Glacier Park superintendent to oversee Grant-Kohrs Ranch
The visitor center at Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, pictured on March 10, 2025. (Micah Drew/Daily Montanan) The superintendent of Glacier National Park is adding another National Park Service site…
Bills advance to make nursing homes spend more on direct care
Two bills that would require nursing homes to devote 80% of their funds to the direct care of residents moved through the Human Services Committee on Thursday despite objections from…
Alaska regulators reject permit application for controversial gold project
A rock formation is seen at the edge of Safety Sound east of Nome on Sept. 30, 2020. Safety Sound is an imporant subsistence and recreation site for Nome residents.…
Idaho Gov. Brad Little signs bill to increase grocery tax credit
Idaho Gov. Brad Little gives a press conference after delivering his annual State of the State address on Jan. 6, 2025, in the Lincoln Auditorium in the Idaho Capitol. (Pat…
Death penalty bill for certain sex crimes against children heads to Idaho House
Idaho Rep. Bruce D. Skaug, R-Nampa, listens to proceedings on the House floor at the State Capitol building on Jan. 9, 2023. (Otto Kitsinger for Idaho Capital Sun) Under a…
Arizona Democratic Congressman Raúl Grijalva, environmental protection champion, dies at 77
U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva in 2019 at a town hall with U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren in Tempe, Ariz. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0) U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, who spent…
If we don’t act now, we risk losing the institutions that keep our society open, informed and free
Attorney Roy Cohn talking to American senator Joseph McCarthy, right, circa 1954. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) This commentary originally appeared in the Minnesota Reformer. I got an unexpected email…
Kentucky Senate approves flood relief fund, but Beshear says it ‘isn’t enough’
Family members of Kathy Kinney gather around her in a vehicle near her flooded home at Ramsey Mobile Home Park in Pikeville, Feb. 17, 2025. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)…
Rep. Raúl Grijalva, environmental protection champion, dies at 77
U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva in 2019 at a town hall with U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren in Tempe. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 U.S. Congressman Raúl Grijalva has…
WV House Republicans join Dems 54-41 to reject bill allowing direct corporate political donations
Del. Jordan Maynor, R-Raleigh, pushes his colleagues in the West Virginia House to vote for House Bill 2719, legislation that would have allowed for corporations in the state to directly…