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Documents show Interior rejected a union contract for employees at BLM headquarters days before the inauguration.

High school graduates are the first to walk with the protected right to wear cultural attire after the state of New Mexico passed legislation this spring.

Migration pathways for animals will be further fragmented by the new additions to the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Bella Davis is an Indigenous affairs reporter at New Mexico In Depth, a local nonprofit newsroom. She is a Yurok tribal member born in northern California and raised in central New Mexico. High school ...

The 30-year-old national service agency had tens of thousands working on climate change, conservation and disaster response in communities across the West.

Interested parties say water resources, tribal sovereignty and public engagement are threatened by the budget reconciliation bill’s amendment.

Broad support for public lands is forcing some Republicans to break with the White House while advocates rally to save them from sales. The rule sought to elevate conservation’s status as a ...

Tests found PFAS in nearly all the public drinking water in Vancouver, Washington. The city is testing a solution that could take years — and more than $170 million — to build.

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