EUGENE, Oregon, July 7 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: Oregon archaeologists have found evidence suggesting humans occupied the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter outside of Riley, Oregon more than 18,000 years ago. University of Oregon's Museum of Natural and Cultural History Archaeological Field School, led by archaeologist Patrick O'Grady, has been excavating at the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter. Excavation has been occurring since 2011  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 7 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on July 6, 2023, entitled "County Employment and Wages in Oregon - Fourth Quarter 2022": * * * Employment rose in all 7 of the largest counties in Oregon from December 2021 to December 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (Large counties are those with annual average employment levels of 75,000 or more in   more

WASHINGTON, July 7 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * Nonfarm payroll employment increased in 84 metropolitan areas from May 2022 to May 2023, decreased in 1 area, and was essentially unchanged in 304 areas. The metropolitan areas with the largest percentage increases over the year were Midland, Texas (7.7 percent), Rome, Georgia (6.7 percent), and Corvallis, Oregon (6.3 percent). The largest employmen  more

WASHINGTON, July 6 -- The Federal Communications Commission's Media Bureau issued the following report and order (MB Docket No. 23-43; RM-11944) on July 5, 2023: * * * In the Matter of Amendment of Section 73.622(j), Table of Allotments, Television Broadcast Stations (Coos Bay, Oregon) REPORT AND ORDER (Proceeding Terminated) By the Chief, Video Division, Media Bureau: 1. The Video Division, Media Bureau (Bureau), has before it a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking/1 issued in response to a Petit  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, July 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release on July 6, 2023: A former Portland area non-profit director was sentenced to federal prison today for stealing more than $321,000 in federal funds intended to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Theodore Johnson, 62, a Portland resident, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison and three years' supervised release. He was also ordered to pay approximately   more

PORTLAND, Oregon, July 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release on July 5, 2023: A local man is facing federal charges today after he assaulted and injured a court security officer at Pioneer Federal Courthouse in downtown Portland. Jett Avery Thomas, 39, a Portland resident, has been charged by criminal complaint with assaulting an employee of the United States with a dangerous weapon and causing bodily injury. According to court docum  more

WASHINGTON, July 8 (TNSper) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has established and appointed members to a new Federal Advisory Committee to provide advice and recommendations on modernizing landscape management across national forests within the Northwest Forest Plan area in Washington, Oregon and Northern California. The committee will make recommendations focused on a climate-informed amendment of the Northwest Forest   more