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 ...

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 ...

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

The photos in this essay, all taken from 1962 to 1968, reflect a post-World War II confidence that grand infrastructure could tame and re-engineer where “nature” fell short. Big projects were ...

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

A trust land timber sale parcel in southwestern Washington, near the headwaters of the Willapa River. Credit: Courtesy of Joshua Wright The more than 40 million acres of state trust lands across the ...

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 ...

But as officials with the Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) would discover and document in a lengthy investigative report, Steve Boren started the fires — at least 20 separate ignitions — on land owned ...

Utility workers help clear obstacles at a burned home during the Old Trails Fire in Spokane, Washington, on August 4, 2026. Credit: Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images All it took was an ember, then ...