The Latest Breaking News from Southwest

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A weather pattern will keep a large portion of the northwestern United States warm into the weekend 

Fixing the Southwest’s water supply problem will be painful, and the big question might be ‘how to distribute that pain.’

A rapid spring snowmelt after an unusually wet winter is unleashing flooding from the Southwest to the Rockies, causing residents there and in the Upper Midwest to stock up on sandbags amid surging creeks and rivers

LOS ANGELES — The federal government on Tuesday laid out two options for preventing the Colorado River’s depleted reservoirs from falling to critically low levels, saying it could either impose cuts across the Southwest by following the water-rights priority system or by using an across-the-board percentage.

Most of the Southwest will continue to experience dry weather due to a northward bulge in the jet stream.

Today, tourists from all over the world flock to Nevada to experience selective amnesia. “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” the slogan goes. But Las Vegas’ culture of forgetting is more than drunken hijinks. The city’s existence depends on forgetting the colonial violence that made the Southwest. Since becoming…

SANTA ANA, Calif. — When you’re from California, it’s easy to think that some of the world’s most beautiful and wild, rugged places are close to home. But the reality is that while the Golden State has plenty of incredible scenery to offer, both back in those "Wild West" days…

Indigenous oral histories and archaeological evidence are rewriting the story of how horses came to the American West.