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  • Gen Z activistsLaw

    Gen Z climate activists take Trump to court in Montana for singlehandedly worsening global warming, they say

    By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press
  • Trump signing papersEconomy

    Federal lands larger than Delaware move closer to coming up for sale to coal mining companies

    By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Oct. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Politics

    House GOP want to use tax-cut package to authorize sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of public land in Nevada and Utah

    By Matthew Daly, Matthew Brown, and others
  • Law officials escort a suspect from an apartment to a waiting utility vehicle for transport during a raid Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in east Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)Politics

    U.S. border czar blames media leaks for hindering major immigration raids in Colorado suburb

    By Colleen Slevin, Thomas Peipert, and others
  • Former Gov. Doug Burgum, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the the Interior Department as Secretary of the Interior, testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Politics

    Senate confirms Doug Burgum as Trump’s interior secretary tasked with boosting fossil fuel production to achieve ‘energy dominance’

    By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press
  • Former Gov. Doug Burgum, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the the Interior Department as Secretary of the Interior, testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Environment

    Trump’s interior secretary pick Doug Burgum says U.S. needs to make more electricity from coal to win AI arms race

    By Matthew Brown, Jennifer McDermott, and others
  • FILE – Old-growth Douglas fir trees stand along the Salmon River Trail, June 25, 2004, in Mt. Hood National Forest outside Zigzag, Ore. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)Environment

    A proposal for more logging to curb wildfires could boost timber harvests by more than 200%

    By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press
  • Tim Sheehy speaking at the RNC.Politics

    Montana GOP Senate candidate accused of passing off accidental self-inflicted gunshot as war injury

    By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press
  • A police officer moves a barrier for an emergency vehicle Thursday.Tech

    Deadly elevator malfunction traps tourists in historic Colorado mine—cause remains a mystery

    By Matthew Brown, Jesse Bedayn, and others
  • City councilmember Christian Luna-Leal poses for a portrait in front of a detention pond containing mine waste in Leadville, Colo., on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)Environment

    Colorado home of National Mining Museum dubious about plan to ‘remine’ gold from local mine waste

    By Matthew Brown, Brittany Peterson, and others
  • A wildlife technician holds up a dead owl's wing as he takes notes.Environment

    U.S. officials enlist trained shooters to kill 450,000 barred owls—all in the name of saving their cousins from extinction

    By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press
  • A BNSF freight trainFinance

    Warren Buffett-owned BNSF Railway contributed to 2 deaths in Montana town where asbestos sickened thousands, jury finds

    By Amy Beth Hanson, Matthew Brown, and others
  • Interior Secretary Deb Haaland shakes hands with Gov. Myron Armijo of Santa Ana Pueblo after signing Public Land Order 7940, which protects more than 4,200 acres of Bureau of Land Management-managed public lands that is sacred to Tribes in the Placitas area, during a community event at El Zócalo Plaza in Bernalillo, N.M., Thursday, April 18, 2024. For the next 50 years, the lands will be closed to new mining claims, mineral sales, and oil and gas leases.(Chancey Bush/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)Environment

    Biden administration moves to let conservation groups rent government-owned land just like oil, ranching and mining companies do

    By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Environmental cleanup specialists work at one of the last remaining residential asbestos cleanup sites in Libby, Montana, in mid-September. BNSF Railway attorneys are expected to argue before jurors Friday, April 19, 2024, that the railroad should not be held liable for the lung cancer deaths of two former residents of the asbestos-contaminated Montana town, one of the deadliest sites in the federal Superfund pollution program. (Kurt Wilson/The Missoulian via AP, File)Environment

    Warren Buffett-owned railway says it didn’t know about asbestos it hauled that killed hundreds in Montana town

    By Matthew Brown, Amy Beth Hanson, and others
  • FILE – A hearse and debris can be seen at the rear of the Return to Nature Funeral Home, Oct. 5, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. The couple who owned the Colorado funeral home — where 190 decaying bodies were discovered last year — have been indicted on federal charges for fraudulently obtaining nearly $900,000 in pandemic relief funds from the U.S. government, according to court documents unsealed Monday, April 15, 2024. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP, File)Health

    Owners of Colorado funeral home where 190 decaying bodies were found are now being charged with misspending $900,000 in COVID relief funds

    By Jesse Bedayn, Colleen Slevin, and others