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

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

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

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

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

HCN: You’ve written about community benefits agreements — where developers can commit to local hiring, environmental monitoring or long-term funding in exchange for the impacts of their development — ...

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 ...

Dashiell Hammett, a former Pinkerton strikebreaker-turned-writer, modeled the fictional town of Poisonville on Butte, calling it an “ugly city of forty thousand people set in an ugly notch between two ...

People weren’t the only ones fleeing fast-moving flames and hot embers as deadly wildfires burned down entire neighborhoods ...

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

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