WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Sept. 18, 2024: Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed two Acting U.S. Trustees, the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees announced today. Under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 585(a), the Attorney General may fill U.S. Trustee vacancies by appointing an Acting U.S. Trustee. Jonas V. Anderson has been appointed as the Acting U.S. Trustee for Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington (Region 18). Anderson repl  more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Sept. 17 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news on Sept. 16, 2024: By Joelyn Hansen Builders typically rely on a set of printed, complicated blueprints at the job site to communicate complex architectural building designs. But blueprints don't always work, especially when there are multiple iterations of the same plan with different pieces of information across multiple sheets. Builders are often left interpreting th  more

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Sept. 20 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service issued the following news: * * * NOAA Atlas 14 is the authoritative source for precipitation frequency information; used in flood risk management and infrastructure design * * * NOAA's National Weather Service has updated Atlas 14 with Volume 12, covering Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Volume 12 covers a range of storm durations, from 5 minutes to 60 days, and average annual recur  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- President Biden issued the following remarks on Sept. 17, 2024, ahead of a briefing regarding the ongoing wildfire season response and federal efforts to reduce wildfire risk: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Okay? I'm about to receive a briefing on everything we're doing to support the people and communities threatened by these horrific wildfires. And they're -- and they're devastating. I -- as I was saying to my staff before you came in, since I've been president, I've flown   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2024: The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Idaho-based investment adviser Inspire Investing LLC with making misleading statements and for compliance failures related to the execution of its "biblically responsible investing" strategy. According to the SEC's order, Inspire Investing represented that it used a data-driven methodology to evaluate companies and that it woul  more

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Sept. 19 (TNSres) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: This year marks the 75th anniversary of NOAA's Air Resources Laboratory, located in College Park, Maryland with field stations in Tennessee, Idaho and Nevada. Here are six facts about the lab. ARL is one of NOAA's oldest labs, was a product of the Cold War. ARL's research focus is on the boundary layer, the part of the atmosphere from a few feet below the soil up to 2-3  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.4 million grant to the Panhandle Area Council in Hayden, Idaho, to capitalize a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) to bolster small business development and expansion. This grant will support the growth of small businesses by providing them with the capital they need to grow a  more