WASHINGTON, April 1 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * Job openings rates up in Arizona, Vermont, and Connecticut In January 2025, job openings rates increased in 3 states, decreased in 2 states, and were little changed in 45 states and the District of Columbia. Job openings rates increased in Arizona and Vermont, up 1.4 percentage points each. The rate in Arizona increased from 5.3 percent to 6.7 perce  more

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for March 31, 2025 AIR FORCE The Boeing Co., Long Beach, California, has been awarded a $2,456,665,321 modification (P00020) to a previously awarded contract (FA8526-21-D-0001) for C-17 Globemaster III sustainment. The modification brings the total cumulative face value of the contract to $7,597,672,417 from $5,141,007,096. Work will be performed at various locations including but not limited t  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 31 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Governor Healey on President Trump's Liberation Day: "He's Not Liberating Us From High Costs" Boston -- Governor Maura Healey issued the following statement on President Trump's pledge that Wednesday will be "Liberation Day" as he announces additional tariffs. "President Trump claims Wednesday will be 'Liberation Day,' but he certainly isn't liberating us from high costs. Instead,  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 31 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Healey-Driscoll Administration Awards $850,000 for Locally Grown, Nutritious Food in Schools and Child Care Centers Boston -- On the heels of the Trump Administration cancelling the federal Fiscal Year 2025 Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program, the Healey-Driscoll Administration today announced it is awarding $850,000 in state-funded, competitive Massachusetts Farming Reinforc  more

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: * * * ICE Boston arrests Ecuadoran alien charged with aggravated child rape in Massachusetts BROCKTON, Mass. -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Jose Oswaldo Castro-Castro, 31, an illegally present Ecuadoran national charged with aggravated rape of a child, ten-year age difference and indecent assault and battery on a child under 14. Office  more

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * NASA Awards Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2025 The highly competitive NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) recently named 24 new fellows to its 2025 class. The NHFP fosters excellence and leadership in astrophysics by supporting exceptionally promising and innovative early-career astrophysicists. Over 650 applicants vied for the 2025 fellowships. Each fellowship provides the awardee up to three years of support   more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, April 1 -- The National Credit Union Administration issued the following news release: * * * NCUA Prohibits Six Individuals from Participating in the Affairs of Any Federally Insured Depository Institution ALEXANDRIA, Va. (March 31, 2025) - The National Credit Union Administration issued four consent orders and two prohibition notices in March 2025. The individuals named below are prohibited from participating in the affairs of any federally insured depository institutio  more

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * Public input sought for permit controlling pollutants from entering Massachusetts' rivers, ponds, lakes and wetlands BOSTON (Mar. 31, 2025) - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a newly scheduled public hearing for an updated draft of the general permit for all small and regulated "Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems" (MS4s) located in Mass. The draft permit was initially pla  more

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following decision (Docket No. FD 34797) entitled "New England Transrail LLC dba Wilmington and Woburn Terminal Railway - Construction, Acquisition and Operation Exemption - In Wilmington and Woburn, Massachusetts": * * * On June 24, 2016, New England Transrail, LLC (NET), filed a petition seeking an exemption under 49 U.S.C. Sec. 10502 from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. Sec. 1  more

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following news release: * * * U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Finalizes $221 Million in Federal Grant Funding to Rebuild Rhode Island's Washington Bridge WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced a grant agreement has been executed for $221 million in federal funding awarded to Rhode Island's Washington Bridge project. This comes as the Trump Administration inherite  more