Former senator, longtime Native leader Albert Kookesh fighting cancer

Albert Kookesh discusses regional issues in his legislative office in 2012, when he was a state senator. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska)A longtime Alaska political and business leader is fighting prostate cancer.
Former state Sen. Albert Kookesh, an Angoon Democrat, spent 16 years in the Alaska Legislature. As a senator, he represented the state’s largest electoral district, which ran from southern Southeast through the Interior and most of the way to the Bering Sea.
Kookesh also