1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (247+ words) North Dakota has recorded its first death from the mosquito-borne West Nile virus in 2026. The North Dakota Health and Human Services said in a news release Thursday that the person who died was over 60 years old and lived in southwest…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (383+ words) New Mexico’s top forest administrator on Tuesday warned legislators that the state is behind on wildfire risk reduction goals, and provided six possible bills ahead of the next legislative session that could improve planned targets. The state’s Forest Action Plan…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (886+ words) Thousands of South Dakota drivers who have habitat conservation license plates have not actually made a financial contribution to protect habitat for wildlife. That’s because unlike some other states, where drivers’ habitat contributions are collected during license-plate transactions, South Dakota…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (298+ words) For many years I have heard the good and the not so good saga of sprinkler end guns. Quotes like, “Those are the most inexpensive additional acres on my farm”, to “those acres are the least productive and most water…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (405+ words) A coalition of state attorneys general filed a pair of lawsuits Wednesday challenging the Trump administration’s rollbacks of protections for endangered species. The lawsuits, filed by 20 states and the District of Columbia, seek to reinstate rules that protect the habitat…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (935+ words) Two weeks after about 4.25 million gallons of raw sewage poured into the Arkansas River at Pueblo, the river below John Martin Reservoir is testing clean again. The stretch from Fountain Creek through La Junta is not, and the state's advisory…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (380+ words) Exceptional drought - the most severe category tracked by the National Drought Mitigation Center - expanded again across Colorado’s central mountains over the past week, while heavy rain brought a measure of relief to the state’s northeast corner. The U.S. Drought…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (431+ words) The lawn at the Utah Governor’s Mansion will become undone on Friday at the hands of water conservation advocates and public employees to make space for water-wise and pollinator-friendly plants amid one the most severe droughts the state has recorded....

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (345+ words) Two environmental groups sued the Trump administration Tuesday, alleging the Bureau of Land Management violated federal law when it leased more than 134,000 acres of public lands in Colorado for oil and gas drilling earlier this year. In their lawsuit, filed…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (431+ words) New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands Stephanie Garcia Richard on Friday signed an executive order that bans all new uranium mining projects on the more than 13 million acres of state trust lands she oversees. Garcia Richard, a Democrat who has…...