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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 28, 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 24, 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
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 07, 2010
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 07, 2009
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
Dear friends

HCN says goodbye to Greg Hanscom and welcomes new editor John Mecklin; notes from readers

by Greg Hanscom and Jodi Peterson, Nov 13, 2006
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
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