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One person was killed in a head-on crash in southeastern Utah Saturday afternoon on State Route 162.

Five Native American tribes have signed an agreement with the Biden administration for sharing management of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument with the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service. The agencies signed the cooperative agreement with the five tribes of the Bears Ears Commission at a Saturday...

Federal land agencies and tribal leadership formalized their co-management of the Bears Ears National Monument at a signing ceremony on June 18. The signing took place in White Mesa, afterwards, representatives traveled along highway 261 to unveil one of the new Bears Ears National Monument signs, which includes the insignias of the five tribes involved in the management of the monument.

June 20 (UPI) -- The Biden administration has reached a first-of-its-kind agreement with five Native American tribes to participate in the management of the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. The new cooperative agreement was signed Saturday in White Mesa, Utah, by Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning, Agriculture...

WHITE MESA, Utah, June 21, 2022 (Gephardt Daily) — At a signing ceremony on Saturday, the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service, and the five Tribes of the Bears Ears Commission formalized and celebrated their partnership for co-management of the Bears Ears National Monument. The new cooperative...

WHITE MESA, Utah — The Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service, and the five Tribes of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition signed an agreement Monday to commit to the co-management of the Bears Ears National Monument. The signing comes months after President Joe Biden restored the monument‘s...

The Utah Navajo Health System is hosting the First Annual Indigenous Mens Conference on June 30th, 2022. The event will begin at 8:30 AM and will be held at the UNHS facility in Montezuma Creek, UT. In the ever evolving world we must also provide a safe space for Indigenous...

The Town of Bluff and Canyon Country Discovery Center are partnering on a grant to clean up the giant cane plant in the area. The 4River Foundation is a Four-Corners-based foundation giving out grants to communities in the area for the purpose of river restoration and maintenance. The money being provided through this organization comes from corporate partners.

TOWAOC, Colo. — The water is flowing, and the crops are growing at the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe's farm in Towaoc, Colorado. But this year, only a fraction of the southwest Colorado tribal farm is green. For the second straight year, the farm's water supply has been cut due...

In 1859, prospector John H. Gregory panned nearly $1,000 of gold dust from a gulch 40 miles west of Denver in what became known as “The Richest Square Mile on Earth.” Indeed, the hills surrounding the towns of Central City and Black Hawk yielded tons of the precious metal, and fortune seekers hoping to share the bonanza descended on the region. A century and a half later, visitors still venture here looking for "gold."

This story was originally published by The Colorado Sun. In Towaoc, capital of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, there are about 347 households and no place within 15 miles to shop for fresh, healthy food. That’s a significant barrier to improving health in a community where rates of obesity and...