Utah used actors, AI, stagecraft and NDAs as it sought to sway public opinion and take control of 18.5 million acres of ...

The plan to remove four hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River Basin that blocks the free flow of salmon was canceled.

The majority of public land is too fire prone and far away from communities to even make sense for housing, research shows.

New Mexico’s legislators are eager to repurpose “produced water,” but environmental organizations say that there is no safe ...

Days after the workplace immigration raids that first sparked protests in Los Angeles, families still had no contact with relatives in detention.

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.” ...

This article was produced in partnership with New Mexico In Depth, a local nonprofit newsroom. The cliff fendlerbush’s blooms offered countless nibbles for one hungry young deer. Its mother ...

This year, the 2025 Sundance Institute Native Lab was held at the Picuris Pueblo-owned Hotel Santa Fe in Santa Fe, where the Native Lab relocated in 2015. Indigenous program director Adam Piron (Kiowa ...

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The 8-0 decision overturned the U.S. Court of Appeals decision that the project’s environmental impact statement was insufficient.