The 1922 Colorado River Compact divided the river into an Upper and Lower Basin and became part of the collection of laws, legal agreements and court decisions known as the Law of the River. Tribal ...

Pam Houston is the author of two novels, two short story collections and three books of nonfiction. She lives in Colorado and teaches at UC Davis and the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her latest ...

Being retired, he did not receive the now-famous “fork in the road” email, in which lifelong public servants were asked to give up their jobs or risk being fired, but it hurt him, I know, to think ...

So, let’s consider last year as a whole. In 2025, natural gas still led the energy mix in the West, providing 31% of the 11 states’ total generation, followed by hydropower at 20%. Solar came in a ...

The Interior Department will soon publish a ‘categorical exclusion’ that will rubber stamp oil and gas development in Alaska’s remote National Petroleum Reserve.

When it came to finding a cover image for August’s special issue on Conversations, we always knew that depicting the complexities of communication was going to be challenging. Fortunately, former ...

Standing Rock increased division in North Dakota between Indigenous communities and nearby non-Indigenous communities. Propaganda made it worse.

Climate disasters are on the rise in New Mexico and revenues from the state’s biggest polluter are helping to foot the bill.

Dave Fosdeck climbs a hill of dirt surrounding an excavation at the site of a Chuza tank battery outside Farmington, New Mexico, in June. The orange staining in the hole is the result of years of ...

Manufactured homes are still in disarray in a part of Ruidoso, New Mexico, that experienced extensive damage during flash flooding last year. Credit: Paul Ratje/High Country News Lindsay Sexton and ...

Climate change is disrupting the symbiotic relationships between plants and fungi in subalpine meadows, offering a warning for how different a warming world could look and function.