The newly formed Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority aims to connect a rural and divided state.
Communities
Unhoused Angelenos use the urban river as a source of sustenance, but a proposal to revitalize the waterway could push them out.
Much of the state’s oil extraction takes place in residential areas, often in Spanish-speaking communities, but there’s a lack of research detailing its impact.
In Albuquerque’s South Valley, activists are happy for more green space but worry about gentrification.
Federal recognition provides tribes with critical healthcare and education. What happens to the tribal nations that the U.S. refuses to recognize?
The descendants of those once enslaved by tribes continue to push for equality.
The Las Fotos Project empowers youth of color to tell their stories.
Policymakers and activists fight to remove pro-segregation, anti-immigrant provisions from property deeds.
Their advocacy network is striving for a more equitable state while building power across issue lines.
How a developer’s proposed large land swap ignited a fight in small but growing McCall.
‘History is repeating itself.’
How homelessness is criminalized in small cities and towns across the West.
Some find a permanent home; others languish in a visa holding pattern.
As America’s food basket dries out, Punjabi American growers fear the loss of their hard-earned farmlands.
Carrying on the legacy of Alma Smith Jacobs requires representation and education.
For some residents, the displacement signals the loss of affordable housing — and the only diverse neighborhood in the Montana city.
A new report focuses on internet infrastructure on tribal lands and how tribes can use it to strengthen their sovereignty.
Diné activist Nicole Horseherder’s long quest for equity from the rise and fall of the coal economy.
Many early Wyoming coal towns had thriving Black communities.
In California, COVID-19 is exacerbating housing inequities. Indigenous activist Jackie Fielder believes she has a solution.
Far-flung populations and limited cold-storage resources present challenges to clinics.
‘The people here made the plant. What we did is something that was needed.’
How a transgender-owned alpaca ranch in Colorado foretells the future of the rural queer West.
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