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Utah News Dispatch

The sun rises over a part of Hansel Valley, in Box Elder County, near the proposed Stratos Project, a massive data center planned for 40,000 acres of land, on Thursday, May 28, 2026. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

Report: Stratos Project’s emissions could cause up to 45 premature deaths, illnesses each year

October 28th 2026 by Alixel Cabrera / Utah News Dispatch

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At right, Tim Davis, Utah Department of Environmental Quality commissioner, briefs U.S. Sen. John Curtis and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin during a tour of the Great Salt Lake at Farmington Bay on Saturday, May 23, 2026. (Pool photo by Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune)

Will $1 billion for the Great Salt Lake materialize? Sen. Curtis says he’s working on it

October 20th 2026 by Katie McKellar / Utah News Dispatch

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 Birds take flight over the Great Salt Lake, with downtown Salt Lake City visible in the background, on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

Salt Lake City Council members agree to slow down sale of land near Great Salt Lake to the state

October 8th 2026 by Alixel Cabrera / Utah News Dispatch

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 Bryce Bird, director of the Utah Division of Air Quality, speaks during a panel discussion on Great Salt Lake dust at Zions Bank in Salt Lake City on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026. (Courtesy of the Great Salt Lake Alliance/Alex Travous)

Researchers say they’re getting closer to answers on Great Salt Lake dust

October 6th 2026 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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Crew members work a controlled fire to get rid of invasive phragmites around the Great Salt Lake. (Utah Fire Info)

Utah’s strategy to fight invasive reeds at the Great Salt Lake? Play the long game and look upstream

September 20th 2026 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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Great Salt Lake Commissioner Hannah Freeze and Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Jamie Barnes are pictured at the Utah Capitol on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (Annie Knox/Utah News Dispatch)

Utah has 2 new officials helping to steer the state’s response on the Great Salt Lake

September 20th 2026 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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The Utah Inland Port Authority’s Tooele Valley Project Area is pictured with a view of a new road and rail line leading into Grantsville in September 2025. (Photo courtesy of the Utah Inland Port Authority)

Concerns swirl over a developer’s push for a Tooele Valley data center, but plans are on pause

September 11th 2026 by Katie McKellar / Utah News Dispatch

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Lee Creek flows through mudflats into the Great Salt Lake near Magna on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

With eyes on the Great Salt Lake, water conservation advocates will remove Governor’s Mansion turf

September 11th 2026 by Alixel Cabrera / Utah News Dispatch

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Lilac Solutions’ lithium extraction pilot program near the Great Salt Lake is pictured in August 2025. (Photo courtesy of Lilac Solutions)

Feds look to the Great Salt Lake in push to produce critical minerals

August 21st 2026 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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Wildfire smoke obscures the view of Salt Lake City from the Utah Capitol on June 23, 2026. (McKenzie Romero/Utah News Dispatch)

When smoke, smog and dust roll in, a few precautions can help you breathe cleaner

August 18th 2026 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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 Pierce Wratten, an environmental scientist with the Utah Department of Air Quality, swaps out the filters on an air quality monitoring station at Great Salt Lake State Park in Magna on Tuesday, April 14, 2026. Although not a part of the Utah Dust Observation and Research Network, the station is similar to those that are. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

After a slow start, Utah is upgrading its system to track Great Salt Lake dust

August 12th 2026 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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Opponents outnumbered supporters of a proposed shipping, manufacturing and data center hub near the Great Salt Lake’s southern shore during a public hearing held on Monday, July 27 by the Utah Division of Water Quality. (Courtesy of Dave Noriega/Utah Department of Environmental Quality)

Concern about data center impacts on Great Salt Lake grows, now for Tooele project’s wastewater

July 28th 2026 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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The sun rises over a part of Hansel Valley, in Box Elder County, near the proposed Stratos Project, a massive data center planned for 40,000 acres of land, on Thursday, May 28, 2026. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

Critics call for more details about Stratos data center in Utah’s west desert

July 27th 2026 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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Joel Ferry, commissioner of Utah’s Department of Natural Resources, addresses reporters near the southeast shore of the Great Salt Lake on Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (Ashley Detrick/Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office)

Utah plans to buy, preserve more land on the south side of the Great Salt Lake

July 16th 2026 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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From left, candidates Senate President Stuart Adams, Stephanie Hollist and Braden Hess participate in a candidate forum at Sunset Junior High in Sunset, Utah on June 16, 2026. (Katie McKellar/Utah News Dispatch)

Utah Senate president and his GOP challengers debate data center, MIDA ahead of primary

June 17th 2026 by Katie McKellar / Utah News Dispatch

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The sun rises over a part of Hansel Valley, in Box Elder County, near the proposed Stratos Project, a massive data center planned for 40,000 acres of land, on Thursday, May 28, 2026. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

