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Dean Krakel, Special to The Colorado Sun
Colorado lost more public lands jobs than any other state in 2025
The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency cut 1,753 land management jobs last year, or 26% of the jobs managing 24 million public acres.
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Wisconsin Elections Commission overrules ballot-counting decisions in Madison and Mequon
Madison counted 23 late-arriving ballots that the commission voted should not have been counted, and Mequon threw out five ballots that the commission voted should have been counted.
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The many voices of North Dakota voters
The latest North Dakota Poll takes a closer look at how residents are responding to major national issues and reveals some notable divides across the state.
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Here’s how Wyoming communities cooperate with ICE
Seven counties, four towns and Wyoming Highway Patrol now have one or more official partnerships with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Gordon Hodges for Door County Knock
Locked Out: Door County’s affordable housing shortage
An in-depth series on Door County’s affordable housing shortage, examining its causes, shrinking availability and the roadblocks to building more.
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Courtesy of U.S. Senate.
Caridnal News 250: Virginia’s stories. A nation’s birth.
The project spotlights Virginia’s overlooked contributions to America’s march to independence ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary, or semiquincentennial.
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Justin Hardiman for Capital B
Sowing Resilience
Rural communities across the country are grappling with food insecurity. Nine stories reveal how communities are navigating — and reimagining — the systems that have left them hungry.
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Caught between floods, a housing crisis and funding denials, Barre’s North End recovery remains stalled
May 01, 2026
The neighborhood was hit hard by flooding in 2023 and 2024. Two and a half years later, little has changed.
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Confusion emerges over new SD voter ID requirements
April 30, 2026
County auditors in South Dakota are, in certain cases, deciding how to implement new voter ID rules on their own due to uncertainty over state-issued guidelines.
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Billionaire’s Private Airline Prepares New Moloka‘i Route
April 30, 2026
Lānaʻi Air was formed to fly guests in style to Larry Ellison’s luxury resorts. Now the company wants to help close the gulf in access to off-island doctors for Moloka‘i residents amid a shortage of air travel options.
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Rural-Focused $42 Billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program Becomes Operational
April 30, 2026
Early signs of a massive federal broadband expansion effort are beginning to reach local communities.
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Santa Clara County looks to fund Latino ‘health promoters’
April 29, 2026
Officials argue the need to fund a permanent system of culturally competent, one-on-one clinicians for the county’s most vulnerable Spanish speakers is especially urgent amid a tide of federal funding cuts threatening Northern California’s largest public hospital system.
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The Columbia River Is Polluted. Are Fish Farms Making It Worse?
April 29, 2026
Environmental groups are suing one of the largest seafood companies in the country over alleged aquaculture pollution to the Columbia River.
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Beyond tolerance: the mental health of queer youth
April 29, 2026
San Benito County resources, spaces and acceptance.
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In rural Wisconsin, a town rejects a plan to build a massive data center
April 29, 2026
Cassville residents and leaders are in the dark about who would build a $1B center or where it would go. They used zoning to block the plan.
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Tribal nations in Oklahoma awarded million of dollars to boost broadband access
April 29, 2026
Officials say broadband technology not only provides essential day-to-day services for homes, schools and businesses, but also cultural preservation and strengthening tribal sovereignty.