Regional News

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.

Western cattlemen are poised to lose almost all opportunity to comment on oil and gas development underneath their property.

Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming are not subject to mandatory reductions; instead, those states are setting up programs to voluntarily conserve water.

Officials say the fire, which has now burned more than 15,000 acres and is zero percent contained, was human caused. Nearly 90,000 people have been told to evacuate or prepare to leave.

The federal government will cut back on the amount of water for Arizona, California and Nevada after years of negotiations. They will hit cities in the Phoenix and Tucson areas the hardest.

This comes after the U.S. Department of the Interior reportedly restricted staff from telling the public about deaths or injuries in national parks.

Along the 25–hundred miles of the “Mother Road” from Chicago to Los Angeles, communities are celebrating her centennial with food, music… and vintage cars.

The three countries have a years-long practice of sharing wildfire resources during each other's often intense seasons, which mostly don't overlap.

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

Environmental groups say it's a "threat" to National Forest lands