Americans are increasing their focus on health and the environment, and there’s a growing market for sustainable home-building materials – like insulation.

Colorado's Staunton State Park has invested in all-terrain wheelchairs for people with disabilities so that they can get out and enjoy nature again.

Backers of the project say it would provide essential materials to build electric vehicles and address the climate crisis, but a coalition of Native American tribes is fighting against it.

The crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people has been a focus for President Biden’s administration since he took office. But the rollout of federal solutions has been slow, and states have been picking up the slack

With just a few thousand Cassia Crossbills total and only a small range to roam, researchers already believed the species was heading toward extinction when, in 2020, a large wildfire burned through a significant portion of the lodgepole pine in its territory.

The process of getting Amache under the National Park Service umbrella involved years of effort. It means more funding for preservation in the short term. But no matter who administers the site, everyone involved hopes the survivors — and their stories — stay front and center.

It started with a teacher who saw an opportunity to do a living history project and wound up volunteering to keep up the site at Amache for 30 years. Today, historians, survivors and archaeologists are fighting to preserve the history.

The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II is something many don’t know about. The descendants of those imprisoned at Amache are sharing their family stories and helping to shed light on this dark period in history.

In 2018, the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation purchased land in Southeastern Idaho. For decades it was used for farming. But that hid a much darker history. Now, there are efforts to restore the land.

A Colorado professor is studying how plants grow under solar panels on rooftops. The research highlights the growing green roof movement — and the challenges cities face in mandating rooftop green space.

As abortion becomes more restricted across the country, efforts are underway to connect women with abortion medications – a dose of two pills that can be taken at home.

The Mountain West News Bureau researched two possibilities for why certain hunting spots on public lands are getting crowded while the number of hunters remains fairly stable.