Kirk Siegler

A Utah man who the government said tried to blow up a Bureau of Land Management cabin in Arizona has pleaded guilty in federal court in Salt Lake City.

In expensive West Coast cities like Los Angeles, there's a growing number of working people living on the margins — one crisis away from living on the streets due to soaring rents and housing prices.

One factor is the growing number of working people living on the margins — one crisis away from homelessness due to soaring rents and housing prices.

In Southern California, there is a growing backlash against the state's resistance to the Trump administration on illegal immigration and other issues.

A lot of cowboys built up a their stock on U.S. public lands. But today the number of actual independent cattlemen working on these lands is dropping.

Orange County, Calif., is under federal court order to deal with a worsening homelessness crisis. But plans to set up new emergency shelters in affluent coastal communities face stiff opposition.

A school shooting in rural New Mexico has opened a debate over whether teachers in schools in the town of Aztec should be armed.

On Dec. 7, 2017, a gunman opened fire in a high school in rural New Mexico killing 2 students and himself. The act got little national attention which didn't go unnoticed in the town of Aztec.

Chic ski resorts may seem the natural destination for downhill enthusiasts. Years ago, North America sprouted many little volunteer-run ski clubs like Bald Mountain in Idaho.

Cliven Bundy is calling on other ranchers to rebel against the government after the collapse of a federal conspiracy case against him. But it's unclear how, or even if, other ranchers will respond.

When trollers descended on a small Jewish community in Montana, a rabbi and others endured cyber-bullying. There is now a lawsuit but it's unclear whether there is much recourse for victims.

President Trump promised to be a champion for rural America. But his plan to cut rural development funds causes anxiety in at least one timber country town that's struggling to diversify its economy.

With all charges against Cliven Bundy dropped, the Nevada rancher says his fight against the U.S. government's control of public lands is just beginning.

Less than a month after declaring a mistrial, Judge Gloria Navarro said there can be no retrial against the Nevada rancher and three other men, who led an armed standoff with federal agents in 2014.

The government's case against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy accuses him of leading an armed standoff over control of U.S. public lands in 2014.

The wildfires consuming parts of Southern California are becoming a new normal for the state, climatologists say. They're driven by a warming ocean, high winds and drought.

President Trump's authority to reduce two national land monuments in Utah now faces legal challenges, as his administration considers what to do with 25 other protected territories under review.

President Trump announced on Monday in Utah that his administration will dramatically shrink two national monument designations that protect federal public lands. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke proposed shrinking both the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments earlier this year.

In a speech in Utah on Monday, President Trump announced that his administration will shrink the Bears Ears National Monument by roughly 85 percent and the Grand Staircase by about half its size.

The Bundys are savvy users of social media, which helped them shift the story away from the orders and laws Cliven Bundy is alleged to have violated and toward one of a defiant cowboy taking a stand.