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 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 ...

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 ...

Alaska’s most high-stakes resource projects have been tied to the whirring cycle of national politics for decades. With next week’s election, the future of these hotspots is once again being ...

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 ...

Chico, California, resident Jessie Raeder dug her fingers into the dirt. Before she arrived, she’d been in a “state of clenching,” she said, but this forest therapy walk in the Butte Creek ...

Este artículo también está disponible en español. When visitors enter the quinceañera exhibit at the Yakima Valley Museum, the first thing they see is a pair of seafoam-green Converse high ...

Old rope swings hang from even older cottonwoods along the Middle Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The riverside forest, known as the bosque, has long been a shady oasis in the arid valley.

Right smack in the middle of our Unalakleet harvesting season, my family and I moved away. We left for Anchorage — Alaska’s largest city — in mid-July. While my brother, his wife and my dad ...

One out of every four American households could not afford to pay its energy bills at least once over the past year. Some families cut back on groceries or medicine to make ends meet, while others ...

A few weeks ago, I followed a hawk that was following the cliff edge above the beach, flying into the wind. It rarely flapped its wings, except when the wind gusted; then it flapped them slowly ...

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