Alaska State

Columbus, OH

UPI News

On Friday the Biden administration's Interior Department blocked construction of the 211-mile Ambler Road as it acted to protect 28 million acres of Alaska ecosystem from oil and gas drilling and mining.

Biden administration blocks Alaska industrial road to protect the environment

The Kigluaik Mountains on the Seward Peninsula are seen in an undated photo. The mountains are in the D-1 lands that remain set aside under a record of decision released Friday. (Photo by Laurie Cadzow/Bureau of Land Management) The Biden administration on Friday took the final step needed to reject...

Biden administration makes final decision rejecting Ambler Access Project in Alaska

Tlingit Tribal members march down Front Street in downtown Juneau on June 8, 2024, during Celebration 2024. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) A federal judge in Anchorage has ruled that the Department of the Interior may take land into trust on behalf of Alaska Native tribes, a decision that could allow tribes to create “Indian country,” which had been mostly eliminated here by the 53-year-old Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

Federal judge says Alaska tribes may put land into trust, a step toward ‘Indian country’ here

Baltimore, MD

Remnants of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Photo from the Maryland Department of Transportation Flickr account. The White House on Friday reiterated its support for full federal funding to replace the Francis Scott Key Bridge in a request to Congress for $4 billion in emergency disaster relief funding. The letter...

Biden administration asks for emergency funds for Key Bridge replacement

California State

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Alameda Post

California regulators just stopped AT&T from pulling the plug. California’s Public Utilities Commission on June 20 rejected AT&T’s application to stop providing landlines and other services in areas where there is no other option.

Still Need Your Landline?

Alaska Department of Health Commissioner Heidi Hedberg gave an update on the backlog of food aid applications in the Division of Public Assistance at a news conference for Gov. Mike Dunleavy's proposed FY 2025 budget in Juneau on Dec. 14, 2023. (Photo by Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon) Alaska’s Department of Health...

USDA penalizes Alaska $12 million for overpaying food stamp benefits

Newark, NJ

Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Eight individuals associated with the "793 Bloods" street gang, a subset of the national Bloods gang, have been charged for their roles in a Newark-based drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Eight '793 Bloods' Gang Members Charged in Newark Drug Network

Iowa City, IA

Iowa City received a federal grant of about $3.75 million, which will be used to construct new houses, provide housing counseling services and remove regulatory barriers to new construction. (Photo via Getty Images) Iowa City has received about $3.75 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)...

Iowa City receives nearly $4 million for housing assistance

Reading, PA

Mahanoy City, PA

The Shenandoah (PA) Sentinel

MAHANOY CITY – Two members of a motorcycle club were convicted on federal charges, accused...
The post Convicted motorcycle club members orchestrated ‘brutal’ home-invasion in Mahanoy, feds say first appeared on The Shenandoah Sentinel.

Convicted motorcycle club members orchestrated ‘brutal’ home-invasion in Mahanoy, feds say

Sacaton, AZ

The Gila River Indian Community held a grand opening celebration for the new Gila River Police Department building in Sacton, Arizona, on June 28, 2024. The nearly 49,000-square-foot facility was built in 18 months. Photo by Shondiin Silversmith | Arizona Mirror. The doors to the new Gila River Police Department...

‘Long time coming’: Gila River Indian Community opens new police department

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The HD Post

CALIFORNIA – California Assembly members voiced concerns, May 14, over a proposed 47 cent gas increase in 2025 and annual increases, to the California Air Resources Board (CARB).

Assembly members voice concerns over proposed 47 cent per gallon gas increase in 2025

Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville Today

This week, City Council is set to begin discussing the proposed deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars to renovate EverBank Stadium. At its center is the agreement for a $1.4 billion stadium overhaul, the cost of which would be split 50-50 with the Jags after the city also covers $150 million in overdue maintenance and repair work. The city has said it plans to pay for its $625 million construction portion, for the most part, by redirecting revenue from a half-penny sales tax, passed as “the Better Jacksonville Plan.” But it’s not a straight line from the tax revenue pot to getting cranes in the air — the plan depends on budget changes to avoid debt on other projects, and using money that would have gone toward paying down that debt on the stadium reno.

How the city wants to pay for the ‘Stadium of the Future’

South Dakota State

Pierre, SD

A neon sign advertises delta-8 products at a store in Sioux Falls. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) A new law barring the production or sale of high-inducing, hemp-derived cannabis products will take effect Monday after a judge declined to block it. Hemp Quarters 605, a Pierre-based shop that sells those products,...

‘Fake weed’ ban will take effect Monday as lawsuit against it proceeds

Colorado State

The Guardian

A Carbon Tracker report shows the cost to safely shut down low-producing wells is $3bn more than what they earn

Colorado oil and gas wells can’t fund their own cleanup. Taxpayers may foot the bill

Idaho State

USA TODAY Sports Media Group

A bear hunter in Idaho believed they had killed a black bear when in reality it was a protected grizzly bear, but it wasn’t the hunter’s fault. It was Idaho Fish and Game’s fault. The unidentified hunter sent Fish and Game recorded videos of the bear at...

Hunter mistakenly kills grizzly bear, but it wasn’t hunter’s mistake

In South Dakota, sculpted rock formations rise from the earth, lakes shine like glass, and prairies grasp onto the horizon like endless oceans of grass. The landscape is so astonishingly beautiful it feels like one big national park. This is the ancestral land of the Lakota and Dakota. Today the state is home to nine tribal governments and more than 71,000 Native American people.

A first-time guide to South Dakota

Denver, CO

David Heitz

The Finance and Governance Committee of the Denver City Council voted Tuesday to ask voters whether the U.S. citizenship requirement for police and firefighters should be dropped.

Committee OKs removing citizenship requirement for police, firefighters in Denver

Ohio State

Several weeks ago, State Rep. Brian Stewart lamented on social media that 75% of Ohio’s lawyers are concentrated in the six largest counties. For many Ohioans, that fact oozes with unfairness. It suggests that people in rural communities aren’t receiving adequate legal representation. Who wouldn’t sympathize, right? That...

Concern for shortage of rural lawyers exposes Ohio’s disproportionate white male rule

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Federal departments announce about $280 million in funding for Alaska projects

The Alaska Highway is seen near the border with Canada on April 27, 2022. The U.S. Department of Transportation is providing $25 million to restore about...

Federal departments announce about $280 million in funding for Alaska projects

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