KANSAS CITY, Missouri, March 3 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mountain Plains Regional Information Office issued the following report on March 1, 2023, entitled "Utah Job Openings and Labor Turnover - December 2022": Utah had 112,000 job openings in December 2022, compared to 111,000 openings in November, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Michael Hirniak noted that the job op  more

HILL AFB, Utah, March 1 -- The U.S. Air Force Hill Air Force Base (75th Air Base Wing) issued the following news: By Donovan Potter, 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs Generally, Liquid Fuels Maintenance and Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians don't perform duties simultaneously for safety's sake, but that's what happened Feb. 8 near building 825 on Hill AFB. To avoid sending a human into a potentially dangerous confined space to perform a structural integrity inspection, EOD deployed robo  more

OGDEN, Utah, March 4 -- The U.S. Air Force Hill Air Force Base (75th Air Base Wing) issued the following news: By Bryan Magana, Weber State University Robert Wolfley served in the Air Force for 22 years. Now he's serving fellow veterans at Weber State University as the new director of Veteran Services. "It's sometimes challenging to navigate life after the military, but we're here to help," Wolfley said. "We want veterans to find their place at Weber State." Wolfley began his active-duty car  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on March 3, 2023: The Justice Department, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), today announced the entry of stipulated orders for permanent injunction and civil penalty judgments against three distributors in relation to their allegedly deceptive COVID-19 claims made when marketing essential oils and nutritional supplements. Tina Wong, a pediatrician based in California, Eliza Johnson Bacot, a   more

LAKEWOOD, Colorado, March 2 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Mountain Regional Field Office issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will conduct its biannual Agricultural Labor Survey during the second half of April. The survey will collect information about hired labor from more than 3,500 farmers and ranchers in the Mountain Region states of Arizona, Colorad  more

LAKEWOOD, Colorado, March 2 -- 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 approximately 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 2023 April Mi  more

WASHINGTON, March 1 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 56378) involving Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, Murray: * * * Rep Org: Utah Division of Radiation Control Licensee: Utah Valley Regional Medical Center Region: 4 City: Murray State: UT County: License #: UT 2500129 Agreement: Y Docket: NRC Notified By: Phillip Goble HQ OPS Officer: Kerby Scales Notification Date: 02/21/2023 Notification Time: 22:25 [ET] Event Date: 02/21/202  more

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 56378) involving Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, Murray: * * * Rep Org: Utah Division of Radiation Control Licensee: Utah Valley Regional Medical Center Region: 4 City: Murray State: UT License #: UT 2500129 Agreement: Y NRC Notified By: Phillip Goble HQ OPS Officer: Kerby Scales Notification Date: 02/21/2023 Notification Time: 22:25 [ET] Event Date: 02/21/2023 Event Time: 17:  more

MONTICELLO, Utah, Feb. 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management's Utah State Office issued the following news release: Each spring, raptors return to the Indian Creek area for nesting. Eagles, falcons, hawks, and other migratory birds use shallow depressions on ledges, cliffs, and rock walls to build nests, often returning to the same site year after year to raise their young. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) asks visitors and recreationists to avoid these areas   more

WASHINGTON, March 1 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release on Feb. 28, 2023: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced that the public comment period for its solar programmatic environmental impact statement will close March 1, 2023. On December 5, 2022, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced that the Bureau of Land Management would begin considering updates to its 2012 Western Solar Plan in six southwestern state  more

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey issued the following news release on March 2, 2023: The U.S. Geological Survey will provide more than $6.6 million to map critical mineral resources in Utah, in partnership with the Utah Geological Survey. The grants come from a Bipartisan Infrastructure Law investment in the USGS Mineral Resources Program's Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI), which supports $74 million in new mapping each year to m  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 4 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah, Trina A. Higgins, issued the following news release: A Salt Lake County, Utah health care company has agreed to pay $1,045,944.42 to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims to Medicare and Medicaid for non-covered hospice services. The settlement resolves allegations that Summit Hospice knowingly submitted false claims for payment to Medicare and Medicaid between October 1, 2018, an  more