Then came Jean Robert Babilis, a 70-year-old with a handgun in the console, pushing a 114-horsepower Polaris side-by-side ...

Firefighters have achieved 22% containment of the lightning-caused Forsyth Fire, which has burned through 11,642 acres as of ...

As of 10 a.m. Friday morning, evacuation orders have been reduced for communities located near the lightning-caused Forsyth ...

More than 18 million acres in Utah managed by the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management could be eligible for sale under a Senate bill.

The Senate provision would make some federal land available for affordable housing projects while avoiding development on national parks and other wilderness areas.

No imperiled saline lake anywhere in the world has been rescued. In Utah, the fate of the Great Salt Lake is unfolding within a unique religious and political context.

A map of dust hotspots surrounding the Great Salt Lake. People who live near the lake, like Kathleen Bailey of Bountiful, have concerns. "Whether it’s inversion or particulate matter from cars ...

A polar vortex is bringing cold temperatures to the U.S., impacting Utah as well. Utah will experience its coldest temperatures this winter, though less severe than areas east of the state.

Winters in Utah usually come with inversions, smoggy lines of stagnant pollution dividing the Salt Lake Valley. And often, during the summer, the mountains become fuzzy with wildfire smoke. On bad ...

Inversions can last for multiple days leading to poor air quality as the pollution accumulates near the surface, Becky Close, the policy manager at Utah's Department of Environmental Quality, said.

Carter Williams November 30, 2023 at 9:17 AM·2 min read An inversion is beginning to set in over Utah County on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News ...

Reaching for Air: Salt Lake City's west side has worse air quality than the east side — for reasons that range from a mistake made in the 1890s and decades of redlining. (First in a series.) ...