SACRAMENTO, California, Aug. 9 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2023: The Bureau of Land Management is taking an ambitious and coordinated approach to accelerate fuels reduction projects on public lands with high wildfire risk throughout California and northwest Nevada. Today's signing of the Statewide Wildland-Urban Interface Fuels Treatment Programmatic Environmental Assessment will streamline plans to protect commun  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Aug. 8 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2023: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Las Vegas Field Office today announced it is seeking public comment on its proposal to lease and subsequently convey approximately 10 acres of public land to Clark County to expand the county's Desert Breeze Park. The parcel is located near the intersection north of West Flamingo Road and west of South Cimarron Road.   more

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Aug. 9 -- The U.S. Army Recruiting Command issued the following news: The US Army's 6th Recruiting Brigade held their Change of Command ceremony July 27th, 2023, as Col. Michael Lindley handed over the command of one of the Army's most important missions to Col. Spencer Wallace. Maj. Gen. Johnny Davis, the U.S. Army Recruiting Command's Commanding General, presided over the ceremony, held at the Aliante Hotel in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Lindley assumed command of the   more

CREECH AFB, Nevada, Aug. 12 -- The U.S. Air Force Creech Air Force Base (432nd Air Expeditionary Wing) issued the following news: By Senior Airman Ariel O'Shea, 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs On Aug. 10, 2023, Air Force officials announced the 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing senior airmen chosen for promotion to staff sergeant. In the 23E5 promotion cycle, which includes supplemental promotion opportunities, 9,000 senior airmen throughout the Air Force were sel  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Aug. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following remarks on Aug. 11, 2023, by Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas at the Def Con 31 event: * * * Last year, we had a software vulnerability that enabled an individual to really circumvent, or bypass, our security measures and communicate from our official dot gov site - our email addresses. And the result of that would have been catastrophic, because we communicate with millions of people every single day an  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (TNSres) -- The National Science Foundation issued the following news release: On August 11, U.S. National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan joined White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Arati Prabhakar at the University Nevada, Reno, for a roundtable discussion and to highlight an approximately $1 million NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) Development Award supporting a UNR-led project. During the visit, Director Panchanath  more

RENO, Nevada, Aug. 12 -- The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued the following news release on Aug. 11, 2023: Today, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Arati Prabhakar and U.S. National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan visited the University Nevada, Reno (UNR), for a roundtable discussion to highlight how President Biden's bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act is fueling innovation and private sector investments that are creating go  more

NELLIS AFB, Nevada, Aug. 12 -- The U.S. Space Force issued the following news: By Staff Sgt. Sean Hetz, 57th Air Base Wing Public Affairs Red Flag 23-3 has come to a close for more than 2,000 U.S. Air Force, Space Force, Marine Corps, Navy and Air National Guard that ran from July 17 to August 4. Although it started at Nellis Air Force Base, it concluded with multiple units dispersed to parts of Southern California. "The last week of Red Flag 23-3 occurred in conjunction with the U.S. Navy,"   more

SAN DIEGO, California, Aug. 12 (TNScapv) -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California issued the following news release: Danny Lamar Miller-Kidd was sentenced in federal court to 15 years in prison for his leadership role in a Baja California-based drug trafficking organization that imported and distributed hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin to various sub-distributors throughout the United States, including California, Arizona, Or  more