A January hearing in Juneau was a snapshot of how pretrial delays have affected Alaska courts: victims, witnesses and defendants are often waiting years for a resolution, and their lives are put on hold in the meantime.

Listen: Juneau’s Peterson Lake trail is known for being a bit wet. It winds through muskeg to a lake, where a U.S. Forest Service cabin hosts overnight

Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire from archived editions in 1985, 1995 and 2005. They include names, AP style and other content of their eras.

The plan would allow skilled trail workers to continue their work this summer, after half of the U.S. Forest Service trail crews were fired last month by the Trump administration.

The average residential property assessments rose by less than 1%. But many homes near the riverfront are seeing a decline in their assessed value following last August’s glacial outburst flood.

Internet and phone outages in Juneau affecting certain customers stem from damage to an undersea cable, according to a statement from AT&T.

In Juneau and Washington D.C., legislators try to keep federal chaos at bay, one phone call and story at a time.