SANTA CRUZ, California, Sept. 29 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: Reclamation has awarded the Soquel Creek Water District $30 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to advance the Pure Water Soquel Groundwater Replenishment and Seawater Intrusion Prevention Project. The funding will help offset the total cost of the project, which is providing a cost-effective and efficient means of creating a sustainable alternative water  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued the following recall alert: Name of Product: Onewheel Electric Skateboards (all models) Hazard: The skateboards can stop balancing the rider if the boards' limits are exceeded, posing a crash hazard that can result in serious injury or death. Remedy: Refund Repair Recall Date: September 29, 2023 Units: 300,000 Recall Details Description: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Future Motion Inc., of Sant  more

OTAY MESA, California, Sept. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Otay Mesa port of entry's cargo facility seized over $5 million worth of marijuana concealed in a tractor trailer on Friday. On Sept. 22, at approximately 2:52 p.m., CBP officers encountered a 46-year-old male Mexican citizen driving a tractor-trailer, with a shipment manifest for abrasive cutting wheel  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- The Department of Housing and Urban Development issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced settlements with housing providers in Nevada and California, resolving allegations that they denied housing opportunities to two women because they experienced dating violence and stalking. "With these first conciliation agreements, HUD underscores its ongoing commitment to enforcing the individuals' rights enshrined in   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Sept. 28, 2023: The Justice Department announced today that it has secured a settlement agreement with Home and Body Company (Home and Body), a soap and lotions manufacturer based in Huntington Beach, California. The settlement resolves the department's determination that Home and Body violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by discriminating against non-U.S. citizens when checking their permi  more

WEST COVINA, California, Sept. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Labor issued the following news release: * * * TL Foods, Express Poultry Services used shell companies, intimidation to hide wage theft * * * A federal court has entered default judgments that require the operators of La Puente poultry processing plant to pay more than $1 million after the U.S. Department of Labor found the employers deliberately denied overtime wages earned by 113 workers and tried to hide the wage theft. In addit  more

LIVERMORE, California, Sept. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: Otto "Nino" Landen, a distinguished member of the technical staff and the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments group leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has been awarded the 2023 Edward Teller Medal. The Fusion Energy Division of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) presented the award to Landen this week during the Internatio  more

LIVERMORE, California, Sept. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) physicist Alex Zylstra has been awarded the 2023 Edouard Fabre Prize for his experimental leadership of the milestone "Hybrid-E" campaign that achieved fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility (NIF). The inertial confinement fusion (ICF) campaign used increased laser energy to compress deuterium and t  more

MENLO PARK, California, Sept. 29 (TNSres) -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Scientists developed a groundbreaking technology that allows them to see sound waves and microscopic defects inside crystals, promising insights that connect ultrafast atomic motion to large-scale macroscopic behaviors. * * * Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Stanford University, and Denmark Technical University have desi  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release: Hello I'm Bart McDermott, Refuge Manager at Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge here at Elk Grove, California, and you're watching This Week at Interior.  This Week at Interior Secretary Haaland and Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning visited Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument this week to meet with federal, Tribal, state and local officials, and community members to lear  more