People weren’t the only ones fleeing fast-moving flames and hot embers as deadly wildfires burned down entire neighborhoods in Los Angeles beginning on Tuesday night and ongoing as of publication.

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Amid California’s deadly fires, here are 10 High Country News stories to help you bring context to wildland blazes.

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

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

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

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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Amy Gamerman’s new book examines attempts to block the energy transition in Montana’s Crazy Mountains.