A section of newly built border wall was mysteriously damaged for months. But it wasn’t until a High Country News reporter asked about the damage that Customs and Border Protection maintained the ...

Dangerous landslide-triggered tsunamis linked to receding glaciers — which are shrinking globally due to climate change — are ...

Hillary Hoffmann, professor of law at the University of Wyoming and former co-director of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal ...

After 20-year controversy and numerous court battles, the Trump administration declared grizzlies recovered despite public ...

Utah Rep. Casey Snider spent years quietly carrying out a plan to guarantee hunter access to pristine roadless country — by blocking the Ute Indian Tribe from buying it back.

Among the many dramatic peaks of the West, few mountains stand out like Mount Shasta in the northernmost reaches of California. Shasta erupts from the landscape, a solo peak with no other mountains ...

The federal government is rewriting its rules governing ranching on public lands to increase the number of cattle, sheep and ...

The headwaters of the Klamath River are the ancestral territory of the Klamath Tribes, which include the Klamath, Modoc and Yahooskin, according to Tribal Chairman William Ray Jr. “(The water) comes ...

Returning a rare orchid to the wild is a complex challenge, but if these scientists succeed, they’ll blaze a path for future reintroductions.

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Sign up for Dispatches to get their stories in your inbox every week. Chris Casad ...

Lisa Balsiger-Vargas, 54, still lives in her childhood home, a white bungalow in White Salmon, Washington, a town of 2,500 people about an hour east of Portland, Oregon. Her large front yard has a ...

A home is burned by the Eaton Fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles County, California, on January 8, 2025. Credit: Josh Edelson/Getty Images Sylvie Andrews and her partner didn’t just lose the new ...