Located on a former ranch in western Arizona, the hot spring is framed by rolling desert hills. Though trucks may sometimes drive down a nearby dirt road, it’s mostly quiet. That serenity is an ...

This year marks the centennial of the Indian Citizenship Act, which theoretically gave Native people the right to vote in U.S. elections — though it was several decades before all 50 states actually ...

From climate and public lands to shifting political allegiances, the region faces critical choices at the ballot box.

Even if climate change wasn’t on the minds of all the guests, the dinner was a nice reprieve from other haunting topics, like ...

In Nevada and Arizona, Latinos make up nearly a third of all voters. What are they thinking this election year?

If elected, she would be the first Latina senator to represent Legislative District 14, which, after a contentious redistricting, is majority Latino for the first time. Beltran pointed to a low ...

The reservoirs were under threat, and had been for decades.

This month, we look at the upcoming elections from a Western viewpoint. Some Latino organizers in Washington are working on ...

Ten years ago, hundreds of people gathered in a dusty wash underneath a freeway overpass 80 miles east of Las Vegas, near the town of Bunkerville, Nevada. They arrived at the behest of a reedy ...

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