What if the area you were hoping to hunt this fall is now on fire? That’s a reality for the roughly 1,200 people hoping to hunt the Monroe unit in Sevier and Piute counties, now scorched by the 61,500-acre Monroe Canyon Fire. It’s the largest fire in Utah this year. As of Monday it was ...
It's no surprise that it has been a busy and devastating wildfire season in Utah. According to UtahFireInfo.gov, as of Sunday morning there had been 712 total fires in the state which had burned 135,899 total acres. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed an executive order on July 31 declaring a ...
Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz said there will likely be a special session this fall that could address the Great Salt Lake, which has recently fallen to dangerously low levels. Schultz told the Great Salt Lake Collaborative on Thursday he’s asking the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Two wildfires burning in the western United States — including one that has become a “megafire” on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon — are so hot that they’re spurring the formation of “fire clouds” that can create their own erratic weather systems. In ...
As the search for solutions to the shrinking Great Salt Lake continues, researchers at Utah State University opened up conversations with the biggest water users in the state: farmers. Among the findings resulting from those interviews is that farmers in the Great Salt Lake Basin feel they are ...
On Saturday, June 21, 2025, Bornean orangutan Kawan (24) gave birth to a healthy female infant at Utah’s Hogle Zoo. She arrived naturally at 9:30 a.m., weighing just over three pounds. Throughout Kawan’s pregnancy, Hogle Zoo prepared for several outcomes, including the possibility that she ...
