North Dakota sued the Interior Department at least five times under Gov. Doug Burgum. Now he’s set to run the agency.

Mary Steurer is a reporter based in Bismarck. A native of St. Louis, Steurer most recently worked as the local government reporter for the Casper Star-Tribune newspaper in Wyoming. Sign up to receive ...

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

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 ...

Several years ago, Jade Powell uttered the word “transition” to a county commissioner at a local government meeting in the heart of Utah’s coalfields. The commissioner jumped out of his chair, grabbed ...

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

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

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 ...

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Katie Myers is a writer and audio producer in east Tennessee. She works as a reporter for Grist and Blue Ridge Public Radio. Sign up to receive High Country News ’ email newsletters and get ...

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