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Missoula County on Tuesday signed an agreement with the Museum of Life and Sciences to conduct a heat monitoring campaign later this year.

Water officials have raised concerns about anticipated water levels in Southern Nevada this summer, following a disappointing winter snowpack.

Some already threatened cold-water fish species in the Northwest will not only face shrinking habitat from climate change but will face growing pressure from invasive fish species fleeing their own warming and dwindling waters.

The Natural Resources Committee voted in support of four bills that would eliminate the need for active management areas and allow farmers to irrigate additional land within them.

Among other things, the bill would mandate the sale of publicly inaccessible state land and dissolve the state water court in five years.

A washout has closed the only access road to the Olympic National Park’s popular Hoh Rain Forest since December.

A string of storms in California and Nevada brought some moisture back to the West this winter, improving snowpack in the region, but not enough to erase deficits in the state.

The proposal to use outdated groundwater models was rejected as concerns about future Colorado River supplies mount.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will seek to undo more than 30 regulations, including some aimed at lowering carbon emissions and curbing pollution.

Gov. Bob Ferguson and Washington State Ferries will pause further hybrid-electric conversions of jumbo ferries after completing one.