DENVER — Federal officials on Monday took a first step toward reopening vast areas of public lands in two Western states to new coal sales as part of President Donald Trump’s push to expand U.S.

The U.S. Congress has passed hundreds of laws protecting federal public lands over the past century through bipartisan efforts and with the support of local governments. Now, President Donald Trump’s ...

The Homestead Act is where it all began. To encourage westward expansion in 1862, the federal government offered 160-acre plots of land to the American people for a modest filing fee and commitment to ...

Utah’s political leadership is regrouping after three failed attempts to wrest public lands from the federal government this year. But the state has signaled that it is “just getting started,” per a ...

The old license plates read "Big Sky Country," but inside Montana, there's an unofficial state motto: "the last best place." Hemmed by the Plains and the Pacific Northwest, Montana is a patchwork of ...

On Friday, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued a secretarial order that could effectively prohibit his agency from issuing permits for wind and solar on federal lands unless they produce as much ...

An Idaho Republican congressman is advocating for the transfer of Idaho’s federally managed public lands to local control, a move he said would address the federal government’s failure to properly ...

In the spring of 1996, lawmakers quietly buried a rider in a humdrum bill meant to make life easier for small businesses. That addition, the Congressional Review Act, granted Congress the power to ...