Amid mounting drought, changing federal leadership and stalled state negotiations, new federal proposals aim to chart a forward path.

I’ve often thought of jeans as “sky pants,” trousers woven from cotton clouds. Jeans are the wild blue yonder above the ...

On a chilly, late-October morning, this team, led by Mark Hereford of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, walked up a ...

They couldn’t afford land there, though, so in the late 1980s, they bought a starter home near Lake Arrowhead, in another part of the mountains. They already knew that racism was alive and thriving in ...

In July 2014, a few hours south of Farmington, “Indian rolling” in Albuquerque left two dead. “Anti-Indianism in New Mexico has a particular flavor,” said Melanie Yazzie. In 1880, an intoxicated ...

I was also just barely inside the boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument. At least for now. But the national monument ...

Under Nevada state law, incarcerated people like those women are required to work, yet ineligible for workers’ compensation.

The fire — the largest in New Mexico’s history — burned 341,725 acres, and it’s been a significant blow to the remote agricultural communities affected by it and an already precarious way of life.

This steep slope in Oregon’s Coast Range is littered with ruddy dead branches and freshly cut stumps, but at least it offers sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean. Until recently, the view was blocked ...

Salmon swim up a small creek above where a dam once stood. Credit: Paul Robert Wolf Wilson/High Country News ...