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

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 ...

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

But as officials with the Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) would discover and document in a lengthy investigative report, Steve Boren started the fires — at least 20 separate ignitions — on land owned ...

A Montana rancher wonders what is lost in her urge to share her Western life online.

ANNA KERR (SHER/HER) Teton Adaptive program manager, ShelterJH board secretary and GAP (Girls Actively Participating) program lead Jackson Hole, Wyoming ...

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Small towns in the Permian Basin have become a petri dish for the perils of living amid the nation’s largest oil fields.

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

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 ...

Ryan Christopher Jones is a photojournalist and anthropologist. He is currently completing a Ph.D. in anthropology at Harvard University, where he is writing a dissertation on the community politics ...

Stephanie Casanova is a Report for America corps member covering environmental justice and the Colorado River for Arizona Luminaria. Stephanie’s reporting position is part of HCN's Western ...