Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Southwest

Vallas, Johnson commit to resurrecting Department of Environment at forum on Southwest Side

At a forum in Pilsen, both mayoral candidates vowed to revive the shuttered agency to improve air, water quality and enforce ordinances to bring polluters into compliance.

Chicago Sun-Times

Annular solar eclipse 2023: Everything you need to know about North America's 'ring of fire' eclipse

The annular solar eclipse on Oct. 14, 2023, will be visible from eight states in the U.S. Southwest. Find out how and where to see the 'ring of fire' eclipse in our ultimate guide.

Space

Adam Minter: Farmers can’t keep hogging the water in parched Southwest

The lush lawns and green golf courses of Southern California are an emblem of the desert Southwest’s dependence on the Colorado River. But they’re just a small part of the demands placed on this crucial water resource in times of both drought and plenty. The far bigger part, as much…

Tribune News Service

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Intense Pacific Storm To Hammer Southern, Central California

California has been hit by the most recent significant storm in a string from the Pacific Ocean as of Monday night.

Zenger

Urban areas are adding people and gobbling up land in most states

The percentage of residents living in areas the U.S. Census Bureau calls “urban” grew in 36 states between 2010 and 2020, led by booming cities and suburbs in the South, Southwest, Midwest and California, according to a new Stateline analysis.

Tribune News Service

Disruptive Winter Storm To Bring Significant Ice, Heavy Snow To Northeast

A massive snow storm that slowed down traffic from the Southwest to the Midwest for more than 22 million people is far from over

Zenger

As Colorado River shrinks, water evaporation becomes critical to California’s future supplies

LOS ANGELES — Much of the Colorado River’s water is diverted from reservoirs and transported in canals to the farmlands and cities of the desert Southwest. But some of the water also ends up going elsewhere — vanishing into thin air.

Los Angeles Times

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

How Las Vegas declared war on thirsty grass and set an example for the desert Southwest

LAS VEGAS — Fountains still shimmer opulently at casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, but lush carpets of grass are gradually disappearing along the streets of Sin City.

Los Angeles Times

The Colorado River is overused and shrinking. Inside the crisis transforming the Southwest

BERTHOUD PASS, Colo. — The Colorado River begins as melting snow, trickling from forested peaks and coursing in streams that gather in the meadows and valleys of the Rocky Mountains.

Los Angeles Times

Adam Minter: Arizona can't keep growing without finding more water

The 23-year drought that’s parching the Southwest is forcing Arizona to make a bitter choice. Unless developers can find new sources of water, the state’s largest master-planned housing development is going to remain a desert.

Tribune News Service

Deadly ‘Valley Fever’ fungal infection outbreak sparks fears of US endemic

‘It just goes to show you how serious of a disease it is if doctors seeing it think the first thing I have is cancer,’ 24-year-old says

The Independent UK

Valley fever could be spreading across the U.S. Here are the symptoms and what you need to know

Fungal infection is most commonly found in the Southwestern United States.

Fortune

California Set To Get Needed Break From Storms. How Long Will It Last?

A much-needed break from the relentless train of storms from the Pacific is set to unfold across California

Zenger

The Brook beats The Ville: Mekhi Cooper, Bolingbrook’s trio of bigs takes down Romeoville

The Ville vs. The Brook has developed into a fun basketball rivalry in the Southwest suburbs.

Chicago Sun-Times

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Chicago Tribune

White voters helped propel Lori Lightfoot to the mayor’s office in 2019. Will they stick with her in February?

CHICAGO — When Willie Wilson finished his remarks before the Illinois Polish American Congress in November, the lull in the room lasted long enough for the audience to begin awkwardly fidgeting.

The Independent UK

Environmentalists want jaguars reintroduced to US Southwest

An environmental group is petitioning federal officials to help reintroduce the jaguar to the Southwest, where it once ranged for hundreds of thousands of years before being whittled down to just one of the big cats known to roam the region

Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court will reconsider Navajos' claim for more water from the Colorado River

WASHINGTON — With California and the Southwest facing a historic drought, the Supreme Court agreed Friday to review a 9th Circuit Court decision that held the Navajo Nation has a right to take more water from the Colorado River.

Daily Mirror

UK braced for huge thunderstorm - exact time and place lightning will strike today

With a Met Office yellow warning in place for today, UK cities towards the Southwest and coast will be most affected by the unruly weather - but this could "all change as we head into next week"

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Los Angeles Times

Joshua Tree National Park without Joshua trees? The fight is on to protect the beloved plant

LOS ANGELES — The noble saguaro cactus may take the cake for the most globally iconic desert plant in the Southwest, but it would be impossible for a Southern Californian to imagine a desert landscape without Joshua trees on the horizon.

Los Angeles Times

New push to shore up shrinking Colorado River could reduce water flow to states

With the Colorado River reservoirs continuing to decline, federal officials announced plans Friday to revise their current rules for dealing with shortages and will pursue a new agreement to achieve larger reductions in water use throughout the Southwest.

Salon

Can the Hoover Dam survive the drought?

Glen Canyon and the Hoover Dam are “not the whole story"

The Independent UK

Drought, fire risk to stay high during third La Niña winter

Federal weather officials say drought and wildfire risks will remain elevated in the western states while warmer than average temperatures will greet the Southwest, Gulf Coast and East Coast this winter

The Independent UK

Wolf known for genetic value found dead in New Mexico

Environmentalists are pushing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to do more to protect Mexican gray wolves after one of the endangered predators was found dead in southwestern New Mexico

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Fetterman says Oz ‘lies about my record on crime,’ at brief stop in Southwest Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA — In the heat of a campaign tightening amid his opponent’s focus on crime, John Fetterman came to Southwest Philadelphia on Monday and in brief remarks aimed to reclaim the narrative.

WEKU

Where the Colorado River crisis is hitting home

A reckoning has come for cities and farms in the desert Southwest that were built to rely on the Colorado River.

1 … 5 6 7 8

People

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Fish and Wildlife Service

60 stories

Center for Biological Diversity

51 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.