A candidate for the Utah State Legislature is in a bit of a pickle after he allegedly kidnapped and pistol-whipped a man over a debt owed for some prescription pain pills.
A rural Utah county commissioner told a U.S. House committee on Thursday that the Bureau of Land Management is acting like the Gestapo because the agency refused to renew a law enforcement contract with the county sheriff and are doing their own law enforcement on public land instead.
The monsoon thunderstorms are rolling in again as I'm writing this from our new home in the Rio Grande Valley north of Santa Fe.
Health officials in New Mexico say that a 43-year-old woman has been hospitalized with a case of plague, the second case reported in the state this year.
Police in New Mexico say that three teens admitted killing two homeless men sleeping in an Albuquerque vacant lot, disfiguring their victims to the point where police have not been able to positively identify them.
A new study shows that national parks and monuments boosted the economies of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho by a combined $1.15 billion last year. But if you think a river of tourism dollars alone would be enough to protect them from mining and timber exploitation, you might be wrong.
An arsonist and apparent troubled soul has been leaving burning Bibles on the doorsteps of Mesa, Arizona, churches—and now police are investigating the incidents as hate crimes.
The rolling mountain scenery and lack of an obvious crater can sometimes make it easy to forget that Yellowstone National Park sits inside an active volcano.
A rainbow rises above some abandoned trailers in a pasture following a monsoon thunderstorm over my home near the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico on Thursday evening.
Authorities in southern New Mexico have arrested a woman on hate crime charges after she allegedly beat and sexually assaulted her teenage daughter for being gay.
Aaron Romero says that he was struggling to overcome an addiction to crack cocaine when he was approached by federal agents in 2011 to assist in an drug investigation.
A herd of wild horses racing across the open range is as much a part of the west as cowboys, cattle and pickup trucks—meaning, of course, that they too are an invasive species.
A popular contest at a festival in southeast Idaho had to be cancelled in a really big hurry last weekend after a pilot dropped some 3,000 ping-pong balls worth assorted prizes on Interstate 15 instead of the waiting crowd.
A man from the Lone Star State has proven once again that everything is bigger in Texas—especially when it comes to the distance in feet an adult can purposely throw a turd.
Public health officials are warning residents across eastern Washington and northern Idaho about an outbreak of gonorrhea—described as the biggest in the last 20 years.
At one Arizona nudist resort, every day is National Nude Day (Note: mild NSFW).
A Nevada judge has issued an arrest warrant for the adult son of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy in case stemming from a 2012 felony conviction for burglary and weapons charges.
An Idaho Christmas tree company is facing a jolly old federal lawsuit alleging that they lured five men from Mexico to the United States with the promise of good, high-paying jobs only to force them into a brutal Dickensian nightmare in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California.
British actor David Legeno—who played the werewolf bad guy "Fenrir Greyback" in three Harry Potter films—was found dead near Death Valley, California, law enforcement officials confirmed on Friday.
In the arid West, nothing happens without access to water—no cities, no agriculture, no industry, no tourism, no people, nothing.
