More visitors arriving at Glacier when tickets not required
Glacier National Park says it’s seeing more visitors showing up early in the morning and in the evening when the park’s new ticketed entry system…
Continue ReadingGlacier National Park says it’s seeing more visitors showing up early in the morning and in the evening when the park’s new ticketed entry system…
Continue ReadingMontana ’s firefighting aircraft are returning to duty Friday after a helicopter crash grounded a state agency fleet as major wildfires broke out…
Continue ReadingHome prices around Utah’s capital jumped a staggering 31% over the last year in the latest sign of Utah’s housing crisis.…
Continue ReadingCities in the U.S. West are preparing for considerable growth in the coming decades despite a historic drought and shrinking water supplies.…
Continue ReadingA coalition of conservation groups is offering a $15,000 reward for information on the poaching of the breeding female of the Wedge wolf pack in…
Continue ReadingThe Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation is suing Idaho Gov. Brad Little and state wildlife officials in federal court, contending the state has…
Continue ReadingA Colorado man accused of stabbing another man in a racist attack at an Oregon truck stop has pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime.…
Continue ReadingMuch of the American West has been blasted with sweltering heat this week as a high pressure dome combines with the worst drought in modern history…
Continue ReadingAlaska Airlines is going to offering non-stop flights between Boise and the Pullman-Moscow Regional…
Continue ReadingOfficials have approved a plan for Boise government to be carbon neutral by 2035 and the entire city by 2050 to fight climate change.…
Continue ReadingWashington’s military, veterans and family members will be eligible for a new vaccine incentive lottery announced by Gov. Jay Inslee.…
Continue ReadingAttorney General Lawrence Wasden announced investigators with his Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit arrested a Boise man on Monday…
Continue ReadingRepublican state leaders are not currently planning to seek an all-out fireworks ban.…
Continue Readingmoke is billowing out of a large structure fire in the Millcreek area in Salt Lake…
Continue ReadingA group accused of beating a man to death behind a Utah grocery store may have done so because they believed he gave his pregnant girlfriend a black…
Continue ReadingA Utah state attorney angry about being awakened from a nap has apologized for sending an expletive-laden email to an LGBT politician campaigning to…
Continue ReadingHealth officials say 70% of eligible people in Washington state’s most populous county have received either the one-dose Johnson and Johnson COIVD…
Continue ReadingWildfires burning in Montana have exploded in size over a 24-hour period and have triggered evacuations from rural areas.…
Continue ReadingAs Oregon inches closer to reaching the statewide vaccination target, at least 22 of the state’s 36 counties have moved into the “lower risk”…
Continue ReadingSalt Lake City has set another heat record and is experiencing its hottest day of the year as the state’s record-breaking heat wave…
Continue ReadingThe Robertson Draw Fire is threatening some homes in the Beartooth Mountains near Montana’s border with…
Continue ReadingTransportation officials have reported nearly twice as many people died in alcohol-involved crashes on Utah roads last year compared to the year…
Continue ReadingA woman is dead after falling off a cliff in northern Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains.…
Continue ReadingA wildfire sparked by an abandoned campfire is forcing evacuations south of Moab.…
Continue ReadingThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints announced it will start to reopen Temple Square in Salt Lake City starting…
Continue ReadingSeveral wildfires were burning Friday as weather forecasts called for hotter weather in the coming days.…
Continue ReadingGonzaga University is joining the list of schools that will require students to prove they are vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to participate in…
Continue ReadingSalt Lake County prosecutors have ruled an officer was justified in shooting a man who fired a gun at him and attacked another…
Continue ReadingTwo adjacent agriculture college endowment parcels amounting to 282 acres adjacent to Caldwell’s Vallivue High School and Middle School sold Friday…
Continue ReadingSchool district officials in Idaho have started offering a full summer school program to catch up all students who may have fallen behind…
Continue ReadingWashington’s new “joints for jabs” vaccination incentive program is off to a rough…
Continue ReadingTwo employees have died in an underground accident at the Stillwater palladium and platinum mine in southcentral Montana.…
