Kauanoe Batangan has picked up endorsements from 15 Maui labor unions just before Saturday’s primary, giving the appointed Kahului councilmember a powerful campaign boost.

Nevada’s senators want to permanently erase Yucca Mountain’s nuclear waste designation as Washington courts other states for storage sites.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from obtaining Colorado’s unredacted voter rolls, delivering another setback to the DOJ’s nationwide data campaign.

Aurora’s City Council chamber needs a $1.9 million accessibility overhaul, but construction could force meetings out of the room for months.

A new Los Angeles City Council motion could loosen decades-old tree-spacing rules and open more planting opportunities in heat-burdened neighborhoods.

An Oakland SambaFunk drummer has spent more than eight months in ICE detention after attending a San Francisco check-in. A policy reversal may offer a new path in his asylum case, but his next hearing remains uncertain.

Mauldin voters will decide whether to add a 1% sales tax for roads, a fire station and homeowner tax credits. The measure would begin next spring if approved.

Indiana is trying to block the planned 2028 retirement of a Rockport coal unit, even as its owner prepares a natural gas replacement.

Hastings wants a year to study data centers before any project can move forward, even though none is currently pending.

Jeffersonville’s one-year data center freeze won’t stop Meta’s massive River Ridge project. Residents say the city’s utility and tax tradeoffs were hidden from public view.

A new Floyd County tax panel is stirring fears of a city-county merger in New Albany. County leaders insist the committee is only about dividing local income-tax dollars.

Some residents support protecting Lakes Keowee and Jocassee, but they say Pickens County’s latest overlay draft should not be hidden from public view.

A Tuesday vote in East San Jose puts a proposed RealOptions Obria contract under a bright local spotlight. Critics are questioning the provider’s record and the district’s consent-calendar process.