The federal government awarded millions of dollars to states to develop programs to train more healthcare providers in rural areas.

Fire leaders held a demonstration to show what happens when a home is built with wildfire-conscious materials, something more homeowners and builders are considering as wildfires become more intense.

Women are using other brands or types of estrogen to avoid menopause symptoms while one local pharmacy works around the clock to fill prescriptions.

That’s especially true in the Mountain West. In most states, if one delivery unit shuts down, the next closest one is more than an hour away.

Could Wyoming join Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah to partially cover the childbirth resource?

Mountain West texters are more likely to bring up self-harm in crisis conversations than Americans at large.

Smoke from Colorado's intense wildfire season is drifting far beyond the flames, keeping people indoors and compounding long-standing air quality problems.

To find traces of an ancient sea, paleontologists and "rock hounds" head to the desert.

Last winter’s warmer temperatures allowed more ticks to survive into spring. In addition, an earlier spring is lengthening the tick season. Experts say this trend will continue as the climate warms.

For the first time, the United States Forest Service authorized the use of N95 respirators for federal wildland firefighters.