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

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

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

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

A U.S. Senator and House member from Utah introduce companion bills stripping the president of the ability to set aside federal lands.

(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) President Joe Biden hands Interior Secretary Deb Haaland a pen after signing a proclamation ...

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

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order relating to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina at the White House ...

Chuckwalla National Monument is being designated by presidential proclamation today, offering an alternate future for the southernmost California desert as it grapples with climate change and habitat ...

I received an email, as many others did, from our Congressman Raul Ruiz. It announced President Biden’s designation of the ...

Expansive lava flows in the Sáttítla Highlands was captured by satellites ahead of the recent designation of the area as a national monument.

Roosevelt used the broad powers of the Antiquities Act eighteen times to increase protections for places like the Arizona's Grand Canyon and Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Since then, U.S. Presidents ...