High Country News

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
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
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
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
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
Zine Roundup: Sweet simplicity

Since 1992, Dan Price has been publishing a hand-drawn, illustrated zine called Moonlight Chronicles from his tiny, hobbit-style home in a meadow in Joseph, Ore.

by Rebecca Clarren, Oct 02, 2006
Undaunted muckraker

Navajo Times reporter Marley Shebala is a fiercely determined journalist whose investigative reporting has helped bring down two tribal presidents

by Dan Kraker, Oct 02, 2006
Homegrown news: Money can't buy it

In an introduction to this special issue celebrating independent media, High Country News associate editor Jonathan Thompson recalls the exciting, exhausting, high-caffeine years he spent publishing his own newspaper in a small mountain town

by Jonathan Thompson, 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
A paper with bite

The Taos Horse Fly, with its biting journalism, does its best to live up to its name

by M. John Fayhee, Oct 02, 2006