SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 11 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on the alternative measures of labor underutilization in Arizona for 2019: In 2019, the broadest measure of labor underutilization, designated U-6 (which includes the unemployed, workers employed part-time for economic reasons, and those marginally attached to the labor force), was 9.3 percent in Arizona, significantly higher than the  more

BOULDER CITY, Neveda, March 14 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: Recent rainstorms throughout the lower Colorado River corridor have caused reductions in the amount of water the Bureau of Reclamation has been releasing from Davis and Parker dams. At Parker Dam, north of Parker, Arizona, hourly releases have been reduced to approximately 1,800 cubic feet per second (cfs). This level of release is expected to continue for the next f  more

TUCSON, Arizona, March 11 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Coronado National Forest - issued the following news release: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen and Natural Resource Conservation Service Chief Matthew Lohr awarded Coronado National Forest and Natural Resource Conservation Service- Arizona $679,450 for project work on the Fort Huachuca Sentinel Landscape. Coronado National Forest will receive $302,000 and the Natur  more

DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE, Arizona, March 12 -- The U.S. Air Force (355th Fighter Wing) issued the following news: U.S. Marines assigned to the Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 164 from Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, California, conducted Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel training with MV-22B Osprey aircrews at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. This pre-deployment training was focused on the Marine Corps integration into joint personnel recovery. "We conducted an integr  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * - In rapidly growing industry, safety standards and best practices must play catch-up * * * It was nearly a year ago when firefighters from the Peoria Fire-Medical Department in Arizona responded to a call about a brushfire northwest of Phoenix. When they arrived on scene, they didn't find a brushfire, but a 2-megawatt lithium-ion battery installation with wh  more

DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Arizona, March 13 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news: Marines assigned to the Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 164 at Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, California, conducted tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel training with MV-22B Osprey aircrews at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. This predeployment training was focused on the Marine Corps integration into joint personnel recovery. "We conducted an integrated recovery training m  more