(Arizona News Connection) For many years, Tsegi Canyon on the Navajo Nation struggled: Its dry walls and streambanks were eroding, exposing crumbling red soil to the desert sky. Its springs were drying up; native plants were few and far between on the canyon floor, often replaced by invasive weeds.This land, beautiful and remote, was tired, said Nicholas Chischilly, a wildlife technician with the Navajo Nation Climate Change Program, which operates under the tribe's Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Groups challenging the criminal consequences for failing to pay rent in Arkansas say they ll take another run at it, perhaps as a class-action lawsuit, after their initial case was dismissed. Arkansas is the only state that treats nonpayment of rent as a criminal offense instead of a civil debt, and a nonprofit that provides free legal services contends that is unconstitutional. Phil Telfeyan, who heads the group Equal Justice Under Law, said the goal of the suit was to end the law - and now, more work must be done. .
The average cost of keeping a roof over your head in Utah s metro areas is a lot more than it used to be - if you re renting. A recent University of Utah study found that rental prices in the state s major cities increased faster in the past two years than they did over the entire prior decade. Dejan Eskic - a senior research fellow at the University of Utah s Kem C. .