WASHINGTON – Yucca House National Monument southwest of Cortez inched closer to growing six times larger this week after the deputy director of U.S. National Parks testified in the U.S. Senate in...

WASHINGTON – Fifty-one members of the U.S. Congress filed a legal complaint Thursday against the Trump administration’s effort to roll back a regulation meant to limit methane emissions from oil...

WASHINGTON – Just a month after U.S. House Republicans introduced a bill to streamline the permitting process for mineral mining, the Trump administration has asked the same of the U.S. Department...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. House passed a comprehensive natural disaster aid package Monday evening that provides $19.1 billion for wildfire, hurricane, tornado, earthquake and flood relief. Among the...

WASHINGTON – Japan has lifted restrictions on U.S. beef imports, ending a partial embargo stemming from a 2003 mad cow disease outbreak, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced earlier this...

WASHINGTON – Japan has lifted restrictions on U.S. beef imports, ending a partial embargo stemming from a 2003 mad cow disease outbreak, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced earlier this...

WASHINGTON – Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress agree that federal hard-rock mining regulations, which are governed by a 147-year-old law, need updating. But the partisan bills that...