Originally published on September 20, 2019 10:41 am Researchers are looking into what may be a peaceful solution to the timeless struggle against a Mountain West rodent.

Originally published on September 11, 2019 10:09 am Instructor Graham Dunne is holding up some printouts with faces on them. He tells his students they’re smaller than real heads. “Here’s some useless knowledge from being a sniper,” he says. “The average human head is 6 inches across by 10 inches high.

Originally published on August 5, 2019 5:15 pm Many parts of the Mountain West are news deserts — and it’s getting worse. More than 20 counties in our region have no local newspaper. The ones that are left are struggling.

Originally published on July 25, 2019 9:17 pm The Mountain West featured heavily in a House Natural Resources Committee hearing Thursday looking into issues of scientific integrity in the Interior Department.  During the hearing, called “When Science Gets Trumped: Scientific Integrity at the Department of the Interior,” scientists detailed how the department has retaliated against

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Originally published on August 5, 2019 10:05 am The Mountain West has disproportionately high rates of depressive disorders and suicide. Researchers are trying to find out why.

Originally published on June 28, 2019 5:54 pm Update posted June 26, 2019 at 5:48 p.m.: A spokesperson with Clayton Homes says the company has reopened conversations with the Black American West Museum & Heritage Center about the properties they own in Dearfield.

Originally published on June 24, 2019 3:26 pm About a century ago, African-American settlements sprang up across the West. Now, one of those sites in northern Colorado is set to host new houses.

Originally published on June 18, 2019 4:56 pm A national report on the state of children came out this week from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, based primarily on census data.

Originally published on June 19, 2019 3:17 pm People are searching the Mountain West for a hidden chest containing something dubbed the “Fenn treasure.” Some are getting injured trying.

Originally published on May 30, 2019 4:34 pm This post was updated May 28, 2019 at 9:15 p.m. to include the leastest outbreak numbers and an additional infographic. Measles have reached the highest numbers in 25 years, with more than 900 cases reported so far to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Originally published on May 6, 2019 3:55 pm Colorado lawmakers passed a bipartisan bill giving patients more protection from a practice called “surprise medical billing,” or “balance billing.” Now, it’s headed to the governor’s desk. Surprise medical billing can happen in a number of ways.

Originally published on May 5, 2019 2:16 pm This story was updated May 3, 2019 at 3:40 p.m. Measles cases have reached a 19-year high in the U.S., but a bill in Colorado aimed at improving childhood vaccination rates didn’t succeed. It didn’t really fail, either.

Originally published on April 22, 2019 10:39 am Chronic wasting disease is crippling deer populations in the Mountain West, around the country and in bordering Canadian provinces.

Originally published on March 1, 2019 9:06 am The closest that Travis Rupp came to getting fired, he says, was the time he tried to make chicha. The recipe for the Peruvian corn-based beer, cobbled together from bits of pre-Incan archaeological evidence, called for chewed corn partially fermented in spit.

Originally published on March 5, 2019 12:01 pm A report out Monday from environmental groups looked at groundwater contamination from coal-fired power plants. Three of the worst sites are located in the Mountain West. Coal ash is the solid waste leftover when you burn coal.

Originally published on February 25, 2019 11:17 am Researchers studying wild black bears have found that eating human food could have a deep impact on the animals’ bodies. Ecologists tracked 30 wild black bears around Durango, Colorado over a few summers and winters. They also tested their hair and blood.