1/3 Today, 40 Associated Press guild-covered employees across the U.S. who accepted buyouts left the newsroom for the final time. We’ve been told layoffs will be coming, with no clear timeline. In solidarity, our members in office, at home, and in the field wore their union red today.

This was a fun one to report.

Watering veggies is largely exempt from outdoor watering restrictions in the U.S. West, but after a record low-snow winter in Colorado, it felt like a good time to ask how we can live more aligned with our local climate. #westernwater #drought #climatechange #gardening apnews.com/article/gard...

It's what we feared: this year was in fact the worst snow year in Colorado since statewide records were first tracked in 1941, USDA hydrologists confirmed to me last night after wrapping their final field measurements. apnews.com/article/colo...

This was a fun one to shoot.

I’m chasing hail in the Great Plains this week.

Join AP and scientists as we drive into hailstorms. The underappreciated weather extreme costs $10 billion a year. @brittanykpeters.bsky.social apnews.com/article/hail...

No one breaks down climate news like my colleague @borenbears.bsky.social. Important read today. apnews.com/article/clim...

For AP's Climate Watch newsletter, I wrote about the major challenges water utilities are facing today, just as federal funds that can help them are being slashed. www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-nee...

This was a fun piece to work on with colleague Dorany Pineda. apnews.com/article/come...

Nothing says "happy early birthday" like getting a hotel room for your mom to evacuate from a wildfire gobbling up downed debris from Hurricane Helene.

Was wondering whether I'd log a ski day for work this winter. This story called for going the extra mile (in the backcountry). Have a read/watch. apnews.com/article/aval...

My colleague @borenbears.bsky.social with a critical story apnews.com/article/nati...

ISO fired NOAA weather forecasters who want to talk for a story. bpeterson @ ap . org

"Better water infrastructure by itself won’t protect neighborhoods from fire, experts say, and many of the ideas are expensive. But there are things that communities can do." My latest for AP. t.co/pvu873zgQA