JUNEAU, Alaska, June 15 -- Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Governor Mike Dunleavy announced the following appointees to the 9-1-1 and Dispatch Consolidation Working Group: The Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety or designee: * Amanda Price, Commissioner Emergency services provider: * Ronald Bowers, EMT-III Representative of the Alaska Chapter of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials, the National Emergency Number Association, more PR

JUNEAU, Alaska, June 15 -- Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, issued the following proclamation: WHEREAS, Alaska is blessed with many indigenous plants that color its great landscape, abundant wildlife that provides residents with bountiful and life-sustaining resources, and native species that support the delicate balance of our functioning ecosystems; and WHEREAS, the introduction and spread of harmful non-native species, also known as invasive species, can alter operations of established natural more PR

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- The National Congress of American Indians issued the following news release: The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), the largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization in the country, does not acknowledge Christopher Columbus as a hero. To Indigenous peoples, he was the opposite: [O]ut of timbers for the Santa Maria, . . . Columbus built a fort [on Hispaniola], the first European military base in the Western Hemisphere. . . . He  more PR