The largest tidal restoration project in the Sacramento Delta’s history awaits the return of the threatened Delta smelt.

But while Andrews and thousands of Angelinos were racing to evacuate, other people saw a financial opportunity. Using ...

A century-old Oregon water law lets one wealthy region turn the desert green while water-starved ag fallows commercial crops.

For more than 100 years, salmon had been absent from the Klamath Tribe’s lands — a fact that cut them off from funding ...

That was one of the inspirations behind the Western Environmental Reporting Collaborative (WERC), a partnership with the national nonprofit Report for America and local news organizations across the ...

Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada is one of the most remote and least visited of our national parks, with Wheeler Peak as its central feature at 13,063 feet. On the mountain’s flanks are ...

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Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection (Beacon Press), presents communal living as a practical remedy for affordability issues, familial strife, and loneliness.

In small towns across the West, residents are paying hundreds of dollars for a service that others get for free. They say the U.S. Postal Service has ignored their pleas for help.

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is republished here through a partnership with Climate Desk. The record-breaking heatwave scorching the West this week would have been ...

This article appeared in the June 2026 print edition of the magazine with the headline “#IAMTHEWEST.” ...

Students from Heritage University and Northwest Indian College spent 10 weeks this summer gathering data about the spotted wing drosophila on the Yakama Nation Reservation and in Gifford Pinchot ...