9+ hour, 40+ min ago  (646+ words) Reading Time: 2 minutes, 59 seconds Regulators in eleven states have issued cease and desist orders against companies running prediction market apps. Officials argue they are unlicensed betting platforms that rob states of revenue. Prediction market apps allow betting on everything from…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (214+ words) Reading Time: 1 minute, 2 seconds The nearly 300-foot-long, fish-shaped etching, called an intaglio, is approximately 1, 000 years old and located in the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge. The site is just feet from the Arizona-Mexico border in an area slated for construction…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (245+ words) Hantavirus is typically spread through contact with rodent feces, urine or saliva. But cases on the MV Hondius cruise ship point to an unusual means of transmission....

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (137+ words) Investigative journalist Isolde Raftery of KUOW explains why, two decades later, she re-investigated her own reporting on a teacher accused of sexual abuse....

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (653+ words) A group of states that use water from the Colorado River is proposing a new way to break the deadlock in negotiations about the river's future: bringing in a moderator. After states blew through a mid-February deadline for a new…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (409+ words) Reading Time: 1 minute, 41 seconds Earlier this month, the FBI announced that it's once again putting extra agents into the field to tackle a backlog of cold cases on tribal lands. This joint effort has been happening in tandem with the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1082+ words) Reading Time: 4 minutes, 21 seconds As Greg Mezak prepared to drive to a private home tucked away on a Wilson hillside, he grabbed a screwdriver, multi-tool, and set of Allen keys. "At least one thing I think needs tightening," he said....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (291+ words) Reading Time: 1 minute, 27 seconds As the Trump administration pushes for more development and resource extraction, Tribal leaders and community advocates are calling on Congress to protect one of the Southwest's last free-flowing rivers. The M. H. Dutch Salmon Greater Gila Wild and…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (351+ words) Scientists studied a stretch of the Gila River " a tributary that feeds into the Colorado River " for more than a decade. They found that even during very low flows, its floodplain can continue to support native cottonwood and willow trees....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (215+ words) Reading Time: 1 minute, 19 seconds Gov. Mark Gordon signed 14 bills into law on Thursday. The state will now have two full-time smokebuster module leaders. Smokebusters are wildland firefighters who are currently incarcerated by the state of Wyoming. One of the new…...