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News Tipoffs - Alaska Editors Newsletter for Saturday August 24, 2024 ( 2 items )  

Alaska A.G. Taylor: State Appeals Lands Into Trust Decision
JUNEAU, Alaska, Aug. 24 -- Alaska Attorney General Treg R. Taylor issued the following news release on Aug. 23, 2024: (Anchorage, AK) - Today the State appealed U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason's decision upholding a federal agency's authority to take lands into trust in Alaska. "ANCSA eliminated the reservation system in Alaska and left no authority for the federal agency to recreate that system on its own more than 50 years later," Alaska Attorney General Taylor said. "The State is n  more

BLS - Western Region Issues Report Entitled 'Alaska Job Openings and Labor Turnover - June 2024'
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Aug. 23, 2024, entitled "Alaska Job Openings and Labor Turnover - June 2024": * * * Alaska had 26,000 job openings in June 2024, compared to 25,000 openings in May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that the job openings rate in Alaska was 7.2 per  more