Tribal communities will receive one-point-seven-billion dollars from the Department of the Interior to develop water infrastructure projects. And the town of Rico is holding two public meetings this week on the town’s program to clean up lead contamination in the soil.

One lawmaker in Utah’s House of Representatives has brought back legislation that would require Utahns to undergo expanded background checks for firearms transfers, but it failed to pass out of committee.

Colorado Democrats advanced a bill last week that would make it a crime to openly carry a gun near a polling center or ballot drop box. And a new study found lesbian, bi-, pan- and a- sexual women in Utah are four times less likely to graduate high school than heterosexual women.

Colorado lawmakers are advancing several bills to prevent wildfires, including an effort to chip away at a backlog of forest thinning projects. And modeling estimates 90% of Coloradans are now immune to the omicron variant and even more are protected against severe disease, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

Online dating is a reality these days, but at the same time, scams in the online dating world are costing Americans more money than ever. For Autistic people, the risk of falling victim to these scams may be especially high. And, as KSJD's Sofia Stuart-Rasi reports, that's especially true for autistic people living in rural areas like the Four Corners region

Colorado Democrats are advancing a bill to protect workers who raise safety concerns from retaliation. New Mexico Governor Lujan Grisham lifted the state’s overall mask mandate on Thursday.

Southwest Health System in Cortez will discontinue drive-thru COVID-19 testing, and the hospital's director of infection control says COVID hospitalizations are down and vaccination rates are up in Montezuma County. But he also says the pandemic isn't over, and warns against rolling back precautions too soon. KSJD's Lucas Brady Woods sat down with Meyer to talk through the details.

The Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 Board of Education has two finalists for the district’s interim Superintendent position: Dr. Ember Conley and Harry Jay Tom Burrus.

Former Aspen City Councilor Adam Frisch is running for U-S Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s seat. And a new study of historical climate records finds the West’s current drought is the driest stretch in twelve-hundred years.

Colorado Democrats have blocked several bills from Republicans that aim to change how the state runs its elections. And Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is officially launching his campaign for a second term.