A Diné writer confronts how to offer a hand from far away as tragedy strikes on the Navajo Nation. It was the last day of June and the first day of the new work week when an emergency showed up on my ...

Reclaiming Chinese culture through cultivation.

Climate change is creating a mental health crisis in Phoenix. A budding movement in the desert might solve it.

Today, Adobe Manor has 16 renovated units for families and individual renters. Adobe Manor offers Section 8 affordable housing, and Chavez rents some of the units to Catholic Charities, a nonprofit ...

As the Western leaders left the Eldorado, they were hit by monsoon rains, which flooded the historic Santa Fe Plaza and ...

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

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 ...

The result is a patchwork of laws protecting the nation’s wetlands. But if more Western states were to emulate their neighbors’ efforts and take action, millions of acres of wetlands could be saved, ...

Bethany Kaylor is a writer and illustrator living in Iowa City. She’s currently an MFA candidate in nonfiction at the University of Iowa, where she’s working on a book about subcultures.

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.

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

Paige Hill Starzinger’s Vortex Street (2020) was short-listed for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize in Poetry. Her first book, Vestigial (2013), won the Barrow Street Book Prize, selected by Lynn Emanuel.