WASHINGTON, July 11 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management announced that it expects to award up to five cooperative agreements for aquatic habitat management in Arizona. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $1 million. The agency said the grant was associated with natural resources. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special district governments; independent school districts; private, public and state controlled institutio  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management announced that it expects to award up to three cooperative agreements for rangeland resource management in Arizona. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $1 million. The agency said the grant was associated with natural resources. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special district governments; independent school districts; private, public and state controlled instit  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management announced that it expects to award up to six cooperative agreements for youth conservation opportunities on public lands in Arizona. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $1,054,000. The agency said the grant was associated with natural resources. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special district governments; independent school districts; private, public and state c  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for research of angler conservation incentives along the Colorado River in Arizona. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $190,000. The agency said the grant was associated with science and technology and other research and development. The funding is open to participating partners of the Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studie  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for a survey on historical Arizona Toad locations and randomly selected suitable habitats in New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Nevada. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $27,025. The agency said the grant was associated with science and technology and other research and development. The funding is open to participating partners of the   more

WASHINGTON, July 10 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for research investigating the status and continues long-term monitoring of amphibians in Arizona. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $35,000. The agency said the grant was associated with science and technology and other research and development. The funding is open to participating partners of the Desert Southwest Cooperative Ec  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for research related to the effects of streamflow, irrigation, and associated groundwater conditions on riparian vegetation restoration at the Colorado River Delta and Bill Williams River in Arizona. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $49,300. The agency said the grant was associated with science and technology and other research a  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $22,500 cooperative agreement to the American Conservation Experience of Flagstaff, Arizona, for wildfire mitigation at the Cumberland Island National Seashore in Georgia. The agency description of the grant states: "This agreement will support a youth crew using chainsaws, brush cutters, and chippers to reduce fuel loads near 40 private structures and 15 NPS structures on Cumbe  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, July 11 -- The Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * - Direct Access to FBI CJIS's National Sex Offender Registry Helps Tribal Governments and Law Enforcement Track and Identify Sex Offenders * * * The U.S. Department of Justice announced today a new tool giving tribal governments the ability to directly input data and gain access to the FBI's National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR) using the Tribe and Territory Sex O  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following article from the Economics Daily: Ames, Iowa, and Burlington-South Burlington, Vermont, had the lowest unemployment rates among the 389 metropolitan areas in May 2019, 1.5 percent each. The rates for those areas were followed by Midland, Texas, 1.7 percent; Iowa City, Iowa, 1.8 percent; and Dubuque, Iowa, 1.9 percent. Yuma, Arizona (17.1 percent), and El Centro, California (16.4 percent), had t  more

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following article from the Economics Daily: From May 2018 to May 2019, nonfarm employment rose in 29 of the 51 metropolitan areas with a 2010 Census population of 1 million or more, while employment was essentially unchanged in 22 areas. The largest over-the-year percentage increases in employment in these large metropolitan areas occurred in Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, Arizona (+3.2 percent), Orlando-Kissim  more

LOS ANGELES, California, July 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release: An Arizona man has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for breaking federal computer intrusion laws governing the deletion of electronic files after he hacked into computer systems operated by his former employer, an Irvine-based company, and then deleted its website and marketing materials in retaliation for being stripped of some of his job duties.  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $97,500 cooperative agreement to the Conservation Legacy of Durango, Colorado, for an ancestral lands trail crew at the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. The agency description of the grant states: "The Ancestral Lands Trail Crew project will engage American Indian youth from eleven tribes traditionally associated with Grand Canyon National Park, providing them with challe  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced a total of $300 million in federal funding allocations to three rail transit projects in Arizona, California, and Washington. Funding is provided through FTA's Capital Investment Grants (CIG) Program. FTA is allocating $100 million in appropriated Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 CIG fun  more

TUCSON, Arizona, July 6 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Saguaro National Park issued the following news release: * * * - Embrace Citizenship - Experience America through Your National Parks * * * This Fourth of July, 20 people from 18 countries became United States citizens in a special ceremony held at Saguaro National Park's Tucson Mountain District. This was the ninth such ceremony held in partnership with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) at Saguaro National Park  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following news release: The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged an Arizona-based attorney and a Missouri-based agent of microcap shell companies with securities fraud and registration violations. According to the SEC's complaint, from February 2015 to April 2017, attorney William Scott Lawler engaged in schemes to fraudulently transfer control over the shares of two publicly-traded shell companies to his clie  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration issued the following news release: U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $477 million in airport infrastructure grants, the third allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States. "This significant investment in airport improvements in Ar  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $46,715 cooperative agreement to the University of Arizona for wildlife trends analysis for Sonoran Desert parks. The funding opportunity number is P19AS00366 (CFDA 15.945). For more information, contact John Bechtold, John_Bechtold@nps.gov.  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service issued the following news release: As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on June 26, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued an administrative complaint against Nichols Cattle Co. LLC (NCC), Nichols Management Co. LLC (NMC), Donald H. Nichols (D. Nichols), and Jane A. Nichols (J. Nichols) of Arizona, for alleged vi  more