PHOENIX, Arizona, June 2 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona issued the following news release: The Department of Justice today announced nearly $400 million in grant funding through the Department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The Attorney General announced funding awards to 596 law enforcement agencies across the nation, which allows those agencies to hire 2,732 additional full-time law enforcement professionals. The awa  more

OAKLAND, California, June 1 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has authorized the use of federal funds to assist the State of Arizona in combating the Ocotillo Fire burning in Maricopa County. On May 30, 2020, the State of Arizona submitted a request for a Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) for the Ocotillo Fire. At the time of the request, the fire threatened a  more

WASHINGTON, June 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news release: Even as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI, lies dormant within a telescope dome on a mountaintop in Arizona, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the DESI project has moved forward in reaching the final formal approval milestone prior to startup. DESI is designed to gather the light of tens of millions of galaxies, and several million ultrabright deep-sky obj  more

LAKEWOOD, Colorado, June 5 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Mountain Regional Field Office issued the following news release: In July, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will survey approximately 1,900 cattle operations across the Mountain Regional states of Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, to provide an up-to-date measure of the United States cattle inventory. "T  more

LAKEWOOD, Colorado, June 5 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Mountain Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Thousands of milk producers across the country, including almost 500 producers in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming will receive surveys from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), as the agency collects information for the 2020 July Milk Produc  more