A huge fireball erupted from the Williams Olefins plant in Geismar, Louisiana early this morning as an explosion was set off. Over 600 people were working at the plant at the time of the explosion.
A Mountain Village VPSO was severely injured during an arrest in that community on Tuesday.
On a visit to the Flint Hills refinery in North Pole on Tuesday, Governor Parnell signed Senate Bill 86. That Senate Bill extends the state's contract with the refinery.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – There are at least fifteen different and distinct federal definitions of ‘rural’ in the U.S. government – eleven alone from an agricultural policy perspective – and today Senator Lisa Murkowski argued for more sensible policies to address America’s rural regions that reflects the needs of the nation’s less populated areas.