Even as Oak Flat moves ahead, the mining industry commits to voluntary guidelines to consult with communities.

The Bozeman location is meant to be an emergency shelter. Other local organizations provide housing for families and domestic ...

Nor are they proxies of the dire wolf,” the members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Canid Specialist Group concluded. Even if the company had recreated something much closer to ...

But now, the pressure is on for co-ops in Colorado to invest in renewable energy, following passage of state laws starting in 2019 that require utilities to slash their greenhouse gas emissions by 80% ...

You are the carpool that ferries toxic waste from around the world into Texas to be glued together with shiny materials and ...

Pay for presence’ aims to compensate ranchers for predator-related losses, but Western states might not be able to afford it.

This article appeared in the May 2025 print edition of the magazine with the headline “Behavior change is society change.” ...

Amid the disarray, High Country News set out to chart the first 60 days of this DOGE-induced disorder. We found the kind of bedlam that not only destabilizes the government and demolishes the services ...

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

Tejada recently spoke with High Country News about the contradictions of life in the Borderlands, the lessons of a less-militarized past, and the place that poetry and hope have in our current ...

As Western mountain towns struggle with overtourism, Jackson Hole tries out a new plan to mitigate visitors’ impacts.