The plan to remove four hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River Basin that blocks the free flow of salmon was canceled.

Utah used actors, AI, stagecraft and NDAs as it sought to sway public opinion and take control of 18.5 million acres of ...

The majority of public land is too fire prone and far away from communities to even make sense for housing, research shows.

New Mexico’s legislators are eager to repurpose “produced water,” but environmental organizations say that there is no safe ...

Days after the workplace immigration raids that first sparked protests in Los Angeles, families still had no contact with relatives in detention.

Antiquities Act gave presidents the power to protect objects on public lands. A Justice Dept. memo said the Act also ”carries with it the power to revoke.” ...

This year, the 2025 Sundance Institute Native Lab was held at the Picuris Pueblo-owned Hotel Santa Fe in Santa Fe, where the Native Lab relocated in 2015. Indigenous program director Adam Piron (Kiowa ...

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Data show that rural, tribal and Western stations would be the most impacted by Trump’s attempt to cut CPB funding.

Joseph O’Sullivan is Crosscut’s former state politics reporter. Before joining Crosscut in 2022, O’Sullivan spent nearly eight years as Olympia bureau reporter for The Seattle Times. High Country News ...

Lisa Elmaleh is an analog photographer, teacher and humanitarian. She has been active in the migrant justice community since 2020 and is the recipient of a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship. High Country ...

Joan Naviyuk Kane’s poetry collections include The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, Hyperboreal, Milk Black Carbon, and Dark Traffic. A 2025 USA Fellow, she recently co-edited Circumpolar Connections: ...