Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Watch this week’s Halito from High Country News. Brian Oaster rounds up some of our news stories from this past week. Oaster is a staff writer and a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. “Halito” is the Choctaw greeting for hello.
Biden’s ‘herky-jerky’ first year on Western issues
By Jonathan Thompson
hcn.org/articles/south-joe-biden-bidens-herky-jerky-first-year-on-western-issues
Interior devotes billions to plugging old oil wells. Is it enough?
By Nick Bowlin
hcn.org/articles/south-department-of-interior-devotes-billions-to-plugging-old-oil-wells-is-it-enough
Tribes call out Oregon’s reckless gaming regulation
By Brian Oaster and Theo Whitcomb
hcn.org/issues/54.2/indigenous-affairs-tribes-call-out-oregons-reckless-gaming-regulation
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. Brian Oaster rounds up some of our news stories from this past week. Oaster is a staff writer and a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. “Halito” is the Choctaw greeting for hello.
Biden’s ‘herky-jerky’ first year on Western issues
By Jonathan Thompson
hcn.org/articles/south-joe-biden-bidens-herky-jerky-first-year-on-western-issues
Interior devotes billions to plugging old oil wells. Is it enough?
By Nick Bowlin
hcn.org/articles/south-department-of-interior-devotes-billions-to-plugging-old-oil-wells-is-it-enough
Tribes call out Oregon’s reckless gaming regulation
By Brian Oaster and Theo Whitcomb
hcn.org/issues/54.2/indigenous-affairs-tribes-call-out-oregons-reckless-gaming-regulation
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.
