WASHINGTON, March 5 -- The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) issued the following agency statement on March 4, 2024: * * * The funding levels proposed by the House and Senate Appropriations Committees will enable Amtrak to continue connecting America with safe, reliable, and efficient train service in Fiscal Year 2024. Throughout the Northeast Corridor and across the national network - from Maine to Oklahoma, Mississippi to California and along the Pacific Northwest to our Chica  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: Awards are part of larger USDA effort to advance healthy school meals WASHINGTON, March 4, 2024 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that four school districts in Alaska, Iowa, Maine, and Ohio received awards for their trailblazing and innovative efforts to improve the nutritional quality of meals for their students. This announcement was made in front of nearly 850 school nutrition prof  more

PATTEN, Maine, March 5 -- The National Park Service Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument issued the following news release: Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument will receive $140,000 in funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to continue restoration work to improve aquatic passages (culverts and bridges) to benefit endangered Atlantic salmon. These projects infuse much-needed funding in putting people to work in addressing critical ecosystem needs to restore healthy and resilient  more