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As the outdoor industry ramps up its advocacy, it faces tough questions from Indigenous recreators.
How the controversy over ‘sanctuary cities’ is playing out in the rural West.
What it’s like for one undocumented woman and her family in Trump’s America.
Why a fight over groundwater has left farmers in New Mexico feeling stranded.
In southern New Mexico, a dream of a bi-national community, not a concrete wall.
Churches that have long played a role in social justice are stepping up.
How ‘America’s toughest sheriff’ galvanized a movement among Arizona Latinos.
In the Colorado River Basin, a pilot project wins over skeptical farmers and ranchers.
As temperatures in the Southwest soar, advocates worry about border crossers.
A new generation of activists on and off reservations struggle for visibility.
The making of a California prison town.
The numbers and policies behind the immigration-incarceration economy.
Churches in the West are once again at the forefront of a grassroots effort to save immigrants from deportation.
Researchers and citizens are rushing to back-up government data on climate change and other issues, fearing political interference.
Environmentalists on both sides of the border are gauging Canada’s commitment to the Paris Agreement.
Coal companies look to Asia, but face port challenges.
Utah’s changing landscape casts doubt on the future of a sport.
Trump sparks a conflict between morality and political belief.
Federal policy changes only go part of the way in dismantling private immigrant detention.
In ‘Killing the Colorado,’ people, not nature, are responsible for shortages.
A controversial deal for diverting water across the Rockies faces scrutiny.
Companies and investors are trying to survive a collapsing U.S. coal market.
As Western states outpace the national average on gun suicides, one group looks to sellers for help.
More than half of the rivers in the Upper Colorado Basin originate as groundwater, USGS says.
Despite a new environmental justice action plan, the EPA has a poor record of protecting communities of color from toxic environments.
The state is one of just two that provide no funding for the right to legal counsel, leaving local governments on the hook.
California, Arizona and Nevada are back in negotiations about the dwindling Colorado River water supply.
A recent lawsuit sheds new light on how the polygamist church and municipal leadership are deeply intertwined.
California has led the way for other states to reduce prison populations.
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