The county was supposed to conduct an annual tally of people experiencing homelessness this month. Then disaster struck.

In 2018, an Indigenous woman identified as C.M. and her 5-year-old son crossed the U.S.-Mexico border near San Luis, Arizona, ...

Dashiell Hammett, a former Pinkerton strikebreaker-turned-writer, modeled the fictional town of Poisonville on Butte, calling it an “ugly city of forty thousand people set in an ugly notch between two ...

HCN: You’ve written about community benefits agreements — where developers can commit to local hiring, environmental monitoring or long-term funding in exchange for the impacts of their development — ...

Some of the jobs roped into the American Climate Corps have funding locked down for much of Trump’s term. Zampaglione’s program, the Forest Corps, has $15 million in funding from the U.S. Forest ...

Key takeaways from our investigation revealing how expensive properties use a system meant to help farmers and ranchers.

Katie Myers is a writer and audio producer in east Tennessee. She works as a reporter for Grist and Blue Ridge Public Radio. Sign up to receive High Country News ’ email newsletters and get ...

When wind-driven embers sent flames ripping through the Los Angeles area on Jan. 7, firefighters and residents began noticing ...

A Los Angeles Fire Department firefighter opens up a hydrant in an effort to put out a burning apartment complex caused by the rapidly spreading Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades neighborhood ...

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The Quivira Mine cleanup is part of the 2014 Tronox settlement, which provided $5.15 billion to clean up contaminated sites across the United States. The settlement allocated $1 billion of those funds ...