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The state’s broadband board focused on projects that are shovel ready, have big financial matches, and that target the “middle mile.”
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House lawmakers narrowly passed Gov. Brad Little’s proposed scholarship push Monday that would offset the costs of training and certificate programs for in-demand jobs.
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The National Park Service is behind on studying 28 potential sites to add to its system. Two of them are in the Mountain West.
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In Colorado and New Mexico – states where Democrats control the legislature – lawmakers are proposing banning the sale of assault weapons or banning them altogether, while Idaho and Wyoming legislators look to do away with concealed carry limits.
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Some politicians in the Mountain West are renewing calls to transfer federal lands to state and local governments as a way to ease the affordable housing crisis. They argue that such transfers could provide much-needed space in fast-growing communities hemmed in by public lands.
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State lawmakers have introduced three proposals to relieve homeowners from ballooning property taxes seen in recent years.
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A new study shows that eating a single serving of freshwater fish in the U.S. can be equal to drinking a month’s worth of water laced with “forever chemicals.”
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There’s something called the “1% for Air” local option tax, which traditionally funds air service and tourism efforts. But Ketchum officials would like to ask voters to split that LOT in half, with .5% still going to promote air travel, but earmarking the other .5% for affordable housing projects.
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The 2022 Census of Agriculture is due to the U.S. Department of Agriculture by mail or online by Feb. 6.
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A proposed constitutional amendment to further restrict the ballot initiative process in Idaho isn’t going directly to the Senate floor, with Republican leaders saying it needs some tweaks.
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“This idea that children are the vulnerable spot – the way to go after the LGBTQ community – is really taking hold,” says Olivia Hunt, the policy director at the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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Six of the seven states that use water from the Colorado River proposed a way for the federal government to cut back on water use and protect dropping water levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell.
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Despite all of the snow and cold snaps across the Mountain West, many cities are experiencing fewer nights at or below 32 degrees due to climate change. It’s a warming trend that has a wide range of impacts.