Continue ReadingA historic drought in the southwest will likely mean Montana firefighters will be asked to help out in neighboring states and smoke from out-of-state…
Continue ReadingSeattle Mayor Jenny Durkan says 70% of city residents ages 12 and up have been fully…
Continue ReadingFirefighters have gained a toehold on a massive wildfire in Arizona, one of several burning across the Southwest in states facing dry heat and…
Continue ReadingIn northeast Oregon’s Union County, the snowpack is so thin that it has completely melted away in measurement sites.…
Continue ReadingState wildlife officials say the first gray wolf pups since the 1940s have been spotted in Colorado.…
Continue ReadingUtah Gov. Spencer Cox is urging residents and businesses to cut down on their water usage to combat the worst drought the state has experienced in…
Continue ReadingSeveral wildfires are burning in Utah amid hot, dry conditions and with most of the state mired in extreme drought.…
Continue ReadingForest managers in northeast Oregon have declared an early start to the 2021 fire season, with conditions resembling those that would be typical for…
Continue ReadingAuthorities in northern Utah say three people have died in a fiery multi-vehicle car crash on a highway near the Heber Valley Airport.…
Continue ReadingAs Oregon moves closer to lifting COVID-19 related restrictions statewide and reopening the economy, Gov. Kate Brown announced that 21 of the…
Continue ReadingTwo side-by-side endowment land agriculture parcels amounting to 282 acres sit mostly unused adjacent to Caldwell’s Vallivue High School and Middle…
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden’s nominee to oversee vast expanses of public land in the U.S. West is being criticized by Republicans because of her…
Continue ReadingOfficials in Washington state say licensed marijuana stores can offer free joints to promote on-site COVID-19 vaccine clinics.…
Continue ReadingA judge has sentenced a Wyoming man to life in prison without parole on first-degree murder charges in the death of a 5-year-old boy in his care.…
Continue ReadingA committee created to consider a name change for a university in Utah voted Monday against weighing options that include the word Dixie.…
Continue ReadingPolice in Portland, Oregon, said four people were fatally shot at a home in the city over the weekend.…
Continue ReadingTwo growing wildfires in eastern Arizona have burned more than 109,000 acres as of Monday afternoon, according to officials at the interagency…
Continue ReadingAuthorities suspect an arsonist set a wooden roller coaster on fire in an overnight blaze at a northern Idaho theme park.…
Continue ReadingPolice are investigating an overnight shooting in Salt Lake City that left a 20-year-old man dead and four other people with injuries.…
Continue ReadingA wildfire in southern Utah triggered an evacuation of almost 300 homes and had burned within a mile of some structures as strong winds threatened to…
Continue ReadingPark administrators have closed areas of Utah’s Zion National Park as rescue crews search for a missing climber.…
Continue ReadingAuthorities say four hikers were injured when they were caught in an avalanche on a Colorado…
Continue ReadingPolice say a man has died after being struck and killed by a light rail train in Portland.…
Continue ReadingAnother deadly crash on Highway 25 this…
Continue ReadingGov. Kate Brown announced that Oregon is close to lifting mask, physical distancing and capacity restrictions statewide.…
Continue ReadingPolice in Utah are investigating a possible hate crime after a rainbow pride flag was burned and a note targeting the LGBTQ community was left…
Continue ReadingAbout 10 to 14% of the world’s giant sequoia trees were destroyed by a single wildfire that swept through California’s Sequoia National…
Continue ReadingA Wyoming sheriff’s corporal facing a wrongful death lawsuit in the killing of an unarmed mentally ill man in 2018 has resigned.…
Continue ReadingA drought is forcing Oregon to consider major changes to how it stocks fish in bodies of water across the state and to bag limits for fishermen.…
Continue ReadingUtah’s governor is asking citizens to pray for rain this weekend to relieve the state from its drought.…
Continue ReadingDavis County sheriff’s deputies and other department employees are prohibited under a new office policy from enforcing certain measures that could…
Continue ReadingThe father of a Utah woman beaten to death by her husband on an Alaska cruise in 2017 told a judge he would consider it justice if the man went to…
Continue ReadingRepublican Gov. Ron DeSantis is plunging Florida deeper into the national culture debate over transgender rights.…
