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Much of the West sweltered through record-breaking heat this summer, as a strengthening El Niño, unusually warm oceans and ongoing human-caused climate change combined to push temperatures to historic levels.

Small businesses in the West were hit hard, especially those that mitigate and suppress wildfires on the ground.

In 2025, roughly 4.5% of Utah homeowners policies — or nearly 1 in 20 — were not renewed by insurance providers. That’s the highest rate in the country, and 1.5% higher than the number two state California.

Breckenridge hopes the new system alleviates congestion from fall leaf tourism, which can concentrate visitors on a handful of trails or roads.

Jeremy Dennis, a Shinnecock fine art photographer and the founder of Ma’s House, talks about the importance for tribal communities to have a space to be acknowledged and supported within the arts.

The Native American Rights Fund finds disparities in voter registration, mail-in ballots and other stages of voting in Native communities

Data centers have become a flashpoint across the country. And as Indigenous lands are increasingly involved, tribal communities are taking action.

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.

About half of Wyoming counties don’t have an OB-GYN. At least nine don’t have labor and delivery units.

The faster a fire burns, the more severe its ecological impacts. That’s one of the findings of a new paper in the journal Science Advances. Climate change only promises to further accelerate those fires, according to its lead author.