Properties classified ‘agricultural’ get a tax break despite bona fide operations. Can lawmakers new proposals tighten qualifications?

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Workers are pushing for improved training and safety standards to help avoid falls, electrocution and equipment failure.

Using detailed, vernacular sentences that hew closely to her characters’ perspectives, The Crazies unravels a NIMBY phenomenon that is happening across the West as the U.S. pushes to decarbonize, ...

They’re among the region’s most despised species, but some tribes, researchers and landowners are racing to save them.

Saguaros are known for growing slowly, only about a quarter of an inch during their first two years. By the time he was 70, Grandpa was likely 6 feet tall and producing flowers and fruit. By his first ...

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Shaun Griswold, a citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna with Jemez and Zuni ancestry, gives everyone a lot to consider in this Fourth of July perspective piece about the meaning of truth and what it’s like ...

In September, a coal mine reopened in Utah’s Coal Country. But the mine’s owner, Wolverine Fuels, can’t find enough people to fill the estimated 350 jobs needed to staff it.

General election voter turnout, 2020 to 2024, as of Nov. 15, 2024. Colorado has consistently had the highest voter turnout among Western states. Californians, including hundreds of thousands of ...

Amy Gamerman’s new book examines attempts to block the energy transition in Montana’s Crazy Mountains.

Photographs are special for how they can change the way you see something, and Timothy O’ Sullivan’s photos are well known for having changed the way Easterners saw the West in the years ...