The roller coasters at Buffalo Bill’s, a Western fantasy mining resort in Primm, Nevada, shut down last summer. Credit: Krystal Ramirez As far as anyone knew, it was the last Saturday night at the ...

The administration wants to open 3 million acres to mining claims and oil and gas leasing at the expense of the landscape.

Officials are calling the push to remove an oil and gas buffer around the culturally critical monument ‘an absolute gut punch.’ ...

Avangrid withdrew its application from the Washington state permitting process following years of objections and delays.

Claire Thompson works to clear Chikamin Tie, a fire-impacted non-wilderness trail in Washington's Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, by chainsaw. The trail is currently burning again in the Little ...

Alaska Native villages rally to protect their communities from the administration’s ramped up resource development agenda.

Hatch Canyon in San Juan County, Utah, with the Henry Mountains in the background. The canyon is on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management, now at the heart of a lawsuit filed by the state of ...

A section of newly built border wall was mysteriously damaged for months. But it wasn’t until a High Country News reporter asked about the damage that Customs and Border Protection maintained the ...

For now, the state is counting on voluntary cuts among vegetable and pecan farmers. But that might not be enough.

Some wilderness advocates worry that allowing permanent climbing anchors in wilderness will lead to overcrowding. But climbers say the measures simply guarantee their basic safety in wilderness, and ...

Eric Parker from central Idaho aims his weapon from a bridge as protesters gather by the Bureau of Land Management’s base camp near Bunkerville, Nevada, in April 2014. Credit: Jim ...

This story was published in partnership with Public Domain. After allowing fossil fuel, chemical and other industrial sectors to kill migratory birds as long as those deaths are an inadvertent ...