Think you can figure out a way to unlock one of the biggest secrets of the universe? The recently launched third Gravitational Lensing Accuracy Testing challenge (GREAT3) is giving researchers the ...

Life Defense Fund attorney Sara Frankenstein readies her case against against Dakotans for Health's abortion rights ballot measure in Sioux Falls on July 15, 2024. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota ...

This week was a big one for supporters of Measure ULA, the real estate transfer tax also sometimes called the mansion tax despite the fact that it applies to commercial transactions as well as ...

A Los Angeles judge has denied a challenge from the California Hospital Association to a ballot measure that would cap pay of hospital executives. The Los Angeles measure backed by Service Employees ...

Hospitals and healthcare providers in rural areas are faced with a number of challenges when it comes to measuring quality performance and optimizing quality improvement efforts, according to a report ...

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Oregonians passed Measure 114 in November. It would ban the manufacture, purchase or sale of high capacity magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition. It would also require people ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of a continuing series. Donnita Bennett, who lives with her two school-age sons in one of this city’s poorest neighborhoods, has a simple vision for what she thinks ...

A lawsuit against South Dakota’s abortion-rights ballot question won’t end before voting begins, according to rulings issued Tuesday. A Minnehaha County judge declined to dismiss the litigation, with ...