Hospitals continue to fill up across the Mountain West, and that means some patients may have nowhere to go.

Allegations of negligence are part of a $270 million wrongful death claim against the National Park Service after an accident in Utah’s Arches National Park earlier this year.

The Interior Department is facing criticism for putting up barriers to conservation projects nationwide funded through the new Great American Outdoors Act.

The vaccine developed by the pharmaceutical company Moderna may be easier to distribute in the rural West, according to regional public health experts.

A voting machine company based in the Mountain West has become the center of an unfounded conspiracy theory propagated by the president intended to shed doubt on the presidential election.

In 2018, the U.S. Geological Survey and several Western states formed the Corridor Mapping Team, a collaboration among state and federal wildlife biologists to map ungulate migrations. Last week, the team published its first volume of maps, which document more than 40 big-game migration routes in Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming.

A real-time COVID-19 risk assessment tool developed by a group of university researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Stanford University provides county-by-county data to help people assess the risk of going to an event during the pandemic.

Democrats once again lost ground in much of the rural West. That includes Montana, where Republicans swept the election for the first time in at least two decades. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., will soon be the lone progressive holding federal office in the state. He spoke about lessons learned from November's election with reporter Nate Hegyi of the Mountain West News Bureau.

Researchers have found that it’s not just forests on the landscape that can help mitigate climate change. Meadows also provide an efficient way to keep carbon out of the atmosphere.

As hospitals around the Mountain West run out of space, some patients are fleeing to states that have more health mandates, which further burdens states that have been more aggressive in fighting COVID-19.