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Mar 21, 2025 - Extremist pastors are using the COVID-19 pandemic to push their conservative religious ideologies.
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Jan 7, 2025 - They’re among the region’s most despised species, but some tribes, researchers and landowners are racing to save them.
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Jun 17, 2024 - The bigotry displayed when white supremacists disrupted a Pride celebration in Centralia repeats a pattern that dates back to 1919.
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May 21, 2024 - Instead of fixing Oregon, the Greater Idaho movement seeks to leave it. White supremacists are on board.
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Nov 20, 2025 - Crossing what’s an arbitrary boundary for wildlife, an apex predator becomes prey.
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https://www.hcn.org/articles/can-ai-translate-native-languages-in-times-of-disaster/
Nov 17, 2025 - In the wake of Typhoon Halong, an AI language company wants to hire Native translators, raising questions about data sovereignty.
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https://www.hcn.org/issues/53-3/north-law-enforcement-did-james-plymell-need-to-die/
Mar 21, 2025 - How homelessness is criminalized in small cities and towns across the West.
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Aug 8, 2024 - With more trail users than ever before, trail etiquette is important to preserve the places we love. But it doesn’t mean the same thing to every visitor.
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https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-9/what-eating-bitterness-has-to-do-with-chinese-food/
Sep 15, 2025 - The Chinese immigrants who built the Transcontinental Railroad quietly endured racism and violence, fostering a complicated legacy for Chinese-Americans.
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Nov 13, 2025 - In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
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https://www.hcn.org/issues/52-3/north-sagebrush-rebellion-the-residual-power-of-ammon-bundy/
Mar 21, 2025 - What’s it like when the West’s most notorious anti-government figure comes to your town?
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