In Doña Ana County, New Mexico, residents have long struggled to access clean water. Now, developers plan to spend $165 billion on a massive data center complex.

The Chinese immigrants who built the Transcontinental Railroad quietly endured racism and violence, fostering a complicated legacy for Chinese-Americans.

Paisley Rekdal directs the American West Center at the University of Utah, and is the author of West: A Translation. The Chinese immigrants who built the Transcontinental Railroad quietly endured ...

Tech is facilitating land access in new, and sometimes fraught, ways. You can use smartphone apps to vacuum your home, order a meal and track your sleep. Now, you can also get access to private or ...

We were producing to just barely feed ourselves. And now that commerce has been globalized, big companies are taking over ...

The Rio Grande’s flow, when it exists, is not nearly enough to supply the Mesilla Valley’s commercial farmers. To make up for the surface water deficit, pecan (and alfalfa) growers pump groundwater at ...

And British Columbia’s premier, David Eby, threatened to place tolls on commercial trucks traveling from the U.S. through B.C. to Alaska along the Alaska Highway. Doing so would further increase the ...

Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.

Consolidation, shifting politics, water rights and the myth of the cowboy all play into the region’s ability to feed itself.

In this special issue, HCN partners with the Food & Environment Reporting Network to untangle the web of food production in the Western U.S., tracing it from the people who raise our food — the ...

Narsiso Martinez (b. 1977, Oaxaca, Mexico) came to the United States when he was 20 years old. His work, which is drawn from his own experience as a farmworker, focuses on the people who perform the ...