Texas reported 90 cases this week, while New Mexico reported nine. A majority of the cases have been in a Texas county where vaccination rates have lagged behind the rest of the state.
The 43-year-old woman was arrested in Mexico after a “romance scam on steroids,” an F.B.I. agent said.
The victim was traveling on a terrain feature known as The Nose near Silverton, Colo., when the avalanche occurred on Thursday, officials said.
With 1,000 full-time employees out, and the fate of thousands more seasonal workers unclear, tours are being canceled and some wonder who will empty the trash.
January was unusually dry in Washington and Oregon. An atmospheric river barreling toward the region looks to make February much wetter.
Aztech Mountain is designed by Aspen locals for Aspen locals — and those who wish they were.
Gypsy Wood, a dancer and cabaret artist, is more than at home on the stage. But it was her Las Vegas ranch house that landed a big role in the film “The Last Showgirl.”
Andrew Buen was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the 2022 killing of Christian Glass, who was experiencing a mental health crisis on a mountain road.
Since moving to Portland, Ore., 30 years ago, Elsy Dinvil has quietly introduced home cooks and chefs to the cuisine and stories of her country.
One plane landed “uneventfully” while the other crashed near a runway, then caught fire, investigators said.
A brick and stone house in Oklahoma City, a midcentury modern home in Tempe and a saltbox in Madison.
The avalanche occurred on Monday near a snowmobile trail in Happy Valley, west of the city of Bend, officials said.
Los sucesos, que se siguen investigando, han generado críticas a los reguladores de la aviación estadounidense.
Bolstered by Mormon voters’ distaste for MAGA politics, the center-right is trying to reassert itself in a ruby-red state.
Our Frugal Traveler tries out the bargain pass at frill-free resorts in Utah, Idaho and Montana.
The accidents, which remain under investigation, have prompted criticism of U.S. aviation regulators.
Utah joined two other states in prohibiting collective bargaining for teachers, police officers and other public employees in a move that was seen as a possible blow to the country’s labor movement.
The Arizona lawmaker diagnoses what he thinks needs to change in the way his party communicates with men, Latinos and Trump voters.
The crash caused a fire that raged for hours, and the tunnel remained closed on Friday evening.
A Nevada business owner prepared and filed false tax returns to fraudulently obtain Covid relief money for her businesses and others, prosecutors said.
The mountain range straddling California and Nevada has had mostly warm storms this winter. Finally, a cold one has piled up multiple feet of snow.
These North American cities have walkable downtowns, family-friendly food and fun for all.
Brad Lunsford, an officer in Las Cruces, N.M., shot Presley Eze at point-blank range after he took a stun gun from another officer.
Bored troops are standing watch, shelters have emptied from McAllen, Texas, to Tucson, Ariz., and border patrols speed through miles of frontier, finding no one in sight.
The Associated Press said the White House had blocked its journalists from attending press events because the news agency had not started using the term Gulf of America.
Hawaii’s most active volcano has been erupting intermittently since December. The latest episode sent lava more than 300 feet into the air.
Kilauea, Hawaii’s most active volcano, has been erupting intermittently since Dec. 23.
A Craftsman bungalow in Colorado Springs, a ranch in Savannah and a Queen Anne Victorian in Minneapolis.
The Associated Press has said it would refer to the Gulf of Mexico “by its original name while acknowledging” President Trump’s choice to rename the body of water.
Ms. Haaland, one of the first former cabinet officials in the Biden administration to announce a run for office, would be the first Native American woman to serve as governor of a state.
A Learjet crashed into a larger parked plane, officials said. The Learjet belonged to Vince Neil, whose girlfriend was injured in the accident, according to the band.
The new research adds to the mysteries of the planet’s deepest interior region.
The men, who are detained in New Mexico, say they “fit the profile” of the type of migrants the Trump administration has started sending to the Navy base in Cuba.
In the hospital, I learned the first lesson of parenting: You are not in control of what is going to happen, nor can you predict it.
The man broke the window’s inner pane and plastic frame before being subdued on a Frontier Airlines flight on Tuesday. The F.B.I. is investigating.
A friend’s journey through drugs and homelessness was aggravated by West Coast decriminalization. There’s a better path forward.
El reportero de Telemundo Kansas City fue hallado muerto en una habitación de hotel cerca de Nueva Orleans. Una mujer con la que fue visto por última vez ha sido acusada de robarle la tarjeta de crédito y el teléfono.
It’s the first sign of unified opposition for a rudderless and leaderless Democratic Party.
La aeronave Cessna, operada por Bering Air, desapareció del radar y perdió el contacto por radio minutos antes de su aterrizaje previsto en Nome.
A couple lived in a three-story house on a double lot in Portland, Ore. But they wanted a smaller house on one level, so they built it right next door.
