WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * Unemployment rates were higher in October 2023 than a year earlier in 223 of the 389 metropolitan areas, lower in 137 areas, and unchanged in 29 areas. * * * Chart: Over-the-year change in unemployment rates for metropolitan areas, October 2023 * * * The largest over-the-year unemployment rate increase in October occurred in Kahului-Wailuku-Laha  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 -- The Federal Communications Commission's Media Bureau issued the following order (FRN No. 0004362430) on Dec. 7, 2023: * * * In re Application of Willamette Broadcasting Company, Inc. for Consent to Transfer of Control from the Estate of Michael O. Frith (Transferor) to Jeffrey Morgan and Patricia Taylor (Transferees) ORDER By the Chief, Audio Division, Media Bureau: 1. In this Order, we adopt the attached Consent Decree entered into by the Media Bureau (Bureau) and Wil  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 -- The Federal Communications Commission's Media Bureau issued the following report and order (MB Docket No. 23-285; RM-11959) on Dec. 5, 2023: * * * In the Matter of Amendment of Section 73.622(j), Table of TV Allotments, Television Broadcast Stations (Jacksonville, 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  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration issued the following news release on Dec. 8, 2023: On Monday, December 11, 2023, Deputy Under Secretary for International Trade Diane Farrell will join federal, state and local dignitaries and representatives for a ribbon-cutting ceremony and grand opening of the International Trade Administration's (ITA) Pacific Northwest Rural Export Center at the U.S. Commercial Service office in Boise, Idaho. The new   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release: David Szymanski, a 25-year National Park Service (NPS) veteran, has been selected to serve as the regional director for the Pacific West Region, which includes all parks in California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, parts of Arizona and Montana, and the territories of Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. He begins his new role after the holidays. S  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- The National Labor Relations Board issued the following decision (Case No. 19-RC-327576) by Region 19 Director Ronald K. Hooks: * * * PROVIDENCE HEALTH AND SERVICES - OREGON, Employer and OREGON NURSES ASSOCIATION, Petitioner DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTION Providence Health and Services - Oregon ("Employer") provides healthcare services at various facilities located throughout Oregon. Oregon Nurses Association ("Petitioner") filed a petition seeking to add through a  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release on Dec. 6, 2023: A federal indictment was unsealed Tuesday in the District of Oregon charging a Belgian national in connection with the export of sensitive, military-grade technology from the United States to end users in the People's Republic of China. Hans Maria De Geetere, 61, of Knokke-Heist, Belgium, has been charged with one count of obtaining goods intended for China   more

MEDFORD, Oregon, Dec. 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release on Dec. 5, 2023: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon announced today that three federal prison sentences have been imposed this week in separate criminal cases following multi-agency drug trafficking investigations in and around Medford. James Michael Cody Whelchel, 41, of Carson, California, was sentenced Monday to 130 months in federal prison and five year  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 6 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued the following news release: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person(s) related to the death of a federally protected gray wolf in southwest Oregon. On November 13, a radio collared male gray wolf known as OR 125 was found dead near Union Creek, Oregon. It is a violation of the Endangered Species Act to kill a gray wol  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey issued the following news release on Dec. 5, 2023: Mercury concentrations are twice as high in smallmouth bass found in reservoirs than those in the free-flowing sections of the Snake River in Idaho and Oregon, according to a joint U.S. Geological Survey and Idaho Power Company study that looked at 1,815 specimens of this popular recreational fishing species from a variety of habitats in 31 sites along 5  more