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Shannon Mullane, The Colorado SunThe state health department says private well users near Pine Winds Mobile Home Park should use bottled or filtered water. -
As demonstrations swirled around the Capitol five years ago, state lawmakers came together on a sweeping package of reforms that are still playing out. -
Nevada State Museum/allaroundnevada.comNative American tribes, including one from Nevada, want the U.S. government to explain how it funded boarding schools for Indigenous children -
Emily Arntsen/KZMUThe Velvet-Wood Mine is located southeast of Moab, just miles from the Colorado state line. It hasn't been operational since the 1980s, but it's now part of the Trump administration's efforts to ramp up mineral extraction and energy production. -
Jordan UplingerMany carriers said reforms are needed, but are wary of some of the Trump administration's proposals. -
KSUTThe plaintiffs argue that the executive order is unconstitutional, a First Amendment violation, and retaliatory.
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Anti-abortion groups are now pushing for restrictions on mifepristone. Numerous studies say the FDA-approved drug is safe. -
Colorado rivers are likely to see flows well below average thanks to rapidly melting snowpack and high temperatures. -
Farmers and ranchers in Western Colorado rely heavily on the Colorado River to irrigate their crops. Groups like the Colorado Water Trust want to make it as easy as possible for these water users to participate in conservation efforts, but aging infrastructure can be a barrier. -
Cities like Grand Junction, Colorado, and Moab, Utah, which experience many days over 90 and even 100 degrees, are looking at ways to make themselves more resilient to extreme heat. That includes public health services, education, and public messaging, and urban tree canopies. -
The Republican reconciliation bill includes a ten-year time out on just the kind of laws that Colorado is now struggling with. -
In recent years, there have been a number of fast-moving, destructive wildfires in which residents had little or no warning to evacuate. Federal officials have new recommendations for how communities should prepare for such disasters. -
A Republican representative from the Mountain West led an effort Wednesday to remove a controversial provision to sell 450,000 acres of federal land in Nevada and Utah from the House reconciliation bill. -
Twenty-seven trillion cubic feet of natural gas is nearly the same amount the U.S. consumes in a year. But extracting it is another story. -
The law takes effect in less than a year, but efforts to update it seem to have stalled out, at least for now. -
In this week's Roundup, meet Durango's new Indigenous mayor, and learn about a Queer prom on Colorado's Western Slope. -
A new study shows climate change is melting glaciers and permafrost in the Mountain West. Researchers say this can trigger the production of toxic mercury in mountain wetlands, posing risks to water supplies and wildlife. -
The Rocky Mountain region, which includes Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, accounted for about 43% of all U.S. ski visits.
