We get the second storm, just a little bit after the first one, then everything was primed for even worse flooding this time around,” Schumacher said. In mountainous terrain, this gets especially ...

The day after California was admitted to the Union in September 1850, John C. Frémont, a U.S. senator who had settled in ...

At a desert spring, silence can seem ordinary in a place where frogs once called. That’s the trouble with a shrinking ...

Art inspired by three landscapes experiencing threats of mining: Mount Taylor, New Mexico, Fajada Butte, New Mexico and Devils Tower, Wyoming. Credit: Marty Two Bulls, Jr./High Country News In 2024, a ...

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The Forest Service, which Michael Boren now oversees, appears to have abandoned any further enforcement action.

In the 2026 legislative session, Sen. Jeff Steinborn, D, proposed a microgrid oversight bill that would have given the state ...

This story is co-published by Public Domain. One afternoon in late September 2024, the Owyhee County Sheriff’s office began fielding reports of multiple smoke columns billowing from near Josephine ...

Este artículo también está disponible en español. The first time Rosa saw snowflakes falling, she thought they were pieces of cotton. “I thought I was going to choke,” she told me. Rosa, who is from ...

Thank you for your stellar reporting (“ How the Interior secretary has let down public lands and the nation ,” Sept. 24, 2026), which is often very sad news for us who care about our environment — sad ...

Nearly 40 years after an armed sheriff, anti-LGBTQ activists and a judge’s order shut down the Gay Rodeo Finals, this year the riders came home.