Elizabeth Endicott is an award-winning writer and multidisciplinary artist based in Denver, Colorado. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific ...

In her new book, Michelle Gurule reveals her experience as a sugar baby and just how little has changed about the industry in the last century.

As climate change brings more extreme heat and cold, spikes in power demand will increasingly strain the grid. Sharing ...

It’s been 20 years since Laura Paskus worked at High Country News, first as an intern and later as a staff writer and editor. “I still find meaning in the work,” said Paskus, who has covered the ...

The Trump administration’s plans would remake the agency and public lands. The deadline to comment is Sept. 30.

In late August, Washington Commissioner of Public Lands Dave Upthegrove shifted the balance a little more toward conservation: He announced that the state would conserve 77,000 additional acres of its ...

Every fall and winter, elk meander their way down from Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene Mountains and congregate in the Silver Valley ...

This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent, nonprofit news organization, and is part of a special project on Food and Power in the West.

Everyone had a job. The men and boys drove the boats upriver to dip the nets in the river and seine. The women waited. Never wondering. There were always enough. The salmon that filled the boats when ...

After oil companies go bust, the state is left paying to clean up abandoned wells, tanks, machinery and sludge pits.

The wolf was noshing on a carcass near the road when a German shepherd leaped out of a passing car and took off after it. Lyons’ photos show the dog chasing the wolf down the road while a different ...

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