Just in time for the busy Memorial Day weekend, off-roaders may return to the public lands encircling southern Utah’s Factory Butte, otherworldly badlands that have been closed to cross-country ...

Three environmental groups are suing the federal Bureau of Land Management, arguing the agency reopened thousands of acres in southern Utah to unfettered motorized use without investigating the ...

Their groundbreaking discovery came in the form of a 94-million-year-old mosasaur found in the gray shale badlands of the National Park Service Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in southern Utah.

ST. GEORGE, UTAH -- "Most of what follows is true." That's the opening of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," the 1969 movie about two bandits born as the sun was setting on the Old West.

Environmental groups are challenging the U.S. government's decision to reopen a large swath of southern Utah's badlands to off-road vehicles.

“This is a crisis,” said Jim Kirkland, state paleontologist with the Utah Geological Survey. “And one of my jobs is to attract attention to this so we can save as much of it as we can.” ...

If you're visiting Utah, you have to check out this unique canyon with rock formations that will make you feel like you've been transported to another planet.

And of all these places brimming with dinosaur fossils, southern Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has most forcefully captured the attention and imagination of researchers.