Today, the story of Flannery Associates, a subsidiary of California Forever, the real estate corporation behind those land purchases, is well-known in the region. Backed by powerful Silicon Valley ...

An investigation by High Country News and Grist reveals how public institutions benefit from extractive industries on Indian reservations.

The corner of a recently logged state trust land parcel is visible on the Flathead Reservation. Credit: Tailyr Irvine / High Country News and Grist This investigation is a collaboration with Grist. On ...

Arizona’s state fish is doing well but faces a daunting future.

During the final season of Reservation Dogs — an Indigenous coming-of-age show set on the Muscogee Reservation in Oklahoma — ...

‘City,’ a massive outdoor sculpture in Nevada, took Michael Heizer 50 years to make. Today, it is met with a mixture of scrutiny and awe.

As oil and gas operations at Portland’s CEI Hub grow, so do the chances of a catastrophic spill.

Anthony J. Wallace is a journalist from Phoenix, Arizona, who has reported on the Venezuelan diaspora across Latin America and the U.S. His writing and audio documentary work has been published by the ...

Where they remain, western bumblebees — or females, at least — are easy to identify: They’re the only bumble in the West with a distinctively fuzzy white rump. Males and females both forage, but only ...

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