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On TikTok 25-year-old Teal Lehto goes by “WesternWaterGirl,” and her clips regularly garner hundreds of thousands of views. Since joining the app in April, she’s amassed nearly 48,000 followers who tune in for her fast-paced, snarky and often profanity-laced takes on the West’s water crisis.

Within weeks of coming together, the chair of Colorado’s Congressional Independent Commission, Danny Moore, was forced out of his position on Monday. Three Republican, four unaffiliated and four Democratic commissioners all voted for the removal. Moore, a Republican from the Sixth Congressional District, was the only one to not vote, abstaining instead. He will remain on the commission in a non-leadership role.

Soon after Walmart announced it would require customers to wear masks, someone posted an article about the announcement in a closed Facebook group called…

#StayAtHome.

CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK, UTAH — The dark blue, predawn sky was just beginning to brighten over Mesa Arch — a once-hidden gem in southern Utah — as...

Parking at a spot near the edge of an Arizona canyon where the Colorado River makes a sharp U-turn now comes at a cost. You can blame that mostly on…

Facebook is beginning to enforce a ban on white nationalist content this week. The move comes as Australia, Germany and other countries pass tough laws to curb hate speech.

Ranchers and farmers living in the Mountain West are vulnerable to all kinds of things—drought, fluctuating crop prices, trade wars—and in part because...

A new safety campaign from Colorado State University’s communications and natural resources departments is teaching national park visitors about safe…

The news that Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data to develop political ads has reignited a national discussion about expectations of privacy online. A…