PHOENIX, Arizona, July 3 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency - Arizona Field Office issued the following news release: USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) reminds Arizona producers to complete crop acreage reports by the applicable deadline for their county. Acreage reporting dates vary by crop and by county. Contact your FSA county office for a list of acreage reporting deadlines by crop. "To make sure you're eligible for many USDA programs, you need to file an accurate c  more

DAVIS-MONTHAN AFB, Arizona, July 1 -- The U.S. Air Force (355th Fighter Wing) issued the following news: U.S. Air Force Col. Marc Walker took command of the 355th Maintenance Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, June 29, 2020. Command of the group was relinquished from Col. Barton Kenerson as he goes to be the 57th Maintenance Group commander, Nellis AFB, Nevada. "This group holds the best rescue and attack maintenance and has the stats and awards to prove it," said Kenerson. "I ha  more

DAVIS-MONTHAN AFB, Arizona, July 1 -- The U.S. Air Force (355th Fighter Wing) issued the following news: U.S. Air Force Col. Joseph Turnham took command of the 355th Wing at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, June 30, 2020. Command of the wing was relinquished from Col. Michael Drowley as he goes to be the 57th Wing commander, Nellis AFB, Nevada. "I am leaving here more ready than when I got here, leaving better than I started and I know that Davis-Monthan is the way to do business," said  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news story: Defense and local military officials are closely watching the COVID-19 situation and will make adjustments as needed, Defense Department officials told reporters at a Pentagon news conference. Thomas McCaffery, the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, said during yesterday's briefing that along with an uptick in civilian communities, military COVID-19 cases have risen in Florida, Texas, Arizona   more

PASADENA, California, July 1 -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: On the night of June 5, a lightning strike started the Bighorn Fire in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, Arizona. Extremely dry vegetation and windy conditions caused the fire to spread quickly. By June 30, the multi-agency incident information system, InciWeb, reported that it had ballooned to more than 114,000 acres and that it was about 45% contained. NASA's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Em  more

WASHINGTON, July 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news release: Even an underground experiment 4,600 feet below a mountain in Central Italy, and a telescope instrument more than a mile high atop an Arizona mountaintop could not escape the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the virus spread around the world, many laboratories and experiment sites entered a period of partial shutdown and imposed restrictions on site access. Berkele  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio, June 30 -- Air University issued the following news: United States Marine Corps Lt. Col. James C. Paxton III is currently serving as the commanding officer of Marine Corps Air Station Yuma Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron (nicknamed the "Guardians") in Yuma, Arizona. He is a naval aviator who flew F/A-18C and KC-130J aircraft, and now flies the UC-12F. He attended TOPGUN in 2007, and was designated a strike fighter tactics instructor. During his car  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 1 -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, a federal district bank, issued the following news release: The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLBank San Francisco) awarded $37.7 million in Affordable Housing Program (AHP) grants to 50 projects that will construct or rehabilitate 3,514 units of housing that is affordable to lower-income families and individuals in Arizona, California, and Nevada. Awarded to twenty of the Bank's member financial inst  more

LAKEWOOD, Colorado, July 1 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Mountain Regional Field Office issued the following news release: ARIZONA Off-farm corn stocks in Arizona on June 1, 2020 were 2.19 million bushels, up 23 percent from June 1, 2019, according to the June 1 Agricultural Survey and June Grain Stocks Report conducted by the Mountain Regional Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA. Off-farm barley stocks totaled  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, June 30 -- The National Labor Relations Board issued the following decision (Case No. 28-RC-256955) by Region 28 Director Cornele A. Overstreet: BALFOUR BEATTY COMMUNITIES, LLC Employer and INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS, LOCAL NO. 953 Petitioner DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTION I.SUMMARY The petition in this matter was filed by International Union of Operating Engineers, Local No. 953 (Petitioner) on February 25, 2020,/1 under Section 9(c) of the National Lab  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, July 3 -- The National Labor Relations Board issued the following decision (Case No. 28-RC-261253) by Region 28 Director Cornele A. Overstreet: NP TEXAS LLC d/b/a TEXAS STATION GAMBLING HALL AND HOTEL Employer and LOCAL JOINT EXECUTIVE BOARD OF LAS VEGAS Petitioner DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTION Local Joint Executive Board of Las Vegas (the Petitioner) seeks to represent a unit of employees employed by NP Texas LLC d/b/a Texas Station Gambling Hall and Hotel ( the Employ  more

BOULDER CITY, Nevada, July 1 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: The Bureau of Reclamation awarded $146,121 in grant funding to a tribe, a water district and a non-profit through its WaterSMART Water Conservation Field Services Program to deliver support to projects in Arizona, California and Utah. This funding will be leveraged to accomplish almost $339,000 in water conservation planning activities. "Improving water efficiency is a  more

PROVO, Utah, July 1 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: The Bureau of Reclamation, on behalf of the Department of the Interior, will host two public meetings on its environmental review of Utah's proposed Lake Powell Pipeline project. The pipeline project, proposed by the Utah Board of Water Resources, would establish a second source of water for Washington County, Utah, through an approximately 140-mile-long water delivery pipeline   more

PHOENIX, Arizona, July 2 -- The White House issued the following transcript of a briefing on COVID-19 by Vice President Mike Pence and Gov. Doug Ducey, R-Arizona, on July 1: THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, good afternoon all. And, Governor Ducey, thank you for the welcome here to Arizona. I know it's a very challenging time for the people of this great state. President Trump wanted me to be here to say to you and to the people of Arizona that we're with you. We're going to make sure you have what you  more