There is black gold beneath the rugged hills of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in southern Montana: millions of tons of coal that remains untouched. Despite poverty and unemployment hovering ...

OLYMPIA – The state could get $10 million a year in revenue under a cigarette taxation agreement reached with the Puyallup Indian Tribe, the governor’s office announced Wednesday. Gov. Gary Locke, in ...

ARLINGTON — Hindered by habitat degradation, overfishing and pollution, salmon populations along the West Coast have been in decline for decades. Even if a salmon makes it to adulthood, surviving a ...

Thanks to a 1908 Supreme Court ruling, Native American tribes almost always have the most senior claim to water in the West, but while the high court was clear that tribes have rights to water, it ...