JUNEAU, Alaska, Dec. 20 (TNSrpt) -- Alaska Attorney General Treg R. Taylor issued the following news release on Dec. 19, 2022: * * * Considering $21 Million in Settlements with CVS and Walgreens * * * The State of Alaska recently agreed to three multi-state settlements with opioid manufacturers and a chain pharmacy in ongoing legal actions relating to the opioid crisis. These include Walmart for approximately $8.5 million, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries for approximately $8.2 million and All  more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 21 -- GCI, a telecommunications company, issued the following news release: GCI continued its long-running support of the annual Special Olympics Alaska Polar Plunge. Hundreds of enthusiastic divers, including six GCI employees, took the icy plunge into Anchorage's Goose Lake as part of Special Olympics Alaska's signature event. The Polar Plunge is Special Olympic Alaska's biggest fundraising events and supports local athletes with intellectual and developmental disabil  more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 23 -- GCI, a telecommunications company, issued the following news release on Dec. 22, 2022: The first GCI customers in Unalaska, the remote fishing town on Alaska's Aleutian Chain, now have access to some of the fastest internet in the nation. Meeting an ambitious, end-of-year goal to deliver fast, affordable, fiber-optic connectivity to the community, GCI connected its first residential customer to its 2 gig (2,000 Mbps!) fiber internet service on Dec. 21. In the comin  more

JUNEAU, Alaska, Dec. 20 (TNSper) -- Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, issued the following news release on Dec. 19, 2022: Governor Mike Dunleavy named Heidi Hedberg to serve as the permanent commissioner of the Alaska Department of Health. Ms. Hedberg was named acting commissioner last month after former Commissioner Adam Crum moved to the Alaska Department of Revenue. "After working with Commissioner Hedberg the past four years, she has impressed me with her management skills, and ability to enac  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 23 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Attorney General Paxton joined a West Virginia-led cert-stage amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the Biden Administration's attempts to encroach upon states' rights and make it more difficult for Americans to hunt. The amicus brief opposes the Biden Department of the Interior's misinterpretation of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act ("ANILCA") and its attempt to requi  more