As the housing crisis worsens, advocates sound off on how to bring homes to the people.
Communities
Tribal scientists and community members are testing wells, solving plumbing problems and delivering clean water to their neighbors.
The ghosts of the uranium boom continue to haunt the land, water and people.
After a year indoors, a writer remembers the joy — and pressures — of a childhood spent in Utah.
Communities in Los Angeles are turning industrial sites into pockets of green.
Nearly 8,000 people lost their housing in Oregon’s Labor Day fires. Some are finally finding a home, for now.
As climate change ratchets up wildfire intensity, an Oregon program provides a step toward home.
‘The alternative is something they don’t want to think about.’
Conflicting visions in central Idaho force tough decisions over logging and prescribed burning.
The very ground upon which Corcoran was built is steadily collapsing, a situation caused primarily by agriculture.
Indigenous archaeologists say more protective measures and education are needed to prevent future vandalism.
In 2013, anti-gang activist Terrance Roberts shot a man in the Holly, a historically Black neighborhood in Denver. What really happened that night?
Once denied their Second Amendment rights, Asian Americans are heading to gun shops in droves.
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes worked with federal agencies to complete a first of its kind plan to address the crisis.
Some rural California communities have waited nearly a decade for state regulators to repair their tainted drinking-water systems.
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.
The newly formed Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority aims to connect a rural and divided state.
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.
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