ARLINGTON, Virginia, July 5 -- The Institute for Justice issued the following news release on July 1, 2024: On Friday, the Alaska Supreme Court overturned a lower court's ruling that struck down parts of the state's popular Correspondence School Program as unconstitutional. With the lawsuit sent back to the lower court, families who benefit from the program, represented by the Institute for Justice (IJ), will continue to defend the program. In Friday's ruling, the court held the use of the Co  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- The Center for a Humane Economy issued the following news release: * * * But groups decry National Park Service, in a final rule, jettisoning other key provisions to reduce the state's intensive management of bears, wolves on its lands * * * Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy applauded a provision in a final rulemaking action issued last week by the National Park Service (NPS) relating to wildlife management in Alaska's national preserves that ba  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, July 2 [Category: Construction] -- Associated General Contractors of America issued the following news release: Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, Texas and Fairbanks, Alaska Top Lists of Year-over-Year Job Gains, While Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, Colo. and Augusta-Richmond County, Ga.-S.C. Experience Worst Job Losses Construction employment increased in 225, or 63 percent, of 358 metro areas between May 2023 and May 2024, according to an analysis by the Associated General Cont  more

BETHESDA, Maryland, July 4 (TNSres) -- The Wildlife Society, an organization that says it inspires, empowers and enables wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation, issued the following news: * * * Alaska Indigenous people have lived alongside wolves for centuries * * * By Joshua Rapp Learn Wolves have roamed the Alexander Archipelago far longer than human designations such as the Tongass National Forest existed in t  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 [Category: Environment] -- The Defenders of Wildlife issued the following news release: "The 2020 rule was an unconscionable abdication of responsibility by the Park Service," said Nicole Whittington-Evans, senior director of Alaska programs for Defenders of Wildlife. "This rule reconfirms that managing predators to scarcity in the name of boosting ungulate populations is inconsistent with the Park Service's mission to conserve natural wildlife fluctuations, abundances and be  more