Paul Kiefer is a freelance journalist and was born and raised in Washington. He has covered homelessness among poultry workers in rural Delaware, addiction medicine and incarceration in the Pacific ...

If you have climbed a peak or hiked in a golden aspen forest, paddled a protected river or visited a cultural site on any of the hundreds of millions of acres of public national forest land, there’s a ...

A program that pays rice farmers to create wetland habitats is a rare conservation win.

From climate and public lands to shifting political allegiances, the region faces critical choices at the ballot box.

This year marks the centennial of the Indian Citizenship Act, which theoretically gave Native people the right to vote in U.S ...

Note: All visuals by Evan Benally Atwood. Story and voiceover by B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster. It’s mid-September, when Portland transitions from cutoff T-shirt season to cozy hoodie weather. The nights are ...

En un vecindario mayoritariamente latino de Las Vegas, Nevada, un hombre que se veía agotado por un día de trabajo se bajó de ...

The reservoirs were under threat, and had been for decades.

Across the country, Latinos occupy an increasingly sought-after position of influence in the election: swing voters in swing states. In total, an estimated 17.5 million Latinos are expected to ...

This month, we look at the upcoming elections from a Western viewpoint. Some Latino organizers in Washington are working on ...

“Resiliency is traditionally defined as the ability to recover from some manner of ecological disturbance in some time frame. But that’s not what ecosystems do,” Kaufmann says. “Say a forest fire ...

One of the things Ka-Voka Jackson, the Cultural Resources director of the Hualapai Nation, most appreciates about Ha’Kamwe’ is its peacefulness. Located on a former ranch in western Arizona ...