Selling off federal public lands, once a fringe idea, is now gaining traction among Republicans in Congress, the courts and in the White House. President Donald Trump has proposed using the money from ...

At this year’s largest gathering of global Indigenous leaders, activists and policymakers, Borderlands issues are expected to ...

Billions in halted or canceled grants, gutted local offices, market turmoil and broken trust are at stake across the West.

The Trump administration made cuts at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which also halted a study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.

I’m afraid of being stopped, of having my green card canceled for no reason and being sent back to Cuba; of having my undocumented friends deported; of using the real names of the people I’ve ...

Howard Hutchinson, a private property rights activist, leads a coalition that’s quietly organizing a county-level rejection ...

For decades, immigrant communities have used the airwaves to educate and protect themselves in times of crisis.

Bajo la administración Trump, los inmigrantes de todo el oeste temen por su seguridad. High Country News ’ weekly email newsletters keep you up-to-date with our latest news and investigations from ...

Jesús Jank Curbelo, an immigrant from Cuba and freelance journalist, is based in the Southwest. He’s been published in The Texas Observer, El País and Milenio. He also collaborates with Deutsche Welle ...

The rule sought to elevate conservation’s status as a valid public land use, but Trump’s Interior Secretary stressed the importance of balancing development alongside protection.

The Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists, a Tucson nonprofit, made a video about nurse trees — native ones like mesquites, ...