Amid a record-breaking year of Western bear conflict, the historically tolerant Red Lodge community is grappling with opposing views on how to live with the species — and if a 'fed bear' really should ...

This story was originally published by Grist and is republished here through a partnership with Climate Desk. Nevada officials have long presented themselves as a voice for compromise and conservation ...

Alaska officials accused American Samoans caught in a unique legal limbo of illegally voting but finally dropped those charges this month.

Though the politically savvy report still offers hope for an equitable and sustainable future, Western and Indigenous climate activists and conservationists fear that it promises too much and could ...

Voters in the Equality State finally felt the threat to public lands had reached a critical point, observers say.

The photos in this essay, all taken from 1962 to 1968, reflect a post-World War II confidence that grand infrastructure could tame and re-engineer where “nature” fell short. Big projects were ...

Everything from sand to summer vacations is projected to change in the Grand Canyon as the river’s flows are reduced.

Massive amounts of private money have poured into Montana’s elections for years. In 2020, the Steve Daines-Steve Bullock race for the U.S. Senate became the most expensive in st ...

Discussions around the Painted Desert Power project, a large-scale solar project, have drawn attention to much broader ...

A trust land timber sale parcel in southwestern Washington, near the headwaters of the Willapa River. Credit: Courtesy of Joshua Wright The more than 40 million acres of state trust lands across the ...