Tribes hit hard by wildfires face health effects, cultural losses

Neighbors across the Colville Tribes communities in Washington state knew Matilda Bob’s log home as the “rainbow house,” for its brightly painted exterior. Now it’s gone. Sparked by a lightning strike in mid-July, the Kaiser Canyon Fire destroyed Bob’s home and 42 other houses on the Colville Reservation, along with 100 outbuildings such as sheds […]
READ NEXT
More on the wire
FROM THE PUBLISHER
The city of Tremonton is under a boil water advisory Sunday after rainfall and flooding washed sediment and mud into a pumphouse, potentially contaminating the water with E. coli.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
The "grades" assigned to three Utah universities by a group dedicated to defending free speech on American campuses would likely earn each school a spot on its own academic probation list.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
It was another solid week for both BYU and Utah as the two teams moved to 3-0 on the season.