Around the West, community land trusts are helping people recover from disaster — and prepare for the next one.

The Western Apache and a coalition of environmental groups have fought for years against the Resolution Copper mine, which would become one of the country’s largest at the cost of a site revered by ...

SAGUAROS SYMBOLIZE the Sonoran Desert, appearing in classic Western movies and even children’s cartoons. A cactus can grow up ...

Wildfires like this are increasingly affecting water supplies across the U.S. and creating a compounding crisis that experts in water, utilities and emergency management are only beginning to wrestle ...

Julie Green painted the last meals served to people sentenced to die in an attempt to humanize capital punishment.

Support Nonprofit Journalism High Country News has been telling the important stories of the West for more than 50 years. Our journalists dig deep into issues, share community perspectives, shine ...

Diné activist Nicole Horseherder’s long quest for equity from the rise and fall of the coal economy.

At the fourth annual Hanford Journey, Yakama Nation youth, elders and scientists share stories about a land that is a part of them.

This story was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico and is reproduced here with permission. In the Permian Basin, now the most prolific oil field in the world, hundreds of miles of ...

In Micah McCarty’s art, the past and future are one, and the whales never left.

Before the pandemic, the cedar plankhouse called Cathlapotle would have been full of stories and fire. Every winter, the Chinook Indian Nation and neighboring tribes hold their annual gathering ...

Confused about what’s happening on the Klamath? Dams, salmon, irrigation and more.