Mountain West News Bureau

KDNK's Morgan Neely has Tuesday's news, including a look at unionization efforts by Starbucks employees in Boulder. Also, Saturday night's horrific mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs was one more of many attacks on LGBTQ+ people in the Mountain West ... and Colorado has the highest number of any of our neighboring states. Meanwhile, the midterm elections showed blue states of our region getting bluer, while the red got ... redder.

Health officials across the Mountain West are facing a triple threat of increased infections of COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. Many hospitals, especially pediatric facilities, report being short on staff and beds as they grapple with a surge in patients.

Polling data shows that many voters of color in the Mountain West were influenced by climate change more than the electorate at large during the 2022 midterm elections.

Colorado and Idaho are joining a handful of other states in opting out of a long-running CDC survey that tracks teenagers' mental health.

In order to increase the number of Indigenous principals in Native communities and in public schools, a program called POLLEN is meeting teachers halfway by covering many of the costs.

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are studying how honeybees in swarms form a structure that holds all of them up.

Permanently switching to daylight saving time could prevent 33 human deaths and 36,550 deer deaths while saving more than $1 billion annually, according to University of Washington researchers.

A new report shows rainy day funds in most states are reaching new highs, but the strength of those funds varies widely in the Mountain West.

A recent study found that when mountain goats and bighorn sheep compete over mineral sources at high elevations, it’s the goats that usually go home happy.

A new report reveals that 91% of the nation’s coal plants are heavily contaminating groundwater, and some of the most polluted sites are in the Mountain West.