The attorney general rejected for a second time Tuesday a proposed constitutional amendment to grant Arkansans the right to a clean and healthy environment. University of Arkansas students drafted the Clean and Healthy Natural Environment Amendment,

If approved by two-thirds of voters living in the Petaluma Joint Union High School District, the tax would generate about $3 million annually for eight years. A similar measure last year fell short, earning 64% of the vote — a strong majority, but not enough to pass under California law.

"While Measure A is obviously about our hospitals and health clinics, it is also the reality that every vital county service is deeply affected and inextricably dependent on the health care system," County Executive James Williams told San Jose Spotlight.

For the first time, an international research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has demonstrated that applying pixelized strong-lensing modeling on a galaxy cluster scale can significantly improve the precision of the inferred Hubble constant (H0)—a key parameter that describes the expansion rate of the universe.

Napa’s Measure G sales tax continues to fund sweeping park and street improvements across the city, upgrades city officials say will improve daily life for residents while keeping finances