Out West

Some blame the Department of Natural Resources. The agency is pushing back, saying many factors are in play.

Trump’s Bureau of Land Management wants to open federal public lands in the Golden State for new energy leases. There is fierce opposition.

While the state's reservoirs appear in good shape, they won't receive melted snowpack between April and June that usually occurs.

The national monument protects 900,000 acres of land surrounding the Grand Canyon from future uranium mining that local tribes say could contaminate drinking water and otherwise sully sacred cultural sites.

Nevada is the latest state to send National Guard air forces to support the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran, according to a news release issued Tuesday by the Nevada National Guard.

A federal judge identified shortcomings in the U.S. Forest Service's approval of the projects but didn't think they were so significant as to require vacating the agency's decisions all together.

To encourage housing developers to build more homes inside factories, which supporters say could result in more affordable housing, the state might get into the construction insurance business.

Opponents of the much-debated 9.9% tax on households with incomes above $1 million a year are honing legal and electoral strategies to invalidate and repeal legislation.

The two college football conferences are locked in a back-and-forth poaching dispute after five Mountain West schools will rejoin Pac-12 for the upcoming season.

Opponents worry the proposed Zincton resort near the Canadian Rockies will raise rents and put wildlife at risk. Proponents say the economic development is necessary.