Out West

Republican lawmakers are charging ahead with their attacks on transgender Arizonans, despite veto promises from Gov. Katie Hobbs, unanimously backing a measure on Tuesday that calls for separate school facilities for trans students.

Colorado leaders are asking the feds to put the brakes on a proposed Utah railway that could send up to five oil trains per day through central Denver and other sensitive areas along the Colorado River watershed.

A bill that critics say violates students’ constitutional rights by forcing them to recite the Pledge of Allegiance has continued to make its way toward becoming law.

According to 2023 report, Idaho has 38 affordable rental homes for every 100 households with extremely low incomes — a decrease from 42 units in 2022.

The study found that atmospheric aridity, or dry air, was far more determinantal to the health of Douglas firs than a lack of rainfall.

Rich donors and unlimited super PAC spending are giving two contenders a clear advantage over the rest of the crowded field.

The Northern California tribe has been fighting the Bureau of Reclamation over a change in the timing of water releases to restore the river.

Under the agreement, Oregon’s Department of Forestry will expand buffers around habitable waterways throughout the Tillamook and Clatsop state forests.

Residents who oppose the project, which advertises $2.5 million units, say it is not affordable, and they contend an ancillary 1,000 square foot office does not qualify it as a mixed-use development.

Research links cedar death to climate, details which trees are dying, which are surviving and shows how the species might be saved.