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Publications

High Country News

The Nation’s Last Uranium Mill Plans to Import Estonia’s Radioactive Waste

Utah says the White Mesa Mill isn’t contaminating groundwater, but its neighbor, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, disagrees.

Jessica Douglas High Country News Nov 2021 20min Permalink

Politics Health

When Public Health Becomes the Public Enemy

In the West, organized extremists are driving community health officials out of their jobs.

Jane C. Hu High Country News Sep 2021 25min Permalink

How Yellowcake Shaped the West

The ghosts of the uranium boom continue to haunt the land, water, and people.

Jonathan Thompson High Country News Jul 2021 15min Permalink

Politics

How a Trail in Rural Oregon Became a Target of Far-Right Extremism

To understand the state’s urban-rural divide, start by looking at Yamhill County’s proposed walking trail.

Leah Sottile High Country News Jul 2021 25min Permalink

Politics

The 'Slow-Motion Genocide' of the Chinook Indian Nation

Federal recognition provides tribes with critical healthcare and education. What happens to the tribal nations that the U.S. refuses to recognize?

Anna V. Smith High Country News Apr 2021 20min Permalink

Best Article History

Land-Grab Universities

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

Robert Lee, Tristan Ahtone High Country News Apr 2020 25min Permalink

Crime

Did James Plymell Need to Die?

How homelessness is criminalized in small cities and towns across the West.

Leah Sottile High Country News Mar 2021 25min Permalink

Politics Health

The Fight for an Equitable Energy Economy for the Navajo Nation

Diné activist Nicole Horseherder’s long quest for equity from the rise and fall of the coal economy.

Jessica Kutz High Country News Feb 2021 15min Permalink

World

Extreme Heat Is Here, And It’s Deadly

Gearing up for the fight against a new climate enemy.

Jessica Kutz High Country News Sep 2020 20min Permalink

Unraveling the Mystery of a Stolen Ceremonial Shield

How a sacred object from the Pueblo of Acoma turned up at a Paris auction house, and how the tribe fought for its return.

Elena Saavedra Buckley High Country News Aug 2020 30min Permalink

Science

The Mystery of Mountain Lions

Despite decades of research, myth and fear still surround the animals.

Sarah Gilman High Country News Mar 2020 15min Permalink

Politics

One Woman Took a Stand Against Tribal Disenrollment and Paid for It

How a burglary, social media and politics led to a Nooksack Tribal Councilwoman being bullied out of office.

Jane C. Hu High Country News Feb 2020 20min Permalink

Crime Science

‘None of This Happened the Way You Think It Did’

For years, the clients of a Colorado funeral home kept their loved ones’ cremated remains. Then the FBI called.

Elena Saavedra Buckley High Country News Jun 2019 25min Permalink

Science

How a Tiny Endangered Species Put a Man in Prison

How a night of drunken mischief led to the death of a rare endangered fish and a rare prosecution.

Paige Blankenbuehler High Country News Apr 2019 20min Permalink

Politics Religion

The Darkness at the Heart of Malheur

On the conspiracy-theorist occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and how they’re fighting against their own best interests.

Hal Herring High Country News Mar 2016 20min Permalink

Travel

The Pioneer of Ruin

The woman who moved to a ghost town.

Sarah Gilman High Country News Sep 2018 20min Permalink

Politics

Conspiracy Theories Inspire Vigilante Justice in Tucson

How one man’s imagined discovery of a sex-trafficking camp in the Sonoran Desert gained life online — and in the real world.

Tay Wiles High Country News Sep 2018 15min Permalink

Science

What Are We Doing Here?

Drought, dread, and family in the American Southwest.

Cally Carswell High Country News Aug 2018 20min Permalink

A Tale of Two Housing Crises

A Native American family’s fight for housing security in the city and on the reservation.

Julian Brave NoiseCat High Country News Feb 2018 20min Permalink

Food

The Teenage Whaler's Tale

Internet death threats hound a young Alaskan after a successful hunt.

Julia O'Malley High Country News Jul 2017 10min Permalink

Crime Science

Busting the Tree Ring

A hunt for maple poachers in Western Washington.

Ben Goldfarb High Country News May 2017 20min Permalink

Crime Media

Charles Bowden’s Fury

The lingering psychological effects of being one of the greatest crime reporters of all time.

Scott Carrier High Country News Oct 2014 20min Permalink

Science

Still Cranish After All These Years

A writer struggles to understand, among other things, why humans do more for whooping cranes than for themselves.

George Sibley High Country News Sep 2010 10min Permalink