The Idaho National Laboratory is one of four sites selected to develop AI data centers because of their existing energy resources.

Researchers are working on the largest study of hail in the U.S. in 40 years.

The high cost of living and other economic conditions could be to blame.

Montana is home to the first agreement of its kind in the nation.

Prescribed burns are widely recognized as an effective wildfire mitigation tool. Now, using satellite imagery, land management records and fire emissions data, a team of researchers has put hard numbers to those impacts.

For millennia, Indigenous peoples have intentionally set fires to care for the land. Colonization and fire exclusion largely put an end to those practices, though the tradition endured. Now, California tribes have opened the door to a new era of cultural burning - a potential model for the rest of the West.

The plan, released last week by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, would eliminate the Forest Service’s nine regional offices over the next year, including offices in Montana, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. Retirees from the agency said they were "extremely concerned."

Some of the bill’s impacts include tax reforms, research write-offs and Medicaid cuts.

A second federal judge ruled the vocational program can keep going, for now.

A new report shows the Mountain West needs to prepare for data centers, which are expected to demand massive amounts of energy and water. Experts say communities should adopt policies that prevent energy bills from rising and water supplies from shrinking.