Four states — Oregon, Colorado, Idaho and Nevada — resoundingly rejected ranked-choice voting initiatives. Alaska is still awaiting a final verdict on whether it will keep or repeal its own ...

The state’s landmark climate law survived a repeal effort — and has raised billions of dollars. Here’s where that money is ...

When visitors enter the quinceañera exhibit at the Yakima Valley Museum, the first thing they see is a pair of seafoam-green ...

In California, nine races remain uncalled in the southern part of the state and the Central Valley. And suburban House seats in Arizona — one outside of Phoenix, the other near Tucson — don’t have ...

A few miles outside Pullman, Washington, a remnant of the Palouse Prairie lies on a small hill, surrounded by undulating wheat fields and studded with cracked and weathered headstones from the late ...

From oil in the Arctic to the Ambler Road, Alaska's resource and conservation battles await a new administration’s fate, affecting communities, ecosystems and industries alike.

A block east, cars whooshed down a busy neighborhood thoroughfare. But near the garden, single-family houses lined the edges of a peaceful, tree-lined street. Just to the south, children rode their ...

Spending time in the woods can help wildfire survivors recover.

During election week, it’s tempting to stay glued to a screen, searching for every new scrap of information. In that way, this election cycle has been particularly overwhelming. As the futures of ...

But as the region warms — average temperatures since 2000 have been 1.8 to 2 degrees Fahrenheit higher than they were over the previous century — and the once-high water table drops, those who love ...

After a move from rural to urban Alaska, a writer hunts for the blueberries that nourish her family, body and spirit.