COLUMBIA, South Carolina, March 6 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news: * * * Attorney General Alan Wilson defends pro-life students at the Supreme Court * (COLUMBIA, S.C.) - Attorney General Alan Wilson has joined a 15-state friend-of-the-court brief to the Supreme Court supporting a high school student who was prohibited from expressing her pro-life views inside her school. "Deeply held beliefs don't stop when a student enters the doors of their school  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 7 (TNSLrpt) -- Union Members in Alaska 2025 - A report from U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics Western Region - March 6, 2026 * * * In 2025, union members accounted for an estimated 18.1 percent of wage and salary workers in Alaska, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See chart 1 and table 1.) Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that the estimated number of workers belonging to unions was 57,000. Nationwide, union membe  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Humane World Action Fund (formerly the Humane Society Legislative Fund) issued the following news release on March 6, 2026: * * * Bears' lives caught in government ping pong match Proposed federal rule seeks to roll back critical wildlife protections and allow cruel 'bear baiting' in Alaska's national parks once again * The Trump administration has once again advanced a proposal to strip away wildlife protections and permit some of the most horrific trophy-hunting pra  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release: * * * Interior Proposes to Restore State-Aligned Hunting Regulations on Alaska National Preserves * The Department of the Interior today announced a proposed rule to restore longstanding hunting and trapping regulations on Alaska's national preserves, realigning federal regulations with Alaska state wildlife management laws and reinstating the framework that governed preserves for more than three de  more

MONTREAL, Quebec, March 6 -- Canadian Heritage issued the following news release: * * * Member of Parliament Brendan Hanley highlights Government of Canada investment ahead of the 2026 Arctic Winter Games * WHITEHORSE, March 6, 2026 -  With just two days until the start of the 2026 Arctic Winter Games, the Government of Canada is highlighting its $2,665,000 investment in the Games and the lasting impact this support is having on sport infrastructure, culture and community development in Yuk  more

ROLLA, Missouri, March 6 -- Missouri University of Science and Technology posted the following news: * * * The future of mining engineering: Sam Steele is more than ready * By the time Sam Steele graduates from Missouri S&T, the mining engineering junior who is also a Kummer Vanguard Scholar, will already have experience working in underground salt mines in New York, surface phosphate operations in Florida and a blasting company in Herman, Missouri. Steele grew up in Kansas, and his dad is  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 (TNSjou) -- The National Parks Conservation Association issued the following news release on March 6, 2026: * * * Advocates Reject Proposal to Allow Bear Baiting on National Parklands in Alaska Proposed rule ignores National Park Service obligations to protect wildlife by allowing bear baiting in Denali and Wrangell-St. Elias National Preserves * ANCHORAGE - Wildlife and national parks advocates decried new proposed wildlife regulations released by the Department of Inte  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Rep. Jared Huffman, D-California, issued the following news release: * * * Natural Resources Democrats Secure Six Bipartisan Geothermal Bills, Save Our Sequoias Framework in Committee Markup * Committee advances clean energy legislation, sequoia protections, and bills to support Alaska Native communities Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Democrats advanced a bipartisan package of geothermal energy bills and a negotiated framework to protect   more

DENVER, Colorado, March 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado posted the following news release: * * * Philadelphia Man Sentenced To 78 Months For COVID Relief Fraud And International Money Laundering The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado announces that Adepoju Babtunde Salako, 34, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud conspiracy and one count of money   more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee issued the following information for a hearing entitled "Examination of S. 3135, the Cold Weather Diesel Reliability Act" at 10 a.m. on March 11, 2026, at 562 Dirksen Senate Office Building: Panel 1 * Ryan Anderson, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities * Todd Fornstrom, President, Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities * John Walke, Director for Clear Air Programs an  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 [Category: Environment] -- The Defenders of Wildlife posted the following news release: * * * Trump Administration Turns its Back on Wildlife - Again * The National Park Service today proposed a regulation that would abdicate the agency from its responsibility to manage wildlife in Alaska's national preserves and to instead defer to state regulations. This is similar to a 2020 regulation promulgated by the first Trump administration, which Defenders of Wildlife challenged  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following news release: * * * Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy & Freedom250 Unveil 'Freedom Moves You' Campaign and Other Freedom250 Initiatives to Celebrate 250 Years of American Greatness * WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy today highlighted the Department's new "Freedom Moves You" campaign - a free storytelling program that brings iconic American images and thought-provoking   more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: * * * WICKER, HYDE-SMITH ASK EPA TO REVERSE BIDEN-ERA VAPOR TESTING REQUIREMENTS * Miss. Senators, Colleagues Say California-inspired Rule Harms Small Businesses, Could Affect Gasoline Availability WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) this week joined colleagues in asking the Trump administration to reverse a Biden administration rule that impose  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: * * * WICKER, HYDE-SMITH ASK EPA TO REVERSE BIDEN-ERA VAPOR TESTING REQUIREMENTS Miss. Senators, Colleagues Say California-inspired Rule Harms Small Businesses, Could Affect Gasoline Availability * WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) this week joined colleagues in asking the Trump administration to reverse a Biden administration rule that imposes cost  more