Hundreds who work for the Oregon Department of Transportation got notice that they’re being laid off in what Gov. Tina Kotek called a preventable emergency and the largest round of layoffs in the state government’s history.
Colorado’s tax code was written in 1935 to capture revenue from tangible goods, long before anyone imagined a world where movies could stream to a portable phone.
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser’s office will consider joining a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s declaration in January of a national energy emergency.
Emboldened by President Donald Trump, Republicans in Idaho have tried to ban the raising of Pride flags at public buildings. Left-leaning Boise isn’t backing down.
The amount of forest with problems is only a small fraction of the overall 22 million acres state officials looked at, but it is slightly above the 10-year average.
The U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture recently announced it would try to roll back the “roadless rule,” a decades-old policy that prevents road construction and logging on nearly 4 million acres of national forest in Utah.