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Snow data from the Colorado River Basin Forecast Center shows a strong start for the region's water supplies, but heavy snow may get soaked up by dry soils before it can flow into Lake Powell and Lake Mead.
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The National Park Service is behind on studying 28 potential sites to add to its system. Two of them are in the Mountain West.
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From 2022 to 2023, Colorado is seeing the second-highest increases in monthly private health insurance costs – nearly 20% – compared to the national average of less than 4%, according to an analysis by the finance website ValuePenguin. Wyoming and New Mexico also ranked in the top 5 with increases around 15%.
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Researchers have new evidence that enhancing wildlife connectivity between national parks in the West would help animals live hundreds of generations longer.
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“Regardless of how these things were collected, oftentimes they were collected without the deep cultural knowledge that comes with an object,” said the museum’s curator of ethnography, Alexandra Greenwald.
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Researchers have published an emergency briefing warning that the Great Salt Lake could disappear “as we know it” in the next five years. They’re calling on Utah’s governor, legislature and residents to make drastic changes to reverse the lake’s decline.
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Small towns in the Mountain West are leading the pack when it comes to economic success, according to a recent report by Heartland Forward.
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Researchers have developed a snow and rain tracker that gathers data from citizen scientists in an effort to improve the accuracy of storm warnings and water management.
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The 2022 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report shows that over the last two years, the overall number of people experiencing homelessness increased by less than 1%.
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Republican governors in Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming banned the popular app TikTok from all state electronic devices. That includes equipment like phones, laptops and tablets, and most states also prohibit the use of the app on state-run networks.