ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 24 -- Alaska Attorney General Treg R. Taylor issued the following news release on Aug. 23, 2023: Today, the State of Alaska asked the U.S. Supreme Court to protect state employees' First Amendment rights to free speech. In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Council 31 that states cannot force public employees to support, through their paychecks, union speech that they disagree with. According to the st  more

JUNEAU, Alaska, Aug. 23 -- Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, issued the following news release on Aug. 22, 2023: Governor Mike Dunleavy today appointed Jason Brune to the public seat on the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC) Board of Trustees. Brune is no stranger to state government or the APFC board. He most recently served as commissioner of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and occupied the seat on the APFC board assigned to the DEC commissioner. He replaces outg  more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 26 -- GCI, a telecommunications company, issued the following news release: On the heels of a successful 5G mobile wireless service launch in the remote community of Unalaska, GCI has turned up 5G service in Kodiak, Valdez and Talkeetna, extending 5G service throughout even more of the state. GCI, Alaska's largest telecommunications provider, invested more than $5 million to deploy 5G in the three communities. In Kodiak, customers will now enjoy all the perks of 5G cove  more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 23 -- GCI, a telecommunications company, issued the following news release on Aug. 22, 2023: GCI announced today that it has been awarded a $35 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development's ReConnect program to bring fiber-optic connectivity to Toksook Bay, Emmonak and Tununak. Connectivity will be delivered to the three communities through an expansion of the AIRRAQ Network, a joint GCI-Bethel Native Corporation (BNC) project to deliver high-  more

BROOKINGS, South Dakota, Aug. 23 (TNSres) -- South Dakota State University issued the following news: Through a four-year, $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, South Dakota State University will partner with universities from the far-corners of the United States to improve electrical grids with an emphasis on underserved, rural communities. The project, titled "STORM: Data-Driven Approaches for Secure Electric Grids in Communities Disproportionately Impacted by Climate Change,  more