The Rio Grande’s flow, when it exists, is not nearly enough to supply the Mesilla Valley’s commercial farmers. To make up for the surface water deficit, pecan (and alfalfa) growers pump groundwater at ...

We were producing to just barely feed ourselves. And now that commerce has been globalized, big companies are taking over ...

Consolidation, shifting politics, water rights and the myth of the cowboy all play into the region’s ability to feed itself.

And British Columbia’s premier, David Eby, threatened to place tolls on commercial trucks traveling from the U.S. through B.C. to Alaska along the Alaska Highway. Doing so would further increase the ...

Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.

Narsiso Martinez (b. 1977, Oaxaca, Mexico) came to the United States when he was 20 years old. His work, which is drawn from his own experience as a farmworker, focuses on the people who perform the ...

Based in Seattle, Alex Brown covers environmental issues for Stateline. Prior to joining Stateline, Brown wrote for The Chronicle in Lewis County, Washington state. Firefighting veterans believe the ...

Nick Underwood is a cartographer and data journalist based in Burlington, Vermont. He previously worked as a graphics editor at The New York Times and NPR. Consolidation, shifting politics, water ...