On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cities and municipalities can punish people for sleeping outside, even when they ...

The Chevron decision is a victory for business interests and conservative legal groups, which have fought federal government ...

Federal rules and a lack of protection for sacred places left the Indigenous nation with an impossible choice.

Six years ago, Colorado began the lengthy process of revising its financial rules for companies that drill for oil and gas. Today, those new rules are active, making Colorado one of the first states ...

When I started reporting this story, I intended to ask several rural election officials about their work: how they got into ...

Welcome to the Landline, a monthly newsletter from High Country News about land, water, wildlife, climate and conservation in the Western United States. Sign up to get it in your inbox. In 2018, ...

Maria Handley is the executive director of The Wilderness Society Action Fund. Opinion: The Biden administration has made progress protecting lands that belong to all Americans. But there’s more to be ...

Protection of these rights to the commons was enshrined in law in 1217, in the Magna Carta’s companion document, the Charter of the Forest. “Enclosure” is a softer way of saying “theft,” but theft is ...

Since the passage of the Mineral Leasing Act 103 years ago, vast amounts of U.S. public land have been managed to maximize resource extraction. But times are changing. As a nation and a planet, we are ...

The rule offers further pathways for tribes to proactively protect certain public lands.

An uncollared female pronghorn near the fencing at the San Juan Solar project. Pronghorn have trouble jumping over fences and other barriers, making it hard for them to cope as their habitat shrinks.