Salt Lake City has opened the first of four new trailheads offering better access to its foothills trail systems, as it picks ...

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But Utah decisionmakers bow to His Majesty while ignoring the facts, and their most recent study. The bill's sponsors say the science isn't there—maybe because they're not looking at it. Hit: Check it ...

Utah Democrats will be electing new party leadership at their party’s organizing convention on Saturday, May 31, at Ogden High School, and will hear from one of the nation’s boldest ...

Microplastics are an urgent issue in the Great Lakes. Learn what’s causing them, how it affects health and what you can do.

The state is trying to bridge the gap in its monitoring network, a state environmental scientist said, but it is "exceedingly difficult" to set up new stations.

Toxic dust from the drying Great Salt Lake is a threat to Utah's health and future. State regulators and lawmakers must ...

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The heat will hold in Minnesota on Tuesday as elevated fire danger and poor air quality continue. Excluding the Tw ...

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To help shape what that will look like, UIPA brought in Joel Ferry, director of Utah’s Department of Natural Resources and an influential leader on Great Salt Lake issues, as a non-voting board ...

Great Salt Lake in Utah has hit unprecedented low water levels in 2022, raising serious ecological, economic, and health concerns. The decline is driven by reduced streamflows, increased ...