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A Ketchikan Indian Community proposal that requests the Federal Subsistence Board to change the longstanding designation of the Ketchikan area as non-rural to rural is on the agenda as the

The Ketchikan City Council in a regular meeting Thursday heard a presentation from Lisa DeLaet, the Crisis Now program coordinator for Ketchikan Wellness Coalition, and unanimously approved a new long-term

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the overarching federal fisheries law, in 2006

From apps to extended reality, the innovative programs selected for the next phase of Mission Daybreak offer solutions for reducing veteran suicide.

/PRNewswire/ -- The National Paralysis Resource Center (NPRC) recently published a new series of resource sheets for underserved communities living with...

The House passed legislation Thursday intended to make it harder for future presidents to interfere with the once-a-decade census that determines political power and federal funding, a move that comes in response to the Trump’s administration’s failed effort to make a citizenship question part of the 2020 headcount. The legislation was approved 220-208 with only…

The bill requires the Commerce secretary to certify to Congress that any new question sought on a future census be adequately studied and tested.

The legislation was approved 220-208 with only Democratic lawmakers voting for it.

The bill faces an uphill climb in the evenly divided Senate given the party-line vote in the House.

The House has passed legislation on a party-line vote that aims to make it harder for future presidents to interfere in the once-a-decade headcount that determines political power and federal funding. The bill is a Democrat-led response to the Trump’s administration’s failed efforts to place a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Republicans overwhelmingly opposed the bill, saying it places more power in the hands of unelected bureaucrats, reducing accountability. The 2020 census was one...