Answers to questions about the current situation in California and the Western half of the United States ... New Mexico and other states. There appears to be little relief in sight.

Matthew Impelli is a Newsweek staff writer based in New York. His focus is reporting social issues and crime. In January 2023, Matthew traveled to Moscow, Idaho where he reported on the quadruple ...

This map plots the Palmer Drought Severity Index ... "This week marked a milestone in that this is the highest percent area of drought in the western United States since the Drought Monitor started in ...

The members of the Western States ... “But now, however, our states will be forced to make deep cuts to programs that help those same individuals without similar relief efforts for state and ...

And so the western satellite gives us a great upstream view of what is coming." GOES-T also will monitor weather affecting air and sea traffic between Asia and the United States and provide ...

The U.S. government will provide $50 million to western states to increase the efficiency of water systems as California suffers from a record drought. California will get about $29 million of the ...