Out West

A federal court temporarily blocked the sale of more than 2,000 acres of public land in and around a polluted former Nevada copper mine to a multi-national petroleum company.

Concerns are growing over how majority Democrats in Olympia are managing the state’s finances and what he described as a souring mood among business leaders, who are questioning if Washington is where they want to be.

State leaders say they’re moving closer toward a goal of snapping up more land on the southeast side of the Great Salt Lake to help protect it from any further encroaching development.

Gunnison River hydropower under stress as data center development creates increasing demand for electricity generation.

Washington voters will get their chance in November to embrace or reject the state’s new income tax on households with earnings greater than a million dollars a year.

Two coalitions of Native American tribes emphasized Tuesday that they weren’t consulted before President Donald Trump downsized Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments by roughly 90%.

The lawsuit argues the merger violates Section 7 of the Clayton Act, a federal law prohibiting mergers that may substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly.

Idahoans United for Women and Families collected more than 110,000 signatures for ballot initiative that would also protect contraceptives, IVF access.

A new law fast-tracks Colorado town abandonment after the local government in the rural town of Hartman resigned in January, leaving no one to run elections or maintain the town’s water supply.

An investigation of Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission members launched by Gov. Bob Ferguson last summer is taking longer and costing more than expected.