Pitkin County, Colorado, will take over management of the Maroon Bells scenic area, following Forest Service budget cuts and staffing cuts.

Last month, Montana settled with the ACLU, tribal nations, the Native American Rights Fund, students and parents over a lawsuit alleging that it was responsible for certain schools’ and districts’ ...

Jeff Mangan, founder of the Transparent Election Initiative, assembles signs promoting the ballot initiative I-194 in his office in Helena, Montana, this August. Credit: Louise Johns/High Country News ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 story was originally published by Bolts Magazine and is republished here by permission. Mike Pese visited the grave of his mother, Miliama Suli, in Anchorage on Sept. 13, as he has every week ...