KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Sept. 30 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mountain-Plains Regional Information Office issued the following report on Sept. 29, 2023, entitled "Consumer Expenditures for the Denver Metropolitan Area - 2021-22": * * * Households in the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO, metropolitan area spent an average of $84,293 per year in 2021-22, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Michael   more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Sept. 30 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mountain-Plains Regional Information Office issued the following report on Sept. 29, 2023, entitled "Consumer Expenditures in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area - 2021-22": * * * Households in the St. Louis, MO-IL, metropolitan area spent an average of $71,182 per year in 2021-22, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Michael Hirniak   more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, Sept. 30 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-St. Paul District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, awarded a $1.5 million contract to OCCI, Inc., doing business as Missouri Fabricators of Fulton, Missouri, on Sept. 22, to fabricate four replacement Tainter valves at Lock and Dam 2 located in Hastings, Minnesota, on the Mississippi River. The supply contract includes fabrication and delivery of the Tainter valve structure,  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Sept. 30 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release on Sept. 29, 2023: * * * Republic Services Rejected Female Driver in Favor of Less-Qualified Male and Under-Hires Female Drivers, Federal Agency Charges * * * Refuse disposal company Allied Services, LLC, doing business as Allied Waste Services of the Ozarks / Republic Services of the Ozarks, violated federal law when it failed to hire qualified female drivers at its Springfield, Mi  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Sept. 30 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release on Sept. 29, 2023: * * * Federal Agency Charges Company Failed to Prevent or Correct a Racially Hostile Work Environment and Retaliated Against Employee Who Complained About It * * * Sun Chemical Corporation violated federal law by failing to prevent or correct a racially hostile work environment at one of its facilities and then retaliating against an employee who complained about   more

RESTON, Virginia, Sept. 30 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey issued the following news release: * * * In the public interest and in accordance with Federal Aviation Administration regulations, the USGS is announcing this low-level airborne project. Your assistance in informing the local communities is appreciated. * * * Low-level airplane flights are planned over a broad region in parts of the southern Midcontinent to image geology using airborne geophy  more