JUNEAU, Alaska, Dec. 23 -- Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, issued the following news release on Dec. 22: Governor Mike Dunleavy has directed the Alaska Department of Law to draft an executive order reorganizing the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services into two distinct executive branch departments: the Alaska Department of Health and the Alaska Department of Family and Community Services. This reorganization will streamline and improve the delivery of critical programs and services whi more PR

SPOKANE, Washington, Dec. 24 -- Avista, an energy company, issued the following news release on Dec. 23: Avista Corp. and the Avista Foundation today announced 2020 giving totaling more than $4.1 million to non-profit organizations in the company's service territories. The funds from both corporate and foundation sources helped support community organizations in Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Alaska. "We recognize people have been challenged by multiple layers of impacts from the pande more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Dec. 22 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Two University of Wyoming professors, with assistance from a UW graduate student, developed a public health tool to track COVID-19 data -- one that provides up-to-date information tailored for rural areas, such as Wyoming. Pavel Chernyavskiy, in the UW Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and Tim Robinson, a statistics professor and the director of UW's WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Dec. 22 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release on Dec. 21: Two University of Wyoming professors, with assistance from a UW graduate student from Basin, developed a public health tool to track COVID-19 data -- one that provides up-to-date information tailored for rural areas, such as Wyoming. Pavel Chernyavskiy, in the UW Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and Tim Robinson, a statistics professor and the director of UW's WWAMI (Washington, Wyomin more PR