In the 1980s, Wilbur Slockish Jr. served 20 months in federal prison on charges of illegally poaching salmon from the Columbia River

Federal officials on Tuesday are expected to announce water cuts that would further reduce how much Colorado River water some users in the seven U.S. states reliant on the river and Mexico receive

The Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest, which Natives call  Nch’i-Wána, or “the great river,” has sustained Indigenous people in the region for millennia

Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney, a leader in the Republican resistance to former President Donald Trump, is fighting to save her seat in the House on Tuesday

President Joe Biden is preparing to sign Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill

The Alaska primary on Tuesday will feature two elections

Authorities say migrants were stopped fewer times at the U.S. border with Mexico in July than in June, a second straight monthly decline

A federal bankruptcy judge has cleared the way for a defamation lawsuit in Connecticut to proceed against Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

Donald Trump’s longtime finance chief is expected to plead guilty as soon as Thursday in a tax evasion case, according to three people familiar with the matter

Jury selection is underway at R. Kelly’s federal trial in his hometown of Chicago

Oregon’s chief justice has fired all the members of the Public Defense Services Commission, frustrated that hundreds of defendants charged with crimes and who cannot afford an attorney have been unable to find public defenders to represent them

A project in the country's top coal-producing area seeks to pump the carbon dioxide produced by burning that coal back underground

A once-prominent neurologist who was convicted last month of sexually abusing patients has killed himself at a New York City jail

The 21-year-old son of an Afghan refugee suspected in the shooting deaths of four Muslim men in New Mexico will remain in custody pending trial on a charge that he allegedly provided a false address on a form when purchasing a gun last year