Nate Hegyi

Federal officials warn of a long, potentially dangerous summer of fire. Since January, more than a million acres have burned from more than 28,000 wildfires.

Nearly 30 years ago, Tracy Stone-Manning testified in federal court against eco-saboteurs. Now Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso is calling the BLM nominee an environmental extremist.

The Bureau of Land Management fell short in analyzing how oil and gas drilling in parts of Montana and Wyoming would impact the greater sage grouse, a species that's suffered an 80% population decline across its range since 1965.

Monte Mills, an Indian law professor at the University of Montana, says the ruling is a step forward in affirming tribal sovereignty.

The NOAA's chief scientist told lawmakers this week that much of the Southwest is the driest it's been in 126 years.

The Biden administration put a freeze on new oil and gas leases on public lands, but it issued leases in New Mexico that were sold in the final days of Trump's term.

Cases across rural America are at their lowest levels since last July. But a public health official in Montana suspects some sick people just aren't getting tested.

A federal judge ruled in February that the National Park Service's commercial filming fees were an unconstitutional violation of free speech. Now, Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso has introduced a bill that would waive those fees on all federal public lands, no matter the distribution platform.

The Republican governors of Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming cite labor shortages and point to their state's low unemployment rates in announcing an end to pandemic unemployment compensation. How else might states coax people back to work? Raise the minimum wage.

Ruling otherwise, the court's majority wrote, "would risk perpetuating the historical injustice suffered by Aboriginal peoples at the hands of Europeans."