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It’s wildfire season. Rural communities and those on the outskirts of urban centers face greater danger than others. New research urges homeowners and state officials to rethink how they mitigate risk for those areas.

A coalition of nonprofits and businesses are asking a court to order state utility regulators to respond to their petition to incorporate climate change into their decision-making.

A national survey finds that the pandemic has had lingering effects on both confidence in vaccines and staffing woes at public health departments.

An unusually dry winter fueled expectations of a long and active fire season throughout the Northern Rockies. Fire experts, however, say the reality may be more nuanced than that.

State and Federal wildlife officials are making plans to kill lake trout in the Swan Lake drainage. The agencies say core populations of native bull trout are at risk of extinction in coming decades due to competition and predation by nonnative lake trout.

In legislative races between hard-right GOP candidates and more moderate conservatives, each faction picked up wins and losses.