The state’s landmark climate law survived a repeal effort — and has raised billions of dollars. Here’s where that money is ...

Four states — Oregon, Colorado, Idaho and Nevada — resoundingly rejected ranked-choice voting initiatives. Alaska is still awaiting a final verdict on whether it will keep or repeal its own ...

In California, nine races remain uncalled in the southern part of the state and the Central Valley. And suburban House seats in Arizona — one outside of Phoenix, the other near Tucson — don’t have ...

From oil in the Arctic to the Ambler Road, Alaska's resource and conservation battles await a new administration’s fate, affecting communities, ecosystems and industries alike.

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This article was produced in partnership with ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. I’m standing at an Indigenous sacred site, looking at something I’m not supposed to see. Signs of ceremony ...

A block east, cars whooshed down a busy neighborhood thoroughfare. But near the garden, single-family houses lined the edges of a peaceful, tree-lined street. Just to the south, children rode their ...

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