SALT LAKE CITY — Congress haggled over appropriation bills this week for federal departments like the Department of Defense and the Department of the Interior. Those bills create annual budgets but ...

Utah Sen. Mike Lee reneged on a controversial amendment change that could have stripped protections from national parks late last week following public outcry. But the contentious alteration might not ...

Utah Sen. Mike Lee has proposed changes to the Senate appropriations bill that could open the door for the sale of national parks, according to national park advocacy groups. Lee, chairman of the ...

Note to readers • This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Public lands are in Sen. Mike Lee’s ...

WASHINGTON— Sen. Mike Lee has introduced an amendment to the Interior appropriations bill that would remove language preventing the sale of America’s national parks and other protected lands. “By ...