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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Voters in the Equality State finally felt the threat to public lands had reached a critical point, observers say.

Alaska officials accused American Samoans caught in a unique legal limbo of illegally voting but finally dropped those charges this month.

Massive amounts of private money have poured into Montana’s elections for years. In 2020, the Steve Daines-Steve Bullock race ...

Everything from sand to summer vacations is projected to change in the Grand Canyon as the river’s flows are reduced.

This story was originally published by Grist and is republished here through a partnership with Climate Desk. Nevada officials have long presented themselves as a voice for compromise and conservation ...

This story was produced by Public Domain and Fieldnotes and is co-published here by permission. On April 23, 2025, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s aide received a text message from an employee at ...