Four Corners

The U.S. Interior Department has released the first volume of an investigation into the federal government’s Indian boarding school program. It’s an attempt to address the troubled legacy of the schools that sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society for 150 years.

New Mexico regulators have approved an application by the state’s largest electric utility to abandon its interest in a major coal-fired power plant in…

In 2018 the Four Corners region suffered from an “exceptional” drought—the highest rating on the U.S. Drought Monitor’s scale. Water sources dried up and…

Residents in the Four Corners region will have an opportunity to weigh in on the future of a coal-fired power plant slated for closure in 2022. The…

Drought has yet to give up its hold over parts of the southwestern United States despite a series of storms that have brought rain and snow to the region…