BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration said Wednesday it will continue protecting about 2,000 grizzly bears in the Rocky Mountains despite opposition from Republican-led states.

Federal officials also said they will reclassify the grizzly’s status so that ranchers would be able to shoot bears that are killing livestock. Officials will end protections for the animals in states where they’re no longer found,

Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge has been expanded by 2,496 acres after collaboration between the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, a private landowner, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, accordi

Melting alpine ice in the Rocky Mountains has led to the discovery of a 5,900-year-old whitebark pine forest. Over 30 trees are estimated to have been found by scientists during an archaeological survey on the Beartooth plateau in Wyoming.

It all makes for a cold three-day holiday weekend; Monday is Martin Luther King Day. The forecast high temperature on Saturday is 35, with a low of 19. Then it will only get colder. Sunday should see a high of 34 and low of 17, with Monday being a high of 31 and low of 15.

Hours before Jan. 19, after the Supreme Court upheld a law that would require TikTok be sold to a U.S.-held company in order to remain active in the country, a nationwide ban of the popular video sharing app officially went into effect. The 208 wraps up what was proposed in the legislature in week two of the session.

The polar vortex is expected to reach the Utah-Idaho border sometime in the late afternoon and evening Friday as it continues to move south. As it moves through parts of the state, it will produce small snow showers, bringing more snow to the region before drier conditions return.

Americans are less confident about the economy than they were a couple of months back as concerns grew at the beginning of the New Year. Signs of a rise in inflation and a resilient labor market have raised concerns over the Federal Reserve’s plans for future rate cuts.

The most unusually cold air in the Northern Hemisphere will be over the United States early next week, bringing dangerously frigid conditions.

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The consideration, announced Friday, starts a 12-month, data-gathering process, which will be followed by findings by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

As destructive wildfires continue to plague southern California, they're being propelled by a phenomenon that's familiar to Albertans.The wildfires that have devastated the Los Angeles area this month have been fuelled by dry vegetation in drought conditions,