Massive amounts of private money have poured into Montana’s elections for years. In 2020, the Steve Daines-Steve Bullock race for the U.S. Senate became the most expensive in st ...

Voters in the Equality State finally felt the threat to public lands had reached a critical point, observers say.

But as officials with the Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) would discover and document in a lengthy investigative report, Steve Boren started the fires — at least 20 separate ignitions — on land owned ...

A Montana rancher wonders what is lost in her urge to share her Western life online.

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Everything from sand to summer vacations is projected to change in the Grand Canyon as the river’s flows are reduced.

ANNA KERR (SHER/HER) Teton Adaptive program manager, ShelterJH board secretary and GAP (Girls Actively Participating) program lead Jackson Hole, Wyoming ...

Discussions around the Painted Desert Power project, a large-scale solar project, have drawn attention to much broader ...

This story was produced by Public Domain and Fieldnotes and is co-published here by permission. On April 23, 2025, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s aide received a text message from an employee at ...

An art exhibit centers LGBTQ+ magic and spirituality as an useful reminder of how queer people fought oppression and formed community in the past.

The photos in this essay, all taken from 1962 to 1968, reflect a post-World War II confidence that grand infrastructure could tame and re-engineer where “nature” fell short. Big projects were ...