Storms trigger a humanitarian disaster in western Alaska
Powerful back-to-back storms have ravaged dozens of mostly Alaska Native communities in western Alaska: Approximately 2,000 people were displaced, and…
survivors of ex-Typhoon Halong file onto C-17 military transport plan in Bethel for transport to Anchorage
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Sometimes when I drive past the little house my wife and I bought when we first married, 30 years ago,…
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I live in Victor, Idaho—one of Jackson, Wyoming’s, bedroom communities. Every day, roughly 3,400 Idaho residents drive over Teton Pass…
Photo courtesy Wyoming Dept. of Transportation
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Westerners have begun looking at their homes differently these days. Are those trees too close? Should I move all that…
House in Douglas County, CO, courtesy Lena Deravianko, Unsplash
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Back in the ‘90s, when writer Hunter S. Thompson held court at the Woody Creek Tavern just outside of Aspen,…
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Moab, Utah is a growing town of 5,300 that several million people visit each year to tour nearby Arches and…
Colorado River near Moab, Utah/Courtesy Writers on the Range
MoreSki bum culture hits reality
Nearly two decades ago, I moved to the mountains to be a ski bum, chasing snow. I was a stereotype—an…
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MoreThe housing crisis is harming my town
In Girdwood, Alaska, we’ll long remember the snowstorm of Dec. 6, just three months ago. But it won’t be for…
Girdwood Valley courtesy of Nathan Searles
MoreWhen no home is affordable, where do you live?
It’s a common story: Candace McNatt of Durango, in southern Colorado, kept losing bidding wars to buy a house. She…
Candace McNatt with her dog at Oasis Park in Durango Co. The tiny home part of the park is called, “tiny town”
MoreAffordable housing shouldn’t have to take a miracle
Residents of the Westside Mobile Home Park in Durango, in southern Colorado, called it a miracle: They now own the…
MoreTrailer park residents hope to buy the land beneath them
Just outside Durango, Colorado there’s a trailer park called Westside that I’ve been driving by all my life. Yet residents…
MoreHousing prices in the West are over the moon.
“But now the Zoom Boom-fueled market fire is spreading beyond the “best places” into the once-affordable bastions of working class neighborhoods, the bedroom communities, rural ranchettes and even trailer parks.”
Photograph by Phil Hearing, courtesy of Unsplash
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