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 ...

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

Utah used actors, AI, stagecraft and NDAs as it sought to sway public opinion and take control of 18.5 million acres of ...

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

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

The majority of public land is too fire prone and far away from communities to even make sense for housing, research shows.

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.

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