President Barack Obama designated five locations around the country Monday as new national monuments to protect large tracts of land and historical sites, a White House official said. The new ...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — When President Obama delivers his remarks at Yosemite National Park on Saturday, he'll have no shortage of accomplishments to tout. Obama has created or expanded 23 national ...

Matthew Daly of the Associated Press reports: President Barack Obama is designating the California home of labor leader Cesar Chavez as a national monument, a move likely to shore up support from ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — President Barack Obama expanded his environmental legacy in the final days of his presidency with national monuments designations on lands in Utah and Nevada that have become ...

Obama also expanded two national monuments in the West, protecting more areas of cultural, historic and environmental significance in Oregon and California. Both moves could anger opponents of federal ...

Ten years ago, the city of Desert Hot Springs was reinventing itself. After declaring bankruptcy in 2001 and fiscal emergency in 2013 and 2014, the city had started to turn its finances around after ...