From the establishment of Salt Lake City by Mormon pioneers in 1847 to the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, Utah has played a key role in America’s westward expansion. Its ...

The week began with a biting cold snap that hammered much of the U.S., then came the catastrophe of rampant and deadly wildfires in a California desiccated by extreme drought.

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, signed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act in the ...

The Interior secretary manages vast lands that all Americans share − and can sway the balance between conservation and development.

Wildfires in California have broken out and escalated significantly since President Joe Biden touched down in Los Angeles on ...

The Interior Department manages about one-fifth of all US land. Its secretary mediates among many competing uses for it, from ...

Creation of the Chuckwalla National Monument preserves more than 600,000 acres. Bad weather cancels president’s speech.

Vast forests, desert land and even a volcano are among the landscapes included in what's now the largest corridor of ...

President Biden on Tuesday established two new national monuments in California, the latest in a flurry of major ...

It looks like Joe Biden will be a thorn in Donald Trump’s side long after he vacates the Oval Office, after the outgoing ...

A large swath of far Northern California has been established as one of California’s newest national monuments on Tuesday following a proclamation by President Biden, ...