This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent, nonprofit news organization, and is part of a special project on Food and Power in the West.

Finalized in November 2024 after years of debate and litigation, the Miles City plan is one of the nation’s largest, ...

Everyone had a job. The men and boys drove the boats upriver to dip the nets in the river and seine. The women waited. Never wondering. There were always enough. The salmon that filled the boats when ...

And British Columbia’s premier, David Eby, threatened to place tolls on commercial trucks traveling from the U.S. through B.C ...

After oil companies go bust, the state is left paying to clean up abandoned wells, tanks, machinery and sludge pits.

The wolf was noshing on a carcass near the road when a German shepherd leaped out of a passing car and took off after it. Lyons’ photos show the dog chasing the wolf down the road while a different ...

Students from Heritage University and Northwest Indian College were the first to document the presence of the spotted wing drosophila on the Yakama Nation Reservation — a first step to help eradicate ...

Tech is facilitating land access in new, and sometimes fraught, ways. You can use smartphone apps to vacuum your home, order a meal and track your sleep. Now, you can also get access to private or ...

In Doña Ana County, New Mexico, residents have long struggled to access clean water. Now, developers plan to spend $165 billion on a massive data center complex.

The House voted to nullify three Bureau of Land Management plans, and critics fear many more could follow.

The most widely held and deeply ingrained popular image of Lewis and Clark also happens to be the most serious misconception of their expedition. In that image, they cross North America on their own ...

This story was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico and is reproduced here with permission. In the Permian Basin, now the most prolific oil field in the world, hundreds of miles of plastic ...