It rose like a beacon above the Mojave Desert—officially proclaiming to weary travelers on the road from Las Vegas to Los Angeles that their skin and central nervous system were indeed in good working order because it really was 95 goddamn degrees outside at midnight.

In a downright civic-minded move, the owner of Nevada's Moonlite Bunny Ranch says that he wants to open up a brothel in Phoenix to help give tourists and NFL players in town for the Super Bowl next year something to do.

While it's actually true that the vast majority of Colorado residents don't smoke marijuana, a new market demand study shows those Coloradoans who do get high like to get really damn high.

Federal officials have ordered an investigation into a whistleblower's allegations that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation routinely hid widespread mismanagement of human remains the agency collected while it built and managed dams across California, Nevada and Oregon.

Plans to convert the spectacular Colorado National Monument in western Colorado into a national park are dead, at least for the time being.

Oklahoma City officials say that Mayor Mick Cornett's office has received over 450 emails and phone calls opposing a satanic "black mass" set to be held at a city-owned downtown theater.

An inflatable bouncy slide was sent hurtling some 300 feet by a dust devil during an Independence Day party in Sparks, Nevada.

Geologists say that they have confirmed what many have suspected for years: a swarm of earthquakes that rattled central Oklahoma was the direct result of fracking and wastewater injection.

A pair of whale watchers on a cruise off the coast of San Diego had to be fished out of the Pacific last week after a surfacing blue whale capsized their boat.

Colorado officials say that an astonishing $70 million worth of recreational marijuana has been sold in retails stores across the state in the first four months of 2014.

On July 3rd, 2004, something amazing happened in the small town of Tuba City on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona.

A blinding dust storm roared through Phoenix on Thursday evening, with 50+ MPH winds knocking out power to tens of thousands of residents.

The price of Idaho potatoes has collapsed, and nobody seems to know why.

Dozens of female real estate agents in Arizona say that someone really wants at their feet, and it's starting to seriously weird them out.

A Texas cattle rancher this week stumbled upon nearly 5,500 marijuana plants with a street value of $2 million growing on land he had just leased from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Veterans Administration officials confirmed on Thursday that a veteran died earlier this week after collapsing in a Albuquerque VA hospital cafeteria and waiting 30 minutes for an ambulance.

A New Mexico dad is facing child endangerment charges after he left his handgun with his 11-year-old daughter while he went to get a tattoo.

An Idaho dad who stashed so much pipe bomb making material in the crawlspace under his kids' bedroom that it took police two days to remove it all will be spending the next 13-25 years in prison.

After heroically defending a taxpayer-defrauding bigot's cattle in Nevada and triumphantly driving their ATV's over Native American archaeological sites in Utah, anti-federal protestors this week starting dredging up a protected river in Idaho in response to new EPA regulations requiring them to get a permit before they can pollute a stream with mining waste.

Go West and drink yourself to death, young man.