JUNEAU, Alaska, March 6 -- Alaska Attorney General Treg R. Taylor issued the following news release: * * * Court Orders Local Business to Pay $250,000 Penalty for Selling Imported Products as Alaskan Made (Anchorage, AK) - Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor announced that the Alaska Department of Law's Consumer Protection Unit obtained a Superior Court order requiring B. Merry Studio, Inc., its owners, and an employee to pay a $250,000 civil penalty for marketing products as made in Alaska,   more

JUNEAU, Alaska, March 6 -- Alaska Attorney General Treg R. Taylor issued the following news release: * * * Alaska Challenges the New Rule not the Rehabilitation Act: AG Taylor Explains Why (Anchorage, AK) - Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor wrote the following column to explain why the State is challenging a new Final Rule related to the Rehabilitation Act, adopted last year by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. To be clear: this case is not asking the court to eliminate the  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: * * * BLM Dillon Field Office Completes Programmatic Vegetation Management Environmental Assessment DILLON, Mont. -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Dillon Field Office has completed the Programmatic Vegetation Management Environmental Assessment (EA), which includes actions across 905,000 acres of public land in Beaverhead and Madison counties in southwest Montana. The   more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: * * * Fisheries Society Recognizes Pioneering NOAA Salmon Scientist for Lifetime of Achievements From the Columbia River Estuary to the farthest reaches of the stormy Gulf of Alaska in the middle of winter, Dr. Laurie Weitkamp has gone far and wide to study and better understand the salmon and steelhead that are the lifeblood of Northwest rivers and cultures. Last month the Oregon Chapter o  more