President Joe Biden on Tuesday will create a new national monument in Arizona covering close to a million acres of lands surrounding the Grand Canyon important to nearby Native American tribes.

President Biden designated a new national monument near the Grand Canyon on Tuesday. The move protects lands that are sacred to indigenous peoples and permanently bans new uranium mining claims in ...

The Biden administration announced the creation of a new national monument surrounding the Grand Canyon in the hopes of protecting it from mining and development. But that still won’t stop a ...

On August 8, President Joe Biden signed a national monument designation for the greater Grand Canyon, turning a multi-year dream by local Native American tribes and environmentalists into a reality.

Credit: Alex Brandon/AP Photo The designation of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument earlier this week protects nearly 1 million acres of ...

Even if President Joe Biden creates a national monument around the Grand Canyon National Park this week, mining proponents say they believe they can still push forward there. If President Joe ...

The new monument is made up of three different areas to the north and south of Grand Canyon National Park. JIM WATSON/Getty Images President Joe Biden walks to sign a proclamation to designate ...

President Joe Biden has designated a new national monument designed to preserve Native American cultural sites and prevent new uranium mining on nearly 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon ...

LEES FERRY — A red and silver jet boat leaves the dock at Lees Ferry in Marble Canyon. Captain Kevin Campbell cruises through the Colorado River, framed on either side by sandstone that rises ...

Others are debating whether the proposed national monument, several miles from the Grand Canyon at its nearest point, would do anything to prevent contamination of the Colorado River watershed.