"Extreme washouts ahead. Enter at your own risk," the sign warned. Someone had even scrawled a skull and crossbones next to the hand-painted message. We were still on graded dirt, just a few miles ...

At Christmas, 1879, 250 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were on a mission to establish a settlement along the San Juan River in southeastern Utah. But their way was blocked ...

The decision affects just two of more than a dozen “bellwether” routes at the center of multiple lawsuits the state has filed against the federal government. Utah’s slow-moving and often meandering ...