Workers are pushing for improved training and safety standards to help avoid falls, electrocution and equipment failure.

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Using detailed, vernacular sentences that hew closely to her characters’ perspectives, The Crazies unravels a NIMBY phenomenon that is happening across the West as the U.S. pushes to decarbonize, ...

They’re among the region’s most despised species, but some tribes, researchers and landowners are racing to save them.

Properties classified ‘agricultural’ get a tax break despite bona fide operations. Can lawmakers new proposals tighten qualifications?

Saguaros are known for growing slowly, only about a quarter of an inch during their first two years. By the time he was 70, Grandpa was likely 6 feet tall and producing flowers and fruit. By his first ...

Shaun Griswold, a citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna with Jemez and Zuni ancestry, gives everyone a lot to consider in this Fourth of July perspective piece about the meaning of truth and what it’s like ...

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Voters fill in ballots on Election Day 2024 on the campus of the University of California Santa Barbara. Credit: Amy Katz/ZUMA Press Wire via Alamy This month, hundreds of political electees are ...