Author: Mariah Wheeler

UTAH – With the stroke of a pen, President Joe Biden could return Utah’s two largest national monuments to their original sizes. Instead, he opted to open a 60-day review into how his predecessor shrunk the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments by 2 million acres, leaving open a range of options for the new administration. An executive order issued Wednesday instructs the Interior Secretary, a post likely to be filled by Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico, to submit findings and recommendations for moving forward on the future of these landscapes that have been ground zero in Utah’s public lands battles going…

OGDEN, Utah — On Monday, a group of people honored the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a “unity caravan” in Ogden. The folks at the Ogden branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) usually hold a march, but they changed course due to the pandemic. Ogden Police escorted the caravan from the Marshall White Center through the community. Organizers say it’s encouraging to see people come together to celebrate the values and principles Dr. King embodied. “I do anticipate even more people — not just today, but moving forward the rest of…