High Country News

The Latest: Pumping Arizona's rivers dry?

The state water board gives the go-ahead to a groundwater pumping project that could harm the San Pedro River

by Emily Guerin, May 13, 2013
Calling for a crackdown on polygamous crime

Crimes committed by a fundamentalist sect on the Utah-Arizona border needs to be seriously investigated by both the Mormon Church and those states.

by Ray Ring, Jun 10, 2012
Can solar produce long-lasting jobs?

Constructing solar energy plants provides well-paying jobs, but most of the work is only temporary.

by Judith Lewis Mernit, May 27, 2012
What's the best place for Big Solar?

Environmentalists have been too busy squabbling over proposed solar plants to pay much attention to one of the most promising sites: Gila Bend, Ariz.

by Sarah Gilman, May 27, 2012
Retirees join environmentalists in fighting Arizona copper mine

The conservative, golf-playing retirees of Queen Valley, Ariz., are determined to stop a giant copper mine.

by Kari Lydersen, May 18, 2012
Death of the San Pedro: Not if, but when

Groundwater pumping in the Sierra Vista area may be already reducing water flow to the San Pedro River

by Tony Davis, Aug 30, 2004
Follow-up

Arizona’s San Pedro River dries up; Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility is having trouble disposing of rockets; Bush nominates industry lawyer Granta Nakayama to head EPA’s enforcement division

by Laura Paskus, Jul 25, 2005
Traveling Arizona Highways, in your dreams and on the ground

In 1960, an Illinois mailman falls in love with the desert through the pages of Arizona Highways and hands on his dream -- and a piece of Mohave County --to his son and grandson.

by Tony Fitzpatrick, Mar 29, 2012
Have golf's glory days gone by?

Golf – the game that brought grass to the desert – appears to have hit a rough patch in the West

by Tony Davis, Aug 21, 2006
The wild, wild weather

Whatever the cause, the weather in the West this last year has been wild and wacky

by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Jun 26, 2006