Aubrey Bettencourt will likely be nominated to run the Bureau of Reclamation, the top federal agency on the Colorado River, at a tense time for negotiations about sharing the water supply.

Coal mines in New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming could go to revived coal plants and be exported through a new port in California.

The Quitobaquito tryonia is a tiny freshwater springsnail — no bigger than the size of a poppy seed — that can only be found inside Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona.

Residents at a mobile home park in western Colorado are competing with another bidder to buy the land under their homes for $23 million dollars. The community effort is influencing state laws and regional strategies to preserve parks as affordable housing.

Tina Peters, convicted on several counts and sentenced to nearly nine years in prison, was released early after Gov. Jared Polis commuted her sentence.

Many visitors objected to what they saw as an attempt to downplay difficult chapters of American history.

SB20-83 limits where ICE agents can make arrests connected to courthouses.

A new proposal for sharing Colorado River water would bring negotiators together every couple of years. That could create uncertainty and get in the way of big solutions for the future.

The Southern Ute Indian Tribe in southwest Colorado sitting above the border of New Mexico has entered the first-ever TERA — or Tribal Energy Resource Agreement — more than two decades after Congress enacted the law.

Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho and Wyoming have no statewide wildfire building codes. Colorado adopted a code last year, with enforcement expected to begin this year. Most other Western states are somewhere in between.