ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 10 -- Alaska Attorney General Treg R. Taylor issued the following news release on May 9, 2024: Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor today announced a $10.25 million, 50-jurisdiction settlement with wireless carriers, AT&T Mobility, LLC, Cricket Wireless, LLC, T-Mobile USA, Inc., Cellco Partnership, d/b/a Verizon Wireless, and TracFone Wireless, Inc., which resolves an investigation by a coalition of state attorneys general into these wireless carriers' deceptive and mislea  more

SEATTLE, Washington, May 8 -- Alaska Airlines, a subsidiary of Alaska Air Group, issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: As part of Alaska Airlines' longstanding journey to make air travel more sustainable, the airline will now give guests the choice to voluntarily reduce the environmental impact of their travel with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) credits during the booking process. Guests can choose to support SAF in an amount based on 5%, 10% or 20% of their carbon impact when they  more

DENVER, Colorado, May 10 -- The American Indian College Fund issued the following news release: Jade Araujo, an enrolled member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) in Massachusetts and a descendant of the Tlingit and Koyukon Athabascan tribes in Alaska, is the third person to have been awarded the American Indian College Fund Law School Scholarship. Araujo is a senior at Stanford University who will graduate in June with a degree in political science and will enter Harvard Law School   more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 10 -- GCI, a telecommunications company, issued the following news release: Beginning with the Cape Nome repeater, overlooking Norton Sound in Northwest Alaska, crews have kicked off the annual effort to refuel 22 TERRA Network microwave towers perched on remote mountaintops. Far from commercial power grids, these towers must be able to stay running and self-sufficient for months at a time. With assistance from local contractors, refueling crews will make more than 200 r  more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 8 -- GCI, a telecommunications company, issued the following news release: After working through an extensive checklist of technical work and testing, residential urban level speeds, plans and pricing are now available in Akutan. The remote Aleutian community is the fourth connected so far through GCI's Aleutians Fiber Project, joining Unalaska, Sand Point and King Cove. "Akutan presented some unique challenges for the project team that we didn't face in the other commun  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, May 9 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: Temperatures are rising rapidly in the Arctic, raising questions about how communities are coping in the shifting climate. A team led by Penn State researchers reviewed studies from the past 30 years to examine whether these challenges are causing people to migrate out of the area -- or if, and why, they're deciding to stay. The researchers, who published the findings in Regional Environmental Chan  more

KOTZEBUE, Alaska, May 9 -- NANA Regional Corp. issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: On May 8, 2024, NANA Regional Corporation, Inc. (NANA) announced its decision to withdraw from further involvement with the Ambler Access Project (AAP), a decision reached after thorough deliberation by the NANA board of directors. Consequently, NANA will not renew Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority's (AIDEA) surface access permit set to expire this year. This decision reflects unmet  more