California Forever is determined to try the ballot again in 2026. In the meantime, it’s continuing its community outreach campaign. At the heart of the debate lies the company’s most compelling ...

The corner of a recently logged state trust land parcel is visible on the Flathead Reservation. Credit: Tailyr Irvine / High Country News and Grist This investigation is a collaboration with Grist. On ...

An investigation by High Country News and Grist reveals how public institutions benefit from extractive industries on Indian reservations.

During the final season of Reservation Dogs — an Indigenous coming-of-age show set on the Muscogee Reservation in Oklahoma — ...

Arizona’s state fish is doing well but faces a daunting future.

At Portland, Oregon’s Cathedral Park in 2022, kayakers protest Zenith Energy’s oil terminal operations in the CEI Hub. Credit: Alex Milan Tracy Linnton, Oregon, is never quiet. Freight trains ...

The grizzly ambled down the road toward us, a quarter-mile distant, getting closer with every footfall. We watched warily, still shoveling the snowdrift that engulfed the sole interior road within ...

In the long afternoon of last year’s summer solstice, Ernest Edwin Higbee Jr. pulled a white Chevrolet Tahoe off the main road of Alamo, Nevada, driving past spindly creosote bush and stalky ...

There was a time you could catch tons of salmon in a single day at Kettle Falls, a series of pools cascading into each other on the Columbia River in northern Washington. That was before the U.S ...

The splatters on my windshield were electric yellow. Against the blue of the desert sky, they looked like daytime fireworks that had frozen at their climax. Each collision cut deeper into my soul ...

It’s a funny thing to earn more money than anyone in your family, but to still be out of money all of the time. At 39, I’m still figuring out how to make my money stretch across multiple ...

She was a journalist in Venezuela when dictator Nicolás Maduro rose to power in the 2010s, imprisoning critics and attacking the free press. After she took to the streets to protest, the National ...