There were early signs that this fire season could be a big one, especially the record-low snowpack last winter. In Teton County — near the Grand Targhee Resort — that spurred interest in a novel effort: raising money to help hire a local wildfire mitigation coordinator.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has joined a lawsuit opposing new rules on mail-in balloting.

Environmentalists fear it could set a dangerous precedent.

Colorado election officials say legal uncertainty shrouds the potential impact of Trump’s executive order on mail ballots.

Coal is perhaps most closely associated with Appalachian states like West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky — or Wyoming, the nation's leading producer of the fossil fuel. But the coal-mining business was once thriving in northern Arizona as well, atop the Colorado Plateau.