I toss the corn pollen at my feet, just as my relatives have done before me and like everyone who comes after me will do. We have done this since, well, forever. Along the corn pollen trail, I met Deb ...

This article appeared in the August 2026 print edition of the magazine with the headline “Reporting on the West is a team effort.” ...

Naturalist Audrey Benedict has been a High Country News supporter for over 35 years and a major donor for more than a decade. We want to thank her for her unwavering commitment to HCN’s independent ...

Este artículo también está disponible en español. The first time Rosa saw snowflakes falling, she thought they were pieces of cotton. “I thought I was going to choke,” she told me. Rosa, who is from ...

Officials are calling the push to remove an oil and gas buffer around the culturally critical monument ‘an absolute gut punch.’ ...

Avangrid withdrew its application from the Washington state permitting process following years of objections and delays.

Alaska Native villages rally to protect their communities from the administration’s ramped up resource development agenda.

Some wilderness advocates worry that allowing permanent climbing anchors in wilderness will lead to overcrowding. But climbers say the measures simply guarantee their basic safety in wilderness, and ...

A section of newly built border wall was mysteriously damaged for months. But it wasn’t until a High Country News reporter asked about the damage that Customs and Border Protection maintained the ...

The administration wants to open 3 million acres to mining claims and oil and gas leasing at the expense of the landscape.

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The roller coasters at Buffalo Bill’s, a Western fantasy mining resort in Primm, Nevada, shut down last summer. Credit: Krystal Ramirez As far as anyone knew, it was the last Saturday night at the ...