WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: Prineville, Ore. - The Prineville District BLM is pleased to announce the selection of a new District Manager and two Field Managers. Amanda Roberts has been selected as the Prineville District Manager, Kyle Hensley as the Field Manager for the Central Oregon Field Office, and Lisa Clark as the Field Manager for the Deschutes Field Office. Roberts, Hensley, and Clark are not   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: Portland, Ore. -- The Bureau of Land Management today announced that it is seeking public nominations for six advisory councils in Oregon and Washington. These citizen-based councils assist in the development of recommendations to address public land management issues across the northwest, from the San Juan Islands to Steens Mountain. The BLM maintains advisory councils charte  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: NORTH BEND, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking citizens with an interest in public lands management to fill vacant positions on its Western Oregon Resource Advisory Council. The Western Oregon RAC provides advice and recommendations on all aspects of public land management to the BLM's Coos Bay, Medford, Roseburg, and Northwest Oregon Districts, as well as part o  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Oct. 26 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Oct. 25, 2023, entitled "Oregon Job Openings and Labor Turnover - August 2023": * * * Oregon had 119,000 job openings in August 2023, compared to 111,000 openings in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that the job openings rate in Oregon was   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: Portland, Ore. -- Fat Bear Week is over, but you can still support wild animals in need. It's time for the annual Bureau of Land Management Bat Beauty Contest, and your local Oregon bats are here to defend their crown. William ShakespEAR, the Townsend's big-eared bat Each October, the BLM hosts a beauty contest to find the most stunning bat photographed on BLM public lands a  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 25 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release: Director Jeffrey Lusk of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded small nonfarm businesses in 11 Oregon counties and neighboring counties in California and Nevada of the Nov. 24 deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-interest loans are to offset economic losses becau  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement on Oct. 23, 2023, by Commissioner Allison Clements on a decision (Docket No. CP22-2-000) involving Texas Eastern Transmission LP and Gas Transmission Northwest LLC: * * * I concur with the decision to issue a certificate of public convenience and necessity to Gas Transmission Northwest, LLC (GTN) for its GTN Xpress Project.[1] I do so reluctantly because the states of Wash  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health issued the following news release on Oct. 23, 2023: Today, the third annual Prevention through Design (PtD) Award was presented to the Port of Portland, the port authority responsible for overseeing the Portland International Airport and operating other transportation infrastructure in Portland, Oregon, for their outstanding leadership in reducing workplace hazards throug  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Oct. 27 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: Beginning this fall and extending into spring and summer 2024, Bureau of Reclamation employees and contractors will be conducting field investigations in and around Scoggins Dam and Henry Hagg Lake for a safety of dams project. Reclamation is collecting data to establish baseline information for environmental compliance and will collect photos and data regarding wetlands,  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: An Oregon man was sentenced today on felony and misdemeanor charges for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Richard L. Harris, 43, of Happy Valley, Oregon, was sentence  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Oct. 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon announced today that the former CEO of Sunwest Management and associated companies, who previously admitted to orchestrating one of the largest financial fraud schemes in Oregon history, was ordered to pay over $74 million in restitution to more than 1,400 victims. Jon Michael Harder, 58, a resident of Canyonville, Oreg  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Oct. 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release on Oct. 26, 2023: A longtime Hoover Criminal Gang member who for more than thirty years engaged in a violent pattern of criminal racketeering activity, including numerous acts of murder, robbery, and drug distribution, was sentenced today to life in federal prison. Lorenzo Laron Jones, 50, a Portland resident, was sentenced to life in federal prison plus 10 years and five y  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Oct. 25 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release on Oct. 24, 2023: An off-duty commercial airline pilot, who was arrested on Sunday after he attempted to shut down the engines of passenger plane in flight, has been charged in federal court. Joseph David Emerson, 44, of Pleasant Hill, California, has been charged by criminal complaint with one count of interfering with flight crew members and attendants. According to cour  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Oct. 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release on Oct. 26, 2023: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon announced today that Oregon Tool, Inc., a Portland-based manufacturer of professional-grade cutting tools, which at all relevant times was known as Blount, Inc., has entered into a non-prosecution agreement and paid $1.7 million for accepting payments for products sold to two distributors transmitted thr  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Oct. 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release: A second senior member of the Hoover Criminal Gang was sentenced to life in federal prison today for conspiring to commit racketeering through various criminal acts spanning decades, including murder, robbery, and drug dealing. Ronald Clayton Rhodes, 38, of Portland, was sentenced to life in federal prison plus 10 years and five years' supervised release. According to co  more