Joe Biden

Maloy says the country risks drifting toward authoritarianism if the executive branch isn't brought under control. But she says her concern isn't specific to President Donald Trump's administration and existed when Democrat Joe Biden was in the White House, too.

President Donald Trump froze billions of dollars from the Inflation Reduction Act that was designed to protect water supplies for cities, farms and tribes.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has ordered federal officials to review and consider redrawing the boundaries of national monuments created under previous presidents to protect unique landscapes and cultural resources. The order is part of President Donald Trump's push to expand U.S. energy production.

Funding from the Inflation Reduction Act was allocated to conserve water and protect habitat, but President Donald Trump's executive order put that spending on hold.

In his final address as president, Biden warned of an “oligarchy” of the ultra-wealthy taking root in the country and of a “tech-industrial complex” that is infringing on Americans’ rights and the future of democracy.

Utah, and other Republican-led states, have fought the administration's regulations. Utah both sued over the expanded transgender protections and used a new law to invoke state sovereignty in order to disregard them.

Inflation Reduction Act money helped save water in the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin. President-elect Donald Trump appears poised to take away that funding.

Stevoni Doyle, of Santaquin, said she wanted people with drug addiction to know there is always hope. Others pardoned include a nonprofit leader who supports at-risk youth, a social worker who fosters animals and a counselor and recovery coach.

Grouse numbers plummeted in recent decades because of drilling, disease and other pressures.

For decades, the government-run boarding school system forcibly separated Indian children from their parents. The president called it a “blot on American history” in his first visit to Indian Country.

Biden is preparing to issue an historic apology during his first diplomatic visit to a tribal nation as president on Friday. The Indian boarding school system devastated the lives of generations of Indigenous children and their ancestors.

Bears Ears National Monument in southeast Utah has been at the center of political fights over public land in recent years. The upcoming presidential election threatens to continue escalating that tug-of-war.