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A Yavapai County hospitality group is offering a free college education to incentivize current and future employees as it's been tough getting new people to join the team.

5:48 On Tuesday, Joe Rivas walked up the creaky, wooden ramp to the hayloft of a decades-old, white-painted barn near Phillips. Inside, hundreds of harvested cannabis plants hung on lines to dry. The image was something like an upside-down Christmas tree farm. Each is a variety of hemp, rich in the therapeutic substance cannabidiol, or CBD. They have little or no THC. That is, you can’t get high on anything grown here. Hemp plants hang to dry in the barn. Credit Ben Meyer/WXPR Steps away, ins...

Luke Air Force Base reveals major renovations to its Base Exchange FOX 10s Ty Brennan reports. MARICOPA COUNTY, Ariz. - Service members and their families have a new and improved place to shop at Luke Air Force Base after the Base Exchange recently underwent a multi-million dollar renovation. After a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, it was time for shoppers to see their new and improved exchange at the base. The 45-year-old building underwent a $9.8 million renovation from floor to ceili...

Arnold Air Force Base, located on the outskirts of Tullahoma, had over a half-billion dollar impact on the Volunteer State according to studies which also revealed the base accounts for over 1,700 jobs. The economic impact of Arnold Air Force Base across the state of Tennessee was $680.2 million for the 2020 fiscal year. Arnold AFB impacted the local areas through payroll, secondary jobs created through local spending, and other expenditures for supplies, utilities, fuel and services and the sp...

Barksdale Air Force Base begins reopening efforts (Source: BAFB) By Daffney Dawson | February 18, 2021 at 5:30 PM CST - Updated February 19 at 9:14 AM BOSSIER CITY, La. (KSLA) - The Barksdale Air Force Base will begin reopening on Friday, Feb. 19, to initiate recovery efforts. In order to reduce travel in unsafe conditions, unit leadership will have discretion over who comes on base for work based on need. Those needed will be contacted directly. For those in need of a prescription (if i...

Winter weather updates: Snow blankets Shreveport From Staff Reports, Shreveport Times A winter storm warning has been issued for the entire four (Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas)-state region beginning late Saturday night and ending at 6 p.m Monday. The National Weather Service in Shreveport predicted snow for the city on Monday, mainly before 9 a.m. The high temperature will be near 23. Wind chill values will be as low as 4. The chance of precipitation is 80%. Total...

By Doug Barrett Jan 31, 2021 9:33 PM U.S. consumers slowed their spending by 0.2% in December, cutting back for a second straight month. The decline reported today by the Commerce Department followed a seasonally adjusted 0.7% drop in November. It’s the latest sign that consumers, whose spending is the primary driver of the U.S. economy, are hunkered down and avoiding traveling, shopping and dining out.   The number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes declined slightly for...

. Medical-grade face masks will have to be worn in public facilities on Ramstein Air Base and other Air Force installations in the Kaiserslautern area starting next week, the 86th Airlift Wing said Thursday. FFP2, KN95, N95 or medical-style surgery masks will be required when visiting “the Base Exchange, all shops and food court areas; the Ramstein and Vogelweh commissaries; the Ramstein Shopette, Post Offices, and the Ramstein Law Center,” 86th Airlift Wing commander, Brig. Gen. Josh Ols...

HILL AIR FORCE BASE — For a group of people whose ultimate purpose is to fight and win wars, Hill Air Force Base has its fair share of warm-hearted Christmas softies. In the days leading up to the 2020 Yuletide, several outfits at Hill were either recipients or donors of some exceptional Christmas cheer. Last week, following a years-standing tradition, airmen from Hill’s 419th and 388th fighter wings and the 649th Munitions Squadron delivered sacks of gifts to children of Utah foster ...

Travis escalates health protection condition due to Covid-19 Col. Corey A. Simmons TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — The 60th Air Mobility Wing commander has directed Health Protection Condition Charlie in response to Covid-19 beginning Thursday, according to base officials. Col. Corey Simmons has implemented HPCON Charlie in response to the increased spread of Covid-19 in the local community, substantial public health alert in the state and to align with Solano County’s shelter-at-home order that’...