LUZON ISLAND, Philippine, June 29 -- The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news: By 1st Lt. Anne Pentaleri, 3rd Marine Logistics Group U.S. Marines with 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, concluded Marine Aviation Support Activity 24, the third of three Philippine-led bilateral exercises with 3rd MLR participation spanning the past three months, on Luzon, Philippines, June 21, 2024. The U.S. Marines' return to their home station on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneoh  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 26 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on June 25, 2024, entitled "Hawaii Job Openings and Labor Turnover - April 2024": * * * Hawaii had 26,000 job openings in April 2024, compared to 27,000 openings in March, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that the job openings rate in Hawaii was 3.9  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, June 28 -- The White House Council on Environmental Quality issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: * * * Announcement comes during CEQ Chair's trip to New Mexico to highlight President Biden's progress on climate, conservation, and environmental justice agenda New Mexico, Michigan, Hawaii, and Minnesota join 10 other states, nine Tribes, and dozens of local communities committed to protecting freshwater resources * * * Today in Albuquerque, New Mexico,   more

WASHINGTON, June 26 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Scientists used powerful modeling software to find patterns in the continuous seismic waveforms during a series of stick-slip, magnitude-5 earthquakes * * * A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory used machine learning -- an application of artificial intelligence -- to detect the hidden signals that precede an earthquake. The findings at the Kilauea volcano in Hawa  more

CAMP SMITH, Hawaii, June 25 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Indo-Pacific Command issued the following news: AIRAI, Palau - When United Airlines flight 192 approached Palau International Airport at 2:20 A.M. on June 12, 2024, it was cleared to land by U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Kaleb Burks, an air traffic controller with Marine Air Control Squadron 1, Marine Air Control Group 38, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing. The tower at Palau International Airport isn't typically manned by air  more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- NASA issued the following news release: NASA has selected the University of Hawaii in Honolulu to maintain and operate the agency's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea in Hilo, Hawaii. The Management and Operations of NASA's IRTF is a hybrid firm-fixed-price contract with an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity provision. The contract has a maximum potential value of approximately $85.5 million, with a base period of performance from Monday, July 1 to June  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: The National Park Service (NPS) has selected Christine Ogura as the new permanent superintendent of Honouliuli National Historic Site beginning September 2024. Ogura has worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for 14 years. She worked for the late U.S. Congresswoman Patsy T. Mink and for non-profits acquiring lands for the NPS and supported  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 28 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: * * * Settles Federal Charges Janitorial Contractor Did Not Provide Deaf Employees with Reasonable Accommodations * * * Nonprofit organizations Opportunities and Resources, Inc. and ORI Anuenue Hale, Inc., recipients of federal contracts to provide janitorial services on military installations throughout Hawaii, will pay $325,000 and provide other relief to resolve a d  more

EUGENE, Oregon, June 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release: A Bend, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison for possessing 20 pounds of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. Isaac Kitashima, 48, was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison and five years' supervised release. According to court documents, from August 2020 through June 2021, Kitashima and co-conspirators conducted a multi-state drug trafficking operation  more

CAMP SMITH, Hawaii, June 25 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Indo-Pacific Command issued the following news: POHNPEI, Federated States of Micronesia - The U.S. Coast Guard continued its support for regional and Department of Defense efforts by bringing its expertise in search and rescue, disaster response, and maritime safety and security to partners in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the week of June 3, 2024. This support included processes education, coa  more

CAMP SMITH, Hawaii, June 25 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Indo-Pacific Command issued the following news: We are aware of the DPRK's ballistic missile launch and are consulting closely with the Republic of Korea and Japan, as well as other regional allies and partners. The United States condemns these actions and calls on the DPRK to refrain from further unlawful and destabilizing acts. While we have assessed that this event does not pose an immediate threat to U.S. personnel, or territor  more