Barnard Construction’s leadership donated over $1 million to the president’s campaign. They’re among the administration’s top ...

Dozens of cities in the Mountain West region elected socialists in the early 1900s. The economic conditions that led to their ascendance, their legacy of municipal improvement, and their ultimate ...

Megadrought on the Colorado River has put the dam in a precarious position.

Jeff Guay is a writer and college literature instructor in southwest Montana.

As climate change makes fires and floods more intense and common in the West, voluntary buyouts offer communities one possible path forward — moving people out of danger and creating new public land.

On June 16, the feds will open Colorado’s biggest public land sale in modern history, threatening wildlife and recreation.

Utah has become the latest front in a high-stakes fight to build the infrastructure powering the A.I. boom. This story was originally published b y Slate and is republished here through a partnership ...

A firefighter moves hazard fuel while working on the Bear Gulch Fire this summer. Many in the wildland fire community believe the leadership team managing the fire sent crews into an ambush by federal ...

This article appeared in the June 2026 print edition of the magazine with the headline “Enough to go around.” ...