There is black gold beneath the rugged hills of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in southern Montana: millions of tons of coal that remains untouched. Despite poverty and unemployment hovering ...

OLYMPIA – The state could get $10 million a year in revenue under a cigarette taxation agreement reached with the Puyallup Indian Tribe, the governor’s office announced Wednesday. Gov. Gary Locke, in ...

In the mid-2000s, seven states, the federal government and Mexico negotiated critical rules for the Colorado River that established how to divvy up its water in a severe drought like it is now facing.

ARLINGTON — Hindered by habitat degradation, overfishing and pollution, salmon populations along the West Coast have been in decline for decades. Even if a salmon makes it to adulthood, surviving a ...