WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * In December 2023, unemployment rates were higher than a year earlier in 18 states and the District of Columbia, lower in 15 states, and stable in 17 states. Over the month, jobless rates increased in 15 states, decreased in 1 state, and were little changed in 34 states and the District. * * * Chart: State unemployment rates, December 2013 to Dece  more

ANDERSEN AFB, Guam, Feb. 2 -- The U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command issued the following news: By Capt. Stephen J. Collier, Pacific Air Forces Public Affairs B-52 Stratofortress bombers assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, landed at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam at the end of January as part of a Bomber Task Force to support strategic deterrence missions aimed at reinforcing the rules-based international order in the Indo-Pacific region. While forward depl  more

ANDERSEN AFB, Guam, Feb. 2 -- The U.S. Pacific Air Forces issued the following news: By Capt. Stephen J. Collier, Pacific Air Forces Public Affairs B-52 Stratofortress bombers assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, landed at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam at the end of January as part of a Bomber Task Force to support strategic deterrence missions aimed at reinforcing the rules-based international order in the Indo-Pacific region. While forward deployed to Guam,  more

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam, Feb. 2 -- The U.S. Strategic Command issued the following news: By Capt. Stephen J. Collier Pacific Air Forces Public Affairs B-52 Stratofortress bombers assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, landed at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam at the end of January as part of a Bomber Task Force to support strategic deterrence missions aimed at reinforcing the rules-based international order in the Indo-Pacific region. While forward deployed  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement issued the following news release on Jan. 30, 2024: The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement today announced more than $3.1 million in fiscal year 2023 funding from President Biden's Investing in America agenda to address dangerous and polluting abandoned mines and to create good-paying jobs and catalyze economic opportunity by reclaiming abandoned mine lands in Nort  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- The U.S. Postal Service Inspector General issued the following audit report (No. 24-032) onon Jan. 22, 2024, entitled "Minnesota - North Dakota District Delivery Operations Review." Here are excerpts: * * * We performed audits at the Saint Paul Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) and three delivery units serviced by the P&DC in the Saint Paul, Minesota region during the week of November 13, 2023. The delivery units included the Apple Valley Branch, Saint Paul, MN;  more

MINOT AFB, North Dakota, Feb. 2 -- The U.S. Air Force Minot Air Force Base issued the following news: By Airmen 1st Class Luis Gomez, 5th Bomb Wing Public Affairs U.S. Air Force Chaplain Major General Randall Kitchens, U.S. Air Force chief of chaplains, and U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sergeant Sadie Chambers, Religious Affairs senior enlisted advisor, visited Minot Air Force Base (AFB) Jan. 28-30, 2024. Kitchens and his team spent three days meeting with the Minot AFB chaplains, touring differ  more