Lee and Rep. Celeste Maloy are defending the proposal after conservation groups launched campaigns to try to stop it ...

The provision could lead to around 3 million acres of federally managed public land across 11 states and may reshape ...

The federal government is the largest landowner in the United States, controlling nearly one-third of the nation's lands, ...

The Conservation Fund's purchase halted a widely opposed titanium mining proposal near the largest blackwater swamp in North ...

Now, the Senate's Energy and Natural Resource Committee—chaired by Sen. Mike Lee of Utah—has reportedly added vast swaths of ...

Hawaii bans all off-site advertising: That means no billboards, no ads for products or services on public property, and no ...

An Alabama-based company that was close to receiving the final go-ahead from the state to mine near the Okefenokee National ...

The Alabama company that planned to mine titanium dioxide next to the Okefenokee Swamp has agreed to sell its property to an ...

Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services has announced local artist Amanda Burk has completed the public mural as a funded part ...

The landmark deal ends a years-long fight over a proposed mine next to one of the South’s last truly wild places.

A conservation group said Friday it has reached a $60 million deal to buy land outside the Okefenokee Swamp from a mining company that environmentalists spent years battling ...

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff released a statement addressing the Okefenokee Swamp Land deal on Friday and discussed taking the proper ...