The 1906 Antiquities Act gave presidents the power to protect objects on public lands. A Justice Dept. memo said the Act also ”carries with it the power to revoke.” ...

A Diné writer confronts how to offer a hand from far away as tragedy strikes on the Navajo Nation. It was the last day of June and the first day of the new work week when an emergency showed up on my ...

Climate change is creating a mental health crisis in Phoenix. A budding movement in the desert might solve it.

As the Western leaders left the Eldorado, they were hit by monsoon rains, which flooded the historic Santa Fe Plaza and ...

Today, Adobe Manor has 16 renovated units for families and individual renters. Adobe Manor offers Section 8 affordable housing, and Chavez rents some of the units to Catholic Charities, a nonprofit ...

Natalie Behring is a photojournalist in Victor, Idaho . Her reporting is focused on covering the rural American West.

The HCN staff has been out connecting with readers and making new friends around the region as spring melts into summer.

IN THE HOT SUMMER months in the Mountain West, from July into late summer, the hard winters pay off. You can almost forget that spring is short, and the growing season is over so quickly. You can ...

Reclaiming Chinese culture through cultivation.

Senate Republicans’ proposed legislation to sell off public lands could have unique impacts on tribal nations.

Time and travel are the biggest barriers. Bourne’s a Fallon Paiute-Shoshone member, but he lives in Lovelock, so seeing a ...

Over 3 million acres of public land could be sold in the next five years, after Senate Republicans on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee reintroduced land sales into the party’s major ...