The Mountain West News Bureau is a collaboration between Boise State Public Radio in Idaho, KANW in New Mexico, KUNC in Colorado, KUNR in Nevada, Nevada Public Radio, and Wyoming Public Media, with support from affiliate stations across the region.
Funding for the Mountain West News Bureau is provided in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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The Native American Rights Fund finds disparities in voter registration, mail-in ballots and other stages of voting in Native communities
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Data centers have become a flashpoint across the country. And as Indigenous lands are increasingly involved, tribal communities are taking action.
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That’s especially true in the Mountain West. In most states, if one delivery unit shuts down, the next closest one is more than an hour away.
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About half of Wyoming counties don’t have an OB-GYN. At least nine don’t have labor and delivery units.
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Blame wildfires and hail — made more destructive by climate change — for the deteriorating insurance situation in the West. Add in hurricanes and other disasters elsewhere, and it’s a nationwide trend — one that a new report from the advocacy group the Insurance Fairness Project says is threatening home sales.
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The letter comes after an August roundup in northwest Colorado, where the BLM gathered 894 wild horses. Nine died in the operation.
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Could Wyoming join Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah to partially cover the childbirth resource?
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An unusual pattern of springtime elk deaths for more than a decade in northern Nevada has scientists searching for answers. What they find could shed light on broader questions about wildlife health across the West.
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States that share the Colorado River have been meeting behind closed doors. But as they’ve failed to forge a deal for the river’s future, more are questioning the negotiation process itself.
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There is less water available now in the Colorado River and negotiators are working to figure out how to distribute that water.