Over in Colorado, ski patrollers from Eldora and Loveland resorts demonstrated outside Vail’s headquarters in Broomfield, ...

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High Country News sat down with Stone-Manning in Missoula, Montana, in early January to ask about housing development on federal lands and industry’s role in the renewable energy boom. We also ...

Properties classified ‘agricultural’ get a tax break despite no bona fide operations. Can lawmakers’ new proposals tighten qualifications?

They’re among the region’s most despised species, but some tribes, researchers and landowners are racing to save them.

Workers are pushing for improved training and safety standards to help avoid falls, electrocution and equipment failure.

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Using detailed, vernacular sentences that hew closely to her characters’ perspectives, The Crazies unravels a NIMBY phenomenon that is happening across the West as the U.S. pushes to decarbonize, ...

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