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ANCHORAGE, Alaska--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alaska's Building Trades and 8 Star Alaska, LLC, a subsidiary of Glenfarne Alaska LNG, LLC, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that prioritizes hiring Alaska workers for construction and related work on the Alaska LNG Project. The MOU was signed by the presidents of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Southcentral Alaska, the Fairbanks Building and Construction Trades Council, the Alaska Petroleum Joint Crafts Council, and 8 Star Alaska at...

TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GrayRobinson is proud to announce its national Alcohol Law Team has once again earned the highest possible ranking – Band 1 for Food & Beverages: Alcohol in USA-Nationwide – by the 2026 Chambers USA Guide. This prestigious recognition reaffirms the team's position as the leading legal authority in the food and alcohol beverage space nationwide for nearly two decades. Further underscoring the team's expertise, two attorneys were individually recognized by the 20...

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Long term care workers at St. Vincent’s Nursing Home, represented by Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 1082, have ratified their new tentative agreement as of late last night. CUPE 1082 acts as the Lead Table for CUPE’s long term care sector bargaining, and they are responsible for negotiating terms that impact other bargaining tables, including setting the economic pattern for the entire sector. “I’m incredibly proud of the work the Lead Table bar...

KAMPALA, Uganda--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) calls for stronger investments in Ebola preparedness and response as the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda underscores the continued threat posed by the deadly disease and the urgent need to strengthen public health systems across Africa. The outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo virus strain, for which there is currently no approved vaccine or specific treatment. While progress has been made in...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Saba Capital Management, L.P. (together with certain of its affiliates, “Saba” or “we”) today issued the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in FS Credit Opportunities Corp. v. Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd. regarding Section 47(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “’40 Act”). Boaz Weinstein, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Saba, said: “The Court did not rule that these closed-end fund managers followed the law. The Court ruled on...

OTTAWA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Members of CUPE 2722 at Oxfam Canada are officially on strike after the employer failed to reach a fair collective agreement that reflects the organization's stated commitments to feminist principles, equity, and social justice. The strike comes after over a year of negotiations in which workers sought to protect key workplace rights and maintain language that supports fairness and dignity for all employees. Outstanding issues include leave provisions for gende...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Electrical Grid Monitoring (EGM) today announced its patented Accurate Fault Location and Detection™ (AFLD) solution as the first technology that can accurately locate both the time and location of power distribution‑grid faults to within a single pole‑span distance, capabilities which could reduce U.S. customer power outage times from 3-5 hours to approximately one hour, and related utility crew-time costs by 80% from $7 billion annually to around $1 billion annually,...

HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The HITRUST r2 Certification confirms ECLAT has strong controls in place to protect sensitive data and manage risk effectively....

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Clasp, a company that helps healthcare employers recruit and retain clinicians by tying student loan repayment to employment, today released an analysis of 19,620 public submissions related to federal graduate borrowing changes scheduled to take effect July 1, 2026. The analysis examined public comments submitted to the U.S. Department of Education. The dataset included 17,844 text-based submissions and 1,776 attached documents and formal letters, which were reviewed in...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Genasys Inc. (NASDAQ: GNSS), the global leader in Protective Communications™, today announced the Genasys Evertel (Evertel) integration with the public safety data and analytics platform used by the Vacaville, CA Police Department. By infusing Evertel with public safety data, law enforcement and emergency management agencies can bring live video data and communications into a unified operational environment designed specifically for real-time crime analysis and incid...