Out West

Gov. Tina Kotek recently visited a shelter and affordable apartment complex in Clatsop County, with the state’s highest per capita homeless rate.

While states have cheered the new tax revenue from sports gambling, some new studies have linked the burgeoning industry to lower consumer credit scores, higher credit card debt and less household savings.

Decades of drought and development mean there's even less water in the Colorado River to go around to numerous thirsty stakeholders.

Uncertainty has settled in regarding the river's future as climate change and increased development have reduced water flow over the years.

The Colorado River Basin connects over tens of millions of people in the Western U.S. and Mexico with water for drinking, irrigation and hydroelectricity.

The swale paintbrush grows only in one small area of southwest New Mexico, though historically it grew throughout Chihuahua and Durango, Mexico.

Alixel Cabrera (Utah news Dispatch) The details on municipal services and the development agreement on a district that Utah hopes will become the home of a new Major League Baseball stadium are still yet to be finalized. But, with a state-imposed Dec...

Following some aggressive spikes that accompanied the economy’s emergence from pandemic shutdowns, Southern Nevada rents today are about what they would have been if the pandemic hadn’t happened, a recent report suggests.

Those with respiratory concerns aren’t the only ones with reasons to worry, an Intermountain Health study found, as Utahns with heart disease may be especially vulnerable to the impacts of air pollution.

Business groups and many Republican leaders are cheering Trump’s plan to weaken environmental protections, arguing they are too strict and harm the economy.