Mass federal layoffs the Trump administration has planned can move forward immediately, after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted ...

As tourism season begins, trail crews are facing disruptions in key trail maintenance projects.

Former national park supervisor explains why toilets may be clean this summer, the parks themselves are actually ‘hollowed out.’ ...

Utah used actors, AI, stagecraft and NDAs as it sought to sway public opinion and take control of 18.5 million acres of federal public land. The 1906 Antiquities Act gave presidents the power to ...

Where the mines once provided steady employment, solar energy now offers jobs for the next generation.

Fire destroys and fire creates, according to firefighters-turned-authors River Selby and Kelly Ramsey, who fought wildland fire as hotshots and lived to come out on the other side, irrevocably changed ...

At the fourth annual Hanford Journey, Yakama Nation youth, elders and scientists share stories about a land that is a part of them.

What happened when two experienced hikers got caught in the Bolt Creek Fire.

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A methodology of our two-year inquiry into the origin of wealth that undergirds the nation’s system of higher education.

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