On Jan. 7, with only days remaining in his presidency, President Joe Biden announced the designation of two new national ...

U.S. presidents have used the Antiquities Act to protect sacred and important tribal sites. The law is once again under ...

President Joe Biden created the Chuckwalla National Monument, in Southern California near Joshua Tree National Park, and the ...

In an announcement postponed by the Los Angeles wildfires, President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated two sites in California ...

President Joe Biden announced that two locations in California will be declared as national monuments, honoring tribes and ...

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland set out four years ago on a historic journey as the first Native American to serve as a ...

With his signatures, he has officially protected 624,000 acres of ancient, sacred rock formations and sweeping desert washes in eastern Riverside County as the new Chuckwalla National Monument ...

Presidents can designate national monuments unilaterally. But as WW reported last year, Oregon’s senior Democratic U.S. Sen.

A bill, filed on Thursday, would require Congress to sign off on any new national monuments proposed by a president.

A new bill proposed by lawmakers from Utah and Nevada want to remove the president's ability to make or expand national ...