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

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

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

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

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

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

The woman who moved to a ghost town.

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

Drought, dread, and family in the American Southwest.

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

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

A hunt for maple poachers in Western Washington.

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

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