New Mexico’s legislators are eager to repurpose “produced water,” but environmental organizations say that there is no safe way to do that.

Scientists describe how they’re preparing for the upcoming field season despite the challenges. High Country News ’ weekly ...

Some people stuck at the U.S.-Mexico border are forced to risk their lives attempting to cross the desert. High Country News ...

Data show that rural, tribal and Western stations would be the most impacted by Trump’s attempt to cut CPB funding.

Thirty-seven wolves died in Washington in 2024, including four killed for preying on livestock, one by a cougar, one dying ...

This year, the 2025 Sundance Institute Native Lab was held at the Picuris Pueblo-owned Hotel Santa Fe in Santa Fe, where the Native Lab relocated in 2015. Indigenous program director Adam Piron (Kiowa ...

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Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’ ‘Blue Dog’ strategy of appealing to working-class rural moderates won her a long-held Republican district.

Anfield first submitted its proposed operating plan in April 2024. The BLM initially found that both the plan and a follow-up application were deficient, and the mine’s progress was halted. But under ...

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about, what with truck nuts and all, another threat arises, this time from an “Albuquerque man caught smuggling meat across the border — again,” Albuquerque ...

Cal Solar has been installing panels on homes and businesses in Grass Valley and surrounding Nevada County for the past 25 years. In 2019, it became a worker-owned cooperative, and Ortegren went from ...