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One-thousand National Park Service staff were being fired Friday as part of the Trump administration's move to reduce the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As part of the Trump administration’s push to expand U.S. energy production, federal officials will review and consider redrawing the boundaries of national monuments created under ...

Nearly 150 people took part in the Wednesday demonstrations at the state Capitol in Nashville. The event was part of a national movement called the "505001" protest, which epresents the call to ...

LANSING — Anger about President Donald Trump's actions during the first few weeks of his second stint in the White House brought hundreds of protestors to the state Capitol on Wednesday ...

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The Great Salt Lake appears to have been a big draw last year, too. Antelope Island — always a crowd-pleaser — leaped past Snow Canyon to be Utah’s third most-visited state park in 2024, as it ...

In all, visitation grew at four of Utah’s “Mighty 5” parks last year. Zion National Park reclaimed its top spot as Utah’s busiest park in 2024, drawing over 4.9 million visits last year.

Capitol Reef National Park in south-central Utah was the only park among the five to break a record, tallying 1.42 million visits in 2024 to top its previous record of 1.4 million set in 2021.

In fact, this road helped lead to the establishment of Capitol Reef National Park. Early residents of Wayne County saw tourism potential in the Capitol Reef area as early as 1915. Pushing for “Wayne ...

WASHINGTON - The man arrested Monday after admitting to carrying two Molotov cocktails and two knives onto the U.S. Capitol grounds has been identified as 24-year-old Ryan M. English from Rhode ...