The two Republican governors met with legislators to encourage passing a resolution calling for a Convention of States to create a federal balanced budget amendment.
The ongoing shake-up at the federal level has raised questions over future federal funding, which has traditionally supported a number of local programs and projects, from housing to infrastructure.
A new satellite project and bipartisan coalition are at the heart of California's climate plans, many of which clearly oppose Trump's national policies.
George Wuerthner writes, "Any attempts to sell off or transfer public lands to private ownership is an attack on America's fundamental value of equal opportunity and access for all."
Scientists from the National Institutes of Health on Monday said several mosquito-borne viruses are circulating in Montana, which could cause encephalitis and other health effects that are unfamiliar to most physicians.
Mia Love, who made history as the nation’s first Black Republican congresswoman as well as the first Black woman to serve as a mayor in Utah, died at 49.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has axed two programs that gave Nevada schools and food banks more than $6 million in funds to buy food from local farms and ranchers in the state last year.