possible deportation due to a voter registration error by the state.
Justine Paul was accused of killing his girlfriend, Eunice Whitman, in Bethel in 2015. In Alaska’s slow-motion criminal justice system, he was kept behind bars even as the evidence against him fell apart. (Reported in partnership with ProPublica)
The Trump administration wants the public to weigh in as it prepares for a review of the federal subsistence program in Alaska, an action that the state’s largest Alaska Native group fears will weaken the program.
The updated management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska will replace a Biden-era plan that sharply limited oil and gas leasing in the reserve.
After completing a court-ordered environmental study, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said no changes are needed for the 2022 sale that drew just one bid. (via Alaska Beacon)
The grants paid for infrastructure to support the defunct ferry project originally intended to carry passengers between Port MacKenzie and Anchorage. (via Mat-Su Sentinel)
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities allocated $9 million for Anchorage projects out of the total $77 million set aside for statewide highway safety.
