climate change

Record-setting low snowpack and warm temperatures are creating less than ideal fishing conditions.

The Trump Administration wanted to scrap the program. But is now releasing funds earmarked to help people pay air conditioning during an anticipated extreme heat summer.

A new report from the American Lung Association finds about half of U.S. children are living in areas with unhealthy air quality, and several Mountain West cities rank among the most polluted in the country.

A year after the Elk Fire raged through the east side of the Bighorns in 2024, a rainstorm kicked off debris flows that closed a highway.

“Suppression is always going to be there,” Chief Brian Fennessy told the Mountain West News Bureau. “But we're not going to suppress our way out of this situation.”

Proponents of a bill in Colorado say stronger roofs would mean less damage during storms, and lower home insurance costs.

Arizona and other states are stuck in negotiations about sharing the river's water. Some have proposed breaking the standstill with a mediator.

Widespread drought and fears of a power crisis is forcing the Interior Department to start sending billions of gallons of water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir downstream to prop up Lake Powell.

Fuel and fertilizer costs have increased dramatically since the war with Iran.

As data centers rapidly expand across the Mountain West, researchers say a key question is getting harder to answer: how much water are they actually using?