Downsized Utah national monument allows for more oil and gas development The Bureau of Land Management's plan for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southwestern Utah codifies that ...

BOULDER, Colorado — Utah officials and private citizens aiming to slash millions of acres from a pair of national monuments in their state are pressing to reopen failed federal lawsuits ...

This is not Mars but Utah, the heart of the Bears Ears National Monument, a nature preserve designated just 12 months ago by Barack Obama, in the dying days of his presidency. Critics say that the ...

A Utah man who died in a rafting accident at Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado has been identified as a 27-year veteran of the Salt Lake City Fire Department. Michael Harp, 54, was part of a ...

Biden to expand 2 Utah national monuments cut by Trump Environmental and tribal groups had sued to reverse the cuts to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. But the reductions were applauded ...

Then, in 2021, President Joe Biden restored the monuments to their original size, again using the Antiquities Act. That authority was promptly challenged by the state of Utah, which in 2022 joined ...

SALT LAKE CITY— A federal judge today dismissed two lawsuits filed by the state of Utah that attempted to undo President Biden’s restoration of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national ...

FILE - This May 8, 2017, file photo, shows Arch Canyon within Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. The U.S. government implemented final management plans Thursday for two national monuments in Utah ...

A hiker looks inside an ancient granary, part of the House on Fire ruins in the South Fork of Mule Canyon in the Bears Ears National Monument on May 12, 2017 outside Blanding, Utah. (Photo by George ...