Alaska Native tribes and activists will use previous momentum to try and keep a road from being built through caribou ...

Western states were using funds from the Infrastructure Act to clean up pollution left behind by industry. Now, the Trump ...

The author of ‘By the Fire We Carry’ notes the nation’s power of empire while looking to history to frame our present.

The legacy and words left by the committed and compassionate politician carry forward with public servants across the world.

Pedro Calderon-Dominguez’s daily work requires calm, quiet, and patience.

And yet, in just its first 60 days, the second Trump administration has managed to outdo them all, launching an unmitigated assault on democracy, the rule of law, public lands, the federal government ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, although battered by Trump administration attempts to impose massive staff and budget cuts on the agency, nevertheless continues to publish ...

A federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor of four hunters who faced civil trespassing charges for violating airspace above private land they never touched.

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