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Fatal Colorado home explosion reignites drilling safety debate
Have regulators done enough to protect public safety?
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Last ride for the West’s iconic trains?
Trump’s budget would make it harder for Westerners to ride the rail.
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A farm town weighs protections for immigrants
In Yakima, Washington, anxious migrant farmers worry about deportation.
Posted inMay 1, 2017: Change Comes to Short Creek
An end to Tucson’s growth wars
A conservation plan puts science ahead of politics.
Posted inMay 1, 2017: Change Comes to Short Creek
Inside a taxidermy shop
In Western Colorado, bringing “life” to freeze-framed wild animals.
Posted inMay 1, 2017: Change Comes to Short Creek
What happens when the church comes for your kids?
Former FLDS members fight for their families and homes.
Posted inMay 1, 2017: Change Comes to Short Creek
What is owed to a damaged river?
A new book illustrates the Duwamish’s difficult path to recovery.
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Local power gets results for Thompson Divide
New legislation could end a decade-long fight against oil and gas development.
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Republicans shy away from town halls
Fleeing shouting matches, some politicians are changing the way they talk to constituents.
Posted inMay 15, 2017: Prison Town
Suburbanites reckon with arcane drilling law
On Colorado’s Front Range, companies can extract oil and gas from private land — without homeowners’ permission.
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What the West was like before the EPA
The agency’s legacy isn’t perfect, but the region’s air and water are cleaner now than they once were.
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Nogales has a sewage problem
In the borderlands, members of Congress work to resolve wastewater woes.
Posted inApril 3, 2017: Firestorm
What should a community do to protect its immigrants?
A conservative county in Colorado grapples over a new political reality for its refugee and immigrant residents.
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The rural programs threatened by Trump’s budget
The rural West may have helped elect Trump, but his vision leaves them behind.
Posted inMarch 20, 2017: The Tree Ring
HCN gets an editor-in-chief
Managing Editor Brian Calvert steps into a new role.
Posted inMarch 20, 2017: The Tree Ring
Untethered existences; Tacos in traffic; movin’ on up in Seattle
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Posted inMarch 20, 2017: The Tree Ring
What the Navajo Generating Station will leave behind
Cleaner air, wounded economies.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
An expedition through the Edgelands
This landscape isn’t always beautiful — but that’s what makes it loveable.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
Cowboys with surfboards
How Hanalei, Hawaii, reflects small Western towns.