Dec 19, 2024 · Other Supreme Court decisions this year further hamstrung agencies’ ability to enforce environmental regulations. In Ohio v.Environmental Protection Agency, the court halted the Clean Air Act ...

Oct 29, 2024 · Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe Councilman Donald Medart joins members of Congress, tribal leaders and community advocates at a rally in Washington, D.C., this April to urge the Biden ...

6 days ago · February 2025: Immigrant Stories. These are challenging times for everybody who cares about the West, but High Country News sees reasons for hope in the region’s inspiring inhabitants — people ...

Nov 20, 2024 · Yet, over the past 10 years, many historians and Indigenous scholars have said that what happened at the Indian boarding schools “meets the definition of genocide.” From the 19th to 20th ...

May 1, 2024 · Tribes with strong ties to the Klamath have long advocated for the removal of the dams. The Karuk Tribe, whose ancestral territory lies below them, has been monitoring water quality there for over ...

Oct 23, 2024 · Trump moved the BLM’s headquarters from the capital to Colorado in 2020, causing disruption and an exodus of leadership. If elected, he plans to use the same tactic elsewhere.

Oct 11, 2024 · Tens of thousands of birds crowd a recently flooded rice field in Wilson, California, last October. Birds identified at the field included geese, blackbirds, ibis, gulls, cranes and starlings.

Dec 20, 2024 · In late October, Gov. Jay Inslee, D, approved a proposal for the Horse Heaven Hills project, a massive clean energy development in central Washington. Now, the Confederated Bands and Tribes of the ...

Oct 11, 2021 · After more than a century of disenfranchisement, Freedmen are gaining ground. Earlier this week, journalist Allison Herrera reported that the Indian Health Service has decided that Seminole ...

Jan 1, 2025 · Saguaros are known for growing slowly, only about a quarter of an inch during their first two years. By the time he was 70, Grandpa was likely 6 feet tall and producing flowers and fruit.