ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 28 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Alaska District issued the following news release: Ryan Zachry assumed duties as the small business professional for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Alaska District in November. In his new position, Zachry informs and advises the district leadership on all matters that affect small businesses throughout the acquisition process including acquisition planning, source selection and contract performance. As the small business profes  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Nov. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Scientists and local community leaders hosted Dr. Asemeret Asefaw Berhe in Utqiagvik, Alaska, where she visited NGEE Arctic field sites. From left: Brian Benscoter, Stan Wullschleger, Rob Leland, Erin Whitney, Colleen Iversen, Katrina Bennett, Victoria DiStefano, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Frieda Nageak, Srinivas Iyer, Matt Heavner, Mark Ivey, AnnMarie Horowitz. Credit: G  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau issued the following order (WC Docket No. 21-93) on Nov. 29, 2023: * * * In the Matter of Request for Waiver by Lower Yukon (Alaska) School District Mountain Village, AK Request for Waiver by Northwest Arctic Borough School District and OTZ Remote Villages Home Internet Support Kotzebue, AK Establishing Emergency Connectivity Fund to Close the Homework Gap ORDER By the Chief, Wireline Competition Bur  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs issued the following news release: Indian Affairs announced the award of nearly $2 million in Indian Child Welfare Act grants to 10 Tribal organizations to help support off-reservation Indian child and family service programs, which provide services intended to stabilize American Indian and Alaska Native families and Tribes, prevent the breakup of families, and ensure that the permanent removal of an American I  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (TNSres) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Alaska Regional Office issued the following feature story: * * * Team works independently and in partnership with NOAA Fisheries. * * * For Native American Heritage Month, NOAA Fisheries celebrates the Indigenous scientists who help make our work in marine mammal conservation possible. The Tribal Government of the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island conducts high-level science and management of their marine r  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- TheThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Alaska Regional Office issued the following feature story on Nov. 29, 2023: * * * NOAA Fisheries highlights one of our tribal partners for November's National Native American Heritage Month * * * The call came in to NOAA's Alaska Marine Mammal Stranding Network 24-hour hotline the morning of July 19. A whale-watching company near Ketchikan had spotted a humpback whale entangled in line and dragging unmarked buoys  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (TNSres) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Alaska Fisheries Science Center issued the following feature story: * * * Alaska ecosystem changes may pose challenge for juvenile chum salmon under warming ocean temperatures * * * After looking at nearly two decades of survey data, scientists found evidence to suggest that recent marine heatwave events in the eastern Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska may have played a key role in juvenile chum salmon survi  more