This story by Aspen Journalism, examining the past and future of public land commodification locally and nationally, is presented in the Aspen Daily News in two parts, running Nov. 16 and Nov. 17.

The House on Wednesday approved a Senate-passed bill to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history after more than a ...

Led by Senate Western Caucus Chair Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, the 12 GOP senators issued “strong support” in the letter for ...

Republicans have spent years attacking the rulemaking that elevates conservation as a federal land management objective.

The Trump administration has announced sweeping changes to grazing rules on public lands, streamlining regulations that ranchers long opposed. The changes arrived as more ranching operations close ...

The Trump administration announced Thursday that approval had been granted for the construction of a controversial road through a pristine wildlife refuge in Alaska that officials and activists have ...

US Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum floated the concept of storing natural gas produced in Alaska’s North Slope and shipping it directly from there, a proposal he said has drawn interest from ...

Hundreds of former National Park Service (NPS) employees are calling for the nation’s parks to close amid the ongoing government shutdown. In a new letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the former ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday finalized plans to open the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to potential oil and gas drilling, renewing a ...

The Trump administration on Thursday announced a series of steps to open up Alaskan wilderness to energy and infrastructure development, including by allowing oil and gas drilling in the remote Arctic ...

The US is officially opening up all 1.56 million acres of the Coastal Plain within Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas leasing, the Department of the Interior (DoI) said Thursday.