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‘Today I am celebrating the victory of our people’: Native Americans ring in the anniversary of the Battle of Little Bighorn

By Matthew Brown, Jack Dura and The Associated PressJune 25, 2026

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White House withdraws hospitality executive as nominee to lead National Park Service as Trump slashes the department’s size

By The Associated Press and Matthew BrownApril 28, 2026

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Washington’s ‘God Squad’ assembles to debate the fate of a rare endangered whale and drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

By Matthew Brown and The Associated PressMarch 31, 2026

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Newsom, DeSantis join forces to blast ‘idiotic’ push to allow oil drilling off coasts of California, Florida

By Matthew Daly, Matthew Brown and The Associated PressNovember 23, 2025

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Shutdown starvation was so bad that some Native American tribes killed the buffalo herds that they helped restore

By Matthew Brown, Graham Lee Brewer, Amelia Schafer and The Associated PressNovember 13, 2025

The U.S. is about to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in over a decade even as demand wanes. ‘Eventually coal will get pushed out of the market’

The U.S. is about to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in over a decade even as demand wanes. ‘Eventually coal will get pushed out of the market’

By Matthew Brown, Mead Gruver and The Associated PressOctober 4, 2025

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Gen Z climate activists take Trump to court in Montana for singlehandedly worsening global warming, they say

By Matthew Brown and The Associated PressSeptember 16, 2025

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Federal lands larger than Delaware move closer to coming up for sale to coal mining companies

By Matthew Brown and The Associated PressJuly 8, 2025

House GOP want to use tax-cut package to authorize sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of public land in Nevada and Utah

House GOP want to use tax-cut package to authorize sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of public land in Nevada and Utah

By Matthew Daly, Matthew Brown and The Associated PressMay 8, 2025

U.S. border czar blames media leaks for hindering major immigration raids in Colorado suburb

U.S. border czar blames media leaks for hindering major immigration raids in Colorado suburb

By Colleen Slevin, Thomas Peipert, Jesse Bedayn, Matthew Brown and The Associated PressFebruary 7, 2025

Senate confirms Doug Burgum as Trump’s interior secretary tasked with boosting fossil fuel production to achieve ‘energy dominance’

Senate confirms Doug Burgum as Trump’s interior secretary tasked with boosting fossil fuel production to achieve ‘energy dominance’

By Matthew Brown and The Associated PressJanuary 31, 2025

Trump’s interior secretary pick Doug Burgum says U.S. needs to make more electricity from coal to win AI arms race

Trump’s interior secretary pick Doug Burgum says U.S. needs to make more electricity from coal to win AI arms race

By Matthew Brown, Jennifer McDermott, Jack Dura and The Associated PressJanuary 17, 2025

A proposal for more logging to curb wildfires could boost timber harvests by more than 200%

A proposal for more logging to curb wildfires could boost timber harvests by more than 200%

By Matthew Brown and The Associated PressNovember 17, 2024

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Montana GOP Senate candidate accused of passing off accidental self-inflicted gunshot as war injury

By Matthew Brown and The Associated PressOctober 18, 2024

A police officer moves a barrier for an emergency vehicle Thursday.

Deadly elevator malfunction traps tourists in historic Colorado mine—cause remains a mystery

By Matthew Brown, Jesse Bedayn and The Associated PressOctober 11, 2024

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