The Rocky Mountain region is experiencing more wildfires in the midst of drought and high temperatures. And more of those blazes are being caused by people as our population grows. The job of fire investigators has never been more important. They track down the spark that can lead to prosecutions and their work provides crucial data for studying fire causes.

Things are looking better on the surface of the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action, or UMTRA, site just outside of Moab, Utah. Piles of waste from an old uranium mill are growing smaller. But under the surface there is still uranium-contaminated groundwater. Now there might be a solution for that, with technology proven successful in Colorado.

The Bureau of Land Management says horses are unhealthy and causing poor rangeland conditions. Wild-horse advocates who visited the area say the animals are healthy and not to blame for land degradation.

Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse (D), a chief sponsor of the bill, says the package confronts the effects of climate change in the West.

Bob Rafelson, who died Saturday, had lived in Aspen for nearly 60 years. He mostly stayed out of the spotlight when he was in town, but his legacy as a pioneer of the New Hollywood movement demanded nationwide attention.

A paper out of the University of Utah shows that plume heights are increasing more than 300 feet every year in mountain ranges in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.

The FBI in New Mexico recently released a public list of almost 180 missing Indigenous people throughout the state and Navajo Nation. They’re hoping that groundwork could be a model around the Mountain West and the nation to create similar lists.