In many places, high housing prices are largely a self-inflicted wound. That isn’t the case in Nevada. In a splashy March 2025 Wall Street Journal op-ed, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott ...

The US federal government owns and administers 472,892,659 acres or 21% of the land area of the lower 48 states, the country’s largest landowner. The resource is held and managed as a collective ...

The Las Vegas Review Journal is Nevada's largest newspaper. If Nevada controlled more of the land within its own boundaries, state and local officials would have more input over how that land was used ...

According to a Congressional Research Service report published in 2020 (and cited by this column before), the federal government owned 24.7 percent of the land in the District of Columbia as of 2018.

The U.S. government currently owns 28% of the land in the United States, which is way too much. The federal government owns approximately 640 million acres of the 2.4 billion acres that constitute the ...

The National Park Service is considering two land exchanges on Cumberland Island as public comments remain open through Oct. 16.

Dalton Highway in Alaska (Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management via Wikimedia Commons) (CN) — A federal judge on Friday denied a bid by a group of environmental nonprofits to stop the U.S. Interior ...

In which jurisdiction does the federal government own a higher percentage of the land? Is it in the District of Columbia, which sits on the East Coast and serves as the nation's capital, or is it in ...