The Canyon Mine in Arizona opened in 1986, but work stalled as uranium prices fell. Now, mine owner Energy Fuels plans on resuming work at the mine just south of the Grand Canyon in the Kaibab... Read Original Story
BY HERMAN G. HONANIE
This week Navajo Nation Council Delegate Ben Bennett avoided an opportunity to hear debate on the proposed Escalade bill (0293-16) during the summer session of the Navajo Nation... Read Original Story
BY STEPHANIE MALIN
Tucked inside the Trump administration’s proposed budget is $703 million in funding for nuclear weapons. Although that's about 30 percent less than last year, you would hardly know... Read Original Story
BY JOANNA WALTERS
Ed Tilousi knelt down next to the crystal-clear turquoise creek. The only sounds were the gurgling of the current and the sawing of cicadas in a pecan nut tree as the hot sun made... Read Original Story
BY RON DUNGAN
Navajo Nation Council delegates have rejected a plan to build a gondola ride into the eastern Grand Canyon, leaving the project's future in the hands of the full council.
The Naabik’... Read Original Story
BY CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM
When Carolyn Shelton began working at southern Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in 2001, she expected to leave it in better shape for the next generation.... Read Original Story
BY BRIAN MAFFLY
Several mineral-rich eastern Utah counties banded together a few years ago to build costly commodity-moving projects needed by extractive industries to tap underground resources and... Read Original Story
BY GARIN CORIZ
The creation of Bears Ears National Monument is a unique story born out of the dust and heat of the Wild West.
For decades, looters pillaged this extremely rich archaeological... Read Original Story
