High Country News

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Across the nation, small, understaffed newspapers like Washington's Methow Valley News work to bring local news to their rural readers.

by Don Nelson, Oct 27, 2011
Don’t write off this story yet

The Salton Sea might appear to be dying, but like many another story in the West, it isn’t over with yet.

by Paul Larmer, Mar 03, 2008
A lonely crusade

A Wyoming farmer's long struggle to find out what's polluting his water gets the attention of the EPA - and inspires reporter Abrahm Lustgarten of ProPublica.

by Ray Ring, Jun 26, 2011
Goodbye, Rocky Mountain News; hello, Mrs. Li

Former Rocky Mountain News employees meet to lament -- and celebrate -- how their lives have changed since Colorado's oldest newspaper folded a year ago.

by Dean Krakel, May 06, 2010
The view from above

High Country News prides itself on keeping close to the ground, but for this special issue, we look at the energy boom in the West from a global perspective

by Greg Hanscom, Dec 12, 2005
A return to the West

HCN reader Mary Jane Skala regards the buyout that ended her journalism career as a blessing in disguise that gave her the freedom to travel across the West.

by Ariana Brocious, Dec 06, 2009
Global climate change: We need to talk about it

It's hard for journalists to talk about climate change, but they need to keep telling the story, especially when writing about natural disasters.

by Allen Best, Jul 25, 2012
Dear friends

Dave Foreman on "Nature’s Crisis" and what HCN is doing wrong; kids these days; visitors; clarifications

by Greg Hanscom, Apr 18, 2005
Dear friends

High Country News is now in full-color; Jacqui Banaszynski and Don Nelson give HCN some editorial advice

by Greg Hanscom, Aug 08, 2005
Obama message control blocks journalists covering the environment

The Obama administration makes it harder for its environmental message to be heard when it sets up roadblocks to information and blocks media access.

by Judith Lewis Mernit, Oct 23, 2011