SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — ATVs will be allowed on certain roads in the five national parks in Utah under a new rule from the National Park Service that went through without public comment. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the agency informed park administrators last week in a memo about a policy […]
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. government on Wednesday will reclassify some of the nation’s most dangerous radioactive waste to lower its threat level, outraging critics who say the move would make it cheaper and easier to walk away from cleaning up nuclear weapons production sites in Washington state, Idaho […]
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — A federal court has dismissed the Navajo Nation’s lawsuit against the U.S. government and Winslow, Arizona over the police shooting of a tribal member. The Gallup Independent reports Judge G. Murray Snow ruled last week that the tribe lack standing and “did not suffer a legally cognizable […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Conservation groups are suing the U.S. government over a new agreement that will allow Utah to take water from the Flaming Gorge Dam. The Center for Biological Diversity and three other organizations filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation didn’t properly […]
