ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Nov. 20, 2014 – USDA-Rural Development (USDA-RD) Alaska State Director Jim Nordlund today announced that USDA-RD’s Rural Utilities Service is awarding a total of $1,076,709 in Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) grants to improve the delivery of health care and educational services in rural Alaska. “The DLT program delivers educational and medical […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Just more than a month after Senator Lisa Murkowski urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture to consider Governor Sean Parnell’s proposal to use existing federal funds to buy extra Alaska canned pink salmon for The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has agreed to purchase up to $13 million worth. This […]
A settlement has been made between the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and the U.S. Department of Agriculture after USDA accused UAF in mid-April of possible Animal Welfare Act violations and a failure to provide adequate veterinary care in the starvation deaths of 12 musk oxen at the large-animal research station. The animals either died or were […]