South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who was banned from nine tribal reservations, will oversee policies uniquely important to ...

Several years ago, Jade Powell uttered the word “transition” to a county commissioner at a local government meeting in the ...

HCN: It sounds like a lot of the same groups who fight the impacts of fossil fuels are now advocating for more of a voice in ...

To reimagine our relationship with wildfire, we must recognize the real value of federal wildland firefighters — and ...

Some of the jobs roped into the American Climate Corps have funding locked down for much of Trump’s term. Zampaglione’s ...

The county was supposed to conduct an annual tally of people experiencing homelessness this month. Then disaster struck.

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American writer and photographer, and one of six inaugural Murrow News Fellows placed in local newsrooms around Washington state. Prior to becoming a journalist, Riley fought wildfires with the ...

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Key takeaways from our investigation revealing how expensive properties use a system meant to help farmers and ranchers.

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The Quivira Mine cleanup is part of the 2014 Tronox settlement, which provided $5.15 billion to clean up contaminated sites across the United States. The settlement allocated $1 billion of those funds ...