BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, California, July 3 -- The U.S. Air Force Beale Air Force Base (9th Reconnaissance Wing) issued the following news: By Senior Airman Alexis Pentzer, 9th Reconnaissance Wing Public Affairs The U-2 Dragon Lady may climb to 70,000 ft, but it's the sophisticated sensor, maintained by a team of highly skilled technicians that captures the information vital to Beale's reconnaissance mission. The U-2 provides high-altitude, all-weather surveillance and reconnaissance, day or ni  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on July 2, 2024, entitled "County Employment and Wages in California - Fourth Quarter 2023": * * * Employment rose in 19 of the 27 largest counties in California with published data from December 2022 to December 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (Large counties are those with annual average employment   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on July 2, 2024, entitled "County Employment and Wages in Oregon - Fourth Quarter 2023": * * * Employment rose in 6 of the 7 largest counties in Oregon from December 2022 to December 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (Large counties are those with annual average employment levels of 75,000 or more in 20  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on June 27, 2024, entitled "Occupational Employment and Wages in Anchorage - May 2023": * * * Workers in the Anchorage, AK Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $34.12 in May 2023, compared to the nationwide average of $31.48, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissione  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on June 27, 2024, entitled "Occupational Employment and Wages in Fairbanks - May 2023": * * * Workers in the Fairbanks, AK Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $32.00 in May 2023, compared to the nationwide average of $31.48, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissione  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on June 27, 2024, entitled "Occupational Employment and Wages in Flagstaff - May 2023": * * * Workers in the Flagstaff, AZ Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $26.43 in May 2023, compared to the nationwide average of $31.48, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissione  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on June 27, 2024, entitled "Occupational Employment and Wages in Lake Havasu City-Kingman - May 2023": * * * Workers in the Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $24.99 in May 2023, compared to the nationwide average of $31.48, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on June 27, 2024, entitled "Occupational Employment and Wages in Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale - May 2023": * * * Workers in the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $31.20 in May 2023, compared to the nationwide average of $31.48, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on June 27, 2024, entitled "Occupational Employment and Wages in Prescott - May 2023": * * * Workers in the Prescott, AZ Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $26.46 in May 2023, compared to the nationwide average of $31.48, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on June 27, 2024, entitled "Occupational Employment and Wages in Sierra Vista-Douglas - May 2023": * * * Workers in the Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $28.27 in May 2023, compared to the nationwide average of $31.48, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on June 27, 2024, entitled "Occupational Employment and Wages in Tucson - May 2023": * * * Workers in the Tucson, AZ Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $28.60 in May 2023, compared to the nationwide average of $31.48, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chri  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on June 27, 2024, entitled "Occupational Employment and Wages in Yuma - May 2023": * * * Workers in the Yuma, AZ Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $25.24 in May 2023, compared to the nationwide average of $31.48, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Ro  more

WASHINGTON, July 3 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news: By Kathy Murray, Senior Writer, MyCG Last year, Coast Guard cutters conducting missions near the California/Mexico border and in the Caribbean got new help gathering data. Wind and solar-powered saildrones deployed to search for suspicious vessels. Not only could these unmanned surface vessels (USVs) cover a lot of distance, their sensors also specifically zeroed in on pangas and other low-pro  more

EUGENE, Oregon, July 2 -- The U.S. Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration's Seattle Division issued the following news release: A Bend, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison for possessing 20 pounds of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. Isaac Kitashima, 48, was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison and five years' supervised release. According to court documents, from August 2020 through June 2021, Kitashima and co-conspirators conducted a multi-state drug   more

MONTEREY, California, July 3 -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center issued the following news: By Tamara Cario After serving successfully for three years, Col. James Kievit relinquished command of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Presidio of Monterey, California, to Col. Christy Whitfield July 2, 2024. The change of command ceremony was presided over by Maj. Gen. Richard Appelhans, commanding general of the U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence   more

