Armed Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in southeast Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a double border wall, ...

Wildfires across the West have renewed concerns over the fate of water quality in the aftermath. Fire retardants used to slow the spread of a blaze add to the worries.

Her husband spent years working in Carbon County’s namesake coal mines. In this pocket of central Utah, energy and the ...

Steve Edwards, chairman of the Swinomish Tribal Community at Lone Tree Point, on the Swinomish Reservation in Washington. Credit: Jovelle Tamayo The Smokehouse Tidal Marsh project on the Swinomish ...

A trailer parked near the border of Bureau of Land Management and National Forest lands north of Nucla, Colorado. Credit: Luna Anna Archey Colorado’s vote next month on whether to amend the state ...

Some populations of scarlet monkeyflowers can evolve fast enough to save themselves from climate change-induced drought. This is the first time researchers have documented evolutionary “self-rescue” ...

In southwest Washington, urban sprawl from Portland and Seattle-Tacoma merges in Cowlitz country. This is where Jon Shellenberger (enrolled Yakama, Cowlitz and Wintu descent) is trying to protect the ...

The longest-running study on breeding ducks has given Montana state biologists the highest-resolution dataset to aid in the bird’s survival.

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Sixty cats were found on an abandoned 40-foot sailboat anchored off Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, Washington. “It started out as a welfare check,” Officer Shelbie Boyd told KUOW. The Tacoma Police ...

Sometime in late June or early July, in a part of western Wyoming informally called the Golden Triangle, sage grouse start to roam. Moms and chicks relocate from dry, harsh desert to higher, greener ...