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  • Excellence

    The Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources presented the first Wallace Stegner Awards in September to nine Western newspapers for excellence

    by Ray Ring, Oct 13, 2003
  • Goodbye, Rocky Mountain News; hello, Mrs. Li

    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

  • HCN says farewell to an old friend

    Herman Warsh, a beloved former HCN board member and longtime supporter of the paper, is dead

    by Ed Marston, May 15, 2006

  • HCN's secret past

    High Country News reveals its odd historical connection with the West’s uranium obsession of the 1950s

    by Paul Larmer, Sep 04, 2006

  • Heard around the West

    Top-secret lab has a secret squatter; turtle-helpers in Boulder; the news and the Good News in Colorado Springs; child in pinata; kids write to Santa in Jackson, Wyo.

    by Betsy Marston, Jan 24, 2005

  • One good example: The publisher

    A.L. "Butch" Alford of the Lewiston, Idaho, Morning Tribune is a good example of a publisher who truly believes in independent journalism

    by Ray Ring, Oct 13, 2003

  • One good example: The reporter

    Karen Dorn Steele of the Spokane Spokesman-Review showed how a reporter at a regional paper can have a national impact, when she uncovered the extent of radioactive contamination at Hanford Nuclear Reservation

    by Ray Ring, Oct 13, 2003

  • Our Green Mountain

    A writer recalls the adventures he had had in Quincy, Calif., 20 years ago, when he was the youthful editor of a small-town independent paper called the Green Mountain Gazette

    by Jaime O'Neill, Oct 02, 2006

  • Talking about a revolution

    Environmental issues in the West are the region’s "big story" – and it’s high time the region’s big newspapers covered them adequately

    by Greg Hanscom, Oct 13, 2003

  • The Big Story Written Small

    The West’s big newspapers fall short when it comes to covering today’s most important issues: the "big story" about the environment, and the impacts on the region of growth and development

    by Ray Ring, Oct 13, 2003

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