SAN JOSE, California, July 3 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release: * * * Investigation finds 2,607 U.S. employees owed overtime back wages * * * A U.S. Department of Labor investigation found that Intuit -- a Silicon Valley-based multinational provider of payroll and financial software applications -- deprived more than 2,500 employees of more than $555,000 in overtime pay by not keeping accurate pay records and failing to pay for some work  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 3 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with Sunrise Power Company for claims of Safe Drinking Water Act violations at the company's Sunrise Power Plant in Kern County, California. Sunrise Power has agreed to pay a penalty of $55,788 to resolve permit violations of the Underground Injection Control Program. "Facilities operating underground injection   more

MONTEREY, California, July 3 -- The Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security issued the following story: Fire service professionals have been well represented in Center for Homeland Defense and Security educational programs for decades, coming to the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, from fire agencies ranging from the massive FDNY to smaller, local fire departments while contributing their unique perspective to the pursuit of homeland security learning and   more

JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Maryland, July 3 -- The U.S. Air Force Joint Base Andrews (11th Wing) issued the following news: By Airman 1st Class Gianluca Ciccopiedi, 316th Wing Public Affairs The Military Housing Office celebrated the grand opening of its new location at 1604 California Ave. with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, June 21. The event represents the MHO's ongoing commitment to enhancing the quality of life for service members and their families with a new, dedicated space. "This is a huge mil  more

WASHINGTON, July 3 -- NASA issued the following news release: NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) mission. The firm-fixed-price contract has a value of approximately $69 million, which includes launch services and other mission related costs. The COSI mission currently is targeted to launch August 2027 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force   more

MONTEREY, California, July 3 -- The Naval Postgraduate School issued the following news: By Dan Linehan A recent photo taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has revealed a very unusual subject - Earth! Typically, as its name suggests, the LRO is pointed at the surface of the moon. But while U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Timothy Musmanno was a student in Space Systems Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), he had the idea to point the LRO at Earth while testing out a new kind of s  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 (TNSres) -- The National Science Foundation issued the following news release: A team of researchers successfully raised the energy state of an atom's nucleus with a laser, which could lead to new precision measurement technology with orders of magnitude higher accuracy than today's best atomic clocks. The researchers embedded a thorium atom within a highly transparent crystal and bombarded it with lasers, causing the thorium's nucleus to absorb and emit photons like electron  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: PUBLIC NOTICE SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation today announces continued public negotiation sessions with the San Luis and Delta-Mendota Water Authority for an Operations Agreement and Cost Share Agreement for the B.F. Sisk Dam and Reservoir Expansion Project, located on the west side of California's Central Valley near Los Banos. Reclamation and SLDMWA are partne  more

SACRAMENTO, California, July 3 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release: * * * Disaster Assistance Now Available to Private Nonprofit Organizations in Ten Additional Counties * * * Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to certain private nonprofit organizations in 58 counties following the amendment to President Biden's May 23 major disaster declaration for Public Assistance as a result of severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes and floodin  more

TRAVIS AFB, California, July 3 -- The U.S. Air Force's Travis Air Force Base (60th Air Mobility Wing) issued the following news: By Senior Airman Lauren Jacoby, 60th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs From June 24-28, in a historic moment, the 60th Maintenance Squadron and the 660th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron completed a final A-check inspection on a KC-10 Extender marking the end of an era for the KC-10, which has been a cornerstone of air mobility and aerial refueling excellence. The KC-10  more

SACRAMENTO, California, July 2 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued the following news release on July 1, 2024: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced over $20.5 million in grants to seven projects in California that support land acquisition and conservation planning for at-risk and listed species through the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund. Partners in California will receive close to half of the $48.4 million awarded nat  more

WASHINGTON, July 3 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Marshals Service issued the following news release: * * * Offer reward up to $10,000 for information leading to arrest * * * The U.S. Marshals Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force Sacramento Office has joined the fugitive investigation and is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of a man wanted by the Stockton, California, police for a June 25 triple homicide in Stockton. J. Carmen Card  more

WASHINGTON, July 3 -- The U.S. Navy's U.S. Fleet Forces Command issued the following news: During the change of command event, Cmdr. Brad Weiland, a native of Northridge, California, assumed all duties and responsibilities as VAW-121 commanding officer from Cmdr. Matthew Campbell, a native of Cleveland, Tennessee. During his time at VAW-121, the Bluetails returned from a first-of-its-kind deployment in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations where the squadron provided 24/7 alert coverage and si  more