LONDON, England, June 15 -- The British Film Institute issued the following news release with the BBC Film and Film4: * * * BFI, BBC FILM AND FILM4 PARTNER TO DEVELOP UK INDUSTRY FIRST: THE INDEPENDENT FILM SUSTAINABILITY HANDBOOK * The bespoke toolkit for independent film provides free, accessible and achievable guides to reducing the environmental impact of productions bfi.org.uk/sustainability-handbook * BFI also announces it will fund dedicated Sustainability Consultants on BFI features  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 18 (TNSLrpt) -- Occupational Employment and Wages in Carson City May 2025 - A report from U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics Western Region * * * Workers in the Carson City, NV Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $33.12 in May 2025, compared to the nationwide average of $33.54, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that higher paying major occupational group  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 18 (TNSLrpt) -- Occupational Employment and Wages in Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas May 2025 - A report from U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics Western Region * * * Workers in the Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $29.23 in May 2025, compared to the nationwide average of $33.54, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund n  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 18 (TNSLrpt) -- Occupational Employment and Wages in Reno May 2025 - A report from U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics Western Region * * * Workers in the Reno, NV Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $31.02 in May 2025, compared to the nationwide average of $33.54, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that higher paying major occupational groups included man  more

BLUEFIELD, West Virginia, June 19 -- Bluefield State University issued the following news: * * * Bluefield State Students Earn National FBLA Honors; Chapter Receives Gold Seal Recognition By Keith Olson Bluefield State University students earned multiple top-10 finishes at the 2026 FBLA Collegiate National Leadership Conference, held June 6-8 at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, while the University's chapter received national recognition for excellence, and one of its advi  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, June 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Nevada National Security Sites issued the following news: * * * BUILTT for DOE: A new path for small businesses to federal contracts The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Technology Commercialization and the National Nuclear Security Administration have initiated a pilot program aimed at simplifying small businesses' entry into federal contracting. Dubbed "BUILTT for DOE" (Bolstering Underutilized Industry by Leveraging Techn  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: * * * Cortez Masto, Rosen, Budd, Tillis Pass Bipartisan Resolution Honoring the Life of NASCAR Legend and Nevadan Kyle Busch * Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Ted Budd (R-N.C.), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) successfully passed their bipartisan resolution honoring the life of two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch. Busch was born and rais  more

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The Federal Communications Commission Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau issued the following public notice (CG Docket No. 10-210): * * * By this Public Notice, the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB) of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) announces the selection of Communication Service for the Deaf, Inc. (CSD) for certification to administer the National Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution Program (NDBEDP), also called "iCanConnect,  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 (TNSinfo) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued the following information collection: We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), U.S. Department of Agriculture, plans to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) to analyze the effects of a program to suppress populations of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets from rangeland in seventeen states of the western United   more

MERCED, California, June 18 -- The University of California Merced issued the following news: * * * Global Film Highlights Faculty Voice on the Future of Soil * A leading expert in soil biogeochemistry and environmental engineering, UC Merced Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, brings her research and perspective to a global conversation about the future of our planet. Berhe, the Ted & Jan Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences and Geology and director of the UC Merced Earth Institute (formerly Sierr  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, June 18 -- The University of Nevada Las Vegas campus posted the following news: * * * A Global Route to Dental Practice in the U.S. Goes Through UNLV * Every year, experienced dentists from around the world leave behind established practices, professional reputations, and familiar cultures for an opportunity that exists in only a handful of places in the United States. One of those places is the UNLV School of Dental Medicine. From Mongolia and Mexico to India and China,  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs released the following testimony by Las Vegas Paiute Tribe Chairman Benny Tso from a June 9, 2026, hearing on legislation to take certain federally owned lands into trust for the benefit of the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe (H.R. 6917): * * * Good morning, Chairman, Ranking Member, and Members of the Subcommittee. My name is Benny Tso, and I am Chairman of the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe, located in the Las Vega  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, June 17 -- The Nevada Democratic Party posted the following news release: * * * Nevada Republicans Enter General Election Tethered to Trump's Sinking Ship * Nevada Republicans spent the past few months desperately waving their hands in the air to try to get a spot on Donald Trump's ship. Now that they're all aboard with Trump's cost-raising agenda, here's a non-comprehensive list of reasons they are going down with the ship headed towards rock-bottom : Following new rep  more

SANTA MONICA, California, June 19 (TNSLrpt) -- State-Level Impacts of Key Medicaid Provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act - A report from Rand - June 18, 2026, (119 pages) - Preethi Rao, Lawrence Baker, Federico Girosi, Elaine Li, Rose Kerber, and Christine Eibner Here are excerpts: * * * On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Public Law 119-21), a massive budget reconciliation package with implications for many sectors of the U.S. econom  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: * * * Reps. Titus, Cohen Introduce Legislation to Protect the Rights of Airplane Passengers with Disabilities Today Congresswoman Dina Titus (D-NV), a senior member of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation, introduced the Air Carrier Access Amendments Act with Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN). This legislation would protect and expand the rights of airplane passengers with disabilit  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: * * * Rosen-Backed Bipartisan Bill to Expand Internet Access for Iranian Civilians and Combat Iran's Human Rights Abuses Advances in Committee * WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen's (D-NV) bipartisan Iran Human Rights, Internet Freedom, and Accountability Act recently advanced out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This bipartisan bill she led with Senator Dave McCormick (R-PA) will increase   more

PIERRE, South Dakota, June 12 -- South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Jackley Joins Bipartisan Coalition Urging Congress To Continue Legal Services for Veterans, Rural Communities South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces he has joined a bipartisan coalition of 40 Attorneys General in urging Congressional leaders to continue funding Legal Services Corporation (LSC), the nation's largest funder of civil legal aid for   more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: * * * Senate Republicans Block Rosen Attempts to Redirect Trump Slush Fund to Support SNAP, Medicaid, and Law Enforcement * Watch Senator Rosen's Full Remarks HERE. WASHINGTON D.C. - Today, U.S. Senate Republicans blocked multiple attempts by Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) to pass her bills to redirect federal funding from Donald Trump's slush fund toward SNAP, Medicaid, and law enforcement programs. While Do  more

LOS ANGELES, California, June 18 -- The University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering posted the following news: * * * Students Design and Build a Rocket to Carry Payloads to Space * When the student-run team was established at USC Viterbi 's Department of Astronautical Engineering two decades ago, their founding goal was to become the first collegiate team to launch a rocket into space. Since meeting that target in 2019 with Traveler IV and breaking the altitude record fo  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey issued the following news release: * * * USGS: Lithium in Carolinas Could Replace Imports for a Century or More RESTON, Va. -The southern Appalachian region of the eastern United States contains an estimated 1.43 million metric tons of undiscovered, economically recoverable lithium oxide, enough to replace 201 years of U.S. imports at last year's level, according to new research by the U.S. Geological Survey.    more