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An adoption program could spare 6,000 wild horses suffering extreme drought. Opponents fear some will meet a worse fate at slaughterhouses.

Wild Horses are dying from dehydration during the severe Western drought. Now, the federal government is planning to save them by rounding up thousands and adopting them out across the country.

鈥淚t鈥檚 not just about you. It鈥檚 about the person sitting next to you,鈥� said Raiders owner Mark Davis.

鈥淓roding trust takes minutes. Building trust takes years,鈥� says Christine Porter, a public health professor at the University of Wyoming.

Astronaut Megan McArthur grew up visiting national parks like Yosemite, Grand Canyon and Zion. Now she鈥檚 photographing them from 250 miles above the surface of Earth.

Nevada's governor has imposed an indoor mask mandate for counties with high COVID-19 rates, including Las Vegas. Front-line workers, tourists and a public health expert react.

Low vaccination rates make many counties in the Mountain West especially vulnerable to the COVID-19 delta variant right now, according to data from the public health research group PHICOR. That鈥檚 prompting tough new action from some state and federal officials.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland faced lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday as she advocated for an $18 billion budget increase for her department next year. The money would go towards advancing renewable energy projects, expanding wildland fire programs and boosting public safety on reservations.

The U.S. is facing a jet fuel shortage this summer. It鈥檚 causing long delays at airports across the West as well as some concern among aerial firefighters.

In June, about 340 couples a day were getting hitched in Sin City, a rate higher than even before the pandemic.