WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Community Living issued the following news release: ACL awarded a total of $985,000 for the first year of six new two-year cooperative agreements addressing elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation in tribal communities. The awardees will focus on identifying community needs; facilitating multidisciplinary activities advancing elder justice; and preventing and responding to abuse, neglect, and exploitation  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (TNSres) -- The National Science Foundation issued the following news release: In northern Yellowstone National Park, saplings of quaking aspen, an ecologically important tree in the American West, are being broken by a historically large bison herd, affecting the comeback of aspen from decades of over-browsing by elk. Findings of the U.S. National Science Foundation-supported research led by Luke Painter of Oregon State University were published in Ecology and Evolution.   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: Medford, Oregon - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Medford District will lift fire restrictions on public lands administered by the BLM at midnight on October 19, 2023. Campfires and other activities, such as using a chainsaw, operating a vehicle off-road, and smoking, are again permitted on most of the BLM-managed lands in Jackson, Josephine, and southern Douglas counties  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 18 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2023: Director Jeffrey Lusk of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded small nonfarm businesses in 18 Idaho counties and neighboring counties in Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Utah of the Nov. 17 deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-interest loans are to o  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 18 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2023: Director Jeffrey Lusk of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded small nonfarm businesses in 17 Nevada counties and neighboring counties in Arizona, California, Idaho, Oregon and Utah of the Nov. 17 deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-interest lo  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: VALE, Ore. -- Shane DeForest, who has been Deputy District Deputy Manager for Vale Bureau of Land Management for the past 8 years, is taking the helm as District Manager. "It is my pleasure to announce the selection of Shane DeForest as Vale District Manager," said Barry Bushue, BLM Oregon-Washington State Director. "For more than 30 years throughout the West, he has collabor  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Oct. 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2023: A former Oregon Department of Corrections employee was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison today for sexually assaulting nine female inmates while serving as a nurse at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Oregon's only women's prison. Tony Daniel Klein, 39, of Clackamas County, Oregon, was sentenced to 360 months in federal prison and five years' s  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Oct. 18, 2023: A former Oregon Department of Corrections employee was sentenced yesterday for sexually assaulting nine female inmates while serving as a nurse at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Oregon's only women's prison. Tony Daniel Klein, 38, of Clackamas County, Oregon, was sentenced to 30 years in prison and five years of supervised release. A restitution hearing will be held at a later dat  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: The Bureau of Land Management and the Nevada Department of Corrections - Silver State Industries conducted a saddle-started wild horse adoption event at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center on October 14, 2023. Over 30 qualified bidders including successful adopters from all over the United States attended the event. All available horses were successfully adopted at the e  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following news release: The United States and Canada conducted the 19th round of Columbia River Treaty regime negotiations on October 12-13 in Portland, Oregon. Through these negotiations the U.S. negotiation team continues to press forward to fulfill the vision laid out by President Biden and Prime Minister Trudeau at the conclusion of the President's March visit to Canada, where their joint statement noted that "the Columbia River is  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Oct. 17 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued the following news release on Oct. 16, 2023: The Pacific Northwest has another cause for celebration during the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act. Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the removal of Nelson's checker-mallow, a perennial flower with spectacular pink blooms, from the federal list of endangered and threatened species due to recovery. The delisting o  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 20 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah, Trina A. Higgins, issued the following news release: A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned a 13-count indictment charging four people for allegedly purchasing and selling over $1M in paleontological resources. The dollar amount represents 150,000 pounds of paleontological resources, including dinosaur bones, illegally removed from federal and state lands in southeastern Utah. According to court documents, Vi  more