Republicans in the U.S. Senate have introduced a proposal to sell millions of acres of federal land in eleven western states, ...

Senate Republicans want to sell the land to build more housing in the West, but the idea is contentious even within their own ...

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee released the text of its piece of the Senate budget bill Wednesday night.

The proposal came from the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, where Idaho Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Risch is a member.

More than 2 million acres of federal lands would be sold to states or other entities under a budget proposal from Utah ...

The Bureau of Land Management approved construction of a potash mine near Sevier Lake in Millard County. Plans for the mine ...

The country’s top land managers testified before U.S. senators last week to defend sweeping budget cuts for the nation’s ...

But not everyone in the party thinks it’s a good idea.

The draft from a Senate committee lists 11 “eligible” states where millions of acres of public land could be sold. Those include every state in the West save for Montana.

Mike Lee’s provision added to budget bill would call on Agriculture and Interior agencies to sell some of their land holdings ...

The majority of public land is too fire prone and far away from communities to even make sense for housing, research shows.

Senator Mike Lee of Utah introduced language that would sell off up to three million acres of federal lands in 12 Western ...