Bears Ears National Monument spans over a million acres in southeastern Utah, a tapestry of mesas, canyons, forests, and sandstone towers. The monument takes its name from two prominent buttes ...

Bears Ears National Monument, created by President Barack Obama, protected lands that tribes in the area had long considered important to their history. President Donald Trump reduced the size of ...

WATCH: Trump scales back Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments By Ryan Connelly Holmes President Donald Trump is expected to speak around 2:40 p.m. ET. Watch live here.

The new opinion states that presidents may remove or reduce protections for monuments that “never were or no longer are deserving” of such status.

The Justice Department this week published legal guidance for the White House saying presidents can eliminate or cut national monuments created by their ...

President Donald Trump has broad authority to revoke protected land designated as national monuments by past presidents, the Justice Department said in a new legal opinion.

The Antiquities Act of 1906, signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt, gave Congress or the president the authority to establish national monuments on federal land as a means of protecting ...

Conservation groups gathered to support two national monuments, opposing a plan by the Trump administration to open lands to ...

The Republican in his first term reduced the size of two Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments in Utah, calling them a "massive land grab." He also lifted fishing restrictions ...

President Donald Trump’s administration appears poised to rescind some of the national monuments created by past presidents. The U.S. Department of Justice released a legal opinion on Tuesday, June 10 ...

The department's disavowed a 1938 determination that presidents can't revoke a Antiquities Act designation by a predecessor.