Kylie Mohr is a correspondent for High Country News writing from Montana.

2024 was a banner year for research on wildfire smoke and its impact on health, from brain functioning to fertility.

Emily Wakild is the Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for the Environment and Public Lands at Boise State University in Idaho. She is a historian of social and ecological change in Latin American and the ...

The Department of the Interior was created in 1849 as the United States was rapidly expanding and acquiring territory. It ...

As legislatures convene in the coming weeks, many lawmakers are focusing on a key criminal justice issue for prisons and ...

A pension bill that died in the House last year has been resubmitted and is one of 76 filed in advance of the session so far.

Draft recommendations include boosted marketing, development of new seafood products and more support for workers, among ...

Rural Alaska schools are facing a major funding shortfall this year after Congress failed to reauthorize a bill aimed at ...

Tim Lydon is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, an independent nonprofit dedicated to spurring ...

Tim Lydon of Girdwood writes in a commentary that it seems more people are giving darkness and its benefits a fresh look.

At a forum held by industry groups, legislators said Cook Inlet royalty relief will get a new look in this year's session.

In a previous commentary, I discussed the economic opportunities a robust commuter rail system would bring to Alaska. I stressed how Alaska already has much of the needed infrastructure but that the ...