Jack Herrera is a freelancer reporter with recent work in The New Yorker, Politico, and The New York Times. He reports on-the-ground, following stories on how policy decisions, especially those ...

As a housing crisis pummels the West, from Sun Valley, Idaho, to Tucson, Arizona, there’s a dull irony in the number of abandoned houses and old hotels. Some of them cluster around former mining ...

Utah used actors, AI, stagecraft and NDAs as it sought to sway public opinion and take control of 18.5 million acres of ...

Senate Republicans’ proposed legislation to sell off public lands could have unique impacts on tribal nations.

Time and travel are the biggest barriers. Bourne’s a Fallon Paiute-Shoshone member, but he lives in Lovelock, so seeing a ...

As it stands now, the provision would mandate the sale of up to about 1.9 million acres of public land over five years, theoretically for housing, and set a dangerous precedent for future ...

“It was, as far as we know, the first permanent exhibit on LGBTQ history at a national park.” ...

Days after the workplace immigration raids that first sparked protests in Los Angeles, families still had no contact with ...

As the Western leaders left the Eldorado, they were hit by monsoon rains, which flooded the historic Santa Fe Plaza and halted all the road construction that had surrounded the event. Construction ...

The understudied mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems and may prove critical to the survival of fragile deserts stressed by climate change.

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The plan to remove four hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River Basin that blocks the free flow of salmon was canceled.