Indigenous stories matter

A Saskatchewan First Nations woman's story about her father's residential school experience has won the world's top journalism award. “Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's,” a podcast by journalist Connie Walker and the team at Spotify's Gimlet Media, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for best audio journalism. "I feel like I'm still in shock. It's disbelief. It means so much. It's an incredible honour," Walker said Monday.

The final version of a bill that extends Montana’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons task force includes amendments that would both decrease its funding and extend its sunset date.

Few sagas of U.S. history are as messy as the treatment of Native Americans. While a particular chapter in that story — boarding schools — is receiving a new focus from the federal government, one advocate stressed the need for nuance.

The Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition plans to launch a website this summer that will allow Native Americans to search for information on relatives who attended Indian boarding schools.

The important and impressive Voices Initiative is out with another report for Colorado — this time about Indigenous communities and their recommendations for improving relations among them and local media.

Utah officials cheated the Ute Indian Tribe out of a fair shot to buy Tabby Mountain from the Utah School and Institutional Trust Land Administration in 2019, alleges a federal suit filed by the tribe.

The Navajo Nation has withdrawn support for a Biden administration plan to stop new oil and gas drilling near a sacred site in New Mexico, saying its members should have the right to develop those resources if they choose to.

Members of the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation became the latest Indigenous tribe to watch homes burn despite knowing it could have been avoided.

An Indigenous fisherman describes how to hook a salmon, the meaning of life and his faithful dog Sturg.

A landmark lawsuit filed by the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe asserting the “rights of salmon” has been settled, with the city of Seattle agreeing to provide passageways for the fish around hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River.

Private collectors are now trying to repatriate items of cultural, historic and traditional importance to their place of origin.

Four northern Indigenous communities — Sturgeon Lake Cree First Nation, Little Red River Cree Nation, East Prairie Métis Settlement and Little Red River Cree Nation — are among the Alberta communities now reporting significant losses.

Canada's main oil-producing province Alberta on Saturday declared a provincial state of emergency due to wildfires, shutting in at least 319,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd), or 3.7% of the country's production.

Raging fires destroyed homes in Alberta and produced towering chimneys of smoke.

Without fire, there’s no cooking, no heat and no survival. But when fire rages out of control, it’s an element both harmful and hellish. Many residents of the Canadian Prairies know of this complicated relationship all too well.

Wildfires and human meddling are transforming the Arctic and its surroundings from a carbon sink into a carbon emitter, exacerbating the climate crisis.

About 13,000 people were held at the Minidoka camp during the second world war. Now, a green energy project threatens the “sacred” place.

The Biden administration is moving to expedite the review and approval of a manganese and zinc mine in southern Arizona, setting up a standoff with a local environmental group concerned about the fate of vulnerable and endangered species in the Patagonia Mountains.

Microsoft billionaire says Wyoming is well suited to launch the world's next generation of nuclear power reactors.

Diagrams shown Friday revealed the flagship nuclear facility will look much more like a string of nondescript warehouses than a traditional nuclear plant.

A Gallup survey released in late April found that 55 percent of U.S. adults support the use of nuclear power. That’s up four percentage points from last year and reflects the highest level of public support for nuclear energy use in electricity since 2012.

Oil companies made their first pitch to move a liability lawsuit to the federal bench since the Supreme Court declined to review the procedural dispute with massive implications for the industry's financial responsibility to address climate change.

In Held v. Montana, 16 Montana youth look ahead to their day in court after judge confirmed trial is set for June 12

Yellowstone National Park’s east entrance just opened. It is a lifeline for the gateway community of Cody, and after three years of continually being tested by the pandemic and historic flooding, Superintendent Cam Sholly is really hoping this summer will be quiet. But as he told Wyoming Public Radio’s Kamila Kudelska, the heavy snow from the winter is already adding more work.

The deadly winter has again fueled calls for alternatives — like expanding allotted habitat for bison and returning the animals back to Native people. But there are still steep political barriers to any changes.

Depends on who you ask.

For nearly 60 years, the Boy Scouts operated a summer camp on state trust lands in Utah's Tushar Mountains. But a shooting range there left a few acres badly contaminated with lead, prompting a costly cleanup that required the removal of numerous trees.

Outdoor recreation advocates won big this spring when the Legislature created a new $6 million trust fund to generate grants for trail building, camping infrastructure and other such developments. Lawmakers didn’t, however, provide a mechanism to spend the money, leaving the trust fund idle.

Some products with PFAS — a common treatment for water and stain resistant outdoor apparel — will soon be illegal to sell in many states.

Glacier National Park has a history of oil extraction. We travel to Many Glacier to see the consequences, and the causes of climate change. Along the way we talk to young people about how it feels to live with the weight of history.

One way to save massive amounts of water from the drying Colorado River — state and federal officials had hoped — was to effectively buy water this year from farmers and ranchers with a $125 million conservation program. But very few are taking the offer. Or those willing to sell were turned away.

The technique offers highly accurate data, but creating a statewide, sustained program could be a challenge.

Utah researchers say the lake may end up gaining 6 feet between November and the end of spring, but the lake's long-term future still remains in question.

The Atlantic Richfield Co. and EPA are considering using slightly contaminated dirt for fill in certain scenarios instead of cleaner dirt at various sites in the Silver Bow Creek Corridor requiring Superfund remediation in and around Butte.

The invasive Stinknet plant fuels wildfires, irritates lungs and smothers native flora. ‘It’s everywhere’ and removal efforts in Arizona can’t keep up.

The Colorado Senate on Monday night killed the languishing land-use bill presented by Gov. Jared Polis as a long-term way to address the affordable housing crisis affecting communities from Durango to Denver to Deer Trail.

Eddy County's oil and gas tax collections for fiscal year 2023 surpassed all of 2022's tax collections as $92M was collected since July 1.

The legislation doesn't restrict new oil and gas permits, but clean air advocates still want the governor to sign it.

As toxic water continues to spill from tailings ponds across mining developments, decades of scientific research provides evidence of how wildlife will be affected.

The feds prohibit the relocation of endangered species — for now.

As temperatures rise, birds’ bodies are growing smaller, but their wings are growing longer. A new study finds this shift is most pronounced among the tiniest species.

Henry and Joan Meyer fell in love with the swan Valley and, to ensure they never have to leave, founded the state’s first natural cemetery.

Colorado lawmakers pushed a bill to the governor’s desk that would allow politicians to block social media users from their private accounts, just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would consider to what extent that's legal.