By David Hutton | Feb 15, 2022
A Columbia County, OR man will spend 27 years in federal prison and a life term of supervised release for recording the repeated rape and abuse of a child over a five-year period.
By David Hutton | Feb 14, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revealed its roster of Pacific Northwest honorees for their sustainability efforts to conserve energy and water and reduce food waste and trash headed for landfills.
By David Hutton | Feb 11, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has released its latest Food and Nutrition Research Briefs.
By David Hutton | Feb 11, 2022
Officials from the United States held a virtual meeting this week to discuss the opportunity to increase trade and investment between the U.S. and Brazil.
By David Hutton | Feb 11, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is offering an update for its plan to clean up the Commerce Street Plume Superfund site in Williston.
By David Hutton | Feb 10, 2022
A Chicago woman who worked as an administrative assistant at a medical practice in a city suburb is headed to jail after pleading guilty last year for writing fraudulent opioid prescriptions.
By David Hutton | Feb 9, 2022
A groundbreaking ceremony celebrating the beginning of a $187 million project to renovate a 10-mile stretch of the Fraint-Kern Canal in Central California took place Jan. 25.
By David Hutton | Feb 9, 2022
A Texas man is facing federal charges after being arrested for allegedly making election-related threats against government officials in a Craigslist post on Jan. 5, 2021.
By David Hutton | Feb 8, 2022
Four Belarusian officials are facing charges of conspiracy to commit aircraft piracy after a federal grand jury in New York issued an indictment alleging they diverted a flight to arrest a dissident journalist last year.
By David Hutton | Feb 2, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation, through its Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, has declared a Florida motor carrier a hazard to public safety and ordered the company and its principals to stop all operations.
By David Hutton | Jan 19, 2022
The U.S. has recently imposed sanctions on seven foreign individuals and one foreign entity found to be providing material assistance to the Democrat People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) weapons programs.
By David Hutton | Jan 18, 2022
The U.S. Army and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently teamed up to determine exactly how projects that could impact endangered species are evaluated.
By David Hutton | Jan 18, 2022
In a virtual introductory meeting, U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Turkish Minister of Trade Mehmet Mus confirmed a continuing effort to boost bilateral trade between the nations.
By David Hutton | Jan 18, 2022
When the ball dropped in Times Square to mark the start of 2022, the U.S. population was estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau to be at 332,403,650, a .21% increase from last year.
By David Hutton | Jan 16, 2022
Six wind energy lease areas off the coasts of New York and New Jersey will be sold at a wind auction in February.
By David Hutton | Jan 12, 2022
Nine local, state and federal law enforcement officers and special agents have recently been recognized by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada for going beyond the call of duty in carrying out the office’s mission during 2021.
By David Hutton | Jan 12, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has recently renewed its alliance with the Consulate General of Mexico in Kansas City, continuing its shared effort to promote health and workplace safety for Mexican nationals working in Kansas and Missouri.
By David Hutton | Jan 12, 2022
More than $9.3 million dollars has been recently recovered by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) for employees participating in a Minneapolis manufacturing company’s employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) after the trustee was found to have overpaid for stock in 2011.
By David Hutton | Jan 9, 2022
Program in North Philadelphia is connecting consumers, New Jersey fishermen.
By David Hutton | Jan 9, 2022
Increasing salmon population, a key food source, is part of plan to restore whale population.
