The Mountain West News Bureau has six managing partner stations – Boise State Public Radio, KANW in New Mexico, KUNC in Colorado, KUNR Public Radio in Nevada, Nevada Public Radio, and Wyoming Public Media. Colorado Public Radio in Denver and KJZZ in Phoenix are associate partners and nearly a dozen other stations are affiliate members.
The bureau also produces “Our Living Lands,” a weekly radio segment exploring how climate change affects Indigenous communities, in partnership with Koahnic Broadcast Corp. and Native Public Media.
The Mountain West News Bureau was formed in 2018 and joined NPR’s network of regional newsrooms in 2025. It receives funding from Eric and Wendy Schmidt and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Managing Editor: Michael de Yoanna
KUNR Mountain West News Bureau Reporter: Kaleb Roedel
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The attorneys general allege Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are misleading customers about how much clean energy they’re actually using. -
Park road and trails will mostly be open to visitors, but buildings and sites that can lock during non-business hours will stay inaccessible. -
A new study finds the iconic whitebark pine, which spans several Mountain West states, could lose most of its habitat to climate change in the coming decades. Scientists say the loss could impact wildlife – and people. -
Earlier this year, the National Firefighter Registry for Cancer (NFR) went offline in the wake of massive layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services. But since restarting in May, enrollment has surged by roughly 8,000. -
For hundreds of years, Hispanic communities across the Southwest have relied on these networks of hand-dug irrigation ditches to water their crops and feed their families. Now, these ancient traditions are under pressure from a changing climate. -
The federal grants are focused on reducing risk in areas where people live near forests. -
The pattern generally means cool and wet weather for the Northwest and northern Rockies, but drier conditions in the Southwest. -
Los Alamos National Laboratory completes depressurizations of radioactive gasses -
Federal officials would like to quadruple nuclear energy capacity to 400 gigawatts by 2050. -
Xcel Energy was scheduled to go to court to fight a lawsuit brought by more than 4,000 homeowners, businesses and insurers.
