Utah says the White Mesa Mill isn’t contaminating groundwater, but its neighbor, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, disagrees.

In the West, organized extremists are driving community health officials out of their jobs.

The ghosts of the uranium boom continue to haunt the land, water, and people.

To understand the state’s urban-rural divide, start by looking at Yamhill County’s proposed walking trail.

Federal recognition provides tribes with critical healthcare and education. What happens to the tribal nations that the U.S. refuses to recognize?

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

How homelessness is criminalized in small cities and towns across the West.

Diné activist Nicole Horseherder’s long quest for equity from the rise and fall of the coal economy.

Gearing up for the fight against a new climate enemy.

How a sacred object from the Pueblo of Acoma turned up at a Paris auction house, and how the tribe fought for its return.

Despite decades of research, myth and fear still surround the animals.

How a burglary, social media and politics led to a Nooksack Tribal Councilwoman being bullied out of office.

For years, the clients of a Colorado funeral home kept their loved ones’ cremated remains. Then the FBI called.

How a night of drunken mischief led to the death of a rare endangered fish and a rare prosecution.

On the conspiracy-theorist occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and how they’re fighting against their own best interests.

The woman who moved to a ghost town.

How one man’s imagined discovery of a sex-trafficking camp in the Sonoran Desert gained life online — and in the real world.

Drought, dread, and family in the American Southwest.

A Native American family’s fight for housing security in the city and on the reservation.

Internet death threats hound a young Alaskan after a successful hunt.

A hunt for maple poachers in Western Washington.

The lingering psychological effects of being one of the greatest crime reporters of all time.

A writer struggles to understand, among other things, why humans do more for whooping cranes than for themselves.