“Tribes have an important role in restoring buffalo for food sovereignty, culture and nutrition, but also for overall bison recovery,” he said.

The Navajo plant stopped spewing sulfur dioxide, mercury and smog over the sandstone expanse around Glen Canyon in December 2019, and San Juan burned its last ton of coal in 2022. Both facilities were ...

Selling off federal public lands, once a fringe idea, is now gaining traction among Republicans in Congress, the courts and in the White House. President Donald Trump has proposed using the money from ...

Billions in halted or canceled grants, gutted local offices, market turmoil and broken trust are at stake across the West.

At this year’s largest gathering of global Indigenous leaders, activists and policymakers, Borderlands issues are expected to ...

The rule sought to elevate conservation’s status as a valid public land use, but Trump’s Interior Secretary stressed the ...

For decades, immigrant communities have used the airwaves to educate and protect themselves in times of crisis.

The Trump administration made cuts at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which also halted a study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.

Howard Hutchinson, a private property rights activist, leads a coalition that’s quietly organizing a county-level rejection ...

Stay informed about the West. High Country News’ weekly email newsletters keep you up-to-date with our latest news and investigations from across the region. In February, I joined a protest for ...

The Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists, a Tucson nonprofit, made a video about nurse trees — native ones like mesquites, ...