Out West

Reported incidents of domestic violence have been on the rise in Washoe County over the past three years, underscoring the need to expand the availability of temporary housing for victims.

Revenues have come in $89M below the revenue projection Idaho legislators adopted in January.

The Idaho House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a resolution to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its 2015 landmark ruling that legalized gay marriage nationwide.

The lawsuit follows the decision by the Department of the Interior last month to revoke protections of land alongside the Trans-Alaskan pipeline.

Colorado’s Front Range Passenger Rail District is inviting the public to vote on the planned service’s name, ahead of an anticipated vote in November to fund the long-awaited intercity line.

Monitoring stations across Nevada continue to measure record low snowpack this winter as high temperatures and dry weather hamper snow accumulation, testing one of the state’s only tools to create more.

Everyone knows the charismatic hummingbird. For a dedicated few, they are a way of life.

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.