The Senate discusses a bill that will further erode health services in Indian Country.
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Podcast: Eccentric communes go mainstream
Desert love, the original tiny houses and Joan Didion’s West.
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Will Congress fix wildfire funding this year?
Proposed legislation would put logging ahead of environmental concerns.
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Meet me tonight in (the West’s) Atlantic City
The rugged Old West meets New West in a tiny Wyoming town.
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Denver neighborhoods sue over highway expansion
Residents say the $1.2 billion project would increase pollution and health problems.
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What to do if you live in a wildfire zone
Homeowners can protect themselves and their neighbors.
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Inside a ‘drive-thru wildlife park’
In eastern Idaho, Bear World takes the wild out of bears.
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More than 1 million comments were submitted to Interior
The public comment period following Trump’s order on monuments has closed.
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Grand Staircase-Escalante was set up to fail
How budget cuts, a divided staff and state politics hamstrung Utah’s biggest monument.
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Health care debate will also impact jobs in Indian Country
Indian Health Service has become the largest employer for many tribes.
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Your guide to the solar eclipse
Totality, traffic, telescopes: How ready are you for the event of the century?
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Climate change could disrupt tribes’ religious practices
After years of religious persecution, tribes face changing natural world.
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Where will you view the solar eclipse?
Help us plot your destinations for the Aug. 21st event on our live map.
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West Obsessed: Forging a path through Alaska’s wilderness
High Country News discusses how the Frontier State might diversify its economy.
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Bundy Ranch ‘gunmen’ face retrial in Las Vegas
New evidence links defendants to other anti-government gatherings in the West.
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Why 1 million Californians lack safe drinking water
Rural, cash-strapped communities don’t have the means to treat contaminated water.
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The California drought isn’t over, it just went underground
The race to dig deeper wells is a losing game for small rural communities.
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Court rejects temporary block to the methane rule
The ruling snarls Trump’s directive to rollback environmental regulations.
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Wild spaces define who we are as Americans
A veteran explains why public lands are what he fought to protect.
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Take down monuments to Native American oppression
As monuments to slavery come down in the South, others, too, deserve scrutiny.