Amid clamor to increase prescribed burns, obstacles await
SALEM, Ore. — In the 1950s, when University of California forestry professor Harold Biswell experimented with prescribed burns in the state's pine forests, many...
US official to address legacy of Indigenous boarding schools
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and other federal officials are expected Tuesday to announce steps the federal government plans to take to reconcile the...
Trump cowboy seeks 2nd act in politics after Capitol breach
TULAROSA, N.M. — He rodeoed in a Buffalo Bill-style Wild West show, carried his message on horseback from the Holy Land to Times Square...
Las Vegas weighs tying growth to conservation amid drought
CARSON CITY, Nev. — Record-breaking heat and historic drought in the U.S. West are doing little to discourage cities from planning to welcome millions...
US Mint to issue quarters honoring notable American women
Poet and author Maya Angelou, America’s first woman in space and a revered Cherokee Nation leader are among female trailblazers whose likenesses will appear...
Senators press Interior Secretary Haaland on oil lease pause
WASHINGTON — Both Republican and Democratic senators pressed Interior Secretary Deb Haaland for answers Wednesday after a federal court blocked the Biden administration’s suspension...
Jury deciding if immigration detainees must get minimum wage
SEATTLE — A federal jury is deciding whether one of the nation's biggest private prison companies must pay minimum wage — instead of $1...
Donated US vaccines arrive for Mexican border cities
MEXICO CITY — Mexico received 1.35 million doses of Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccines donated by the United States Tuesday and Mexican officials said...
Panic attacks highlight stress at shelters for migrant kids
Associated Press — Paramedics were called regularly to treat children suffering from panic attacks so severe their hands would constrict into balls and their...
GOP ramps up misleading attack on Democrats’ policing policy
DES MOINES, Iowa — When Minnesota Republican Tyler Kistner announced his candidacy for the U.S. House in April, he asked voters to ponder two...