Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Watch this week’s Halito from High Country News where Community Outreach Manager Michael Leveton rounds up some of our news stories from this past week. “Halito” is the Choctaw greeting for hello.
South communities for Black families: it isn’t simple creating roots in Phoenix
Many have moved to the nation’s fastest growing city seeking community as well as a better life. Few are finding it.
By Adam Mahoney
14 minute read
hcn.org/articles/south-communities-for-black-families-it-isnt-simple-creating-roots-in-phoenix
What happens when an affluent Arizona suburb’s main water supply is cut off
As the Colorado River crisis worsens, an unregulated housing development faces a reckoning.
By Sarah Tory
6 minute read
hcn.org/articles/south-water-what-happens-when-an-affluent-arizona-suburbs-main-water-supply-is-cut-off
The Salinas River and the foretold flood
By Jeremy Miller
7 minute read
hcn.org/articles/flooding-the-salinas-river-and-the-foretold-flood
High Country News is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) independent media organization that covers environmental news and other important issues and stories that define the Western U.S. Through insightful, in-depth journalism, it strives to inform and inspire people to act on behalf of the West's diverse natural and human communities.
Watch this week’s Halito from High Country News where Community Outreach Manager Michael Leveton rounds up some of our news stories from this past week. “Halito” is the Choctaw greeting for hello.
South communities for Black families: it isn’t simple creating roots in Phoenix
Many have moved to the nation’s fastest growing city seeking community as well as a better life. Few are finding it.
By Adam Mahoney
14 minute read
hcn.org/articles/south-communities-for-black-families-it-isnt-simple-creating-roots-in-phoenix
What happens when an affluent Arizona suburb’s main water supply is cut off
As the Colorado River crisis worsens, an unregulated housing development faces a reckoning.
By Sarah Tory
6 minute read
hcn.org/articles/south-water-what-happens-when-an-affluent-arizona-suburbs-main-water-supply-is-cut-off
The Salinas River and the foretold flood
By Jeremy Miller
7 minute read
hcn.org/articles/flooding-the-salinas-river-and-the-foretold-flood
High Country News is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) independent media organization that covers environmental news and other important issues and stories that define the Western U.S. Through insightful, in-depth journalism, it strives to inform and inspire people to act on behalf of the West's diverse natural and human communities.
