For less than a year, the desert landscape and sacred mountains of Avi Kwa Ame have been spared from the sprawl of developers and the wandering eye of the mining industry.

The Chuckwalla National Monument will protect public lands in southeastern California and will extend a conservation corridor stretching into Utah.

With less than two weeks left in his presidency, President Joe Biden designated two new national monuments in the West. Biden ...

Last year — thanks to President Joe Biden’s use of a 118-year-old law — Avi Kwa Ame joined the ranks of Tule Springs, Gold Butte, and Basin and Range as a national monument in Nevada.

A historically fierce windstorm Tuesday in Southern California that has caused destructive wildfires prompted President Joe ...

President Joe Biden is on Los Angeles and traveling to the Coachella Valley Tuesday to announce the creation of a national ...

President Joe Biden is in Los Angeles and traveling to the Coachella Valley Tuesday to announce the creation of a national monument south of Joshua Tree National Park. Biden and first lady Jill Biden ...

The president's announcement about the Chuckwalla National Monument near Joshua Tree was delayed by a windstorm, rescheduling ...

Biden has federally protected 1,053,125 square miles of land and ocean in his term — an area nearly four times the size of ...