There is black gold beneath the rugged hills of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in southern Montana: millions of tons of coal that remains untouched. Despite poverty and unemployment hovering ...

In the mid-2000s, seven states, the federal government and Mexico negotiated critical rules for the Colorado River that established how to divvy up its water in a severe drought like it is now facing.

ARLINGTON — Hindered by habitat degradation, overfishing and pollution, salmon populations along the West Coast have been in decline for decades. Even if a salmon makes it to adulthood, surviving a ...

In the last year, the Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians – Kizh Nation has worked to protect its cultural sites from more than 850 land development projects around the Los Angeles Basin, thanks to a ...

TULALIP, Snohomish County — Washington tribes on Monday joined with First Nations peoples in Canada in a declaration calling for a shutdown of Atlantic salmon net-pen farming along the West Coast of ...