On Wednesday, Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) introduced the Protecting America’s Treasures by Raising Inflow from Overseas ...

President Donald Trump seeks a 93% funding cut to a quasi-federal government agency responsible for promoting economic development and community building in Appalachia. West Virginia is the sole state ...

In the latest change to federal land management, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced its intention to get rid of ...

West Virginia senators Shelly Moore Capito ... and Jim Justice voted along party lines late Thursday against two amendments that would have reversed mass layoffs at federal land management ...

The U.S. government owns half of the land in 11 western states—but almost no one ... Their cause—that the government relinquish control over federal grazing lands—is not exactly a national ...

The United States possesses a natural bounty of federal public lands, sprawling across the West and encompassing spectacular mountains, sagebrush basins, and cactus-studded deserts.

To help us understand why the federal government owns and manages so much public land in the West, we're joined by NPR's Kirk Siegler. He's at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.

Less visible efforts to wrest control of federal lands date back more than a century in the West, where the U.S. government manages most of the land in some states. ___ ...

Some fast growing cities think access to federal lands could be a boon. Others worry the sale would be a giveaway to developers and mining companies.