Officials say there’s not enough groundwater for housing construction already approved, a glimpse of the challenges facing the West as climate change worsens.
Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a bill that would have allowed an informal network of home cooks to sell perishable food legally. The backlash has been fierce.
Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania opened 92 percent of state government jobs to people without four-year degrees. Gov. Jim Pillen of Nebraska created a state office focused on broadband access.
A precariously narrow but consequential slice of the electorate broke with its own voting history to reject openly extremist Republican candidates — at least partly out of concern for the health of the political system.