PHOENIX, Arizona, March 12 -- The Arizona State Parks and Trails issued the following news on March 11, 2025: * * * Your Input Needed: Arizona 2025 Trails Plan Now Available for Public Comment PHOENIX - Your opinion matters when it comes to trail use in Arizona! After a year of gathering data about motorized and non-motorized trails in the state, Arizona State Parks and Trails has released the draft 2025 Trails Plan for public comment. In 2020, data showed that people in Arizona used trails  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, March 12 -- The Arizona Department of Gaming issued the following news release on March 11, 2025: * * * Arizona Department of Gaming Releases December Sports Betting Figures PHOENIX - Bettors in Arizona wagered approximately $849 million on sports in December of 2024, according to a new report by the Arizona Department of Gaming. This represents an approximate 22.5% increase when compared to December of 2023. The state collected approximately $2.6 million in privilege fees  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, March 11 -- Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Mayes Urges U.S. Attorney General Bondi and DOJ to Continue Federal Lawsuit Against RealPage and Landlords for Alleged Price-Fixing PHOENIX - Attorney General Kris Mayes sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi today urging her to continue the Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, Inc. and several major corporate landlords for allegedly coll  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Rep. Juan Ciscomani, R-Arizona, issued the following news release on March 11, 2025: * * * Ciscomani Leads Effort to Ratify Historic Navajo Tribes Water Rights Settlement WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Congressman Juan Ciscomani reintroduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to ratify the historic Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Agreement. The Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement (NAIWRSA) Act (H.R. 2025) addresses one of the longe  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Rep. Abraham Hamadeh, R-Arizona, issued the following news release on March 11, 2025: * * * Congressman Hamadeh Introduces the Voting Only Through English Act (VOTE ACT) WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Tuesday, Congressman Abraham J. Hamadeh (AZ-08) introduced the Voting Only Through English Act (VOTE ACT), mandating that States use only English ballots to qualify for federal election funds. Congressman Hamadeh's bill aligns with President Trump's recent Executive Order declarin  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Rep. Julie Fedorchak, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: * * * Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak visits southern border with House Republican colleagues Washington, D.C. -- Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak (R-ND) traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border with freshman House Republican members to see firsthand the challenges facing border communities and law enforcement as a result of the disastrous policies of the Biden administration. The delegation, hosted by Repre  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for March 11, 2025 AIR FORCE Saudi Naval Support Co., Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (FA4911-25-D-0005); AQ Global for General Trading and Contracting Co., Safat, Kuwait (FA4911-25-D-0006); Prime Veritas General Trading and Contracting Co., Doha, Qatar (FA4911-25-D-0007); Prime One Group General Trading and Contracting Co., Farwaniya, Kuwait (FA4911-25-D-0008); Astrea Technical Services LLC, D  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released the following testimony by Gary Johnson, vice president of Granite Construction Inc., on behalf of the Transportation Construction Coalition, from a Feb. 26, 2025, hearing entitled "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Implementation and Case Studies": * * * Chairman Capito, Ranking Member Whitehouse and members of the committee, thank you for convening today's hearing to examine the Infrastructure Investment   more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan, Heinrich Join Colleagues in Urging USDA to Reinstate Hispanic-Serving Institution Fellowship Program That Has Served New Mexico Students and Educational Institutions Senators to USDA: "The Department's decision to suspend EKDLG Fellowship Program threatens the U.S. agricultural workforce pipeline and the opportunities this program provides educators and students nationwide" NMSU Was Par  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * NASA's Chevron Technology Quiets the Skies A chevron nozzle is installed on NASA's Learjet for a mid-March 2001 flight test at Lorain Country Airport to verify that in an emergency, the aircraft could be flown using only the experimental engine. Credit: NASA/Marvin Smith Shortly after dawn on March 27, 2001, NASA pilot Bill Rieke took off from an airfield just outside of Phoenix in NASA's blue-and-white Learjet 25 and f  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Arizona, posted the following statement in the extensions of remarks section of the Congressional Record on March 10, 2025: * * * Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor my Chief of Staff, Tracee Sutton, as she retires after 28 years of service to our Nation. Tracee is a once-in-a-generation legislative talent who served her home state of North Dakota for more than twenty years before agreeing to lead my legislative team upon my election to Congress in   more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: * * * Stanton Statement on the Continuing Resolution WASHINGTON, D.C --Today Rep. Greg Stanton released the following statement on the Fiscal Year 2025 government funding bill, known as the continuing resolution: "My job is to stand up for Arizonans, and Speaker Johnson's hyper-partisan continuing resolution fails Arizona. It fails to provide funding for veterans' health care, water infrastructure, and   more

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- The White House issued the following news: * * * We'll Never Tire of Winning Under President Trump The winning never stops as President Donald J. Trump and his administration continue to make progress reversing the damage of the past four years and shepherding the country into its new Golden Age. Here is a non-comprehensive list of wins for the American people in week seven: * Illegal border crossings in February fell to the lowest level ever recorded, down 94% from   more