To better understand the on-the-ground impacts, High Country News reporters and editors spoke with the leaders of intertribal coalitions, commissions and Native-run community organizations across the ...

Not all the West’s fire- and death-defying stunts involve tortoises: A human being was caught on police drone footage juggling flaming torches while balancing on a unicycle and impeding traffic near ...

For the last 25 years, 58 million acres of American forest have had no new roads, no logging equipment, and no reason to appear on anyone’s industrial map. This year that is changing — and much faster ...

In the Trump administration’s reorganization of the struggling agency, painful echoes of BLM’s past moves.

It was morning, and the wide Las Vegas Strip was empty. Neon signs glittered quietly as Matthew Livelsberger cruised a silver Tesla Cybertruck down the palm tree-lined boulevard. It was around 8 a.m.

On Monday, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management posted an announcement seeking online public comment on the proposed reversal ...

A planned 1.3-mile wall across Mount Cristo Rey has drawn opposition from environmentalists and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces.

History will judge the Trump administration harshly for elevating oil and gas at the expense of everything else.

In 2016, Irma Carrillo Nevares swabbed the inside of her cheek and signed a consent form allowing the Colibrí Center for Human Rights to add her DNA to its database. Carrillo Nevares’ son and daughter ...

A spokesperson for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission wrote that the agency was still in the process of amending the framework for radiation protection, adding that “public health and safety will ...

Danielle Prokop covers the environment and local government for Source NM. Her coverage has delved into climate crisis on the Rio Grande, water litigation and health impacts from ...