Utah

A new paper coauthored by Northern Arizona University scientists proposes solutions for the decline of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The lake’s level has dropped about 4 inches a year since the 1990s.

Ski patrollers say they have reached a deal with Utah’s Park City Mountain Resort to end a strike that put a wrench in operations during the busy holiday season.

The governors of Arizona and Utah have said they will invest in keeping iconic national parks open to visitors should the federal government shut down Sunday.

A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit by Utah political leaders who asked the courts to declare President Joe Biden’s restoration of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments unlawful.

National Park Service officials say a 36-year-old Ohio man has died at Lake Powell following a cliff jumping accident last week.

Utah lawmakers convened for a special session on Wednesday to increase the state funding for flood damages anticipated after an abnormally wet winter.

A 41-year-old Salt Lake City woman who died in a weekend ice climbing accident is being credited with saving the life of a fellow climber by pushing her out of the way when the ice fractured above them.

Planned Parenthood and ACLU of Utah filed a lawsuit Monday challenging a new Utah law that would ban abortion clinics in the deeply conservative state.

A bill under consideration by the Utah Legislature would expand a task force on missing and murdered Indigenous people.

Friends, family and classmates gathered last Friday to remember the seven members of a southern Utah family who were killed in what police believe was a murder-suicide.