Brian Maffly

BYU professor Ben Abbott is fighting back against $3 million defamation lawsuit with his own action accusing the proponents of the Utah Lake dredging projects of abusing the judicial system to silence critics.

A few dozens wells are to be drilled in Bears Ears National Monument to provide livestock more places to access water.

The Biden administration’s resumption of oil and gas leasing on public lands this week got off to rocky start with the cancellation of Utah’s sale and a lawsuit from environmental groups unhappy with what they see as a repudiation of the president’s campaign pledge to combat climate change.

A day after Utah filed suit to erase the Bears Ears National Monument’s restored boundaries, the Bureau of Land Management on Thursday initiated a planning process for the the 1.3-million-acre monument in partnership with the five tribes that lobbied for protecting this archaeologically rich landscape encircling Cedar Mesa.

Claiming “overgrown” forests are sucking up Utah’s water resources, rural lawmakers call for major logging initiative to save Great Salt Lake and Lake Powell.

The U.S. Forest Service plans to spend an additional $25 million on forest health projects this year aimed at reducing wildfire risk In Utah’s Wasatch, Uinta and Pine Valley mountains.

To protect mule deer during harsh winter conditions this year, Utah DWR has banned the gathering of shed antlers until May 1.

Utah lawmakers divert millions to pave oil tanker routes from Uinta Basin to rail loadouts in Carbon County.

A group of Utah counties is poised to issue $2 billion in tax-exempt bonds to finance the construction of an 85-mile oil-hauling rail spur out of the Uinta Basin.

Millions of acres of land in Utah under the control of federal and state agencies. What does that mean for the residents and visitors who want to use it?