Immigrants still follow Juan Bautista de Anza’s historic route.
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The project could divert 86,000 acre-feet from Lake Powell to the retirement community of St. George.
Since the ’50s, Western states have brought in international workers but offer them few of the benefits given other workers.
Where enviros are uniting with social justice and tribal rights activists in the Northwest to stop new fossil fuel development.
The project will start environment reviews, but it's far from a done deal.
A new report shows most states are vulnerable to future increases in extreme heat, drought, and flooding.
The church has a history of anti-gay actions.
A pair of architects are reinvisioning the city's relationship with water, starting with storm runoff.
After years of growing scarcity and population pressure, Colorado finally has a plan of action.
Decision makes it harder for counties to claim roads on public land.
Detention facilities provide economic stability for many rural towns.
Our neighbor to the north has taken an aggressively anti-climate, pro-pipeline tack. But the upcoming election could change that.
Tens of thousands are deported each year for accepting plea deals. Now they will have a new way to fight back.
Writer John Fleck wants us to abandon our dried-up narratives of doom.
The weather phenomenon could bring rain but also mudslides and drought to the different regions of the West.
How hundreds of Front Rangers got scammed.
Summer is always high season for fatal outdoor accidents, but increased lightning and heat seem to make it worse.
Scientists are trying to understand what’s released from the nation’s biggest energy producing regions.
Gun rights continue to polarize groups on both sides, as battle lines are drawn for 2016.
Were two tribal members the victims of a hate crime?
The latest draft of the plan sets strict guidelines for approving new diversions over the Rocky Mountains.
Photographer Steven Gnam takes readers into the one of the most remote stretches of wilderness, along the ridge of the Northern Rockies.
A biking boom in Sedona, Arizona, forces locals to ask: Is there room for all these people?
A bikepacking trip in Canyonlands offers a new look at a well-travelled landscape.
A riot in Arizona puts the spotlight on for-profit incarceration.
What dropping water levels could mean for the region’s recreation economy.
Why Southwest utilities are starting to sweat.
A Colorado land swap with the Forest Service gives developers a green light.
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