Mountain West News Bureau

The Trump administration could be inching toward delisting the species from the endangered species list.

In South Lake Tahoe's quiet neighborhoods, the uneasy balance between humans and bears is being tested by one mother bear and her cub, known affectionately as Hope and Bounce.

People over 70 are increasingly using firearms to end their lives. The rate is especially prevalent among Western states.

The Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule put conservation on equal footing with grazing and energy production. The Trump administration is trying to roll it back.

No Turquoise Alert had been issued but on Monday, authorities discovered human remains in Navajo County near the Knots Landing community in Whiteriver on the Fort Apache Reservation.

Few states require building with fire-resistant materials, but some in the Mountain West are in the process of changing that.

Shorter days mean more nighttime driving — and across the Mountain West, that’s leading to a surge in collisions with wildlife.

After the U.S. State Department increased social media vetting for international student visa applicants, some ski resorts worried about shortages of lift operators or food servers.

Once that critical mineral is dug up, it will leave the Copper State entirely. Despite the six-decade project still not being greenlit, the pair of global mining giants – BHP and Rio Tinto – behind it hope the huge gamble pays off.

Wildfires have grown substantially in size in recent decades, but they’re also burning much more intensely, with high severity areas growing much faster than fires overall. New research projects additional significant jumps in the scale of wildfires that kill most trees unless major management measures - like prescribed fire - are carried out.