U.S. Congress

Last month, the U.S. House proposed sweeping cuts to the upcoming budgets of the Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency. Now, a Senate committee has restored most of what the agencies are asking for.

Among the legislative solutions to the looming wildland firefighter pay cliff is the recently introduced Wildland Firefighter Paycheck Protection Act, which would create permanent raises. However, some advocates are concerned that even with the legislation, many firefighters could still see substantial cuts when funding for temporary raises runs out at the end of September.

U.S. House Republicans are proposing sweeping cuts to the Interior Department, Environmental Protection Agency and other executive departments with major influence in the Mountain West.

Several electric vehicle companies are phasing out AM radio. But a bipartisan effort in Congress would require all automakers to maintain AM capabilities in their new vehicles at no extra charge.

Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives Albert Sommers released a statement Sunday Feb. 26 saying he is focused on Wyoming solutions, not out of state influences.

The National Park Service is behind on studying 28 potential sites to add to its system. Two of them are in the Mountain West.

Congress invoked the Railway Labor Act, passed nearly a century ago, that forced the four remaining rail unions that had rejected the Biden Administration's brokered deal largely due to a lack of stipulations for paid time off to accept it, avoiding a nationwide strike. But a Gillette union leader indicated there are potential positives for rail unions and workers in their relationships with the the railroads.

Greybull said it's important to her to give voters in Wyoming a choice, and she criticized Hageman’s allyship with former President Donald Trump, and their joint assertion that the 2020 election was stolen.

Ten new locations across the U.S. may be getting a long-distance road, gravel, or mountain biking trail thanks to proposed federal legislation.A bipartisan bill that would create the trails recently passed the House of Representatives and is headed to the Senate. It’s called the Biking on Long-Distance Trails, or BOLT, Act.