Colorado officials say a long-disputed national rule is a poor fit for the state?s wilderness, so they have proposed an alternative, angering conservationists.

New federal rules for the management of national forests are a great improvement on existing guidelines and are more protective of the environment.

At least 18 others were injured when a dozen vehicles crashed amid heavy smoke and fog on a stretch of Interstate 75.

Since Dilma Rousseff was elected president, the government has shifted its stance on the Amazon to side more with agricultural interests.

An ?extremely remorseful? elderly man admitted Friday that he accidentally started a brush fire that destroyed 29 homes and burned nearly 3,200 acres when he improperly discarded fireplace ashes at his home south of Reno, fire officials said.