The veterinarian told them that Jax had likely ingested a toxic, algae-like microorganism called cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, from a benthic bloom, a phenomenon scientists began documenting in ...

Anxieties about the future often become refracted as questions of community identity: Who are we? What do we stand for?

Jaramillo’s fingerprints were all over town, from development targeted at the middle class to fury over economic inequality and the town’s colonial past and present. This is what reporting can do: ...

For the next four years, she helped HCN build out our Indigenous affairs team, cover grazing and public-land use, interrogate the idea of wilderness and prioritize investigative work. Do you remember ...

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Pitkin County, Colorado, will take over management of the Maroon Bells scenic area, following Forest Service budget cuts and staffing cuts.

Montana students learn Indigenous issues — or, at least, they’re supposed to. The state is the only one in the nation with a constitutional mandate to educate students on Native cultures and ...

Every winter night, thousands of crows flock together to sleep in downtown Portland. Their presence is controversial, but one writer finds a surprising kinship with this curious gathering.

In Colorado, one of the country’s most hail-prone states, hail — not wildfire — is the main factor driving up insurance premiums. And researchers expect larger, more damaging hailstones to become more ...

This latest atrocity has Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s fingerprints all over it. From slashing 3 million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments and opening huge ...

Amid a record-breaking year of Western bear conflict, the historically tolerant Red Lodge community is grappling with opposing views on how to live with the species — and if a 'fed bear' really should ...