If you go along Switzerland Trail in Boulder County today, you’ll see hikers and bikers. Along the trail are beautiful creeks ...

Ben Huff Abby Watts, a college student from Juneau, Alaska, is standing on a nunatak—an exposed ridge above an icefield. All around her are enormous boulders in varying shades of gray.

IPOP LLC should not have gotten a wetlands permit to dredge for gold in Safety Sound near Nome, the tribes' lawsuit contends.