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Get to know the Green New Deal, by the numbers The plan would boost...
Not long after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was elected last November, she began gathering support for a “Green New Deal,” mobilizing young climate activists...
The education crisis for children of deported parents In Tijuana, an upstart model tries...
When Angie Romero thinks about the home in Idaho she left seven years ago after her husband, Mike, was deported, she misses the wide,...
One tribal nation could decide the fate of Arizona’s drought plan The Gila River...
In Arizona, the Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan now hinges on the approval of tribal nations. The plan is meant to levy water cuts to seven...
Where the news is drying up — and where it’s not Rural areas can...
Media chatter about the state of journalism tends to go big — big city, that is: Seattle loses a major daily; a media conglomerate...
An Atlas of American Gun Violence
About the Data
This map was built with data collected by Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit organization that gathers and verifies information about incidents of gun...
How best to share the disappearing Colorado River Seven Western states must rewrite the...
As early as 2020, hydrologists forecast that the level of Lake Mead, the largest reservoir on the Colorado River, could drop low enough to...
What the 2018 farm bill means for the West Lawmakers see hemp legalization and...
After a long journey through the Senate and House agriculture committees, the 2018 farm bill is expected to clear the president’s desk soon. The bill, which...
In second try, Denver names two finalists to lead Manual High
Two assistant principals who work in the Denver school district are vying to lead Manual High School, a storied school in the northeast part...
Inside Colorado’s ‘hotbed’ of wildlife conflict Documents show flawed management leads to unnecessary killings...
ANALYSIS
A frozen, severed head arrived at the lab.
The bighorn sheep’s horns, splattered with bright red blood, curled tightly around its face. Its open eyes...
National Parks are warming twice as fast as the U.S. overall Climate change poses...
Climate change is having an outsized impact on national parks in the United States, according to research conducted by scientists at the National Park...