The wreckage of the plane, which disappeared on Thursday, was found about 34 miles southeast of Nome, the authorities said.
What the economics of coal-rich states like Wyoming tells us about the transition away from the dirtiest fossil fuel.
No one was injured, but a passenger on one of the planes described “violent shaking” and a “really loud crunching sound.”
Canlis, opened in 1950, has been run by two brothers since 2007. One of them, along with the executive chef, is leaving.
A Federal-era home in Middletown, a wood-shingled house in Seattle and a 100-year-old brick house in Dallas.
The uncle of a 23-year-old victim attacked the defendant, who was charged with murder in the shooting of his ex-girlfriend.
The victim’s uncle leaped over a barrier and attacked the defendant, setting off a brawl during a routine hearing in Albuquerque last week that was captured on video.
A couple had a longtime love of the state, which they apparently passed along to family and friends. When their vacation home began to feel cramped, they embarked on a major expansion.
The body of the 37-year-old man, who had been visiting the park with his mother, was found on a popular trail on Sunday, the authorities said.
A decades-long theft of a man’s identity raised questions about who gets believed in the justice system, and what happens when your name is taken.
She was so successful at training dolphins that she began applying the same techniques to other creatures, including dogs — and humans.
Senator John Curtis prides himself on collaborating with people who disagree with him. But with a Republican trifecta in place, it’s not clear whether Mitt Romney’s successor will follow in his footsteps.
The number of incarcerated people nationwide has declined, and almost 200 correctional facilities have closed in the past 20 years. The sites are being repurposed.
The pause affects billions of dollars and is delaying home repairs, factory construction and other projects, many in states that voted Republican.
Around the world, other communities are experimenting with ideas that Los Angeles could borrow as it rebuilds from disastrous wildfires.
Flash flood warnings and several inches of rain fell across parts of the chain of islands as part of a storm system moving southeast.
As it searches for a new home beyond Park City, Utah, the film festival showcases a neo-western, a promising comedic debut and two unsettling documentaries.
Yoni Barrios, an unauthorized immigrant whose unprovoked attack on eight people in 2022 drew attention from Donald J. Trump, will serve life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The Utah Hockey Club is searching for a new name, but it’s skated into a marketplace crowded with trademarks.
She transformed nursing by making it an area of clinical practice and research and recasting nurses as colleagues of doctors, not assistants.
A new memoir by the tech mogul recounts a boyhood steeped in old-fashioned, analog pastimes as well as precocious feats of coding.
After holding the event for 40 years in the Utah ski town, organizers plan to take it elsewhere starting in 2027.
Las autoridades de los destinos más populares están poniendo a prueba toda clase de estrategias para contener la marea, pero los turistas no se dejan disuadir.
The decision to allow law enforcement officers to use facilities at Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, Colo., plunges the U.S. military deeper into President Trump’s order to secure the southwestern border.
Andrew Taake, who pleaded guilty to attacking the police outside the Capitol, was just released from prison. He is being sought for charges in 2016 of soliciting a 17-year-old online for sex.
Gov. Josh Green battled a measles outbreak that killed 83 people, mostly children. President Trump wants Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a vaccine skeptic, as his health policy chief.
Mark Munoz, 53, a homeless man, was charged in the killing of Jason Royter, 33, a father of two from Magna, Utah.
Jack Healy, a Phoenix-based reporter who covered the aftermath of the Los Angeles fires, reflects on all he has in common with the evacuees he meets.
The University of Colorado Colorado Springs, which hosted the event, said the implement had “cleared certified barriers.”
Una pandemia humana puede prevenirse, incluso ahora, dicen los científicos. Pero una serie de acontecimientos de las últimas semanas indica que la posibilidad ya no es remota.
Ms. Gabbard grew up in a secretive offshoot of the Hare Krishna movement and has made a dizzying journey from conservative to liberal darling to Trump ally.
A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected.
Jeff Keith, who runs a nonprofit, claimed he was behind some of the googly eyes that mysteriously appeared on public art in Bend, Ore.
En estos retiros en lugares como Costa Rica, California y los Berkshires, aprenderás a expresar tus deseos, mejorar la intimidad y aumentar la confianza propia.
The president reiterated a pledge to end taxes on tips, but the message was an afterthought as the president celebrated his blitz of orders in his first week in office.
The hit 1966 surfing documentary immortalized the maverick California wave rider as an archetype of the footloose rebel surfer.
Donald Trump también rebautizó el Denali, el pico más alto de Norteamérica, como monte McKinley, a pesar de las objeciones de los senadores de Alaska.
Filmmakers and celebrities reflected on the festival’s lineup and future beyond the mountains of Park City.
A state legislative committee has advanced a resolution asking that the power to regulate marriage be returned to the states.
The Department of Defense said this week that it would provide planes for deportation flights.
