Out West

The measure is expected to bring in roughly $37 million per year by raising the state’s lodging tax from 1.5% to 2.75%.

For more than a decade, Colorado has consistently failed to meet federal standards for ground-level ozone across the Front Range where 3.3 million people live.

The Idaho Legislature’s budget committee rejected a pair of proposals Wednesday that would have restored a total of $285,000 in state funding for wildfire protection that the Idaho Legislature cut last month.

In a mixed ruling, a federal judge said former students lack standing for injunctive relief because there is no imminent threat of future harm.

Lawmakers are scrutinizing the death penalty in Utah, looking at how decades of appeals prolong suffering for grieving families and run up excessive legal bills at taxpayers’ expense.

Kyle Pfannenstiel (Idaho Capital Sun) Idaho’s top election official recently said he will not give the Trump administration access to sensitive personal information about 1 million Idaho registered voters. In a letter to the U.S. Departm...

Governor Gavin Newsom emphasized the need for accountability when announcing state dollars for housing and mental health services.

Matthew Mondschein (Nevada Current) The Trump administration’s threat to take control of elections in several states and its refusal to rule out immigration agents at polling stations not only threatens the integrity of this year’s elections, but also amounts to voter suppression and intimidation, election advocates say. Silver ...

Joe Gibbs Racing asked the court to keep its former competition director from working for one of its NASCAR Cup Series competitors.

En route to the Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway broke a monopoly that had outraged southern Colorado.