WASHINGTON, March 4 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that it expects to award up to five cooperative agreements for flood hazard identification and risk assessment programs in Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $23.3 million. The agency said the grant was associated with disaster prevention and relief. The funding is open to state, county, city, to  more

MARYSVILLE, Washington, March 5 -- The U.S. Army Reserve Command issued the following news: The 364 Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) G4 team hosted this year's Logistics Workshop with Brigade, Battalion, and Company supply, service, and maintenance teams in order to strengthen formal and informal working relationships, ensure mutual understanding, and align Army, 79th TSC and 364th ESC priorities toward building and sustaining overall logistics operational readiness. Approximately 90 partic  more

LAKEWOOD, Colorado, March 3 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Mountain Regional Field Office issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will conduct its biannual Agricultural Labor Survey during the second half of April. The survey will collect information about hired labor from more than 3500 farmers and ranchers in the Mountain Region states of Arizona, Colorado  more

FORT CAMPBELL, Kentucky, March 5 -- The U.S. Army Forces Command issued the following news: Sgt. 1st Class Raymond Haley died Feb. 20 on Fort Campbell, Ky. Haley was involved in a single vehicle accident at approximately 8:45 a.m., nobody else was involved in the vehicular accident. Haley, from Wyoming, Mich., was assigned to 101st Special Troops Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Sustainment Brigade "Lifeliners". He joined the Army in 2004 and arrived to Fort Campbell in 2019,   more

CASPER, Wyoming, March 6 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency - Wyoming Field Office issued the following news release: Farmers and ranchers may apply to enroll grasslands in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Grasslands signup beginning March 16. The signup runs through May 15. "Through this CRP Grasslands signup, farmers and ranchers can protect grasslands, rangelands and pastures, while maintaining the land as working grazing lands," said State Executive Director   more