WOOD DALE, Illinois, April 6 -- AAR, a provider of aviation services to commercial and government operators, issued the following news release on April 5, 2024: AAR CORP. (NYSE: AIR), a leading provider of aviation services to commercial and government operators, MROs, and OEMs, broke ground on the expansion of its maintenance, repair, and overhaul facility in Oklahoma City earlier today. More than 150 representatives from AAR, Alaska Airlines, state and local government, and partner organizat  more

JUNEAU, Alaska, April 5 -- Alaska Attorney General Treg R. Taylor issued the following news release on April 4, 2024: Anna Argenti is the new Juneau District Attorney. She was appointed in March. Argenti brings years of experience as a criminal prosecutor of violent crimes, sexual assaults, domestic violence, and vehicular homicide cases, in which she gained significant trial, appellate and motion practice experience. "The Criminal Division is excited Anna has joined our team and confident An  more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 4 -- Alaska Attorney General Treg R. Taylor issued the following news release on April 2, 2024: Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor drew inspiration from a federal judge blocking a federal rule yesterday that tried to coerce state highway departments to measure and reduce CO2 emissions on roadways. The 21-state coalition led by Kentucky challenged the Federal Highway Administration's rule in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. "This rule is mo  more

JUNEAU, Alaska, April 2 -- Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, issued the following news on April 1, 2024: Governor Mike Dunleavy appointed two Alaskans to fill open seats on the Alaska Board of Game and made one reappointment and one appointment to the Board of Fisheries. All appointments begin on July 1, 2024. Board of Fisheries Marit Carlson-Van Dort has been reappointed to the Board of Fisheries that she has served on since 2019. Carlson-Van Dort is the President & CEO of Far West, Inc. an Alas  more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 2 -- The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities issued the following news release: Alaskans will see aviation safety improvements with an Advanced Air Mobility Project (AAM). AAM is a new sector of the aerospace industry that is working to safely integrate highly automated aircraft into the national airspace. Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is working to improve Alaska aviation safety record by leveraging new and emer  more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 4 -- The Cook Inlet Tribal Council issued the following announcement on April 3, 2024: * * * CITC Apprenticeship Program Creates Career Path * * * When Bella Harrison knew she was having a baby, she got motivated. "I was single and not employed at the time. I wasn't in school. I'd just gotten out of a relationship. But the moment I knew I had a baby coming, I knew I needed to get a job to take care of him," she shared. Often, when a person jumps into a job hunt, th  more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 5 -- The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities issued the following news release: The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has approved the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities' (DOT&PF) toll credit program, allowing toll credits to be used to satisfy state match requirements in federally funded transportation projects. The toll credit program will primarily and initially focus on capturing credits earned from reinvestment of Al  more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 3 -- GCI, a telecommunications company, issued the following news release: Fiber-optic connectivity is on the horizon in Akutan! Construction is complete in the Aleutians Fiber Project community and now the GCI project team is working through an extensive checklist of technical network testing before launching urban level speeds, plans, and pricing to residential customers this summer. Once the new service is launched, Akutan will join Unalaska, Sand Point, and King Co  more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 2 -- GCI, a telecommunications company, issued the following news release: The first stretch of AIRRAQ Network fiber has been deployed! Crews recently worked between Eek and Napaskiak, installing approximately 45 miles of fiber over the frozen tundra between the two communities. Once complete, the joint Bethel Native Corporation-GCI AIRRAQ Network fiber project will deliver 2.5 gig residential internet speeds, plans and pricing to 13 Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta communities.   more

STILLWATER, Oklahoma, April 2 (TNSres) -- Oklahoma State University issued the following news: A team from Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation and the University of Oklahoma-University of Tulsa School of Community Medicine studied how teens who self-reported as American Indian/Alaska Natives were reclassified using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ashton Glover Gatewood, a fourth-year medical student from OSU-COM at the Cher  more

JUNEAU, Alaska, April 5 -- Sealaska Heritage Institute issued the following news release: A groundbreaking Tlingit school program established by Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) and the Juneau School District (JSD) in 2000 has a new, award-winning educator as its principal. The JSD tapped Molly Yerkes to lead Harborview Elementary's Tlingit Language, Culture and Literacy (TCLL) program, which expanded from K-5 to grades K-7 this year and will add grade 8 in 2025. Yerkes, who has served as th  more