Even as Oak Flat moves ahead, the mining industry commits to voluntary guidelines to consult with communities.

Nor are they proxies of the dire wolf,” the members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Canid Specialist ...

The Bozeman location is meant to be an emergency shelter. Other local organizations provide housing for families and domestic ...

But now, the pressure is on for co-ops in Colorado to invest in renewable energy, following passage of state laws starting in 2019 that require utilities to slash their greenhouse gas emissions by 80% ...

You are the carpool that ferries toxic waste from around the world into Texas to be glued together with shiny materials and ...

This article appeared in the May 2025 print edition of the magazine with the headline “Behavior change is society change.” ...

Amid the disarray, High Country News set out to chart the first 60 days of this DOGE-induced disorder. We found the kind of bedlam that not only destabilizes the government and demolishes the services ...

As Western mountain towns struggle with overtourism, Jackson Hole tries out a new plan to mitigate visitors’ impacts.

Then I can’t live here.” When I heard this story, my eyes and belly smiled and my auntie heart melted. FOR SOME PEOPLE, like me, moving out of a community in rural Alaska was a choice. A difficult ...

Around the Colville Reservation, nearly everyone has vivid memories of fire. The blazes’ names — Devil’s Elbow, North Star, Tunk Block, Summit Hill, Cold Springs and Chewah — are recalled and recited ...

Dagger fingernails and polished glass, swirls of blue ink wrapping muscled torsos, tough-guy biceps cradling newborn babes — the images capture quintessential New Mexican culture, one that boldly ...

Tejada recently spoke with High Country News about the contradictions of life in the Borderlands, the lessons of a less-militarized past, and the place that poetry and hope have in our current ...