- If you own mineral rights to a piece of private property and an important dinosaur fossil is discovered there, do you own the fossil?
- At least two states in the Mountain West have opened ski resorts early due to healthy dumps of snow. Many more are scheduled to open next week.
- The United States has a grim history when it comes to our indigenous people, from the multiple massacres of native men, women and children to Indian boarding schools where native
- The midterm elections brought ups and downs for both parties in Colorado Tuesday night.
- Over the past decade or so, the Mountain West has seen rapid population growth, but there are parts of the region that are slowing down.
- Air quality is a major issue across much of the Mountain West.
- Ballots are out and drop-off locations and polling centers are open for the 2018 mid-term election. For many voters in Colorado, the ballot is a long one.
- Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced a grant program Monday that aims to improve the habitat and migration corridors of big game animals in the West.
- In the Mountain West, we love our rivers, our mountains, our forests, deserts and wildlife. They’re part of our economies, our lifestyles and our identity.
- Our region has an especially high rate of suicide. Now Colorado is taking a unique approach to deal with it, at least for kids.
- Kanye West just made news with his hard-to-follow tweets on the 13th amendment. Meanwhile, Colorado is focused on possibly changing a state version of this centuries-old law.
- Vicki Christiansen was sworn in this morning as Chief of the U.S. Forest Service. She’s only the second female to serve in this role in its 113-year history.
- The flu epidemic was especially deadly last year. And our region was no exception. Tens of thousands of people are estimated to have died in the U.S.
- The outdoor recreation industry is growing faster than ever, especially in our region. In fact, new statistics show this sector grew faster than the overall U.S. economy.
- The Trump administration just relaxed Obama-era industry regulations for methane leaks from oil and gas operations on federal lands.
- Nearly three hundred names have been added to the Fallen Firefighter Memorial in Colorado Springs. Occupational cancer claimed many of those lives.
