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How best to share the disappearing Colorado River Seven Western states...

As early as 2020, hydrologists forecast that the level of Lake Mead, the largest reservoir on the Colorado River, could drop low enough to...

Wiretap: lunch-shaming, Twitter blocking and what’s going on between Rachel Maddow...

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and former Fox News boss Roger Ailes are apparently good friends. And no, you didn’t wake up in an alternate...

Searching for solutions in the changing rural West

“This is probably the hardest part of it all,” Archuleta said. “I talk to my daughters a lot and say, you need to figure...

Where private land meets public interest

Ranchers, the government and developers are hashing out the relationship between public and private land on the Colorado-New Mexico border.   This story originally appeared on...

Gay-rights groups, supporters launch Colorado ‘Marriage Matters’ campaign

"People come into my office to get married. It's a happy office. There are a lot of benefits that come with state-sanctioned marriage. I think everyone has an equal right to those benefits."

Wiretap: Courts celebrate holidays with happy gay marriage rulings

Utah's ban on gay marriage was ruled unconstitutional. Merry couples have been flocking to clerk offices to get hitched. Did you hear the outrage? Neither did Jeffrey Toobin.

Littwin: Stuck in civil-unions purgatory

  The New Mexico Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that same-sex marriage in the state should be legal because, well, it's kind of obvious by...

Gay marriage: No, Colorado is not the next New Mexico

DENVER -- Gay rights supporters in Colorado are applauding the New Mexico Supreme Court ruling that affirmed the right of same-sex couples to marry in the state, celebrating the unanimous decision as yet another in a cascade of similar developments.

Salazar: ‘Better days ahead’ but fire-torn American West not out of...

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar visited his native state Monday where he declared there will be “better days ahead” but, he also warned, Colorado and the nation have not seen the end of fire season.

Study: Climate change leaves American West especially vulnerable to wildfires

Rising temperatures are projected to trigger more wildfires in nearly all of North America and most of Europe, according to a new study, but climate change may have the opposite effect around the equator.