High Country News

Rocky Mountain noir

Blair Oliver and Peter Soliunas collaborate on The Long Slide, a hard-boiled thriller set in the Rocky Mountains.

by Nathan Harper, Nov 21, 2010
Living the news, publishing every week

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
Hot times — hot damn

Michelle Nijhuis has just won the 2006 Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism for her series on global warming in the West, which concludes with this issue’s feature story

by Greg Hanscom, Mar 06, 2006
INNOVATE, Part II

Westerners have a knack for new and innovative thinking: Green detective, Healthcare for the hard up, Developing to stop development, Low carbon brews and more.

by Jodi Peterson, Ray Ring, Terray Sylvester, Jonathan Thompson, , Mar 10, 2009
We're Honored

HCN’s Ray Ring wins the 2006 George Polk Award for Political Reporting for his story, “Taking Liberties.”

by John Mecklin, Mar 05, 2007
The best-laid plans

It’s high time Arizona realized it’s a desert, and has to share the Colorado River with six other dry Western states

by Greg Hanscom, Mar 21, 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
Holiday break

High Country News skips an issue; visitors; HCN founder Tom Bell is honored; correction.

by Sarah Gilman, Dec 25, 2011
Stirring the pot

The North Coast Journal has been published in Arcata, Calif., for almost 18 years by Judy Hodgson, a journalist who believes in stirring the pot

by M. John Fayhee, Oct 02, 2006
News from the gas fields

Roughneck is a two-year-old monthly devoted to covering the oil and gas industry in Sublette County, Wyoming

by Ray Ring, Oct 02, 2006