Tourist-tossing season is officially underway at Yellowstone National Park, commencing with a resident bison versus a 47-year-old Cape Coral, Florida, man on May 4 in the Lake Village area of the park ...

This article appeared in the July 2025 print edition of the magazine with the headline “#IAMTHEWEST.” ...

The HCN staff has been out connecting with readers and making new friends around the region as spring melts into summer.

The article “ The true cost of wolves ” (May 2025) is a departure from HCN ’s quality journalism. No credible evidence supports the claim that wolves’ mere presence negatively impacts cattle.

Jack Herrera is a freelancer reporter with recent work in The New Yorker, Politico, and The New York Times. He reports on-the-ground, following stories on how policy decisions, especially those ...

As a housing crisis pummels the West, from Sun Valley, Idaho, to Tucson, Arizona, there’s a dull irony in the number of abandoned houses and old hotels. Some of them cluster around former mining ...

Senate Republicans’ proposed legislation to sell off public lands could have unique impacts on tribal nations.

Time and travel are the biggest barriers. Bourne’s a Fallon Paiute-Shoshone member, but he lives in Lovelock, so seeing a ...

“It was, as far as we know, the first permanent exhibit on LGBTQ history at a national park.” ...

As the Western leaders left the Eldorado, they were hit by monsoon rains, which flooded the historic Santa Fe Plaza and halted all the road construction that had surrounded the event. Construction ...

The understudied mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems and may prove critical to the survival of fragile deserts stressed by climate change.

Kaleb is an award-winning journalist and KUNR’s Mountain West News Bureau reporter. His reporting covers issues related to the environment, wildlife and water in Nevada and the region.