Discussions around the Painted Desert Power project, a large-scale solar project, have drawn attention to much broader questions about how renewable energy projects are regulated on the Navajo Nation.

The Pueblo of Sandia urges lawmakers to transfer lands within the T’uf Shur Bien Preservation Area.

Western cattleman are poised to lose almost all opportunity to comment on oil and gas development underneath their property.

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.

The Treaty of Point Elliott bears the signatures of over 80 Indigenous leaders representing more than 20 tribal nations from the Pacific Northwest. Contemporary leaders from some of those nations…

The re-photo project maps what used to be.

Karla Saenz pasó un año luchando por liberar a una mujer lesbiana detenida en Eloy. Luego, el ICE la detuvo y la recluyó en la unidad de hombres del mismo centro. Su historia, en sus propias palabras.

Alaska Native villages rally to protect their communities from the administration’s ramped up resource development agenda.

Deb Haaland has the drive and motivation to fight the federal government on state and tribal sovereignty.

Responding to years-long drought in the west, the federal government is cutting water supply for lower basin states on the Colorado River while allowing voluntary reductions in the upper basin.

The Old Trails Fire burned through the city’s northwest corner — an area considered outside the highest risk zone.

From Monterey Park to New Mexico, Chinese migrants were recruited into remote cannabis grows where silence and jurisdictional gaps sustained abuse.

The Bears Ears Commission had a historic aim: To ensure that tribal nations had a direct role in the management of 1.35 million acres of their ancestral

The Western Environmental Reporting Collaborative launches this month.

A Laguna Pueblo woman is the front runner to be New Mexico’s next governor. Shortly after polls closed Tuesday night, Deb Haaland was declared the winner over Bernalillo County district attorney Sam B...

Federal turnover and policy shifts have forced Indigenous communities to adapt.

As summer rains vanish and dry conditions persist, borderland ranchers worry about their livelihood, culture and identity.

Native American tribes across the West are trying — and in more and more cases succeeding — in getting ancestral lands back.

In 2025, the state of California helped fund at least four initiatives to return land to tribes, adding up to thousands of acres.

A pumped hydro-energy storage facility proposed outside of Goldendale in south-central Washington has taken a major step forward, even though, if

A marriage equality strategy Equality Arizona and ONE Community developed behind the scenes has exposed fractures within the state’s movement toward LGBTQ+ inclusion.

Step away from the churn of day-to-day, season-to-season, election-to-election urgencies.

Indigenous scholar Dina Gilio-Whitaker wants Natives to approach a difficult topic rationally, vulnerably and honestly.

If you’ve seen the phrase time immemorial used repeatedly in Indigenous affairs reporting, there are some compelling reasons why.

The Eaton Fire stripped Altadena of its trees, and for some Black families, of their place in it.

Across the U.S., police officers moonlight in bars, clubs, and private security jobs with little oversight. A CBS News and Howard Center investigation reveals how weak policies allow misconduct, corruption, and threats to public safety to persist.

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The trauma around the Sand Creek Massacre must be recognized by Coloradans for true healing to take place. #opinion

Our top stories from the year that resounded across the West (and beyond).

Scientists are racing to figure out why porcupines are disappearing from their former stomping grounds.

As tribes struggle to protect their heritage, the nation’s leading state archaeologist says she lacks the authority to to stop development projects.

Tribal sovereignty and prosperity are tied to gaming’s sovereign source of income.

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Roughly two-thirds of grazing on Bureau of Land Management land is controlled by just 10% of permit holders.

Western groups lose federal grants for urgent restoration and conservation projects.

An AI server farm tsunami threatens to overwhelm the West’s power grid and water supplies.

After disappointing losses in Alaska and Montana, an Indigenous-led climate case is making strides in New Mexico.

Peek behind the scenes at the challenges and joy of covering Fire in the Mountains.

Scientists are racing to figure out why porcupines are disappearing from their former stomping grounds.

Despite claims nationally that attacks on transgender people didn’t work in the November elections, a recall in Mesa showed how the tactic remains effective in some places where Turning Point has sway...