Trump also renamed Denali, North America’s tallest peak, as Mount McKinley, despite objections from Alaska’s senators.
His own experience assisting his terminally ill wife in ending her life set him on a path to founding the Hemlock Society and writing a best-selling guide.
Rebuilding can be a chance to rethink things.
Many climate experts see its deserts as a place to build the green-energy future. For two local activists, the price is too great.
The industry is pumping ever more oil and natural gas, but it is doing so with only about three-quarters as many workers as it employed a decade ago.
Jon and Carie Hallford pleaded guilty to corpse abuse after dozens of decaying bodies were found at their funeral home.
Experts worry the unusual move, driven by vaccine misinformation, could fuel further efforts to interfere with immunizations.
The state’s changing electorate and America’s polarized politics have turned Montana’s Senate race into the most consequential of the year.
Nearly a month into a union walkout, the aerospace giant withdrew its latest contract offer, and the two sides exchanged blame over the breakdown.
The justice talks about everything from his indictment of the regulatory state to the rights of Native Americans.
This documentary chronicles the reboot and reopening in Las Vegas of the acrobatic show “O,” which shutdown during the pandemic.
Over the past decade, many more schools started to offer free meals to all children, regardless of family income.
The footprint of gun violence in the U.S. has expanded, as shootings worsened in already suffering neighborhoods and killings spread to new places during the pandemic years.
Officials are moving to increase enforcement and change laws in response to the rise in counterfeit or expired plates, which exploded during the pandemic.
Originally charged after 190 decomposing bodies were found at their Colorado funeral home, the couple now face federal charges that they fraudulently obtained $880,000 in relief funds.
A surge of new residents into Rocky Mountain states drove up home prices. The result was property tax increases of 40 percent or more for some of those already there.
Chastened by a series of economic downturns that punished the hospitality industry, state leaders are working to broaden the economy.
Two of the most cautious states have bypassed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by letting students and workers who have the virus but are asymptomatic avoid isolation.
Portland students have struggled with absenteeism since the pandemic,
Apoorva Mandavilli, a health and science reporter for The New York Times, traveled across the country to learn how educators are preparing for the next pandemic.
Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii sees lessons far beyond the islands in the disaster that has unfolded on Maui.
Gordon Hunter Petersen is accused of posing as a doctor and making at least $2 million selling a bogus Covid-19 cure.
Nevada has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent as officials insist the economy must move away from its focus on gambling.
When her husband was diagnosed with lung cancer, the author was haunted by a long-ago loss — one she’d already written about.
Rollbacks on child labor protections are happening amid a surge of child labor violations.
The fatalities, occurring disproportionately among Native American and Black women, were linked not just to medical complications but also to homicides and accidents.
Dr. Michael Kirk Moore and three of his associates were indicted this month in a scheme that federal prosecutors said lasted from May 2021 to September 2022.
What seemed like a transitory step to avoid infection has become a major force driving the future direction of urban America.
Driven by Covid chaos, online disinformation and a YouTube guru, two Americans went looking for solace on a sailboat in the middle of the ocean. They found a different fate.
A team of reporters and photographers profiled 10 city centers across the country, all in varying stages of economic recovery and transformation.
We visited 10 cities across the country to see how the pandemic and its aftershocks have reshaped the American downtown.
Employers have been burned by a labor shortage. Will that make them act differently if the economy slows down?
The pandemic may have left some gaps in the urban fabric, but a neighborhood-by-neighborhood rundown of new restaurants and art events reveals that recovery is well underway.
I have deep doubts about the intellectual and social value of schooling.
Ships are carrying fewer passengers than they did before the pandemic, but in port towns where the bulk of the economy depends on cruise travel, business owners say they are “grateful for what we have.”
Denver has regained its prepandemic vibrancy, with a plethora of new restaurants and hotels, and the return of some old favorites.
La suspensión de actividades humanas por la covid ha sido una oportunidad para entender mejor cómo afectamos a otras especies del planeta.
Covid precautions created a global slowdown in human activity — and an opportunity to learn more about the complex ways we affect other species.
Masks will become optional in Hawaii’s schools when the new academic year starts on Aug. 1, as the state tries for “a more normal classroom experience this fall,” a state health official said.
As counties report elevated levels of transmission, national parks are once again requiring masks in gift shops, on tour buses and other indoor spaces.
“Covid-19 hasn’t disappeared as much as our patience for precautions has,” said one public health expert.
The contract workers are resisting a plan to resume in-person work, citing health concerns and commuting costs.
People from around the world have been lingering on the border, awaiting the end of pandemic restrictions. Their fate remains one of the Biden administration’s biggest challenges on immigration.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
Domestic travel has returned faster than international. And some destinations like Las Vegas are rebounding more quickly than big cities like New York.
With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments awaiting the help they desperately need.