Paige Blankenbuehler

Russian investors are keen on Nevada’s copper

Demand for clean cars is causing an uptick in copper mining in the West, but at what cost?

Inside Colorado’s ‘hotbed’ of wildlife conflict

Papers: Flawed management leads to needless killings of bighorn sheep

Study: Wildfires don’t hurt hot real estate markets

Homes regain value in less than two years, study says

New health care act would harm farmers and ranchers

AHCA expected to scale back Medicaid coverage, hurt self-employed agricultural workers

California kills funding for coal export terminals

Governor’s bill blocks transport to markets in Asia

SW Colorado town curbs pain pill abuse; heroin use grows

Interventions intended to reduce over-prescription of pain medicine may be feeding heroin use in Aouthwest Colorado.

Advocates and adversaries duel over coal-leasing reform

In western Colorado, two visions for the future of fossil fuels collide

Heroin traffic travels at greater speed in the West

Illicit drugs move through the West at greater speeds

Who’s cutting illegal ski trails in the national forest?

On the trail of a backcountry criminal

Can the feds save eagles by allowing more to be killed?

Fish and Wildlife Service hopes proposal will entice energy developers to obtain permits for eagle deaths

Southwest primed for a nasty fire season

In much of California, Arizona and New Mexico, El Niño and La Niña have combined to create dry fuels

Snowpack melting fast, despite April storms

Melt could upset reservoir management