In the early days of last month, Taylor Swift released her latest album and broke a music industry record. "The Life of a Showgirl" came out on Oct. 3, and within its first week, the album sold over four...

A year after the landmark removal of four dams on the Klamath River, the ecosystem is showing signs of recovery beyond scientists’ expectations.  The Klamath River flows 257 miles from southern Oregon...

Since the Fall of 2024, Whitman has been without a Sustainability Manager — a crucial role that coordinates student, faculty and administrative collaboration on sustainability projects and concerns....

On Oct. 2, U.S. Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought announced that the Department of Energy would be revoking upwards of $7.5 billion in financial awards for clean energy projects....

After traveling miles of sun-baked highways through the drylands of Eastern Washington, the road dotted with factories flanking the Columbia river, the McNary Wildlife Refuge at first seems out of place....

The American West has long been mythologized for its rugged, wild character. Home to the majority of publicly owned lands in the lower 48, the West contains some of the largest tracts of undeveloped wilderness...

In September 2024, U.S. Forest Service Chief Randy Moore announced that, due to projected budget constraints, the agency would not hire any new seasonal employees for the 2025 fiscal year. On a Zoom call...

UPDATE – Nov. 4, 2025. 5:17 p.m. – On October 21, 2025, Perpetua Resources announced that the company is breaking ground on early works construction for the Stibnite Gold Project. Legal challenges...

The Whitman College website proudly boasts a one-to-one student-to-tree ratio. The factuality of this claim is up for debate, but that’s not the point. Whitman’s campus is certainly greener than...

If you’ve lived in the Inland Northwest for any period of time, you’ve likely heard of proposals to breach the four lower Snake River dams. In 2021, Congressman Mike Simpson, a Republican from...

On April 8, the Supreme Court overruled a lower court order to reinstate the 1,000 National Park Service (NPS) workers that were terminated in February. These civil servants provide critical services...

If you take the highway south out of Walla Walla and keep going for about an hour, just before reaching Pendleton you’ll pass by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR)....