Feb. 5—What does it take to build a Hotshot firefighting crew from the ground up? How about two of them? New Mexico officials are about to find out. The State Forestry Division, part of the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, is setting out to build two elite firefighting crews from scratch, one to be […]
(Bloomberg) — SoFi Technologies Inc. reached profitability for the first time, taking the fintech one step closer to Chief Executive Officer Anthony Noto’s goal of turning the former anti-bank into a top 10 financial institution. Most Read from Bloomberg Fourth-quarter net income was $48 million, the first profit under generally accepted accounting principles since the […]
Alabama carried out the first-ever execution by nitrogen gas Thursday, killing 58-year-old Kenneth Smith just over a year after he survived a failed lethal injection. In Smith’s final days, his lawyers had asked the Supreme Court to block the execution. They argued that the second attempt to kill Smith — with an untested mechanism, before he had exhausted […]
This rendering depicts Waters Lakeside, a condominium project with three towers that is nearing completion in Horseshoe Bay west of Austin. Good afternoon, and thank you for subscribing to Building Austin, our weekly newsletter focused on real estate, growth and development in the Austin region. I’m Shonda Novak, the American-Statesman’s real estate reporter. Horseshoe Bay Resort, just over an hour’s drive […]
Jan. 19—OTHELLO — SkillSource’s Othello location will be hosting the first Othello hiring event to connect job seekers with employers Jan. 26. The event, located at 165 N. First Ave., will be an open house from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. “It’s the first multi-employer hiring event to be held in Othello,” SkillSource Adult Training […]
Contract negotiations between California State University leaders and its faculty union hit a brick wall Tuesday morning, pushing the 23 campuses closer to what would be the first ever systemwide faculty strike. CSU officials announced in a statement Tuesday morning that they were ending the current round of negotiations by giving all university faculty, librarians, […]
HOUSTON – The National Weather Service (NWS) has confirmed the occurrence of the first tornado of 2024 near Galveston, Texas. RELATED: FOX 26 Houston Weather Forecast During the early morning hours of January 5th, a cold front that passed through Southeast Texas generated an EF-0 tornado. At about 6 a.m., the tornado struck the southeast […]