The festival returns to Orchard Park Plaza, bringing together local musicians, student ensembles, and Indigenous jazz artists from across North America. But the festival is about more than music.

SB20-83 limits where ICE agents can make arrests connected to courthouses.

After a wildfire, rivers and streams can take years to recover. Native plants and wildlife are often crowded out by invasive species in the aftermath. But in Nevada’s Virgin River watershed, a collaboration between federal agencies and conservation groups is pointing to early signs of recovery.

This season's lineups at the two locations include quillworkers, ledger artists, poets, metal workers, historians, musicians, dancers and beadworkers.

Aubrey Bettencourt will likely be nominated to run the Bureau of Reclamation, the top federal agency on the Colorado River, at a tense time for negotiations about sharing the water supply.

Coal mines in New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming could go to revived coal plants and be exported through a new port in California.

Quiet war in wilderness areas pit conservationists against the feds

Longer wildfire seasons can blanket communities in smoke. Summer heat records continue to rise. Drought remains a persistent concern for water supplies, agriculture and ecosystems.