SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A government watchdog will investigate whether the U.S. Interior Department broke the law by making plans to open up lands cut from a Utah national monument by President Trump to leasing for oil, gas and coal development. U.S. Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico said […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — New legislation from a pair of Republican Utah lawmakers would create the Jurassic National Monument at a dinosaur fossil site and create a conservation area around the rugged San Rafael Swell. Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. John Curtis said Wednesday their sweeping new land reform […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop wants to turn northern Utah’s Golden Spike National Historic Site into a national park. Bishop told The Standard-Examiner in Ogden that he’s introducing legislation Thursday that would elevate the status of the site at Promontory Summit where the first transcontinental railroad in country […]
