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LATEST NEWS FROM THE NETWORK
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What a Kamala Harris presidency could mean for the West
July 22, 2024
Harris has prioritized protecting public lands and pursued accountability for polluters, but her track record on tribal affairs is more complex.
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Supreme Court gives cities and towns power to criminalize homelessness
June 28, 2024
The Oregon case has been closely watched by Western cities and states.
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In green energy boom, one federal agency made the Yakama Nation an offer they had to refuse
June 24, 2024
Federal rules and a lack of protection for sacred places left the Indigenous nation with an impossible choice.
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What being a rural election official is like
June 21, 2024
And what’s worrying one expert this November.
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This Montana school solved its teacher shortage by opening a day care
May 28, 2024
On-site day cares are being used as a recruitment tool. Turns out, they help more than just the teachers.
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Can ice climbing bring life to an isolated Colorado town in the dead of winter?
April 18, 2024
Lake City’s ice-climbing park is transforming the local economy.
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Wenatchi-P’squosa people demonstrate against proposed solar project
April 05, 2024
The Badger Mountain development in eastern Washington threatens cultural resources including Indigenous food and sacred sites on the mountain.
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What rural homelessness looks like
March 13, 2024
The lessons learned after spending months embedded with unhoused communities in Oregon.
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The culling of Alaska’s bears and wolves
January 18, 2024
As the state’s wildlife numbers decline, predators are getting the blame. The true threat is much more complex.
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An Alaska Native mutual aid network tackles the climate crisis
January 01, 2024
The Smokehouse Collective invests in “our resilience as Native peoples to persevere in our cultures despite the global impacts we are facing.”
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The New Mexico co-op breaking up with fossil fuels
January 01, 2024
An 80-year-old electricity supplier goes all in on decarbonization. Unlike investor-owned utilities, which are controlled by shareholders, rural distribution co-ops answer to the households and businesses that use the energy.
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The Endangered Species Act’s complicated legacy in Indian Country
December 01, 2023
The landmark law has served as both sword and shield.
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Has Montana solved its housing crisis?
November 20, 2023
A spate of new state laws will spur housing development. Will anyone be able to afford what’s getting built?
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When burn scars become roaring earthen rivers
November 01, 2023
Geologists in Washington are monitoring scorched forest to help create a better warning system for deadly debris flows.
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States opposed tribes’ access to the Colorado River 70 years ago. History is repeating itself.
October 17, 2023
Records shed new light on states’ vocal opposition in the 1950s to tribes claiming their share of the river.
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