SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Jan. 6 -- Discovery Education, a division of Discovery Communications, issued the following news release on Jan. 5: Alaska's Nome Public Schools (NPS) today announced a new partnership with Discovery Education supporting the continued academic growth and development of students districtwide. Through this new collaboration, NPS educators and students in all grades and all district locations are receiving access to dynamic K-12 digital resources that keep students connect more PR

JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. 8 -- The University of Alaska-Southeast issued the following news release: The Rural Alaska Students in One-Health Research (RASOR) program started its second year ready to tackle new challenges. Ten Southeast Alaska students from Metlakatla, Petersburg, Sitka, and Craig and three Mt. Edgecumbe students from Unalakleet, Huslia, and Tyonek joined this year. While the program has always been centered on community-based research, with a distance-learning component, COVID preca more PR

JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. 8 -- The University of Alaska-Southeast issued the following news release: Twenty-seven high school students, including students from the Rural Alaska Students in One-Health Research (RASOR) program, took part in the Sitka Sound Science Center's annual WhaleFest Science Festival and UAS course. A highlight of Sitka WhaleFest each year is workshops where students collaborate with researchers in hands-on science. Dr. Andrew Cyr, a UAF research advising and mentoring professio more PR

OLYMPIA, Washington, Jan. 9 -- Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued the following news release: Attorney General Bob Ferguson and a legal coalition of 40 tribes, states, and community organizations filed a motion late yesterday for preliminary injunction to halt the federal government's planned sale of the National Archives building in Seattle. The motion includes 586 pages of declarations from tribal officials, heads of community organizations and historians from across the Pa more PR