ARLINGTON, Virginia, March 11 -- The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators issued the following news: * * * Alaska Joins the AAMVA Digital Trust Service On Tuesday, March 4, Lori Daigle and Tim Roufa of the AAMVA Identity Management Programs and Services team traveled to Anchorage to receive the mDL public key from the Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles for inclusion in the AAMVA Digital Trust Service (DTS). Alaska becomes the sixth U.S. state to fully participate in the DTS.  more PR

NEW YORK, March 13 [Category: Sociological] -- Everytown for Gun Safety posted the following news release: * * * An Extreme Risk Law Would Make Alaska Safer and Address the Majority of Annual Gun Deaths in the State; Here is What You Need to Know About Alaska's Proposed ERPO Law Nearly 70 Percent of Alaskans Support A Policy Like An Extreme Risk Law JUNEAU, Alaska. -- Today, the Alaska legislature is considering legislation to pass an Extreme Risk law (HB 89), a critical tool to help tempor more PR

SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 12 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice posted the following news release: * * * Court Rules that Federal Fishery Managers Can Continue to Rely on Outdated Study to Manage the Trawling Industry Anchorage, Alaska -- A U.S. District Court Judge in Alaska ruled Tuesday that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) can continue to rely on nearly 20-year-old environmental studies to inform federal management of the massive pollock trawling industry in the  more PR

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 12 -- Southwest Research Institute issued the following news release: * * * SwRI receives $3 million NASA astrobiology grant to study microbial life in Alaska's arctic sand dunes March 11, 2025 -- Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has received a three-year, $2,999,998 million grant from NASA to identify and characterize life and its biosignatures in frozen sand dunes in Alaska, under conditions similar to dune fields on early Mars and Saturn's moon Titan. The Asses more PR