Convention dictates that we stay busy and hurl ourselves headlong toward the future, but there is good reason to press pause now and then.

To better understand the on-the-ground impacts, High Country News reporters and editors spoke with the leaders of intertribal coalitions, commissions and Native-run community organizations across the ...

For the last 25 years, 58 million acres of American forest have had no new roads, no logging equipment, and no reason to appear on anyone’s industrial map. This year that is changing — and much faster ...

Not all the West’s fire- and death-defying stunts involve tortoises: A human being was caught on police drone footage juggling flaming torches while balancing on a unicycle and impeding traffic near ...