Continue ReadingPolice say two Utah girls 9 and 4 were uninjured after they took a car and crashed into a tractor trailer as they tried to drive to California for a…
Continue ReadingOregon lawmakers have passed a bill allowing the sale of cocktails to-go to continue after the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Continue ReadingOfficials say an Arizona man drowned at Lake Powell recently when winds prevented him from swimming back to his boat.…
Continue ReadingUtah’s Republican governor has issued a proclamation in support of LGBTQ Pride Month.…
Continue ReadingAmazing video of a teen attacking a bear in southern…
Continue ReadingIdaho State Police investigated a fatality crash on US Highway 20 near milepost 142, west of Fairfield Tuesday around 1:00…
Continue ReadingCity leaders in Lehi are warning residents they could be fined if they don’t adhere to new drought restrictions that prohibit watering lawns on…
Continue ReadingA state judge says Montana environmental regulators can use a law meant to provide protection from chronic industrial polluters against an…
Continue ReadingRepublican Gov. Ron DeSantis is plunging Florida deeper into the culture wars.…
Continue ReadingThe Cheyenne Animal Shelter has closed to the public after staffers tested positive for COVID-19.…
Continue ReadingAuthorities say one man died and another man suffered severe burns when their single-engine aircraft crashed near the Powder Mountain area near Eden…
Continue ReadingGillette is getting ready to host what could be the biggest event in the city’s…
Continue ReadingA grand jury has found no wrongdoing by Nebraska law enforcement officers in the shooting deaths of a Wyoming couple last year.…
Continue ReadingA Utah education committee has proposed new rules around how race is taught in K-12 schools.…
Continue ReadingSignificant staffing shortages at the Oregon State Hospital prompted health officials to call for the National Guard’s assistance at the…
Continue ReadingTwo women who were sentenced in tribal court and jailed on misdemeanor charges in the case of a young girl whose body was found on the Crow Indian…
Continue ReadingZion National Park has ended a shuttle ticketing system that was implemented to combat the coronavirus pandemic.…
Continue ReadingA former Utah state lawmaker has launched a campaign to challenge Republican Sen. Mike Lee for his U.S. Senate seat next year.…
Continue ReadingAn armed school employee in Utah held off an attempted kidnapping suspect at gunpoint until officers arrived, police said.…
Continue ReadingA woman has pleaded guilty to reduced charges in her teenage involvement with the death of a police officer after the Utah Supreme Court overturned…
Continue ReadingThe University of Wyoming has announced plans to return to full capacity for home football games inside War Memorial Stadium in Laramie this fall.…
Continue ReadingU.S. Sen. Mitt Romney faulted those on both extremes of the nation’s political divide as he accepted the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.…
Continue ReadingAuthorities say a breached oil pipeline has spilled an undetermined amount of crude on the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana.…
Continue ReadingOfficials in Montana have identified a wildland firefighter who was critically injured while fighting a wildfire on private land in southwestern New…
Continue ReadingGovernor Brad Little announced Mike Edmondson will take over as administrator of the Governor’s Office of Species Conservation…
Continue ReadingThe Wyoming Game and Fish Commission approved a change order for construction of the new Cody Regional office.…
Continue ReadingA lawmaker in Utah who proposed legislation that would ban transgender athletes from competing in girls’ sports has announced plans to reintroduce…
Continue ReadingThe city of Seattle is shutting down all but one of its mass COVID-19 vaccination sites next month because authorities say more than 76% of Seattle…
Continue ReadingA Filer man is dead after hitting a house on an Idaho…
Continue ReadingTennessee is the latest state to ban teachers from talking about certain aspects of race and racism in public schools.…
Continue ReadingMost of the statewide elected officials in Montana are expecting a salary increase soon under a state law that requires comparative pay raises every…
Continue ReadingA Utah man has been arrested after police said he struck a state highway patrol trooper last weekend while riding a dirt bike.…
Continue ReadingA fisherman missing for more than two weeks in the wilderness of southwestern Oregon has been found alive.…
Continue ReadingThe previous high was set in 2016 with more than 59,000 people.…
Continue ReadingGovernor Mark Gordon has announced Friday the appointment of Darlena Potter to replace Ruth Van Mark as Wyoming’s Public Records…
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