Public Lands

FILE: High winds toppled trees that had stood for decades at the Ft. Douglas Post Cemetery, damagin...

Ryan Meeks

Many SLC parks remain closed for continued cleanup from windstorm

many of the parks that were affected by the wind storm last week will remain closed for public safety and to allow crews to continue their cleanup efforts.

6 years ago

Photo courtesy of Getty Images. Large Kiva, or a ceremonial/communal structure created by the indig...

Saige Miller

Senators push for hearing on Chaco protection legislation

New Mexico's congressional delegation is pushing for a Senate hearing on legislation that would withdraw federal holdings from oil and gas development.

7 years ago

File: Secretary Zinke at Bears Ears National Monument...

Curt Gresseth

The politics of doing and undoing a national monument

President Obama designated the Bears Ears National Monument, then President Trump partially reversed that move, and now Sen. Warren vows to undo it.

7 years ago

Matthew Brooks

Feds wants Utah lawmaker to pay $90,000 for illegal ATV ride

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Now that former San Juan County commissioner Phil Lyman is getting a government stipend as a state lawmaker, federal prosecutors want him to speed up paying off the $96,000 in damage caused by an illegal ATV protest ride he led through a pristine southeastern canyon in 2014. Federal prosecutors said […]