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Native Americans have grown food in the desert for ages, but many tribal agricultural traditions have disappeared. Now, people in southeast Utah are working to bring Navajo traditions back — one fruit tree and garden bed at a time.

Gov. Katie Hobbs said Friday that she intervened this week after talking with Navajo President Buu Nygren. The tribal president says Energy Fuels reneged on a verbal promise to give the tribe and others advance notice of shipments.

Tribal President Buu Nygren on Tuesday ordered Navajo police to set up roadblocks on federal highways and turn back any trucks carrying uranium.

As part of its Fighting Hunger Statewide Initiative, the Utah Food Bank built new facilities in Springville, Blanding, Montezuma Creek and the Monument and Hurricane valleys.

Here’s what you need to know about the five potential options for managing the use of Bears Ears National Monument in southeast Utah.

As skilled trades face a nationwide worker shortage, a new training facility in rural southeast Utah is trying to make it easier for women to seize the opportunity.

The Republican state representative from Blanding, Utah, is known nationally for his pardon by former President Donald Trump.

Between drought, climate change and population growth, Utah’s water supply is stretched increasingly thin. A new study shows how two very different communities in different parts of the state found success in conservation.

Lakewood, Colorado-based Energy Fuels says opponents of the mill don’t understand how they've implemented safety measures at the site and how vital it is to the larger, nationwide push for clean energy.

The county’s two Native American commissioners voted in favor of maps that have the least amount of changes from current district maps. They said they want to avoid legal scrutiny.

The reopened shelter in San Juan County will provide resources and services to Utah Navajo Families in southern Utah.

The Four Corners Care Center in Blanding struggled to contain a COVID-19 outbreak last month after a staff member there contracted the virus.“When they…