Photographer’s report: What I saw at the Hansel Valley data center site

June 17th 2026 by Spenser Heaps / Utah News Dispatch

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Brenna Williams, an organizer with Box Elder Accountability Referendum, which is opposing the Stratos Project data center, poses for a photograph outside her home in Brigham City on Thursday, May 28, 2026. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

Trying to get the Stratos data center on the ballot, locals are now appealing to a judge

June 4th 2026 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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The sun rises over a part of Hansel Valley, in Box Elder County, near the proposed Stratos Project, a massive data center planned for 40,000 acres of land, on Thursday, May 28, 2026. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

O’Leary agrees to cut Stratos data center area in half following letter from Utah Senate president

June 4th 2026 by Alixel Cabrera / Utah News Dispatch

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Brant Williams is pictured at the Lucerne Valley Marina he and his wife run at Flaming Gorge Reservoir on May 1, 2026. (Annie Knox/Utah News Dispatch)

As Flaming Gorge starts to shrink, questions — and new ideas — about its future grow

May 5th 2026 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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Lee Creek flows through mudflats into the Great Salt Lake near Magna on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

What to know about the money flowing to help the Great Salt Lake

April 23rd 2026 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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 Jared and Adrienne Cardon pack moving boxes at their home in Orem on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

Facing a hotter climate and drying Great Salt Lake, some families plan to leave Utah

April 12th 2026 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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The shores of the Great Salt Lake near Antelope Island are pictured on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

Lawmakers and conservationists marvel at how a massive cash infusion could help the Great Salt Lake

February 26th 2026 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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The shores of the Great Salt Lake are pictured at Great Salt Lake State Park near Magna on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

Trump promises to work with Utah to make its salt lake ‘great again’

February 24th 2026 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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‘Real, tangible action’: Young Utahns push lawmakers to rescue the Great Salt Lake

February 11th 2026 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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 Demonstrators call for action to save the drying Great Salt Lake in a rally at the Utah State Capitol on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (Will Ruzanski/Utah News Dispatch)

5th annual ‘Rally to Save Our Great Salt Lake’ makes a splash on Capitol Hill

February 5th 2026 by Will Ruzanski / Utah News Dispatch

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 Members of the Making Waves Artist Collaborative takes part in a demonstration to bring awareness to the plight of the Great Salt Lake at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on the first day of the legislative session, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

Bill allowing conserved water to flow to Great Salt Lake sails smoothly through committee

January 29th 2026 by Will Ruzanski / Utah News Dispatch

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 Lee Creek flows through mudflats into the Great Salt Lake near Magna on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

State leaders want to seize on momentum to save the Great Salt Lake

January 8th 2026 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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 Lake Powell and the Wahweap Marina are pictured near Page, Arizona on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

New plan for Colorado River is still murky as states pass by early deadline

November 13th 2025 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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 The Colorado River is pictured near Moab on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

Colorado River: States miss their deadline on a deal, but they’re still talking

November 12th 2025 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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 The Colorado River is pictured where if flows near Hite, just beyond the upper reaches of Lake Powell, on Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

5 things to know as the clock runs down on Colorado River talks

November 7th 2025 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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The Colorado River is pictured where if flows near Hite, just beyond the upper reaches of Lake Powell, on Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

Deadline closing in for Utah and 6 other states hammering out a new water plan

October 31st 2025 by Annie Knox / Utah News Dispatch

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Volunteers help plant new vegetation as part of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation’s restoration project along the Bear River near Preston, Idaho, where an 1863 massacre almost entirely annihilated their people. (Photo Courtesy of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation)

Rebirth after massacre: How this tribe’s river restoration could also help the Great Salt Lake

September 2nd 2025 by Katie McKellar / Utah News Dispatch

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Birds take flight over the Great Salt Lake on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

As water levels dwindle, Utah legislature might address Great Salt Lake during a special session

August 4th 2025 by Kyle Dunphey / Utah News Dispatch

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 The shore of Great Salt Lake (left) is pictured alongside its historic shoreline (right). The Spiral Jetty lies between them on the dry and dusty lakebed. (Photo courtesy of Bryn Watkins)

Farmers want to help the Great Salt Lake, but feel like ‘scapegoats’ for a more complex problem

July 29th 2025 by Katie McKellar / Utah News Dispatch

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The Provo River Delta is pictured on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

Funding for water and wildlife conservation in Utah now on Trump’s list of budget cuts

May 9th 2025 by Kyle Dunphey / Utah News Dispatch

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The Colorado River is pictured near Moab on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

Dust is speeding up snowmelt in the Colorado River, University of Utah study finds

April 28th 2025 by Kyle Dunphey / Utah News Dispatch

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