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  • tellurideLaw

    Telluride Ski Resort begins to reopen after striking ski patrollers accept a contract

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • TellurideNorth America

    Telluride resort owner rips into ski patrol union after strikes shuts down slopes on Christmas

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • SnowEnvironment

    ‘Mother Nature has been dealing a really hard deck’: Western ski resorts struggle with a warm, snowless start to winter

    By Mead Gruver, Brittany Peterson, and others
  • FILE – A mechanized shovel loads coal into a haul truck at a mine near Decker, Mont., on Nov. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)Energy

    It’s not just soybeans. China also stopped importing U.S. coal amid Trump’s trade war

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A haul truck is seen after being loaded with coal by a mechanized shovel at the Spring Creek mine, in this Nov. 15, 2016 photo, near Decker, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)Energy

    The U.S. is about to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in over a decade even as demand wanes. ‘Eventually coal will get pushed out of the market’

    By Matthew Brown, Mead Gruver, and others
  • GettyImages-478977452.jpg-LOS ANGELES, CA – FEBRUARY 16: Gerry Spence attends OJ Simpson Trial Proceedings on February 16, 1995 at Los Angeles Court House in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)Success

    Gerry Spence, legendary trial lawyer who fought to ‘free the people of this country from the slavery of its new corporate masters,’ dies at 96

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • Xi Jinping, Donald TrumpEnvironment

    China has 90% of the rare earth that the world needs. America’s just getting started on its second mine

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • The UMTRA ProjectNorth America

    Trump fast-tracks Utah uranium mine but industry comeback may wait until prices go up ‘dramatically’

    By Mead Gruver, Hannah Schoenbaum, and others
  • Julie Burkhart, founder and president of Wellspring Health Access, Wyoming’s only abortion clinic, is seen in a procedure room in the clinic Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Casper, Wyo. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver)Health

    Wyoming’s only abortion clinic resumes abortions after judge suspends 2 state laws

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • Dick CheneyPolitics

    Lifelong Republican and former Vice President Dick Cheney breaks with GOP to back Kamala Harris, daughter says

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • woman sitting on stepsPolitics

    Democratic voters are almost extinct in parts of rural America

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • Oregon Lottery External Communications Program Manager Melanie Mesaros speaks during a news conference outside a Plaid Pantry convenience store on April 9, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)Personal Finance

    $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot is so big lottery officials will take several weeks to verify the winning Oregon ticket

    By Claire Rush, Mead Gruver, and others
  • FILE – Utah Gov. Spencer Cox speaks at the PBS Utah Governor’s Monthly News Conference at the Eccles Broadcast Center in Salt Lake City, Oct. 19, 2023. Cox signed a bill into law Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, that makes the state the latest to prohibit diversity training, hiring and inclusion programs at universities and in state government. (Laura Seitz/The Deseret News via AP, Pool, File)Politics

    Utah’s governor signs bill making it the latest state to ban DEI programs on campus and in government

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 26: Pierce Brosnan attends the Los Angeles premiere of Netflix’s “The Out-Laws” at Regal LA Live on June 26, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Robin L Marshall/WireImage)Environment

    Actor Pierce Brosnan is cited for stepping out of bounds at a sensitive thermal area in Yellowstone

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • Grand TetonsEnvironment

    Wyoming has been daring the Feds to buy priceless Grand Teton lands for a decade by threatening an auction. Now it’s asking $80 million

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press