Joe Biden

Oil production is ramping up on federal public lands despite President Biden’s promise to end new drilling. Approvals for new projects are on pace to hit their highest levels since the Bush administration. Environmentalists are objecting to the approvals saying it exacerbates climate change.

The Biden administration is offering to send "surge response teams" to help stamp out COVID-19 hotspots across the country and the Mountain West. They’ve already sent a team to Colorado, and recently the governor of Nevada requested one for the Las Vegas area. Infections and hospitalizations there are rising, as the number of people getting vaccinated daily has dropped sharply.

Governors from several western states took part in talks with the Biden administration Wednesday to collaborate on wildfire management, but there were some noticeable absences.

Idaho Matters learns about the arguments for and against keeping the Bureau of Land Management headquarters in Grand Junction, Colorado.

After their more than 3-hour meeting in Geneva, the U.S. leader said he pushed his Russian counterpart on human rights and other administration priorities.

President Biden has laid out his vision for the future of public education, which includes a nationwide community college tuition waiver for all...

The Biden administration is proposing a significant funding boost for the nation’s Title I program – in fact the increase would be historic: more than doubling its current funding. The proposal could boost nationwide funding to more than $36 billion, the biggest increase since its inception in the 1960s.

President Joe Biden is raising the number for refugees allowed into the United States to 62,500. That’s up from the Trump White House’s historic low of just 15,000. Idaho refugee resettlement programs are weary, but ready.

The latest coronavirus relief package includes $20 billion for tribal governments, a potentially transformative infusion of cash. Idaho Matters talks with Mountain West News Bureau reporter Savannah Maher about this issue.

The Biden administration will restore the White House Council on Native American Affairs, an interagency initiative that coordinates federal services...