SILVER CITY, New Mexico, June 2 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Gila National Forest - issued the following news release: The environmental remediation at the Georgetown Mines Site on the Silver City Ranger District of the Gila National Forest has been completed. The environmental remediation included the cleanup of six abandoned mine areas located northeast of Bayard and Santa Clara, New Mexico, in Grant County on Forest Service administered land along George  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, June 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Humberto "Tito" Silva III, a Sandia National Laboratories researcher, has been named Engineer of the Year by the world's largest aerospace technical society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Selected by a committee of his peers, Silva was cited for improving failure-rate predictions of aerospace flight systems as they reenter Earth's atmosphe  more