A solar installation in Emery County is pictured on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch) The federal government released its updated plan to develop swaths of ...

Wyoming and Utah are challenging the Bureau of Land Management over “public lands” rules. The case filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah challenges new BLM rules announced on April ...

Wyoming is backing an effort by Utah to wrest ownership of U.S. Bureau of Land Management land from the federal government, arguing that states could “develop the land to attract prospective citizens.

A section of Comb Ridge in Bears Ears National Monument is pictured on May 9, 2018. (Kyle Dunphey/Utah News Dispatch) From members of Utah’s congressional delegation to the state’s governor and ...

Utah is no longer asking the U.S. Supreme Court to order the United States to “dispose” of 18.5 million acres of public land in the Beehive State, its latest court pleading shows. In an 18-page Dec. 4 ...

The Bureau of Land Management oversees nearly 23 million acres of Utah’s land for grazing, oil and gas, mining and logging. Thursday, the agency published a rule that puts conservation on par with ...

If we would examine it carefully, there are likely many acres of federal land in Utah, and throughout the West, that could reasonably be turned over to state or local control or to private developers.

The limits block some motorized travel in the San Rafael Swell, an area popular with hikers and campers. A coalition of groups is challenging a travel management plan in Utah that the Bureau of Land ...

The plan designates more than 1,300 miles of motorized travel routes in the San Rafael Swell and closes 158 miles of now-open routes to all-terrain vehicles, dirt bikes and off-road trucks. The Bureau ...

Popular trails, wildlife habitats and even ski resorts are among more than 18 million acres of public land in Utah that appear to be eligible for sale under the latest version of the Big Beautiful ...