In Alaska, a biologist and her family learn how quickly these iconic predators can change the menu — and bend the rules.

Caroline Van Hemert is a wildlife biologist, Arctic adventurer and admirer of oddities in the natural world. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Outside, Vogue and ...

Career employees told HCN they were unsettled by the termination email sent by HR, which cited ‘performance issues.’ ...

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President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to shrink the federal government, launched as the deadly Palisades and Eaton fires burned across Los Angeles, have left the country’s wildland ...

Colorado College’s annual survey included residents of 8 Western states, the majority of whom identified as politically conservative or moderate.

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A steady diet of news couldn’t have kept the strong Santa Ana winds from pushing the flames south and then west through Eaton Canyon, any more than fire crews could have contained the fire’s early ...