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Alaska governor plans to sign bill aimed at increasing download speeds for rural schools

Mar. 26, 2024 13:05 PM EDT

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy plans to sign legislation passed days ahead of a funding application deadline that aims to increase internet download speeds for rural schools. Under the bill, HB193, schools would be able to get grants to increase download speeds to...

Editorial Roundup: Illinois

Mar. 26, 2024 07:12 AM EDT

Arlington Heights Daily Herald. March 23, 2024. Editorial: Blagojevich’s impotent populism No one was particularly surprised, not even the impeached former governor himself, with the ruling of a federal judge on Thursday that Rod Blagojevich cannot sue to block an...

Today in History: March 24, Exxon Valdez crashes in Alaska, creates massive oil spill

Mar. 24, 2024 00:02 AM EDT

Today in History Today is Sunday, March 24, the 84th day of 2024. There are 282 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez (vahl-DEEZ’) ran aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William...

FBI tells passengers on the Alaska Airlines flight that lost a panel they might be crime victims

Mar. 22, 2024 19:29 PM EDT

The FBI has told passengers on the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max that lost a door-plug panel in midflight that they might be victims of a crime. “I’m contacting you because we have identified you as a possible victim of a crime,” a victim specialist from the federal agency's...

SEC climate rule prompts a rush to sue. Experts say companies are likely to prepare to comply anyway

Mar. 20, 2024 15:58 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's new rule requiring companies to disclose some emissions and climate-related information was barely passed before the agency was being hauled to court. The rule adopted in early March was watered down from what the...

10 years after the deadliest US landslide, climate change is increasing the danger

Mar. 20, 2024 13:45 PM EDT

OSO, Wash. (AP) — After the mountainside collapsed, obliterating a neighborhood and 43 lives in the worst landslide disaster in U.S. history, Jessica Pzsonka made a promise -– to herself, to her bereft parents and to her late sister, who was buried along with two young sons, her husband and...

Things to know about the risk of landslides in the US

Mar. 20, 2024 00:22 AM EDT

OSO, Wash. (AP) — Landslides occur around the world and have helped shape the Earth as we know it. They tend to garner little notice when they strike in remote, unpopulated areas, but they also have the potential to cause immense catastrophes. The landslide that destroyed a rural...

A southeast Alaska community wrestles with a deadly landslide's impact

Mar. 20, 2024 00:14 AM EDT

WRANGELL, Alaska (AP) — Jamie Roberts and her husband felt lucky when they found an A-frame cabin on forest-draped Wrangell Island in southeast Alaska, where they could settle on a few acres and have some chickens. A stretch of highway a few miles north, the only road into town,...

Alaska lawmakers fail to override the governor's education package veto

Mar. 18, 2024 21:36 PM EDT

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska lawmakers on Monday failed to override Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy's veto of an education package, just weeks after the bill that sought to boost spending on public schools overwhelmingly passed the Legislature. Monday's vote during a joint session of...

Alaska governor vetoes education package lawmakers overwhelmingly passed

Mar. 15, 2024 17:10 PM EDT

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said Friday that he's moving on to other issues after vetoing an education package overwhelmingly passed by lawmakers. The Legislature plans to meet to consider a veto override next week. Dunleavy, a Republican and former educator,...