Jurors in the Ammon Bundy civil case are back deliberating today with a verdict expected at any time.

Update: an Idaho jury has ordered anti government extremist Ammon Bundy and his associates to pay more than $50 million to a Boise hospital in connection with armed protests that led to a security lockdown last year.

Update: an Idaho jury has ordered Ammon Bundy and his associates to pay more than $50 million but it's unclear whether the plaintiffs in a civil case will ever see the money. Here's my latest: npr.org/2023/07/25/118…

Breaking: a federal judge has shot down the state of Utah's effort to shrink the boundaries of two large national monuments, including Bears Ears, which is considered sacred to western tribes. narf.org/nill/documents…

Update: anti-government extremist Ammon Bundy was arrested over the weekend near his home in Emmett, Idaho. On Morning Edition, we look at the backstory: npr.org/2023/08/14/119…

Lt. Ryan Edgar is leading an elite Army “search and extraction” team helping recover bodies from the deadly wildfire here in Lahaina. With so many people still unaccounted for, he told me their main mission now is to bring closure to families.

Maui Police Chief John Pelletier says all urban search and recovery of the burn zone in Lahaina will be finished by today, though some searches for human remains in the ocean will continue

A Forest Service crew this week is using dynamite to clear a trail that was covered by an earthquake-triggered rockslide in the Sawtooth Wilderness in 2020.

Breaking: a federal lawsuit has been filed seeking to force the U.S. government to enforce environmental laws and remove rancher Cliven Bundy's cows from federal lands where they have been illegally grazing on in Nevada since at least 2014.

has to be one of the closest federal wilderness to a major US metropolitan area, if not the closest?

Listen: on Weekend Edition, take a trip with us into the remote Idaho wilderness - by plane. npr.org/2023/09/23/120…

AUDIO: Colorado is under a voter-mandated deadline to reintroduce wolves. On Morning Edition, we ask folks there if the state’s mountains are now too crowded for the animals to survive: npr.org/2023/11/29/121…