Out West

Mount Graham red squirrels live only in the Pinaleño Mountains of southeastern Arizona, where their protected habitat has dwindled for decades.

Hundreds who work for the Oregon Department of Transportation got notice that they’re being laid off in what Gov. Tina Kotek called a preventable emergency and the largest round of layoffs in the state government’s history.

Colorado’s tax code was written in 1935 to capture revenue from tangible goods, long before anyone imagined a world where movies could stream to a portable phone.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser’s office will consider joining a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s declaration in January of a national energy emergency.

Emboldened by President Donald Trump, Republicans in Idaho have tried to ban the raising of Pride flags at public buildings. Left-leaning Boise isn’t backing down.

The amount of forest with problems is only a small fraction of the overall 22 million acres state officials looked at, but it is slightly above the 10-year average.

The “doors are open” on a new state office charged with meeting Gov. Tina Kotek’s goal of getting 36,000 new homes built in Oregon each year.

Wess Roley, 20, was identified by local coroner officials, Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris said at a Monday afternoon news conference.

The bill will allow farmers to exchange land and water rights with urban developers to decrease water use and increase affordable housing.

The U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture recently announced it would try to roll back the “roadless rule,” a decades-old policy that prevents road construction and logging on nearly 4 million acres of national forest in Utah.