2024 was a banner year for research on wildfire smoke and its impact on health, from brain functioning to fertility.

The Department of the Interior was created in 1849 as the United States was rapidly expanding and acquiring territory. It ...

As legislatures convene in the coming weeks, many lawmakers are focusing on a key criminal justice issue for prisons and ...

Kylie Mohr is a correspondent for High Country News writing from Montana.

A pension bill that died in the House last year has been resubmitted and is one of 76 filed in advance of the session so far.

Emily Wakild is the Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for the Environment and Public Lands at Boise State University in Idaho. She is a historian of social and ecological change in Latin American and the ...

Draft recommendations include boosted marketing, development of new seafood products and more support for workers, among ...

Until last month, the U.S. Department of Education said Alaska underfunded four of its largest school districts by $17.5 ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans gained more than enough Democratic support Thursday to advance a bill that would greatly ...

At a forum held by industry groups, legislators said Cook Inlet royalty relief will get a new look in this year's session.

Hilcorp failed to show that it deserves another suspension of deadlines at its stalled Liberty field in the offshore Arctic, ...

Rural Alaska schools are facing a major funding shortfall this year after Congress failed to reauthorize a bill aimed at ...