With only one day left in the race, the candidates are attacking each other for links to corporate interests and out-of-state donors. Centrist politicians, law enforcement groups and the business community are supporting Kelly Brough. Mike Johnston has racked up endorsements from most labor unions, progressive organizations and left-leaning elected officials.

The order said about 340,000 acres in the Chaco Canyon area would be protected. The area of northwestern New Mexico is culturally significant to the region’s Native American communities.

A federal judge in Wyoming has ruled in favor of four hunters in a case that tested the legality of "corner crossing," or stepping from one parcel of public land to another over a common corner shared with private property – a common practice due to the checkerboard pattern of land ownership in parts of the Mountain West.

Some Indigenous youth continue to face resistance for wearing tribal regalia at graduation. But more Mountain West states are passing legislation to protect that right.

The state of Arizona today said it will no longer issue new development approvals based on groundwater alone.