Amid a record-breaking year of Western bear conflict, the historically tolerant Red Lodge community is grappling with opposing views on how to live with the species — and if a 'fed bear' really should ...

Massive amounts of private money have poured into Montana’s elections for years. In 2020, the Steve Daines-Steve Bullock race ...

Alaska officials accused American Samoans caught in a unique legal limbo of illegally voting but finally dropped those charges this month.

Voters in the Equality State finally felt the threat to public lands had reached a critical point, observers say.

The photos in this essay, all taken from 1962 to 1968, reflect a post-World War II confidence that grand infrastructure could tame and re-engineer where “nature” fell short. Big projects were ...

A trust land timber sale parcel in southwestern Washington, near the headwaters of the Willapa River. Credit: Courtesy of Joshua Wright The more than 40 million acres of state trust lands across the ...

Everything from sand to summer vacations is projected to change in the Grand Canyon as the river’s flows are reduced.

This story was produced by Public Domain and Fieldnotes and is co-published here by permission. On April 23, 2025, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s aide received a text message from an employee at ...

But as officials with the Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) would discover and document in a lengthy investigative report, Steve Boren started the fires — at least 20 separate ignitions — on land owned ...

Utility workers help clear obstacles at a burned home during the Old Trails Fire in Spokane, Washington, on August 4, 2026. Credit: Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images All it took was an ember, then ...