Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument spans 1.87 million acres of central Utah stretching from the boundary of Bryce Canyon National Park in the west to the boundary of Capitol Reef National ...

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has a new management plan, and Utah’s congressional delegation doesn’t like it. Earlier this week, the Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, approved a ...

ESCALANTE, Utah — Whether President Clinton’s 1996 creation of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument helped or harmed nearby counties remains a fierce dispute. Did it quash high-paying jobs or ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will restore two sprawling national monuments in Utah that have been at the center of a long-running public lands dispute, and a separate marine conservation area ...

On Oct. 8, President Biden righted two of the previous president’s many wrongs. In a pair of precise and eloquent proclamations, Biden restored the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand ...

Utah officials took little time to lick their wounds after losing a lawsuit Friday that sought to roll back the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. In a filing Monday, Utah ...

(CNN) — The Biden administration will expand the size of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said on Thursday. Cox, a Republican, said in a critical ...

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ESCALANTE, Utah – The lonesome sandstone canyons and juniper-studded mesas that sweep across southern Utah may be rich in scenery, but they have never offered local residents easy paths to wealth.

The years-long debate about conserving the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments has centered on the tension between preserving the history and culture of the Indigenous peoples ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The state of Utah has filed a lawsuit over President Biden's decision to reinstate the boundaries of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. The lawsuit, ...

If the news on Friday had been broadcast on a split screen, the juxtaposition would have been startling. One side would have pictured Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland introducing President Biden ...