A Diné writer confronts how to offer a hand from far away as tragedy strikes on the Navajo Nation. It was the last day of June and the first day of the new work week when an emergency showed up on my ...

Reclaiming Chinese culture through cultivation.

Climate change is creating a mental health crisis in Phoenix. A budding movement in the desert might solve it.

As the Western leaders left the Eldorado, they were hit by monsoon rains, which flooded the historic Santa Fe Plaza and ...

Today, Adobe Manor has 16 renovated units for families and individual renters. Adobe Manor offers Section 8 affordable housing, and Chavez rents some of the units to Catholic Charities, a nonprofit ...

Tourist-tossing season is officially underway at Yellowstone National Park, commencing with a resident bison versus a 47-year-old Cape Coral, Florida, man on May 4 in the Lake Village area of the park ...

Senate Republicans’ proposed legislation to sell off public lands could have unique impacts on tribal nations.

Time and travel are the biggest barriers. Bourne’s a Fallon Paiute-Shoshone member, but he lives in Lovelock, so seeing a ...

IN THE HOT SUMMER months in the Mountain West, from July into late summer, the hard winters pay off. You can almost forget that spring is short, and the growing season is over so quickly. You can ...

The result is a patchwork of laws protecting the nation’s wetlands. But if more Western states were to emulate their neighbors’ efforts and take action, millions of acres of wetlands could be saved, ...

Scientists in the United States tend to avoid activism; many fear that wading into politics will undermine their work and compromise their independence. Others worry that engaging in protest or ...

The article “ The true cost of wolves ” (May 2025) is a departure from HCN ’s quality journalism. No credible evidence supports the claim that wolves’ mere presence negatively impacts cattle.