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Utah is defending its ban on transgender girls competing in school athletics. And some fourteen conservation groups have unveiled an alternative proposal for wolf reintroduction ahead of a Colorado Parks and Wildlife meeting this week.

A look at a few projects being proposed as solutions for the low water levels in the lower Colorado River basin, and how the decline in common milkweed threatens the monarch butterfly.

A new law taking effect Wednesday will help protect Colorado’s hospital patients from surprise medical bills. And a public event yesterday about a proposed solar project near Pleasant View grew contentious at times.

Conservation groups are praising a scientific proposal to protect a large swath of Western land that could help restore wolf and beaver populations. And new legislation has been introduced in the US Senate that would protect parts of the Dolores River Canyon as a National Conservation Area.

Colorado is ramping up its efforts to distribute the monkeypox vaccine after President Biden declared it a health emergency. And fourteen tribes in the Colorado River basin say they’re being kept “largely in the dark” about plans to conserve an unprecedented amount of water amid historic drought.

Colorado River activists are calling on the federal government to rework the plumbing on one of its biggest dams. And President Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday that he says will make it easier for people to travel to other states for abortions.

A statewide recount in Colorado confirms that Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters lost her primary race for Secretary of State by about 90,000 votes. And parts of Montezuma County experienced widespread power outages on Thursday.

Colorado voters will decide in November whether to legalize the use of psychedelic mushrooms. And the window to apply for Utah’s one-time child care worker bonus closes in three weeks.

Five conservation groups filed a lawsuit last week against the state of Colorado out of a district court in Gunnison. And Utahns are about evenly split on their approval of Republican Senator Mitt Romney.

Two Colorado Republicans who lost their primary races last month are raising unfounded claims of voter fraud and renewing their requests for recounts. And the U.S. house is considering a package of bills related to wildfire and drought this week.