WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 -- The U.S. Census Bureau issued the following news release: NOV. 5, 2024 The U.S. Census Bureau is scheduled to hold a webinar November 19 to share the work underway on the Race/Ethnicity Coding Improvement Project and how the public can provide feedback on this work. The Race/Ethnicity Coding Improvement Project is focused on how detailed race/ethnicity populations and American Indian or Alaska Native tribes and villages will be coded in the American Community Survey (ACS)  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Education Inspector General issued the following report on Oct. 30, 2024, entitled "Yukon-Koyukuk School District's Use of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Funds." Here are excerpts: * * * To: Deena M. Bishop. Ed.D., Commissioner, Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, PO Box 110500, Juneau, Alaska 99811 Dear Commissioner Bishop: Enclosed is our final report, "Yukon-Koyukuk School District's Use of Elementa  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska. The FEMA Disaster Recovery Center located in Juneau, Alaska, will be adjusting its hours on November 9 and 10, and close on November 11 to observe Veterans Day. It will reopen on November 12 with a new schedule to continue providing one-on-one assistance for people affected by the August 5-6 Juneau Mendenhall Glacier flooding. Disaster Recover  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released the final Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS), which analyzed a lease sale mandated by Congress in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (Tax Act) for the nearly 1.6-million-acre Coastal Plain of the Arctic Natio  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service issued the following news release: The National Park Service (NPS) today issued a first-ever Director's Order for agency decision makers engaging in nation-to-nation consultations with Indian and Alaska Native Tribes, underscoring the NPS' commitment to developing, implementing, and maintaining positive working relationships with Tribes based on transparency, accountability, mutual trust, and responsibility. The Di  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: For decades, Alaska has been leading the way in gathering and using ecosystem information to inform fish and crab resource management decisions. Now, scientists at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center can rapidly provide managers with information about how changes in the marine environment affect the basis of the marine food web. Details about this new methodology were recently published in a pap  more

CAMP SMITH, Hawaii, Nov. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Indo-Pacific Command issued the following news: JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska During Operation POLAR VORTEX, a Naval and Amphibious Liaison Element (NALE) led by U.S. 3rd Fleet and supported by U.S. Fleet Forces was embedded into the bi-national Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Region to manage the integration of naval and air activity at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska.   more