Amid mounting drought, changing federal leadership and stalled state negotiations, new federal proposals aim to chart a forward path.
I’ve often thought of jeans as “sky pants,” trousers woven from cotton clouds. Jeans are the wild blue yonder above the ...
On a chilly, late-October morning, this team, led by Mark Hereford of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, walked up a ...
The fire — the largest in New Mexico’s history — burned 341,725 acres, and it’s been a significant blow to the remote agricultural communities affected by it and an already precarious way of life.
They couldn’t afford land there, though, so in the late 1980s, they bought a starter home near Lake Arrowhead, in another part of the mountains. They already knew that racism was alive and thriving in ...
As Exponent II became a leader in Mormon feminist thought, it posed an existential threat to a church where men are viewed as the heads of the household and holders of the priesthood. “What Exponent ...
In July 2014, a few hours south of Farmington, “Indian rolling” in Albuquerque left two dead. “Anti-Indianism in New Mexico has a particular flavor,” said Melanie Yazzie. In 1880, an intoxicated ...
Under Nevada state law, incarcerated people like those women are required to work, yet ineligible for workers’ compensation.
The masked marauders are out in force! Batten down the hatches: An unidentified woman living in Poulsbo, Washington, had to call 911 after an army of around 100 raccoons surrounded her home. According ...
I was also just barely inside the boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument. At least for now. But the national monument ...
This steep slope in Oregon’s Coast Range is littered with ruddy dead branches and freshly cut stumps, but at least it offers sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean. Until recently, the view was blocked ...
185,000 acres Combined extent of the Pack Trail and Elk fires in western and northern Wyoming as of Oct. 21, when Pack Trail was 62% contained and Elk only 48%. The blazes broke out in September, ...