The federal government is rewriting its rules governing ranching on public lands to increase the number of cattle, sheep and other livestock grazing on 155 million acres in the West, an area twice the ...

But while Andrews and thousands of Angelinos were racing to evacuate, other people saw a financial opportunity. Using ...

The largest tidal restoration project in the Sacramento Delta’s history awaits the return of the threatened Delta smelt.

For more than 100 years, salmon had been absent from the Klamath Tribe’s lands — a fact that cut them off from funding ...

A century-old Oregon water law lets one wealthy region turn the desert green while water-starved ag fallows commercial crops.

That was one of the inspirations behind the Western Environmental Reporting Collaborative (WERC), a partnership with the national nonprofit Report for America and local news organizations across the ...

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In small towns across the West, residents are paying hundreds of dollars for a service that others get for free. They say the U.S. Postal Service has ignored their pleas for help.

In California, a long-abused river has been reborn. For decades, humans disrupted its course and restricted its flows to the detriment of its ecosystem, only to lately reverse direction and restore it ...

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