Tribal members descend in late January each year to the burial ground near the Bear River where soldiers felled hundreds of their ancestors in one of American history's bloodiest_ but little remembered_ massacres. Descendants of the Northwestern Shoshone who were decimated in their winter encampment in a surprise ...

The federal government has agreed to pay a $52 million settlement so it will not have to complete the so-called "road-to-nowhere" through North Carolina's mountain wilderness, officials said Tuesday, ending a dispute that began during World War II. The payments destined for ...

Advocates for the preservation of a rich ice age fossil bed in the northern valley say a recently released federal study greatly aids their efforts to designate up to 30,000 acres as a national monument. Last month the Bureau of Land Management released a draft environmental impact statement designating 11,000 acres along the Upper Las Vegas Wash, just ...

Billionaire Ted Turner is getting 88 Yellowstone National Park bison from a faltering Montana program that was supposed to put the disease-free animals on public or tribal lands. The animals were spared several years ago from a periodic slaughter of bison leaving Yellowstone because of ...