Troopers On The Front Lines: Protecting Alaska's Communities Amidst Natural Disasters

Verkkoin the coastal community of kotzebue, alaska, climate change is threatening the way of life for native communities who have been living there for.

Verkkoas the southeast alaska community of wrangell mourns and continues to respond to a landslide disaster that killed at least four people,.

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Alaska refuses to allow vpsos to travel among villages as “rovers,” to handle cases outside their immediate village or to investigate felonies.

Verkkoalaska tribes could gain the power to prosecute domestic violence and sexual assault in native villages as part of a pilot program under consideration in the.

Senate passed a resolution (attached), introduced by u. s.

Senators lisa murkowski and dan sullivan,.

Verkkowhen an alaska tribe asked him to help one if its citizens get their domestic violence protective order enforced, he asked a number of state troopers.

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Verkkoalaska is warming at twice the rate of the global average, according to climate scientists.

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Particularly affected communities are coastal alaska natives.

Verkkoour defense policies and priorities must reflect this role for alaska, and we must deploy the assets necessary to ensure the last frontier remains the.

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