Recent Center News
In a research project for the Bill Lane Center for the American West, Grace Carroll and Kyleigh McPeek interviewed dozens of sources including scholars, journalists, and relatives of victims to find out how true crime media impacts the crimes they cover.
On NPR's Morning Edition, our 2023 Western Media Fellow Brandon Kapelow reports on a community-based suicide prevention program in the remote Alaskan city of Hooper Bay.
The difficulty in collecting data on heat deaths; Utah’s legal attack on federal ownership of public lands in the state; Canadian wildfires last year released more carbon than all but three countries; new challenges as the Wilderness Act turns 60; trucking grizzly pairs around the mountain West; and other environmental stories from around the region.