Nate Hegyi

Low vaccination rates make many counties in the Mountain West especially vulnerable to the COVID-19 delta variant right now, according to data from the public health research group PHICOR. That’s prompting tough new action from some state and federal officials.

The U.S. is facing a jet fuel shortage this summer. It’s causing long delays at airports across the West as well as some concern among aerial firefighters.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland faced lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday as she advocated for an $18 billion budget increase for her department next year. The money would go towards advancing renewable energy projects, expanding wildland fire programs and boosting public safety on reservations.

In June, about 340 couples a day were getting hitched in Sin City, a rate higher than even before the pandemic.

A massive new infrastructure bill is slowly moving its way through Congress this summer. But a coalition of elected officials, farmers, conservationists and tribal leaders want to make sure it doesn’t include new big pipelines or dams along the parched Colorado River.

The Biden administration is offering to send "surge response teams" to help stamp out COVID-19 hotspots across the country. The governor of Nevada has requested help in the Las Vegas area, where infections are rising and daily vaccinations have dropped sharply.

Cases across rural America are at their lowest levels since last July. But a public health official in Montana suspects some sick people just aren't getting tested.

Two new reports complicate the narrative that hordes of newcomers to the Mountain West are driving up home prices.

President Biden's pledging a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emmisions over the next decade. It's an ambitious goal with real consequences for the Mountain West.

Last week, the Biden administration unveiled its budget plan for managing federal public lands, and it contains big funding increases that reflect the...