California voters have approved Proposition 1, a ballot measure aimed at boosting mental health resources and addressing the state’s homelessness crisis.
A bill now being considered by the state Senate would prohibit cities and towns from decreasing the annual operating budget for law enforcement from the prior year’s budget.
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed a bipartisan effort to make first-time home buying more affordable by prohibiting municipalities from establishing size and structure requirements for new single-family homes.
Utah’s domestic violence shelters are seeing an unprecedented spike in referrals in the last year, prompting the Utah Domestic Violence Coalition to ask the governor for $8 million in this year’s budget to help with staffing shortages.
Republican conspiracy theories questioning the integrity of voting by mail in the tumultuous aftermath of the 2020 election never rang true for most Utahns.
“Revolutionary” mapping gains followed the 2014 Oso, Washington landslide, which claimed 43 lives. But there’s still more work to do predicting hazards.