By Brent Cunningham Elliott Woods, a longtime FERN contributor, spent nearly two and a half years reporting and writing two ...

Last month, with great fanfare, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled the new dietary guidelines for Americans. The advice was ...

Shortly after Gustavo started working as a sheepherder in Cokeville, Wyoming, he says his boss took his passport. Over the ...

This week, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants faced an uncertain future as the Trump administration fought in federal ...

This week, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants faced an uncertain future as the Trump administration fought in federal ...

My dad and I have accidentally found ourselves in the funeral-catering business. In many ways, it is the perfect gig for my father, a retired chef with a penchant for gossiping over an afternoon ...

By Theodore Ross Last Friday, we published the latest installment in FERN’s “Trouble on the line” special series that documents the challenges, struggles — and in this ...

Yesterday marked another first in FERN’s ongoing project to adapt to newer forms of media. We published the pilot episode of Forked, a new interview podcast series. I’m the co-host of Forked, along ...

The fatal citrus greening disease was confirmed for the second time in the San Gabriel section of Los Angeles County, reports the Fresno Bee. California Republicans in the U.S. House proposed "an ...

It’s just past noon on a Wednesday, but the bar at the Ski Inn in Bombay Beach, California, is already packed. The crowd is mostly Canadian, snowbirds escaping to the desert spas and country club ...

If you avoid meat to cut down on animal cruelty, carbon emissions or both, your options are a lot better than they were a decade ago, which is to say they’re … fine. For people who can afford to pay a ...

Last December, at the height of Greece’s olive harvest season, two men drove a stolen white truck to the Glyfada mill in a small town not far from Kalamata. After idling the truck for a while, the men ...