Alix Soliman is an environmental journalist based in Juneau, Alaska. She previously covered climate science from Washington, D.C., and worked at conservation nonprofits in California and Oregon. @alix ...

The Bozeman location is meant to be an emergency shelter. Other local organizations provide housing for families and domestic violence survivors, but HRDC’s shelter is the sole place where someone ...

Dagger fingernails and polished glass, swirls of blue ink wrapping muscled torsos, tough-guy biceps cradling newborn babes — the images capture quintessential New Mexican culture, one that boldly ...

Gabriela Campos, born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a photojournalist who documents the people and traditions of the Southwest. She’s on staff at the Santa Fe New Mexican, and her work is ...

Don J. Usner is an author and photographer who documents the culture he inherited and his upbringing in the northern New Mexico communities of Embudo, Los Alamos and Chimayó. High Country News ’ ...

Pay for presence’ aims to compensate ranchers for predator-related losses, but Western states might not be able to afford it.

As Western mountain towns struggle with overtourism, Jackson Hole tries out a new plan to mitigate visitors’ impacts.

Around the Colville Reservation, nearly everyone has vivid memories of fire. The blazes’ names — Devil’s Elbow, North Star, Tunk Block, Summit Hill, Cold Springs and Chewah — are recalled and recited ...

Lachlan Hyatt, a New York City-based investigative journalist covering federal politics and international affairs, likes to tell stories about under-reported communities affected by climate change.

Amid the disarray, High Country News set out to chart the first 60 days of this DOGE-induced disorder. We found the kind of bedlam that not only destabilizes the government and demolishes the services ...

But now, the pressure is on for co-ops in Colorado to invest in renewable energy, following passage of state laws starting in 2019 that require utilities to slash their greenhouse gas emissions by 80% ...

Keaton Peters is a freelance journalist based in Austin, Texas, covering climate change and the energy transition. keatonpeters.com BlueSky and X: @keatonpeters High Country News ’ weekly email ...