PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Intelligence Agency issued the following news: By Sharolyn Gailliard, Office of Corporate Communications "Technology is the catalyst for innovation," said DIA Chief Information Officer Doug Cossa on Dec. 12, opening the 2023 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference to a crowd of 3,000 attendees in Portland, Oregon. The Department of Defense Intelligence Information System Worldwide Conference is the Intelligence Community's largest info  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Dec. 16 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release: Associate Administrator Francisco Sanchez of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Recovery & Resilience today reminded small nonfarm businesses in eight Oregon counties and neighboring county in Washington of the Jan. 16, 2024, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-interest loans are to offset e  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Dec. 16 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on Dec. 15, 2023: Associate Administrator Francisco Sanchez of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Recovery & Resilience today reminded small nonfarm businesses in eight Oregon counties and neighboring county in Washington of the Jan. 16, 2024, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-interest loans are to offset economic losses   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (TNSrep) -- The General Services Administration Inspector General issued the following audit report (No. A230021) on Dec. 8, 2023, entitled "PBS's Lease Award and Administration for the Bureau of Land Management Field Office in Baker City, Oregon." Here are excerpts: * * * Executive Summary Why We Performed This Audit This audit was included in our Fiscal Year 2023 Audit Plan. We performed this audit in response to a hotline complaint regarding indoor air quality (IAQ) i  more

WILMINGTON, North Carolina, Dec. 16 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Michael F. Easley Jr., issued the following news release: Two individuals, Hector Luciano Perez Valenzuela and John Steven Ellingson, from Oregon, were sentenced for their roles in an international drug trafficking organization (DTO) moving kilogram quantities of fentanyl and operating in multiple cities across the country, including Fayetteville. A third defendant, Kittisack Sam Vorana, age 30,  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release on Dec. 11, 2023: An Illinois-based company that operates an aluminum processing facility in The Dalles, Oregon, was ordered to pay a fine and restitution today for violating the Clean Air Act by negligently releasing a hazardous air pollutant from its facility. Hydro Extrusion USA (Hydro), a limited liability corporation based in Rosemont, Illinois, was ordered to pay a cr  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release on Dec. 11, 2023: A Pennsylvania man who completed more than 7,800 individual darknet fentanyl sales in less than two years and was linked by investigators to dozens of fatal overdoses across the United States was sentenced to life in federal prison today for distributing a fentanyl analogue on AlphaBay, a former darknet marketplace, that caused the overdoses of three people  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release on Dec. 13, 2023: A local man pleaded guilty in federal court today for distributing fentanyl that caused the overdose death of a Portland teenager. Tanner Welsh, 20, a Portland resident, pleaded guilty to one count of distributing fentanyl to a person under the age of twenty-one. According to court documents, on November 10, 2022, officers from the Portland Police Bureau   more