2+ week, 4+ day ago   (669+ words) PHOENIX — On the outskirts of Phoenix, a small town with a huge reliance on the Colorado River has capped growth, revived old wells and struck water deals. But Cave Creek Mayor Robert Morris can’t shake the real possibility that it’s…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (247+ words) Washington Times Politically Unstable: Flock cameras flip the Fourth Amendment on its head Judge Napolitano joins Politically Unstable Coordinating action: How Booz Allen connects distributed data to scale missile defense LISTEN: Evaluating Commanders training camp District of Sports podcast Tourists…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (918+ words) GOTHIC, Colo. — Last winter was tough for marmots living high in the Colorado mountains, where researchers say two-thirds of one population died while hibernating because of insufficient snow cover. Those that survived are doing well, fattening up in time not…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (180+ words) Visitors to Hoover Dam and Lake Mead worry as water levels drop. “You can see with like the difference in colors to the rocks, how high the water level used to be compared to now, so I was like yeah…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1080+ words) KIRTLAND. Ohio — Elder Brian Garner led a small group of visitors through the sturdy wooden door of what looked like an ordinary colonial church. But nearly two centuries ago, it was where a radical departure in American religious history took…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (355+ words) A Yellowstone National Park visitor’s cellphone video is going viral after a bison briefly chased down a child who wandered too close to the animal near a park boardwalk, the latest in a string of close calls between tourists and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (564+ words) A year after the GOP’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act overhauled food stamp eligibility rules, enrollment is dropping by the millions. Roughly 37 million people were enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as of this past April compared with…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (540+ words) PAGE, Ariz. — Matt Barrett has seen Lake Powell drop nearly every year since 2013 or so, when he started making annual treks to the reservoir on the Utah-Arizona border. Some very snowy winters helped it rebound quickly, but this year was…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (507+ words) TOPEKA, Kan. — A proposed legal settlement with the U.S. government would require the Keystone Pipeline system’s operator to pay a $26.9 million civil penalty over a major oil spill in Kansas in December 2022 and spend about $40 million more to prevent future accidents....

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (448+ words) The cameras scoop data on a warrantless basis. In other words: Anyone who drives by is subjected to the surveillance. “[They’re] unconstitutional and a violation” of “Fourth Amendment rights,” Sovern told investigators during his preliminary hearing on June 27, WAVY.com…...