SAN FRANCISCO, California, Oct. 4 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Oct. 3, 2024, entitled "County Employment and Wages in Hawaii - First Quarter 2024": * * * Employment rose in Hawaii's only large county, Honolulu, from March 2023 to March 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (Large counties are those with annual average employment levels of 75,000 or more in 2023.) Re  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Oct. 4 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Oct. 3, 2024, entitled "County Employment and Wages in Idaho - First Quarter 2024": * * * Employment rose in both of Idaho's large counties from March 2023 to March 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (Large counties are those with annual average employment levels of 75,000 or more in 2023.) Regional C  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2024: Tyrone Anderson, 44, of Sacramento, was sentenced today to 11 years and three months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute at least 5,000 grams of cocaine and 280 grams of cocaine base and for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announc  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2024: Three co-defendants, Martin Cervantes Vasquez, 49, of Stockton; Alberto Gonzalez Salgado, 45, of Sacramento; and Isaiah Alberto Salgado, 25, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to various drug trafficking and illegal weapons possession charges, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Cervantes and Alberto Salgado pleaded guilty to a fen  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Oct. 1, 2024: * * * North Hollywood Superfund cleanup to enhance availability of drinking water in Los Angeles. * * * SAN FRANCISCO - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an agreement with Honeywell International Inc. that funds construction of groundwater treatment facilities at the San Fernando Valley (Area 1) Superfund site in Los Angeles, California. The treatment fac  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release: Civil Monetary Penalty marks OCR's fifth ransomware enforcement action amid a 264% increase in large ransomware breaches since 2018 Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a $240,000 civil monetary penalty against Providence Medical Institute in Southern California, concerning potential violations of the Health Insurance Portab  more

LIVERMORE, California, Oct. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: By Lisa Valdez More than 60 researchers gathered for a three-day workshop at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) during August to discuss their progress on shared research projects and explore opportunities to expand their collaborations, which focus on clean energy technologies, climate resilience and related data-science solutions. LLNL and the Korean   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (TNSres) -- The National Science Foundation issued the following news release: How plants balance carbon dioxide intake with water loss in the face of rising temperatures has implications for water use in agriculture and the resilience of critical crops to environmental change. U.S. National Science Foundation-supported researchers at the University of California San Diego examining how plants respond to increases in heat levels have discovered two distinct mechanisms that co  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. California's 2025 water year begins with relatively good conditions in major Central Valley Project reservoirs, with 7.43 million acre-feet of water in storage, about 120% of the 15-year average. Shasta, the anchor of the CVP and California's largest reservoir, is at a robust 2.78 million acre-feet of water, 113% of the 15-year average. The water year annually   more