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The short documentary won the People’s Choice Award at this year's 5Point Adventure Film Festival and will be showing at the festival's encore screening on Saturday, May 4. The film follows Triston Chaney and his Alaskan Yup'ik family as they fight to protect their culture and fishing livelihood against a proposed mining project.
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Voices From the Edge of the Colorado Plateau
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The measure to remove the statute of limitations for all sexual abuse claims failed in a bipartisan vote on Wednesday, April 17.
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The Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute tribal chairmen gave their annual address to the Colorado state legislature last week as part of the celebration of Ute Day at the capitol. It’s the tribes’ second annual address to the state.
Western Water Coverage
Regional
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In early May, biologists begin annual grizzly and black bear captures in Yellowstone National Park for research purposes.
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The organization Visit Carson City will pay two lucky hikers to hike the PCT on the new Capital to Tahoe Trail.
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Gov. Katie Hobbs plans to sign the repeal of the law that bans nearly all abortions — keeping the state's 15-weeks-of-pregnancy ban in place. But it's unclear when the repeal takes effect
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Photographer Andrés Mario de Varona recounts his relationship with Aaron Garcia, which began outside a gas station near his home in Santa Fe, through a series of photos captured between 2020 and 2023.
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New maps from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) show the migration routes of several big game herds across the West.
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The Department of Agriculture has issued a federal order to prevent the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). The disease has been detected in dairy cattle in the U.S.
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