Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni

A federal judge rejected a challenge from some of Arizona's top Republicans to undo the designation of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.

The U.S. Forest Service says it is reviewing a 1986 environmental assessment of a uranium mine near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.

In late July, the first truckloads of uranium ore were shipped from the Pinyon Plain Mine near the Grand Canyon. The mine’s owner says it's crucial as the world moves away from fossil fuels, but conservationists and Indigenous communities are pushing back.

Thursday marks the first anniversary of President Joe Biden’s designation of a nearly million-acre national monument near Grand Canyon National Park. The area is culturally significant to 13 tribes in the region.

The company that owns a controversial uranium mine near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon began transporting ore from the site on Tuesday to a mill in southern Utah.

The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service wants to use pesticides to treat nearly 2 million acres around the Grand Canyon to prevent an infestation of rangeland grasshoppers and Mormon crickets. The Center for Biological Diversity says the plan is a “shortsighted quick fix.”

Four Arizona legislators introduced legislation to establish more than a million acres of federal land as a new Grand Canyon National Monument Tuesday.

The Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service will host a public meeting next week in Flagstaff regarding management of the region’s public lands and a proposal to designate a new national monument near the Grand Canyon.