JUNEAU – Rep. Andy Josephson’s bill, which would provide greater assistance to the families of Alaska’s workers permanently injured or killed on the job, passed the House today in a vote of 29-10. House Bill 30 modernizes compensation levels that have been stagnant for over 20 years, and lengthens payment of benefits for children orphaned […]
The White House said Monday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will meet with President Donald Trump on Thursday, following news reports that the Justice Department’s No. 2 official was expecting to be fired. The announcement came days after The New York Times reported that Rosenstein last year suggested secretly recording Trump and that he raised the […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development will close the Glennallen Job Center on Friday, April 20. The Glennallen Job Center is the least active of the department’s 15 job center locations and it is estimated the closure will save approximately $139,000 per year in federal funds. This savings is necessary […]
“There is some suggestion from previous studies of occupation that workers in jobs with higher exposure to diesel exhaust may have a higher risk of ALS. However, no studies have directly looked at the relation between diesel exhaust exposure during different time points in life and ALS,” said study author Aisha Dickerson, PhD, of Harvard […]