More than 2,000 employees could be cut from the Department of Interior during the ongoing federal government shutdown if the ...

I know we’ve talked about fluoride a few times,” Perales said. “If we can just bring forward a vote in the next couple weeks to just remove it from our water without getting any staff presentation, or ...

The Border Lands Conservation Act gives the Department of Homeland Security the power to waive myriad federal laws, including the Wilderness Act, under the pretense of border security.

Katherine Hempstead, a senior policy adviser at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, said that made an especially big ...

Native to northeastern Asia, the emerald ash borer (EAB) was first found in the United States in Michigan in the early 2000s, ...

At 16, he accepted an invitation from legendary choreographer George Balanchine to join the New York City Ballet. Four years ...

In the weeks leading up to the shutdown, tribal nations hefted their political and economic capital to protect services for ...

The rural West’s increasing health care costs haunt the shutdown ...

This California county has some of the nation’s strictest protections for agricultural land, but developers are using a new exemption to house people who work the land.

I learned that the Chinese comprised nearly a quarter of Montana’s population in the late 19th century. They lived and worked in nearly every town across the state, from the most remote mining camps, ...

And it’s true, in the West, cities sprawl out across deserts and prairies with only mountains to fence them in. My hometown was ringed with sagebrush and open prairie. There are no city skyscrapers ...

This article appeared in the October 2025 print edition of the magazine with the headline “A season of grizzlies and get-togethers.” ...