CAROLINE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The Mattaponi Indian Tribe is challenging state approval of a proposed $200 million water intake facility on a local farmer’s land along the Rappahannock River in ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Lawmakers from both parties and chambers have come together in an effort to secure long-term federal assistance to revitalize one of the state’s most prominent natural resources.

Two descendants of Black people once enslaved by a Native American tribe are asking a federal court in Oklahoma to force tribal leaders to issue them citizenship cards as ordered a year ago by a ...

The taps still run in Phoenix and Las Vegas, and lawns in Scottsdale still get watered most mornings. Underneath that ...

Commissioners voted 4-1 to approve three motions authorizing the project's annexation into the City of Great Falls, ...

Michigan tribes unitedly oppose state-approved permits for the Line 5 tunnel, citing threats to treaty rights and Great Lakes ...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management took another step this week to reopen federal lands surrounding the Chaco Culture National Historical Park to oil and gas drilling and other mineral extraction. The ...

Jul. 16—"We gotta keep it protected," said Quinn Erwin of Helena as he waited in line at the Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) check station in Ravalli on July 2. He was on his way to Flathead Lake with ...

The jawless, eel-like fish known as Pacific lamprey get little love from the uninitiated; with their toothy-maw used to suck ...

“Big Sky has always been a sacred place,” says Menka Vansant, a horse wrangler at the Old West–flavored Lone Mountain Ranch, homesteaded in 1915 in the Madison Range of the Rocky Mountains, above ...

This story was co-published by KJZZ Phoenix and ProPublica. A deal to bring Colorado River water to Native American communities in northern Arizona, where a third of homes lack running water, is being ...