Oil and gas companies must pay more to drill on federal lands under new Biden administration rule

WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil and gas companies will have to pay more to drill on federal lands and satisfy stronger requirements to clean up old or abandoned wells under a final rule issued Friday ...

Behind the doors of a Chinese hacking company, a sordid culture fueled by influence, alcohol and sex

BEIJING (AP) — The hotel was spacious. It was upscale. It had a karaoke bar. The perfect venue, the CEO of the Chinese hacking company thought, to hold a Lunar New Year banquet currying favo...

Colorado lawmakers clash over bills to protect transgender names

Bills would protect transgender people’s use of chosen names

Aaron Zigman’s ‘Émigré’ has U.S. premiere

Oratorio is about Jews who fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai

Woman’s corpse and 30 cremated remains found

Former funeral homeowner is evicted from house

N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winner and giant of Native American literature, dies at 89

‘House Made of Dawn’ is considered as the starting point for contemporary Native American literature

Saudi Arabia opens its first liquor store in over 70 years as kingdom further liberalizes

JERUSALEM — A liquor store has opened in Saudi Arabia for the first time in over 70 years, a diplomat reported Wednesday, a further socially liberalizing step in the once-ultraconservative k...

Grand jury indictment against Alec Baldwin opens two paths for prosecutors

SANTA FE – Alec Baldwin once again is staring down a felony involuntary manslaughter charge after a grand jury indicted the actor in connection with the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematograp...

Blood tests offered in New Mexico amid query into 'forever chemical' contamination at military bases

Contamination at Cannon and at Holloman Air Force bases have already cost New Mexico over $8 million

Lily Gladstone is the Golden Globes’ first Indigenous best actress winner

Gladstone won for her role in Martin Scorsese’s epic ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

Navajo Nation charges 2 tribal members with illegally growing marijuana as part of complex case

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities on the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. have charged two tribal members with illegally growing marijuana on the Navajo Nation, marking ju...

The checkered history of the poinsettia

The flower's namesake and origins get new attention