As the Great Salt Lake plunges back toward a historic low, key questions about the dust kicking up from the dry lake bed and its effects on human health remain unanswered. At a Monday forum focused on...

Floods of four decades ago wiped out native plants and left the Great Salt Lake vulnerable to an expensive problem: tall, invasive, thirsty reeds crowding out other plants and covering up habitat for...

It’s a season of change for state leadership on the drying Great Salt Lake. Utah has a new lake commissioner, Hannah Freeze, and a new chief leading the Department of Natural Resources, Jamie Barnes,...

The Trump administration wants to ramp up production of critical minerals without relying on other countries, and it’s looking to Utah for help. A company extracting lithium from the Great Salt Lake w...

Smoky skies have teamed up with ozone pollution and dust storms over the Great Salt Lake for a many-sided assault on air quality this summer. Wildfire smoke has cleared away for now, but it may be jus...

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Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority says it’s hitting pause on the project for now Rhonda Lauritzen returned earlier this month to the beach on the northern tip of the Great Salt Lake w...

Like birds that land there in spring and summer, concern about data center development in Utah and how it could affect the drying Great Salt Lake is migrating south. The focus is extending from the la...

State leaders say they’re moving closer toward a goal of snapping up more land on the southeast side of the Great Salt Lake to help protect it from any further encroaching development. They announced...

A Utah county reliant on summer tourism is generating new ideas to entice visitors As the Green River runs high out of Flaming Gorge Reservoir, so is anxiety in the tiny Utah town of Manila catering t...

The group of citizens fighting a proposed hyperscale data center in their rural northern Utah county are taking their case to court. The Box Elder Accountability Referendum group, or BEAR, wants voter...

The rescue effort is bringing together a broad array of officials, business leaders and conservation groups. Key points: As the water in Great Salt Lake remains at an unhealthy low level, funding to h...

A recent Saturday in Orem was sunny and warmer than usual, but the Cardon family was inside, surrounded by cardboard boxes and bubble wrap. As they cleared off shelves and packed away family photos, t...

Trump’s interest invites praise from legislators and skepticism from a clean-air advocate As President Donald Trump promises to help rescue the Great Salt Lake and Utah’s top lawmakers talk of high-te...

Gov. Spencer Cox says he spoke with the president about $1B in funding President Donald Trump has turned his attention to the drying Great Salt Lake, declaring his commitment to “MAKE ‘THE LAKE’ GREAT...

Bills aim to help conserve water in a year kicking off with drought and dismal snowpack Mountains without snow. A start to February that feels like April. The Great Salt Lake so dry, scientists warn o...

Utah’s top natural resources official calls 2026 a ‘watershed year’ To get in top shape for the 2034 Winter Games, state officials say the drying Great Salt Lake needs enough additional water each yea...

States agree they need a long-term solution but other points of consensus are unclear Utahns hoping for clarity on the government’s next move to keep the Colorado River from drying up and still supply...

Utah and the federal government aren’t giving details or a new timeline Utah and six other states along the Colorado River blew past their deadline Tuesday to reach a new deal on managing the dwindlin...

Arizona’s governor slams Colorado, but Utah rep says states are ‘making steady progress’ A fight over which states along the Colorado River have to cut their water use may still be damming up negotiat...

Utah and six other states along the Colorado River are pushing up against a deadline to figure out as a group how to manage the river and its reservoirs. If they can’t reach an agreement by Nov. 11, t...